Poor health affects business bottom line, says HHS
...ny of the corporate programs praised in the report rely on counseling, education and other interventions that target risky behaviors like smoking or lack of exercise. Some of the least expensive interventions appear to be the most efficient at changing health behaviors. However, relatively little research...Starve a tumor, or feed a tumor?
...cer Center. Radiation and other current therapies rely on the formation of harmful molecules known as free radicals to damage cells, but without oxygen their efforts fall short as cells can often repair themselves. Cancer cells that contain oxygen are about two to three times more vulnerable to radiation...Study shows no deaths from living liver donors in Japan
...of live donors. They conclude: "In the end we must rely on other avenues for treatment of organ failure, but until such time, careful selection of the donor and keeping in mind that donor safety over-rides benefit for the recipient has to be the "credo" of the transplant team."...Wireless technology may help doctors treat patients
Wireless technology may put doctors who don't rely on desktop computers and paper charts in a better position to treat their patients.That theory is being tested by students in the Penn State School of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) at the Mont Alto, York and University Park campuses where...Women prefer GPs to the Internet when trying to find out about HRT
... informed patient/informed choice and are happy to rely on advice from their GP and other health professionals Those that do seek to inform themselves often find they have insufficient 'information literacy' to manage and interpret what they find this is especially the case when trying to navigate the ...Schizophrenia could cause patients to forget their medication
...itual tasks, like taking medicine every few hours, rely on "prospective memory". This type of memory, which appears to be impaired by schizophrenia, enables you to remember that you have to do something in the future, without being prompted. Brita Elvevåg, from the Clinical Brain Disorders Branch ...UW-Madison receives $10 million for cancer communications research
...h CHESS and a human cancer mentor versus those who rely only on Internet-based information. -- They will evaluate whether CHESS improves palliative care, as well as the effect of sharing patient information with clinicians. During the five years, investigators will enhance CHESS with new functions tailor...Survey shows benefits of prescription drug advertising, few adverse effects
...2 percent. The authors cautioned that patients rely on many sources of health information, and therefore ascribing benefits to prescription drug advertising is difficult. Nevertheless, "our results suggest that (drug advertising) is a potentially powerful source of consumer health information with ef...Has drug regulation abandoned its public health mission?
...rn because doctors and patients need to be able to rely on the commitment of the regulatory system in their country to put the interests of public health above the commercial interests of industry, he concludes. These views are reiterated in the first of three accompanying commentaries. Danielle Bardelay ...Map data goes live with voice, gesture-based computer system
...ystem (GIS) tools easier to use you don't have to rely on technology experts and it's responsive, so there's no time delay." The Dialogue-Assisted Visual Environment for Geoinformation (DAVE_G) debuted Friday (Nov. 8) at the Association for Computing Machinery's 10th International Symposium on Advancem...Engineering researchers are designing the ultimate fabrics, for casual or military wear
...system that has low power requirements and doesn't rely on radio waves." The Virginia Tech and ISI researc... military already has sound detection systems that rely on radio waves, but communication via radio waves can alert an adversary to a military unit's locati...... pharmacies, injecting drug users must continue to rely on exchange programs to avoid high-risk behavior and curb the spread of HIV," said Gibson. The study followed a group of 259 untreated injecting drug users in the San Jose area. Each of the participants was interviewed at the beginning of the study a...The eyes have it: Study shows infants more tuned into wider world than previously believed
...t experiment was designed to see if infants solely rely on head movements to direct their behavior, as some earlier research has indicated, or if they also read an adult's eyes to see if they were open or closed when the adults turned towards an object. Equal numbers of boys and girls in the study were ra...Drinking during pregnancy: Information may not be enough
...ss, and second, that health authorities should not rely on this method alone of getting the message across." Kesmodel suggested that health authorities also target the two most trusted sources of information that were cited: media and family. "The mass media is a powerful medium for providing information...Starzl Institute researchers to develop cell-based strategy for tranplant tolerance
...nsplant patients who are prone to rejection or who rely on anti-rejection drugs to maintain their transplanted organ. They also appear to have more of the "good" dendritic cells, according to the Pitt researchers. Dendritic cells, a rare type of white blood cell that is present in all tissues, are known f...Women report chronic pelvic pain not taken seriously, survey shows
...ly, these comments are coming from the people they rely on most for support--their physicians, families and friends--according to a survey conducted by the Endometriosis Association and released here at the 58th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. The survey found that 40 p...Disabled seniors formerly on SSDI hit hardest by drug costs
...ly to receive employer coverage and more likely to rely on Medicaid and other public sources of support than other Medicare beneficiaries. "Since most disabled aged have long-standing chronic illnesses, as well as the common diseases associated with aging and use multiple medications to manage their he...Review of preliminary observations concludes the Mayo Clinic Natl Conf on Medicine and the Media
...constituents are physician readers. These journals rely on the news media to convey medical information to the public. Journal editors have a responsibility to provide the highest quality information possible, based on optimally designed research protocols, proper data analysis and conclusions anchored to...D.C. surveillance system considered a model for early disease detection
...s the largest and one of the first U.S. systems to rely on near-real time, patient-level diagnostic data," they note. Data from individual centers generally take less than three days to make it into the system. The system makes use of readily available data from patients visits to military clinics to clas...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for September (second issue)
...incapable of sweating. Consequently, the dogs must rely on respiratory heat exchange to release approximately 60 percent of their heat excess, while at the same time maintaining adequate ventilation in the tiny air sacs of the lungs in order to support strenuous aerobic exercise. The authors believe that...