Services for children: Training needed to tackle complexity of new labour's joined-up approach
...ng multi-agency teamwork in terms of their need to rethink their roles and switch to different kinds of activities and working practices. A main focus of this new way of working is the sharing with others of information perhaps previously restricted to those in a particular specialist field, with an expert u...States find alternate routes to health coverage
...ct storm" that has driven many Medicaid leaders to rethink the way their programs are structured and how they operate. Going forward, how Medicaid evolves will impact states' ability to maintain or expand coverage. States pursued innovative strategies to maintain or expand coverage. In some cases, state...Illness and medical bills cause half of all bankruptcies
...physician in Cambridge, Massachusetts: "We need to rethink health reform. Covering the uninsured isn't enough. We must also upgrade and guarantee continuous coverage for those who have insurance."...Disaster funding needs radical reform
We need to rethink the way we respond to large scale disasters such as the recent tsunami, say international health and relief experts in this week's BMJ. The pledging of $5bn for survivors of the tsunami only three weeks after the event is an impressive expression of ...Physicians may need to dig deeper when treating HIV-related lymphomas
...an Society of Hematology, suggest that researchers rethink the practice of using the same uniform treatment for everyone with AIDS-related lymphomas. "Lymphoma is not one disease, but rather represents a group of over 30 different entities. Even lymphomas that were thought to be quite uniform and homogeneous...New protein 'stop sign' alters blood vessel growth
...d vessel growth in development, and it has made us rethink how the semaphorins control this process." Semaphorins float freely in tissues adjacent to blood vessels and nerves and stop them from migrating into inappropriate areas. Although the protein the team studied, known as Sema3E, belongs to this family,...Healthcare watchdog calls for government rethink on public role in NHS decision-making
...ty the King's Fund has called on the Government to rethink its policy on public involvement in health care strategy, in a paper in this week's BMJ. Dr Dominique Florin, GP and health service researcher, and Professor Jennifer Dixon, Director of Health Policy, say that although the Government aims to increase...Don't worry. You're not old just ill
...ptom of an illness. It should encourage doctors to rethink how they assess the body functions of older patients. Rather than comparing the values obtained from assessing elderly patients to the values they would expect from people of the same age, doctors should compare the results to the 'normal values' fr...Helping teachers use keys to vocabulary building
... are, literally, at a loss for words. "We need to rethink the way we teach vocabulary," said Bromley, a former third-grade teacher and K-6 reading specialist, who conducts research on how children acquire and expand on language skills. Research dating from the 1940s through today indicates that vocabulary c...SHRS researcher receives NIH grant to study communication deficits in stroke patients
...ders, SHRS. "This discovery has given us reason to rethink decades of theory and treatment. With this grant we continue to test predictions of several theories, to gain a better understanding of the nature of communication deficits caused by RHD. More accurate theories should ultimately lead to more appropri...Most resistance to Anti-HIV drugs created by good pill-taking patients
...ornia, San Francisco. "These findings will make us rethink the argument that life-saving antiretroviral drugs should be denied to some populations because poor pill-taking behavior might accelerate the creation of resistant mutations of the HIV virus," said the study's lead author, David R. Bangsberg, MD, MP...Vitamin E fails to join heart-health regimen
...th water," Hodis says. "But we do want to reflect, rethink and figure out where to go next."...Operating on a beating heart shows benefit in elderly
...s surgery, these findings should encourage them to rethink their position in the over-80 group."...Study finds common knee surgery no better than placebo
...e placebo effect. The health care industry should rethink how to test whether surgical procedures, done purely for the relief of subjective symptoms, are more efficacious than a placebo."...Aspirin steps up as anti-inflammatory for arteries
...rom aspirin. There is an exciting opportunity to rethink how we use aspirin and whether there are situations in which we should be giving aspirin to reduce cardiovascular risk, he says....Jefferson study shows low concentrations of chemotherapy drugs have antiangiogenic effects
... But anti-angiogenesis drugs have caused people to rethink chemotherapy. Dr. Dicker and others have previously published research showing that using chemotherapy in lower than usual doses can have antiangiogenic effects in the laboratory. In the recent study, Dr. Dicker, a member of Jefferson's Kimmel Cancer...Radical solutions needed to address health inequalities
... outside the control of the NHS. We need a radical rethink of how we allocate resources' she says. 'If the Government is serious about eliminating health inequalities, it will need to demonstrate a real political commitment to supporting public health programmes and broader social policy interventions' she ...Brown researchers find new photoreceptor and visual system in the eye
...een thinking about all these years. Now we have to rethink how the retina works and how the brain understands what is going on in the visual world. This is a new kind of representation of light by the nervous system, a new way for the brain to react to the visual environment. The scientists went looking for ...