Heart Experts Call For Action Against Missed Opportunities To Prevent Heart Disease In Women
...rofessional health organizations, provides updated recommendations for closingwhat the AHA and ACC say is the wide ga...isease risk in women." Some of the panel's recommendations reflect new scientific knowledge,such as the findings from the Heart and Estrogen/Progestin Replacem...Newly Updated HIV Treatment Guidelines For Adults And Adolescents Available On The World Wide Web
...cluded in the latest version of the Guidelines are recommendations for the useof the recently approved anti-HIV drug ...additional update to the Guidelinesdelineating its recommendations regarding the use of the recently approvedprotease inhibitor, amprenavir (Agenerase). Co-conveners o...Mental Health Services Should Aim To Improve Safety To Prevent Suicide And Homicide
... full 1999 inquiry report Safer Services' makes 31 recommendations for changes in clinical practice. These include recommendations about training in risk assessment, documentation (including the introduction of "patient passports")...American Psychiatric Association Plans First Comprehensive Guidelines For HIV/AIDS Treatment
...s, says Dr. McDaniel." He believes the new recommendations will undoubtedly improve the overallcare of persons with HIV by focusing on access to care, treatment adherence,education, prevention and direct mental health services. As HIV-positiveindividuals live longer lives, the likelihood of a general psychi...Report: tuberculosis control programs inadequate in developing countries
...cause ofdeath in that population. Specific recommendations from the report: All identified HIV-positive patients (except those with symptomatictuberculosis) should be treated with the tuberculosis-preventing drug isoniazid."Preventive therapy for tuberculosis needs to be standard care for HIV-infected...No need to treat "simple" febrile seizures in young children
...ollowing a rapid increase in body temperature. The recommendations are not intended to apply to children who have meningitis orencephalitis at the time of the seizure. "Seizures are frightening events, especially for parents who see theirtoddler have a generalized seizure with jerking of the limbs and foamin......ancement The report further provides the following recommendations to make the allied andauxiliary work force more responsive to consumer needs: Align workers' skills with health care delivery standards which reflectgeneral employment skills as well as core clinical and technical competenciesand training programs t...Wide use leads to push to test safety of four herbs
...d Coordination,which advises NTP's testing. Such recommendations are often made when thepopularity of a relatively untested substance exposes large numbers of people. No data indicating a known problem is required for a nomination. Before making a final decision to test the substances, NTP is reque...Cholesterol lowering in elderly reduces heart disease and strokes
... works for bothwomen and men. The report's recommendations include: *Older Americans should have their total cholesterol tested once every 5years and, if an accurate measurement is available, their high densitylipoprotein (HDL, the "good" cholesterol)--the same recommendation as for allAmerican adult...Women find physician guidelines on estrogen replacement therapy are lacking
...tients about the risks and benefits oftherapy. All recommendations incorporate the best epidemiological evidence forhormone replacement therapy; however, they do not reflect the counseling needsexpressed by patients. For this study, Maureen T. Connelly, MD, and other researchers at the Departmentof Ambulator......shed in November 1996. For the firsttime, the new recommendations will appear first on the web sites of the American...r the new guidelines."We wanted to publish the new recommendations as quickly as possible because ofthe importance of this new information. Instead of rewriting the fu...Study finds HIV breastfeeding risk highest in early months after birth
...inst." The researchers conclude that breastfeeding recommendations for HIV-infectedwomen in developing countries must carefully balance the risk of HIVtransmission with the well-known nutritional and health benefits ofbreastfeeding. "Recommendations may be most usefully made at the level of theindividual mother, si...Moderate levels of worry can motivate women to get mammograms
...tors for breast cancer, and American CancerSociety recommendations for mammography. They also completed questionnairesassessing how worried they felt about developing cancer and how likely theythought they were to develop it. The researchers report their findings in theSeptember issue of Health Psychology. Eighty-......houldhead straight for the emergency room. The new recommendations give doctors and coaches a cautious, science-basedconsensus standard for dealing with one of the most common sports injuries. Theyare published in the current issue of the American Journal of Sports Medicine bya team led by Edward Wojtys, M.D., profe...Racial disparity in lung cancer treatment must be overcome, UCSF specialists assert
...al Alabama from 1932-72. Thus, physicians making recommendations topatients about research trials should be sensitive to these issues. Inaddition, they state, agencies that fund cancer research should devote moreresources to maintaining adequate representation of racial and ethnic minoritygroups in clinical stu...Federal institutes and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation create Tobacco Use Research Centers
... and accelerate tobacco useresearch, following the recommendations of the institute's Tobacco ResearchImplementation Group. Creation of the tobacco use research centers was thehighest of nine priorities recommended by the group. A transdisciplinaryapproach to research about tobacco use and addiction was the topic ...Study examines STDs among women-to-women sex partners
...nal conditions, findingsso far from the study, and recommendations for "safe sex." The findings so far among volunteer subjects are providing insights intowomen's health, says Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, an assistant professor of medicine atthe UW School of Medicine. For example, contrary to some beliefs, w...Physicians consistent in prescribing hormone therapy
...actised in a climate of uncertainty with few clear recommendations regarding HRT, but this study indicates they have similar motivations and approaches in prescribing, based on the available medical literature," says study co-author Dr. Marsha Cohen of the department of health administration and the Centre for Resea...Heart disease begins at a young age
... These findings support American Heart Association recommendations that heart disease and stroke prevention should begin early in childhood -- before smoking, bad dietary habits, and other causes of heart disease and stroke, such as high blood pressure, physical inactivity, obesity or diabetes, become established, s......osed to deep frying in oil." While these dietary recommendations are similar to those of health organizations, including the American Heart Association, the Chinese diet also includes tofu and green tea, components whose heart-protecting effects are still uncertain. Researchers are not sure how green tea might p...