IU Medical School, Merck take shot at vaccinating Kenyan kids
...p a sustainable workforce of medical professionals skilled in vaccine management, storage and delivery. About 10 percent of Kenyan children die before reaching the age of 5, according to the World Health Organization. Many succumb to diseases preventable through vaccinations. "There is no single answer to ...Exercise has a more powerful impact on the brain than previously thought
... improve performance on a variety of cognitive and skilled performance tasks....Common drug, given promptly, reduces incidence of post-traumatic stress disorder, small study finds
...e difficult it is to treat. Without the benefit of skilled intervention, about a third of those people who have PTSD for a year or longer will suffer from it for many years or even decades. Moreover, many people do not recognize symptoms of the disorder, so they delay seeking treatments. Others are reluctant...Data mining gains ground in key sectors
...ind the fact that many end users may not be highly skilled statisticians, data mining solutions providers are designing user-friendly software tools with visual interfaces that literally walk the user through the process. This eliminates the need to hire expert data mining personnel. Leading data mining prov...Back to basics - Study suggests skilled physical exam critical to the care of hospital patients
...ic technology, "hands-on"physical examination by a skilled clinician contributes importantly to thecare of hospitalised patients, concludes a US author of a study in thisweek's issue of THE LANCET. No previously published studies have addressed the clinical importance ofphysical examination in the care of pa...New breast cancer mannequin to revolutionize teaching of breast cancer awareness
...mpany to give them free use of their equipment and skilled staff to create the prototype main mannequin frames and skins to the design and concept of Dr Tucker and the Nurses. The company now hopes to get a diversification grant to allow to assist a full production run of the device....UCSD team finds that ethics consultations reduce futile end-of-life treatments
...nflict. What these findings demonstrate is that a skilled ethics consultation service can help physicians, nurses, patients and family members deal with the conflicts and reduce non-beneficial, life-prolonging treatments." The study was carried out between November 2000 and December 2002 with 551 patients i...Program evaluation critical to Pakistani doctoral retainment
...siderable financial resources to educate and train skilled scientists and health care works, but these trained professionals continue to leave for developed countries rather than remain in Pakistan, according to faculty at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The researchers say this attriti...Rutgers scientists pinpoint brain cells involved in drug addiction relapse
... "This might be one of the brain areas that a very skilled pharmacological approach could target." West and his Rutgers colleagues published their findings in the Aug. 13 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience. They concentrated their work on nerve cells or neurons in the nucleus accumbens, a brain region kno...Boy recovering after receiving small bowel transplant
...form and require a strong commitment from a highly skilled multi-disciplinary team, including the very best in intensive care and in administrative support. In 1965, Indiana's first kidney transplant was performed at the Indiana University School of Medicine. Hundreds of organ transplant procedures have be...Study: Couric's colonoscopy caused cross-country climb in colon cancer checks
... colonoscopy is the over-50 group. The shortage of skilled endoscopists and scarce health care dollars also add to the argument that younger people should not be the main target audience for messages about colonoscopy. This raises the issue of how celebrity health messages are crafted, and how well they enc...Eunice Park named a 2003 Hartford Doctoral Fellow
...ountry will have the necessary pool of trained and skilled geriatric social workers by recruiting, sustaining, and training a cadre of talented doctoral students who will become tomorrow's social work faculty. The GSA administers the Hartford Doctoral Fellows program. James Lubben,Professor of Social Welfare...Nine chosen to receive funding for geriatric social work research
...ountry will have the necessary pool of trained and skilled geriatric social workers by creating faculty leaders specialized in geriatric research and teaching. The Faculty Scholars Program is a major step toward increasing the visibility and desirability of geriatric social work so as to increase faculty com...Nationwide improvement in nursing home care not likely, despite some changes
...es in Medicare and Medicaid policies have affected skilled nursing facility (SNF) revenue and residents characteristics in Florida during the 1990s. They found that pro-profit SNFs maximized their revenues by admitting fewer Medicaid paying residents, whereas nonprofit facilities increased their percentage ...Extra care needed for dying patients
... did not believe they were sufficiently trained or skilled in dealing with dying patients. They did not cons...service providers and work out what you need to be skilled in, to ease your patients' suffering," he said. Caring for a patient with cancer requires more than ...Mayo Clinic surgeons direct robotic 'hands' to perform surgery
...f surgical training. "With the da Vinci, surgeons skilled in open surgery can use their expertise, and the help of robotic hands, to do more types of surgery laparoscopically," says Dr. Blute. "That has the potential to improve care for many of our patients."...Dooley and Gardner named Hartford Doctoral Fellows in geriatric social work
...ountry will have the necessary pool of trained and skilled geriatric social workers by recruiting, sustaining, and training a cadre of talented doctoral students who will become tomorrow's social work faculty. The GSA administers the Hartford Doctoral Fellows program. James Lubben, Professor of Social Welfar...Self-taught stress management techniques most effective in relieving stress of chemotherapy
...ess comfortable with the techniques, and were less skilled when employing them. Jacobsen also points out that it cost two-thirds less to implement stress-management training in the self-guided patients, despite the cost of the booklet and videotape. Jacobsen hopes that Moffitt will make these materials avai...'Power nap' prevents burnout; morning sleep perfects a skill
...other group even wore mittens for a day to prevent skilled finger movements. Their improvement was negligible -- until after a full night's sleep, when their scores soared by nearly 20 percent. Sleep lab monitoring of 12 subjects who trained at 10 PM revealed that their improved performance was directly p...U.S. for-profit hospitals show higher mortality rates than non-profits, analysis shows
...finding that for-profit hospitals had fewer highly skilled personnel per "risk-adjusted" bed, a statistic strongly associated with hospital mortality rates. Differences in mortality rates between for-profit and not-for-profit decreased when researchers adjusted statistically for staffing levels, he said. Th...