Overweight men spend more on prescription drugs than normal-weight men
... Rather, this is what the men, or their employers, spend month after month on their prescription drugs," said Thomas G. Allison, Ph.D., M.P.H., lead author of the study and a consultant in internal medicine and cardiovascular disease at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. The researchers studied male busin...Reduced risk of institutionalisation in patients with dementia
... prolonging independence and the time patients can spend at home with their families." Unlike previous pharmaco-economic studies of galantamine, which were based on long-term projections from results of short-term clinical trials, these analyses employed data from long-term studies. The results of this...Respiratory infections, not air pollution, pose winter health threat for children with asthma
...levels of air pollution in the summer because they spend more time outside. Also, ozone, a known respiratory irritant, rises to much higher levels during the summer and may pose more of a problem than particulate pollution in the winter. Next summer Drs. Rabinovitch and Gelfand will begin a study of the he...People on food stamps can't afford heart-healthy meals
....In Roxbury, Mass., a family of four would need to spend $227 a month in excess of food stamp benefits to make heart-healthy foods part of their daily diet, researchers said. A senior living alone would need at least $100 extra. "Low-income people, in this particular community, who receive food stamp bene...Employment reduces chronic drug use, UH professors find
...ts also may benefit from observing how individuals spend their time. These findings, he says, may further indicate that lack of opportunity for meaningful and rewarding work leads to an increased likelihood of negative behaviors. Filling that time with employment also would serve to reduce economic barri...Student nurses need better understanding of poverty-stricken patients
...r situations. They may say that poor people do not spend their money wisely, when they don't understand that some behaviours, such as smoking for example, might be coping strategies to manage the stress experienced by the poor in their daily lives," Dr. Reutter said. Misconceptions about poverty that le...New research tool aids study of national well-being
...g. A measure of how different categories of people spend their time and of how they experience their activities could provide a useful indication of the well-being of society," said Kahneman, who won the 2002 Nobel Prize in economic sciences for his pioneering integration of psychological research about de...Impact of 2002 Canadian forest fires felt 700 miles away in Baltimore, Maryland
...ances readily penetrated people's homes where they spend most of their time. The researchers believe this should be a public health concern because fine particulate matter can penetrate deep into the lungs. The study is published in the current online issue of Environmental Science & Technology . "This st...How are we doing? Researchers aim to measure national well being
...y Reconstruction Method (DRM), assesses how people spend their time and how they feel about, or experience,.... "A measure of how different categories of people spend their time and of how they experience their activities could provide a useful indication of the well...Report finds new model of care can improve quality, lower costs and increase physician efficiency
...e saying they want exactly what patients want - to spend more time with patients and less time pushing paper," said Dr. Michael Fleming, a member of the task force charged with developing the report and board chair of the AAFP. "The good news is that the New Model of care, with its emphasis on electronic h...Pitt research shows NASA sleep-wake scheduling guide may need to be changed
...earchers observed participants, who volunteered to spend 16 days on a "mission" at the University of Pittsburgh's time isolation facilities, and tested them for alertness, mood and core body temperature the best standard for assessing circadian rhythms. At the same time they recorded their sleep to assess...Innovative take-off system could lead to safer, cleaner air travel
...ice. By minimising the amount of time aircraft spend on the ground with engines running, the system would also reduce noise and fuel pollution affecting people living close to airports, and could save thousands of litres of aviation fuel. The research could lead to a computer-based system that helps r...Does the lack of sleep make you fat?
...may be partly due to the reduced amount of time we spend asleep, according to new research from the Univers...ast 50 years we have reduced the amount of time we spend asleep by up to two hours a night because of increasing pressures on our time (work, school, family,...Pharmaceutical marketing tactics hold little sway with prescribing physicians
Pharmaceutical drug companies spend upward of $25 billion per year on promoting new drugs and distributing free samples to doctors, but new research shows such marketing devices have little impact on physicians and their prescribing behavior. Direct-to-physician activities accounted ...Multi-center study finds therapy boosts kidney transplants in 'highly sensitized' patients
...jority of the population, these patients typically spend the rest of their lives undergoing kidney dialysis several times a week a painful, costly process that extends life but usually results in a diminishing quality of life. Now, a 12-center study, funded in part by the National Institutes of Health and...ZYVOX(R) demonstrates high success rate for patients who develop MRSA surgical site infections
...nts who develop SSIs are 60 percent more likely to spend time in an intensive care unit, five times more likely to be readmitted to the hospital and twice as likely to die. Hard-to-treat resistant bacteria such as MRSA are further complicating these infections. MRSA is extremely serious and can lead to p...Surgical treatment of migraines reduces sick days and increases employee productivity ASPS study
...lives," said Dr. Guyuron. "They wanted to work or spend time with their family. Through our new surgical discoveries, we are able to help the appropriate patients escape the awful effects of migraines and start living their lives again." Businesses lose approximately $13 billion per year due to migraines...Sex habits of young women unchanged by morning after pill, UCSF study finds
... used emergency contraception, it seems we need to spend our energy trying to make it easier for these women to get contraception, not harder." While California allows emergency contraception to be dispensed at pharmacies without a prescription, not all pharmacies provide it, said Raine. Individual pharmac...Consumers to benefit from organic potato breakthrough
...clude a "purple" potato from Hungary. Shoppers can spend up to twice as much on organic potatoes than othervarieties. Organic farmers do not have powerful chemical fertilisers andpesticides in their armoury, meaning harvests are much smaller thanconventional crops grown on similarly-sized areas of land. ...'Temp doctors' choose career for flexibility, easier lifestyle
...aid. Some doctors may want schedule flexibility to spend more time with children, but that wasn't an issue with most doctors surveyed only about 28 percent said they had a dependent child or parent in their home. In addition to schedule flexibility and the ability to work part-time, the other top reasons ...