Study finds no relationship between respiratory illnesses, mists from 'dental aerosols'
...ental schools. "Fourth-year students routinely spend up to 30 hours a week in clinics and first-year students spend none," said Frank A. Scannapieco, D.M.D., Ph.D., UB associate professor of oral biology and senior a...Costly cancer treatment aimed at protecting kids hearts offers no additional benefit
...hese longer-lasting treatments requires a child to spend at least two days in the hospital, causing tremendous anxiety and inconvenience, and costing millions of dollars in the U.S. each year. Details of the study by physicians at 10 hospitals throughout the United States and Canada will be published in th...Poor patients twice as likely to die from heart disease
...d by these factors, Peterson continued. We have to spend more time looking at the larger issue of the continuity of care and long-term compliance issues to ensure that all patients obtain the same outcomes from medical care.The Duke team has several projects under way to better understand what happens to p...First multimedia resource to give patients their own voice
...patients are saying. But, in practice students can spend very little time with patients, especially those with unusual conditions, and doctors have a limited amount of time for each patient consultation. History-taking often still concentrates on the narrower requirements of reaching a diagnosis rather tha...Duke Cancer Center, ABC2 join to test brain cancer drugs
...f the Brain Tumor Center at Duke. "Researchers can spend years testing a single compound in laboratory cell cultures, then in mice, just to find that it lacks the same effect in humans. The cost for such endeavors is huge. Few companies can afford to invest their research dollars on finding cures for rare ...Cedars-sinai surgery dept. implements innovative surgical training tool to reduce medical errors
...ors as humiliating ordeals where participants may spend more time defending their actions than learning from their mistakes. However, Cedars-Sinais Department of Surgery has transformed its weekly Morbidity and Mortality Conferences into an innovative educational study curriculum the M & M Matrix. This...HMO patients more likely to get health counseling, preventive services
... Forest researchers also found that these patients spend a few minutes less time actually seeing their doctors. "The results of this study have national policy implications for the practice of medicine and payment to physicians under managed care," said Rajesh Balkrishnan, Ph.D., assistant professor of pu...Researchers say trees could affect land use, reduce skin cancer
...eep youngsters safe from those blisters since they spend much of their time outside wearing recreational clothing. For this reason, by the time individuals are 18 years old, they have received 50 percent of their lifetime exposure to the sun's radiation, according to the CDC. So, that tan may look terrifi...Mayo Medical School students selected for Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Scholars Program
...icipants live within minutes of the laboratory and spend each day in groundbreaking basic science in the company of some of the worlds top investigators in a place where research resources are bountiful and generous. In the past five years, 90 percent of Mayo Medical School student applicants to the progr......like pediatrics or family practice. The residents spend their first year getting a master's of public health in epidemiology. In the second year, they do rotations through the state epidemiology office, learning disease surveillance and outbreak investigation, Henry Ford Hospital, studying clinical preve...Columbia dental students chosen for three out of nine NIH summer fellowships in national competition
...linical care, and administration. Award recipients spend a summer at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. as research fellows. They are assigned to mentors and research projects that reflect their individual qualifications and interests, enabling them to gain meaningful, hands-on experience i...U.S. for-profit hospitals show higher mortality rates than non-profits, analysis shows
... to achieve the same outcomes while having less to spend on patient care. "These issues raise concerns that the profit motive causes hospitals to limit care in ways that affect patient outcomes, and our findings suggest such concerns are justified." Devereaux pointed in particular to the finding that for...New drugs could markedly alter Alzheimer's, but disease will not go away
... the illness, doubling the length of time patients spend in each of the five disease stages. Treatments for hypertension and reduction of coronary artery disease have helped delay the onset of congestive heart failure. In the 1950s, the average age of disease onset was 57.3 years. By the 1980s, it was 76.4...Study examines issues faced by teen-agers who move to the U.S.
... While Polish children complained that they didn't spend enough time with their parents, Mexicans and Koreans said family interactions were more frequent following immigration. Koreans attributed it to the new work environment, in which fathers spent less time socializing outside of work with colleagues; ...Medicare shortchanges initial doctor visit, SFVAMC study says
...cussing the importance of exercise the patient may spend most of the day in the chair and lose the ability to walk well, and be at higher risk of falls." "These preventive services are very important and if Medicare does not pay for them they are likely to be ignored," she added. Landsverk examined how th...Simple questions may help predict death risk for heart patients
...ts with coronary artery disease, says Spertus. "We spend a lot of time in medicine doing tests to figure out who is at the highest risk so we can be more aggressive in treating those patients. Here's a simple questionnaire that could be used for a similar purpose. "It is much easier to administer than a ...Girls with views of nature have better chance of success
...of nature from home, possibly because boys tend to spend more time playing away from home than do girls, said co-author Frances E. Kuo, co-director of the Human-Environment Research Lab. This study is one of several that Kuo and third co-author William C. Sullivan have conducted on the link between nature ...Saint Louis University researcher: 'Pet therapy' works
... benefits of allowing patients who love animals to spend time with them might be even greater than quantified in the study, Banks added. Pets tend to bring people together and encourage them to socialize. "Have you ever walked a dog in the park? Even without doing anything, the dog can act as a catalyst an...Practice makes perfect, if you sleep on it
... sleep before the maximum benefit of the time they spend practicing is realized." This also may help to explain why infants sleep so much. "Their intensity of learning new skills and information may drive the brain's hunger for large amounts of sleep," said Walker....National health care access restrictions delay Alzheimer's disease diagnosis, treatment
...survey found that more than half of the caregivers spend seven days-a-week looking after the relative. In fact, 87 percent of caregivers in Spain indicated that they care for their relative throughout the entire week. In Australia and the UK, caregivers more frequently gave up work (27 and 40 percent) to...