HIV testing should be routine part of primary health care for sexually active
...assessment. Routine HIV testing is recommended in settings where the prevalence of HIV infections is greater than one percent. In settings where the prevalence is less than one percent, testing is based on individual risk assessment by hea...Organizational traits associated with quality patient care are essential to home care nursing
... environment in a hospital, are important in other settings like home care and district nursing." The study features the results of a survey of home care nurses in the United States and district nurses in New Zealand based on the Nursing Work Index-Revised (NWI-R) designed to measure the degree to which these...Chronic fatigue patients show lower response to placebos
... may be that many CFS sufferers seen in specialist settings or self-help groups "have a firm conviction that their illness is of physical origin" and thus would have little faith in psychiatric/psychological treatments. This finding supports the idea that the placebo response is greatly influenced by patients...New self-help technology set to combat eating disorders
...erable potential for use in primary care and other settings as a first step in BN treatment....Medically supervised drug injection facilities safer for users
...Although such facilities exist in several European settings and in Sydney, Australia, few statistical analyses of their effects syringe sharing have been done. Thomas Kerr (British Colombia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Vancouver, Canada) and colleagues examined the behaviour of 431 active injection drug...Malt liquor beers, and the people who drink them, are different
...consumed in potentially more hazardous amounts and settings than regular beers, and that grouping MLB drinkers...eded to understand the meaning of malt liquor, the settings and context in which it is consumed, and beliefs regarding its use and consequences. Such studies c...News tips from the 2005, 54th Annual Scientific Sessions of the American College of Cardiology
...ence energy levels to see if the scan affected the settings or caused any other kind of problem, such as heati...and call for low-energy-level scans, avoiding scan settings higher than 2 watts per kilogram, which might lead to overheating. The protocol also advises close ...Cognitive behavioral therapy and medication is effective in the treatment of panic disorder
...r interventions can be generalized to primary care settings with non-specialist therapists and more diverse patient populations. Peter P. Roy-Bryne, M.D., of the University of Washington School of Medicine at Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, and colleagues randomly assigned 232 primary-care patients meetin...Sunflower seed oil can protect low birth weight babies from infection
...ates of 50% upwards in both hospital and community settings in developing countries. Gary Darmstadt (John Hopkins University, USA) and colleagues recruited 497 newborn (72 hours old or less) and preterm babies (less than 33 weeks gestation) between 1998 and 2003 in Bangladesh. The babies were randomly assigne...Three out of the four million newborn babies who die each year could be saved
...in preventing neonatal deaths is possible, even in settings with high mortality and weak health systems, by improving home care practices, raising demand for skilled care and increasing care-seeking for illness through outreach services and a family-community care package. "However, in order to achieve the ki...Boosting HIV screening can increase survival and is cost effective
...abetes and hypertension. Paltiel said that even in settings with HIV infection levels similar to the U.S. general population, one-time screening could deliver excellent return on investment. "HIV is a severe disease that, left untreated, produces substantial morbidity and mortality," said Paltiel. "It has a l...Routine HIV screening should be expanded, study finds
...l beyond current guidelines to include health care settings where the incidence of the virus would be expected to be low. These include such settings as outpatient clinics, urgent care clinics or emergency rooms in areas that have in the past been de...Brain tumor treatment can vary greatly, according to new JAMA study
...th physicians and patients. "Doctors in community settings aren't presented with brain-tumor patients that often, and I think that's one of the reasons they don't always have the best information," Norris said. "I've talked to patients right after surgery who've been told they have a year to live, so it's un...Study shows drugs such as Vioxx and Celebrex were widely over-used long before recent problems
... challenge of limiting innovative therapies to the settings in which they are initially targeted and maximally cost-effective." Carolanne Dai of the University of Chicago was the lead author of the paper. The research was supported by the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicag...Male circumcision reduces risk of HIV transmission from women to men
...esults may help explain the rapid spread of HIV in settings where circumcision is not common and multiple sexual partnerships are. Between 1993 and 1997, 745 male employees of trucking companies based in Mombasa, Kenya were followed for the study. Initially they were evaluated for circumcision status and HIV-...Program effective at reducing depression in teens
...adolescent depression are feasible in primary care settings and associated with benefits on measures of depression, quality of life, and satisfaction with mental health treatment. Our quality improvement model and results are consistent with the recommendation of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force that d...Mayo Clinic Cancer Center receives SPORE grant for brain cancer research from NCI
...c research findings from the laboratory to applied settings involving patients and populations. The goal of the program is to bring into clinical care novel ideas that have the potential to reduce cancer incidence and mortality, improve survival, and enhance patients' quality of life. Laboratory and clinical ...Annals of Internal Medicine, tip sheet, Dec. 21, 2004
...erally received better care than patients in other settings (Improving Patient Care, p. 938). VA care scored best in areas in which the VHA routinely monitors quality. In one of the most comprehensive comparisons between VHA care and other care, researchers looked at the quality of acute, chronic and preventi...National Academies news: Gulf War and Health
...s who were exposed to these agents in occupational settings over long periods of time. Only a small number actually studied veterans who may have been exposed while serving in the Persian Gulf. The committee carefully assessed the quality, limitations, and relevance of each epidemiologic study, and used fiv......udies showing that sleep deprivation in laboratory settings can cause a decrease in serum levels of leptin, a hormone known to control appetite, Emmanuel Mignot and colleagues set out to study the levels of various hormones known to regulate appetite and energy expenditure under "real life" conditions. They...