Explosion in numbers of advice calls to hospital since introduction of NHS Direct
... (A&E) department have fallen by over 70 per cent, reports a study in Emergency Medicine Journal. But by the ...300 per cent. A second study in the same area also reports that the service has had very little impact on rising emergency admission levels. An audit was ma......tives. The new study follows on the heels of other reports on prescription drug costs based on national market research, surveys or federal government statistics. The employer-supplied data used by the U-M team gives a snapshot of real expenditures for employed adults nationwide, covered under employer-paid ...Public schools may face shortage of speech-language pathologists
...uch as Hispanics and African-Americans." Among the reports recommendations is to create a common pool of bilingual speech and hearing specialists to serve as a resource for those who cannot speak English, she said Demand for speech and hearing services also is increasing because of the new emphasis on early...New research shows workplace homicides more likely at smaller businesses open late, Saturdays
...eporting of homicides rather than on less reliable reports from law enforcement agencies to the FBI. Another is that it carefully matched cases with control workplaces over time. Limitations include that the authors could not assess the contribution of personal characteristics or behaviors to the risk of hom...Safe effective treatment to stop seizures can be delivered outside of the hospital
...elivered outside of the hospital. The NEJM study reports that the odds that the patients seizure would terminate by the time of admission to an emergency department were 4.8 times higher in the lorazepam group compared to the placebo group; 2.3 times higher in the diazepam group versus the placebo group; ...How 'negative emotionality' can make you feel sick
...cal trait; it is the degree to which an individual reports certain emotional characteristics." Prior studies had shown that adolescents with alcohol use disorders (AUDs) tend to self report more health problems than 'normal' adolescents do. Self-reported health problems may also be considered health compl...Fresh hopes for treatment of malaria in Africa
...xine. Over the past 10 years, there have been many reports that malaria parasites in these countries have become resistant to pyrimethamine-sulfadoxine. An alternative treatment is needed. The difficulties that researchers face in finding an alternative include finding a drug manufacturer willing to provide ...Chemical society convenes regional meeting in San Antonio, October 17-20
...y health assessment of the Lower Rio Grande Valley reports on water and air quality, hazardous material transportation routes, sewage treatment, indoor air quality and food safety. (Jimmy L. Perkins, University of Texas at San Antonio, 210-458-4450) Water quality in San Antonio lakes Braunig, Calaveras a...Promoting physical activity runs risk of promoting unhealthy eating concerns
...ight and I feel extremely guilty after overeating, reports Marion Zabinski, B.A., of the SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology. While the increase in drive for thinness was an unexpected negative effect of the study, it is important to note these concerns did not reach levels that would ind...Jefferson researchers have early evidence of bone marrow stem cells able to become brain cells
...rsity in Philadelphia, who leads the research. She reports her team's findings November 11 at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in San Diego. Human adult bone marrow stem cells - also known as pluripotent stem cells - normally give rise to human bone, muscle, cartilage and fat cells. Embryon...Pre-teens involved in hobbies and sports get better grades, are better behaved
...ent school grades, depression levels and parental reports of bad conduct at the same time as they monitored free-time activities. They looked at the same developmental markers two years later. On the positive side, the children who spent more time at hobbies were less likely to report symptoms of depressio...Electrical brain stimulation reduces Parkinsons symptoms
...on on levodopa-induced symptoms have been based on reports from patients, not on objective tests, according to study author and neurologist John Nutt, MD, of Oregon Health & Science University in Portland. The study was also designed to help researchers determine how deep brain stimulation changes the b...New safety regulations reduced injuries requiring treatment for children, study suggests
...al journal. We reviewed and analyzed all 5,402 reports of medically attended injuries in regulated childcare settings in North Carolina over the three and a half years from 1997 to June, 2000, Kotch said. We also conducted 294 playground safety inspections in late 1998 in randomly selected centers, repea......fit when both drugs were given together. Anecdotal reports and previous small studies suggested that marijuana and its derivatives stimulate appetite, says Aminah Jatoi, M.D., a Mayo Clinic oncologist and researcher on the study. Our study found that dronabinol, in the doses prescribed in this trial, doesnt ...U-M Medical School complementary and alternative medicine curriculum an interdisciplinary model
ANN ARBOR, Mich. - Recent reports indicate that although 42 percent of the U.S. population uses some form of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), most individuals withhold this information from their physicians because they fear lack of understanding, disapproval, or both. ...Contact lens solutions may not kill off harmful eye bugs
... lens solutions may not kill off harmful eye bugs, reports a study in the British Journal of Ophthalmology. Researchers tested three types of disinfectant cleaning solution for soft contact lenses. One type was a multipurpose storage solution; the other two comprised a one step and a two step hydrogen peroxi......d only to lung cancer as deadly disease among men, reports the American Cancer Society. Although men can get the disease at any age, it's more common among those over 50 years old. Prostate cancer is twice as common in African Americans as it is in white American males. The one-year clinical trial is based o...CRP provides another reason to lose weight and gain heart health
...ht loss of approximately 15 kilograms (33 pounds), reports primary researcher Andr Tchernof, Ph.D., formerly from the department of medicine at the University of Vermont, Burlington.Tchernof now works in the molecular endocrinology lab in Quebec City, Canada. Researchers measured CRP levels before and after ...HIV/AIDS impact on education intensifies economic downfall
...g-term negative economic prospects, Channing Arndt reports in a soon-to-be published World Bank document. This is the first macroeconomic study to focus on the impact of the illness on education and the subsequent long-run economic effects. Arndt's analysis shows that the worldwide HIV/AIDS epidemic is leadi......tists to review, compare and contrastthe pathology reports and the DNA and protein content of stored tissues fromall Indianapolis hospitals. Building this 'machinery' and organizing the data is a challenging task thatinvolves developing a natural language process, eliminating duplications,instituting stand...