College drinking problems and research solutions
...he Culture of Drinking at U.S. Colleges," outlines recommendations for college administrators and researchers to addr...n to its main report, the Task Forces findings and recommendations are available in the following formats: Two Task Force panel reports High-Risk Drinking in Colleg...Mammography: Does it save lives?
...stions head-on: * Why are women hearing different recommendations if everyone is looking at the same data? * Do routine mammograms save lives? * How does mammography rank with other preventive self-care techniques, including self-exam, clinical exam, diet and exercise?...Newly published data show at-home dialysis therapy may benefit more patients
...author. The findings challenge existing treatment recommendations for PD, which may allow for greater flexibility in prescribing the therapy and potentially enable more patients to benefit from it. Study Results The ADEMEX study is a multi-center, prospective, randomized, controlled trial of 965 continuous amb...ASM conveys support for NIH/CDC appropriations
...2 --The American Society for Microbiology has sent recommendations to Congress supporting the Bush Administrations pr...or Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Coalitions recommendations for FY 2003 CDC funding. The Administrations budget request of $27.3 billion for NIH represents a 1...Cancer center study shows state's workplace smoking laws are effective
...ent of existing legislation, UCSDs findings led to recommendations for building increased public awareness of the right to breathe clean air. Educating the public will continue to be the most effective method of keeping Californias indoor air free of secondhand smoke, said Gilpin. Awareness programs targeted at dem...ACP-ASIM releases plan to eliminate uninsured by 2009
...ram. The basic benefits package would be based on recommendations of an advisory commission to be appointed by Congress. The commission would also report annually on the effectiveness of measures to expand health insurance coverage. "Even if Congress does not agree to everything we are proposing, we hope to succee...Annals of Internal Medicine, tip sheet
...he authors say that the public should know current recommendations for specific preventive health services and why so...why an annual physical is still important, despite recommendations to the contrary (Editorial, p. 701). Physicians find it difficult to fit prevention and screening te...Heart health should be the front line of diabetes care
...The AHA and ADA should review and coordinate their recommendations for chronic aspirin use in patients with diabetes but without CHD. Develop and evaluate programs to ensure that every person with newly diagnosed diabetes has aggressive control of all CVD risk factors. Develop effective programs to ensure that eve...Women at highest risk for ovarian cancer are less likely to be screened than those at lower risk
...nce for its effectiveness." This advice echoes the recommendations of the NIH consensus statement on ovarian-cancer screening. Ovarian cancer is the leading cause of gynecological-cancer death in American women; every year, some 23,000 new cases are diagnosed and 14,000 women die from the disease. Because symptoms a...Episiotomy rates decreasing, but procedure still overused
...vate practitioners, despite current evidence-based recommendations to restrict use of the procedure, Dr. Weber said....'Expert guide to infectious diseases' published
...the 10 sections. Tables on diagnosis and treatment recommendations are included throughout the text....Pfizers 'tune-up for life' (TM) identifies heart disease risks among race fans
...rmation, advice on reducing their risk factors and recommendations to see their own physician with the results of the screening as necessary. All were encouraged to see their physician on a regular basis....USPSTF urges primary care doctors to screen all adults for depression
...tment and follow-up of depressed patients. The new recommendations and a background article with a systematic review ...2002, issue of Annals of Internal Medicine. These recommendations are a change from the 1996 USPSTF recommendations that found insufficient evidence to recommend for ...Annals of Internal Medicine, tip sheet, May 13, 2002
...release on new U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendations enclosed.)* * * Canadian Study Finds No Gender Bias in Heart Procedures Many studies have shown that women get less aggressive treatment for coronary heart disease than men. A study of all people in Alberta, Canada, who had cardiac catheterizati...New guidelines for managing women with abnormal pap smears
...Conference, says, These are the most comprehensive recommendations ever published for women with abnormal Pap tests. ...em. One of the important recommendations in the guidelines addresses women with the most common type of abnormal Pap test, an inconclusive re...Experts recommend increased funding, focus on resuscitation science
...mize tissue and organ repair, the report says. The recommendations evolved from a two-day conference held during the summer of 2000, during which a panel of resuscitation experts reviewed the status of resuscitation science and sought to chart a course to improve the science. Their recommendations: Develop a Natio...Prostate cancer is costly for Californians, according to UCSF researchers
...d in this study. Currently, there are conflicting recommendations regarding PSA testing among men without symptoms. ...h no symptoms. It has been estimated that the ACS recommendations would cost an estimated $12.7 billion each year and would have profound morbidity consequences and u...First consensus guidelines on lightning safety issued before summer storms
... of Emergency Medicine publish the first consensus recommendations for lightning safety and lightning injury in an effort to dispel the myths surrounding the second largest storm killer in the United States. On average, lightning causes more casualties annually in the U.S. than any other storm-related phenomenon exc...Acute stress disorder is common among children and parents following pediatric traffic injury
...ive care for families. The researchers offer these recommendations for pediatricians and other primary care providers treating a child who is injured in a traffic crash: 1. Routinely call the family several days and one to two weeks following the injury to ask about behavioral symptoms and family function. 2. Make u...Current colon cancer screening recommendations supported by study of 40-49 year olds
...ge 50 is very low. These findings support current recommendations that routine colon cancer screening begin at age 50 for individuals at average risk for the disease. A problem with current colorectal cancer screening is that it is not as risk based as it should be. We do not have accurate and reliable methods of ...