Hospitals may now be more willing to partner up with former adversaries
...al performance data. The majority of respondents, sixty percent, rated QIO interventions as "helpful" or "very helpful." The generally positive view of QIOs suggests that they are poised to take a leading role in promoting quality of care. "However, to fulfill this leadership role effectively, QIOs will...Training could remove racial bias from police reactions
...ears of experience participated in one hundred and sixty test trials. The earlier trials revealed that the officers were more likely mistakenly shoot at an unarmed Black suspect than an unarmed White suspect. But in the later trails the officers were similarly conservative in their decision to fire at Bl...Similar results found in both older and younger patients undergoing weight-loss surgery
...astric bypass surgery in 110 patients younger than sixty years with 20 patients 60 years or older. The researchers examined patients' conditions and medications related to obesity both before and after the operation. In the younger group, the average age was 45 years, while in the older group, the average ...Hypertension: On the Pill? Tell your dentist
...ciation (AHA), as many as 50 million Americans age sixty and above have hypertension. Of those people, 30 percent do not know they have it and 41 percent do not receive therapy. Only 34 percent have their blood pressure under control. Last year, the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) recomme...Artery variations increase complication risk in liver transplants
...the imaging prior to liver transplantation. Of the sixty patients who had normal artery anatomy, only two had complications after surgery, whereas five of the 24 with variant anatomy experienced complications after surgery. According to the authors of the study, having such a variant anatomy, which occurs ...Seeing the same physician regularly leads to better preventive care
...ractice. In tracking data from households in over sixty communities across the United States, researchers assessed preventive measures offered to persons with varied health care habits, ranging from visits with a regular provider to no regular place of care at all. Influenza vaccinations and mammography ...Combination, order of anti-HIV drugs make a difference in first-time recipients
... the three-drug sequential regimens. Three-hundred sixty HIV-positive individuals who had never before received antiretroviral treatment were given one of two four-drug treatments: ddI, d4T, EFV and NFV or ZDV, 3TC, EFV and NFV. A key question in this comparison was whether incorporating three anti-HIV dru...New research sets out to help children suffering from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
...merica has shown that although manageable in up to sixty percent of children, ADHD is not curable, and up to seventy percent of children fail to outgrow it. Medication is available, but is only effective in less than half of all cases. This, combined with significant side effects, such as loss of appetit...Better diagnosis of pain in children
...easy to useto evaluate acute or chronic pain. Some sixty Dutch hospitals with a paediatricpain group are to receive the set, which includes an instructional video.......n who exercised moderately to strenuouslymore than sixty days throughout their first two trimesters had a fifty percentlower risk of preterm delivery. Physical activity solely related to the women'sjobs did not appear to have any adverse effect on their pregnancy. -end-...