New research reveals jury bias against whiplash lawsuits
...ded by a car that ran a stop sign, in pain for the rest of your life. If you haven't lost or broken anything, don't expect much in the way of compensation from a jury of your peers. A new study by a nationally known expert on jury behavior finds that potential jurors are skeptical of people who file "...Rapid improvements in lower back care possible
...e recommendations and common practice. Lengthy bed rest is still widely prescribed, and as much as 60 perc...percent, and a third reduced prescriptions for bed rest by 81 percent. The study findings are published in the September issue of the Journal of General Int...Breast reconstruction during mastectomy boosts well-being most, study finds
...ns of an operation called TRAM reconstruction. The rest had artificial tissue expanders or implants filled with saline or silicone. Two thirds, or 161 patients, had reconstruction during mastectomy surgery. The two hour-long take-home surveys evaluated the women's emotional well-being, vitality, general m......for this disease. The current study also puts to rest lingering concerns about the effectiveness of interferon alfa 2b in terms of survival impact. These concerns probably account for the current reluctance on the part of some clinicians in the United States, Europe and Asia to use high-dose interferon ...Another cold? The best advice is still plenty of rest and fluids
ROCHESTER, MINN. -- Feel a cold coming on? Extra rest and plenty of warm fluids are still the best ways to cope with the common cold, according to the December issue of Mayo Clinic Health Letter. While theres hope that something will be discovered to cure the cold, researchers havent found it yet. Heres...Measles and pertussis risk higher for children with personal exemptions from immunization
...nity is intricately dependent on the health of the rest of that community, they write. The authors believe parents making decisions regarding vaccination should understand the risks of not vaccinating their children, and they urge public health personnel to recognize the potential effect of exemptors in o......is that the brain works all the time. The brain at rest is doing the same sort of neuronal firing as it do...n be seen by considering that the brains signal at rest is, for example, 100. Once it undertakes a task, the brains activity level rises by a small amount, ...Getting older and feeling weaker?
...tor he is studying, for example, is how periods of rest affect both endurance and fatigue. Fatigue and work-related injuries particularly of the spine are of special interest to Nussbaum, who has created a computer program that simulates and measures the effects of various motions and stresses on the...Mouse provides clues about chronic pain
...ow people to ignore chronic pain while leaving the rest of the pain system intact."...Dual sensor could provide more information, earlier warning for diabetics
...does not make enough, or properly use insulin. The rest have type 1 diabetes, in which the body produces no insulin; this necessitates daily insulin shots. Both forms of the life-threatening disease can cause blindness, nerve degeneration and stroke.......ercent in in-patient services," he said. Like the rest of American health care, the Department of Veterans Affairs has undergone tumultuous change,Rosenheck said, especially in the move away from hospital-based care. Rosenheck has been studying theimpact of this on mental health patients for the past fiv...UNC study ties depression, anxiety to fatigue in HIV-positive patients
... than getting additional rest. Unfortunately, more rest rarely helps, and some victims of the illness report being so tired that they must stop working altogether. Now, a new pilot study by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill suggests that different factors -- or possibly a co......ments, are already in the consumer market, and the rest will enter as supplies are exhausted. 3M is the only U.S. producer of PFOS.......ree-quarters received tube surgery alone while the rest also received adjuvant, or additional, surgery: 11 percent received an adenoidectomy, one per cent a tonsillectomy, while 16 per cent had both their tonsils and adenoid glands removed. Within one year of the initial operation, 10 per cent of the ch...HRT pills, patches and heart disease risk factors
...ts were tested for cardiovascular responses during rest and under stress before they began taking the medi...hers looked at the subjects' responses both during rest and under stress because there have been recent reports that HRT decreases cardiovascular reactivity...UC Davis study: fewer Californians dying of lung cancer, pulmonary disease as smoking decreases
... states to 1 percent below. In human terms, if the rest of the country had reduced smoking as drastically ...r rates in California were similar to those in the rest of the United States before 1988," he said. "After Prop. 99 passed, a significant gap emerged. The q......chers believe such knowledge will help open up the rest of the biochemical pathway to science. These findings represent a crucial step in understanding the basic science of type 2 diabetes, said Birnbaum. Part of the process in developing a treatment is charting exactly how the pathways would work in a he...Explosion in numbers of advice calls to hospital since introduction of NHS Direct
...al reduction in calls, if reflected throughout the rest of the UK, could save around 90,000 hours of staff time a year. But equally, the surge in calls to the hospital would require an extra 390,000 hours of staff time, equivalent to 230 full time nurses. A second study of 999 calls affecting three A&E ...Study: N.C. educates only a quarter of physicians practicing in the state
...r several reasons. We really need to depend on the rest of the United States and to compete successfully i...rces," Ricketts said. "We do have to depend on the rest of the nation and be competitive in attracting physicians here."......ing to allow himself to become a partner [with the rest of the team] so he can accept input." In contrast, one of the worst performing hospitals is a large, nationally renowned academic medical center. This hospital picked team members largely on the basis of availability. Only three of the four core-team...