Teens more anxious than assumed
...agers with the highest levels of anxiety tended to spend more time alone but were less anxious when they did spend time with friends, the researchers found. High-anxiety teens were seven times more likely than low-a...New P.E. study demonstrates vigorous exercise can lower adolescents body fat, blood pressure
...goed) CHAPEL HILL By cutting the time adolescents spend standing around in school physical education classes and boosting the amount of exercise they do, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill experts have shown they can control the children's body fat and lower their blood pressure. Positive result...Female physicians more emotionally focused and 'patient-centered' when communicating with patients
Female primary care physicians spend more time with their patients and engage in more positive, social, and emotionally focused talk than their male colleagues, according to researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Northeastern University. Their conclusions...Female physicians more emotionally focused and 'patient-centered' when communicating with patients
Female primary care physicians spend more time with their patients and engage in more positive, social, and emotionally focused talk than their male colleagues, according to researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Northeastern University. Their conclusions...Time, trust key to successful teen-doctor relationship
Doctors willing to spend time and effort to build trust with their young patients will be rewarded with a more productive and long-lasting relationship, according to a new study. "Adolescents want a strong interpersonal relationship with their [health care] provider, a sense......pected, parents and others can be inconsolable and spend their lives trying to understand "why?". Background In the early 1970s the concept of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) was introduced in an attempt to categorize death among infants who die suddenly and unexpectedly and in whom post-mortem i...Moulds increase severity of asthma
...ure occurs indoors rather than outdoors and people spend most of their time indoors. Those people with asthma who are sensitised to airborne moulds should be educated to pay careful attention to symptoms and comply with treatment, particularly during the seasonal increase in mould spore counts, say the aut...Women heart patients suffer lower quality of life than do men
...omen with heart disease need people to talk to and spend time with," Emery said. "Friendship and companionship appears to be extremely important for their well-being." Men in our society are socialized to not depend as much on friends and family for their well-being, he said. In addition, for men of workin...Concern over billion dollar alternative medicine bill
Australians now spend an estimated $2.3 billion a year on alternative me...ennan (Obstetrics & Gynaecology). "Australians now spend four times as much on unproven therapies as on prescribed pharmaceuticals," Professor MacLennan says...Duke and federal government partner to create innovative health care model
...people and their health care system. "We currently spend $1.4 trillion a year on health care, but we aren't getting our money's worth. Our health care system is inefficient and needs to be fixed. We are convinced that a prospective health care revolution will make everyone a winner. Patients will be health...Quality time with physical therapists above fancy equipment, convenient parking
...are providers throughout the medical profession to spend less time with their patients. Yet the amount and quality of time are the factors most closely linked by patients to customer satisfaction. In the medical field, just as in business, service is the key, according to a research team from Penn State, U...Housebound elderly benefit from early intervention
...ent, such as a fall, rather than delay in order to spend more time matching services to the person. Despite better targeting of home care services on people most in need over the last 10 years, some very frail older people still live on their own with little or no help. The research found that older people...Study finds no evidence that teaching breast self-examination saves lives
... to educate women about breast cancer symptoms and spend a little longer on the clinical breast exam, they say. "Routinely teaching BSE may be dead, but giving women information--and continuing research on the effectiveness of excellent physical examination--should live on," the editorialists write....Disabled seniors formerly on SSDI hit hardest by drug costs
...dy has shown. Nearly half of the SSDI aged had to spend 10 percent or more of their income on medication, the study found. Dr. Dennis Shea, professor of health policy and administration at Penn State, is first author of the study conducted for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He says,...UNC study uncovers increasing shortage of pharmacists with growing population
... These pharmacists find themselves being forced to spend more time dispensing drugs and on resolving third-party billing issues and less time using clinical skills learned in Pharm. D. programs. "The result is overworked, stressed out retail pharmacists who are worried about making drug errors and the lack...Children's Hospital Boston releases results at the American Academy of Pediatrics Annual Meeting
...e the handling of small children. Because children spend most of their day in school, and schools are potential targets of terrorist attacks, local school districts must begin contingency planning for terrorist events. The biodefense team at Children's Hospital is taking the lead nationally in creating pr...Doctors too embarrassed to discuss sex
...pport," she said. If, however, doctors are able to spend time talking to their patients and their families about their lives, they are more likely to make accurate decisions over the treatment. The patient will then feel more secure and better cared-for. The study demonstrates that training will help doc......tial that one simple idea is kept in mind: you can spend all the money in the world on preventive medicine, but when people won't even stop smoking, can it really work?" STOMACH CANCER - THE LATEST TARGET FOR THE 'MAGIC BULLET' Gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GISTs) are the most recent cancer type to be...Computers prove to greatly reduce prescription errors
...e incomplete. To avoid errors, pharmacists have to spend precious time tracking down prescribers to clarify illegible or possibly inaccurate prescriptions. A new study by researchers at Oregon Health & Science University shows that prescriptions written on a computer are less likely to contain errors. A st......mple, colonies infected in late autumn, when seals spend less time on land, experienced low mortality rates while those infected in the summer when seals spent more than on land, had much higher mortality rates. Noting that the 2002 PDV outbreak started more than a month later than the 1988 event, the auth...