Gender bias in salaries among Pennsylvania M.D.'s, find University of Pittsburgh researchers
... salaried employees and not in private practice; spend fewer hours per week seeing patients and doing adm... in the least lucrative medical specialties and to spend fewer hours per week working," said Dr. Ness. But even after adjusting for the compensation differe...Smokers more likely to be disabled in later life
...lier than non-smokers, but they are more likely to spend more of their life with a disability than non-smokers, finds research in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. And this is despite the fact that non-smokers, by virtue of living longer, would be expected to experience more disability. ...Hypnosis helps patients control stress and anxiety, UF researchers say
...id. Children make excellent subjects because they spend more time using their imaginations, but with pract...for the mother, and less likelihood an infant will spend time in intensive care, he said. In his current pilot study, three of four patients using were able...NIH awards grant to UCSF and Kaiser to strengthen women's health research
... to make ends meet. "This program frees them up to spend time publishing papers, completing their didactic education and writing grants to acquire their own independent research funding," Grady said. "In order to be a successful clinical researcher, you have to be able to obtain funding, publish and acquir...Survey finds chronic pain sufferers unsatisfied with pain treatments
Chronic pain sufferers would spend more for treatment if they knew it would work St...willing to try new treatments and 43 percent would spend more on a treatment if they knew it would work, according to a national U.S. survey commissioned by ......ed to triple. The number of days that older people spend in the hospital will also triple, and the number of nursing home residents will nearly quadruple. Along with associate directors Charlene Harrington, RN, PhD, UCSF professor of social and behavioral sciences and Margaret Wallhagen, RN, PhD, UCSF a...Novartis receives FDA approval for Starlix, a new treatment for type 2 diabetes
...et often goes undetected. Data show that patients spend a significant part of their day in the postprandial state. These mealtime/postprandial elevations contribute to overall blood glucose levels as measured by HbA1c. However, because diabetes management has traditionally focused on fasting plasma gluc...New technique uses imaging technology to speed drug discovery
...d may be a boon for pharmaceutical industries that spend billions of dollars and thousands of man-hours working to develop new drugs," says Hicham Fenniri, assistant professor of chemistry, who directed the effort. The new method relies on the use of specially designed "beads" that can be easily identified...Science, engineering and technology newstips
... than that of electronic routers, he said. Packets spend a brisk 100 nanoseconds in the optical router, whi...eded a general theory," said Krener. He expects to spend several years working out the new theory. Krener has worked at UC Davis since 1971, after completin...More senior doctors needed to improve UK emergency care
... all patients and would also allow junior staff to spend an introductory period shadowing a more experienced doctor, before starting clinical work. The UK government believes that there must be a "guarantee of excellence for all patients." Most doctors would agree with this aim, but the cost must be acknow...This summer, Camp Calcium is where the boys are
...urubusco, Ind., says Camp Calcium is a good way to spend the summer. "It's better than staying at home and sleeping all day. That's what I usually do." Loehr has learned more from the camp than the benefits of early rising, however. "I've learned that you should eat a lot better and get more calcium," he ...Pre-teens involved in hobbies and sports get better grades, are better behaved
...he most development-enhancing ways for children to spend their time. The finding that activity choices and adjustment are related raises the question: Does a ten-year-olds choice of free-time activities affect how well-adjusted the child will become, or simply reflect the childs adjustment level? Accordi...... critical role during a bioterrorism attack. As we spend another $500 million buying enough smallpox vaccine to fill several warehouses, we must at the same time understand that teaching people concrete and practical steps they can take to avoid becoming infected or infecting others will remain the first a......ate doctors and other caregivers for the time they spend coordinating care for patients, instead of only paying the single office visit. "Care for chronic conditions is the number one reason people seek medical attention. The current system is not working for 40 percent of the population. Policy makers nee...Doctor, counselor, cost-cutter
...nefit-cost analysis of the project. "If physicians spend five to 10 minutes talking to their patients about...nts and overall health care costs. Physicians who spend a few minutes talking to their patients about their alcohol problems can make a difference. I would...Hospitalist care destined to become dominant model of inpatient care in the US, say UCSF researchers
... patient and family, while primary care physicians spend most of their day at their offices with outpatients, and are therefore less available. Recent physician surveys also indicate acceptance of the model. As primary care physicians get used to the system, many are choosing to partner with hospitalists t...U-M Medical School complementary and alternative medicine curriculum an interdisciplinary model
...rough a competitive application process; they will spend the year exploring CAM and approaches to integrating CAM into their teaching. CAM practitioners at the U-M and in the community will serve as mentors to the scholars. The graduate program in holistic health and healing will provide graduate students......with advanced AD. These findings suggest we should spend more time researching ways to slow down or stop the early stages of neurodegeneration, added Dr. DeKosky. Dr. DeKosky and colleagues from the University of Pittsburgh and Rush Presbyterian-St. Lukes Medical Center in Chicago studied the brains of nun...Tax increases can cut the number of habitual teen smokers
...heir own cigarettes. When the amount of money they spend on cigarettes constitutes a larger share of their budgets, economic theory predicts that they will be more responsive to price, Liang explains. The researchers analyzed 1992, 1993 and 1994 data from the Monitoring the Future Surveys of 8th-, 10th- an...Most child care is provided by 'informal' providers, study finds
... findsWhen theyre not with their parents, children spend more time in the care of neighbors, friends and ot... a half-million Washington children through age 12 spend time each week in this less formal type of child care known as Family, Friend and Neighbor (FFN) ca...