Teens present research findings at major international meeting
...lly interested in dentistry, though!" Tina doesn't spend all her spare time in a lab. "I'm the features editor of our school newspaper," she says, "and I've been volunteering at Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Hospital in the Gerontology Department for the last two years. And I enjoy reading books by Kurt V...Study: National medical privacy law makes health research harder, more expensive
...o get consent from one patient, we calculated we'd spend $14.50 per patient in the first year of the study for computer, training, staff, administrative and mailing costs, and $7.50 each year afterward." To avoid the mailed authorization approach, by asking patients for consent while they were still in the...Loss of smell linked to key protein in Alzheimer's disease
...like normal mice, those with smell deficits do not spend much time investigating such odors, and do not show a preference for "novel" odors over "familiar" odors. The results of the Penn study showed that only the control mice, with no excess of tau proteins, expressed an interest in new odors, indicatin...Experience is more effective than classroom learning in changing age bias in dental students
... in the first two years of dental school when they spend most of their time in the classroom. In other words, knowledge alone didn't make students feel more positively toward elderly patients. However, the net bias score went down for the third- and fourth-year students. These students had worked with t...Student builds micro biosensor chip to move DNA molecules
...aduate Research Award grant from the university to spend much of last summer working on his project. "The chip has tiny wires, each about one-fifth the diameter of a human hair, embedded in a circular pattern," Simone said. "When it's connected to a power source, it allows us to generate an electric field ...Jefferson-led study shows transdermal system as effective as IV pump for post-surgical pain
... boon to nurses as nursing staff would not have to spend time setting up an IV and the time consuming standard pain pump currently used. This could allow nurses to devote more time to patient care instead of technology, he said. The fentanyl patch system studied is currently under review by the U.S. Food ...Video games, not TV, linked to obesity in kids
...vision use, is indeed displacing the time children spend in more physically demanding pursuits." How might ...activities than thinner kids did, but they did not spend any more or less time being moderately or extremely active. Children with lower BMIs, on the other h...Young breast cancer survivors suffer more long-term after effects
... the end of their working lives, with more time to spend on themselves and on maintaining their family relationships. They are also less likely to have continuing childcare responsibilities." The women studied said that they were happy to be followed by specialists, but with breast cancer survival on the...Drug companies are top health care lobbyists
Pharmaceutical companies spend more money lobbying Congress than other health care organizations, according to a new study in the April 1, 2004 issue of the American Journal of Medicine. Meanwhile, lobbying by physicians lagged behind, suggesting a decline in their political infl...Environmental inequities cluster to harm poor children
... fewer books at home, use libraries less often and spend more time watching television than their middle-income counterparts. "These risk factors aren't randomly distributed but co-occur much more frequently in the environments of low-income children," says Evans, noting that researchers typically look at...Study finds low activity levels among nursing home residents regardless of restraint
...sure - also suggests that most long-stay residents spend a potentially unhealthful amount of time in bed. "Based on our observations, we estimate that the typical resident in a high-restraint home spends between 19 and 20 hours in bed each day. That estimate drops in low-restraint homes, but by only an hou...Time with patients, staff support boost flu shot rates
...zations before the exam began, and that the doctor spend at least 10 minutes with the patient and ask about a flu shot during the exam. When all four elements were in place, more than 90 percent of the patients studied left properly vaccinated. But all four pieces have to be present to make the system work...Images of thin models boost dieters' self-image: Study
... that young women- and just about everybody else - spend a lot of time voluntarily exposing themselves to these images," says Herman, noting the study confirms similar findings from other work....Medical residents need training to interact with pharmaceutical representatives
...ications they prescribe. "Pharmaceutical companies spend billions of dollars on marketing with the goal of changing doctors' behaviors and there's good data that shows it works," said Raquel Watkins, M.D., lead researcher and assistant professor of internal medicine. "To be informed decision-makers, physi...Lower temperatures improve outcomes after bypass surgery
...rchers are urging their colleagues in the field to spend an extra 10 to 15 minutes slowly rewarming their p...long-standing medical practices, to not wanting to spend the additional time in the operating room," Grocott continued. "However, these new data show that it...Illegal drug use causes painful complications for oncology patients
...er care." A nurse educated in pain management will spend extra time with the patient to perform a complete ...and physician can develop a treatment strategy and spend the appropriate time treating each facet of the patient's case." In the Pain Management Center at Fo...Pain resource nurses at Fox Chase Cancer Center seen as educators and advocates for a change
...act for other nurses and physicians. The PRN will spend one-on-one time with the patients to understand their history and current symptoms, making them aware and most familiar with what treatment is best for their pain. The PRN works closely with the physician to make sure the appropriate pain medication ...For foster children, unstable placements have higher healthcare costs
...re likely to drift from placement to placement and spend considerable time in the foster care system," said David Rubin, M.D., a general pediatrician at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and primary investigator of this study. "Because mental health and global health are interrelated for children in ...Patients report high levels of trust in medical specialists
...e services overwhelming financial disincentives to spend more time with patients." "My personal bias is tha...t value," writes Dr. Levine. "The time physicians spend in the management of their patients, all of their time, has value. We should have a health care sys...Medical College of Georgia to establish clinical campus at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital
...mpus could grow to be a site where a student could spend their whole third-year of medical school," said Dr. Fincher. "This could also be a wonderful opportunity, particularly for the cancer initiative, to be able to collaborate for community-based research."...