Many children are undervaccinated or have delayed vaccinations in their first 2 years of life
...ers write. "Assessing days undervaccinated reveals weaknesses in childhood vaccination programs. Physicians are in the best position to assess the needs of their patients to determine reasons for delay. Evidence-based solutions exist for many of these needs, such as reminder-recall systems, extended office ho...Disease testing for immigrants: Discrimination disguised as public health policy
...matising entire sections of society. But technical weaknesses in health-check policies also preclude achievement of their alleged protective purpose. By selecting just two diseases for scrutiny, and specifying that only arrivals from non-EU countries will be tested, the UK policies ignore some of the most immed...New theory chalenges current view of how brain stores long-term memory
... question lies in the fact that there are critical weaknesses in the prevailing view. "There are enough instances of memory storage in the virtual absence of protein synthesis to compel consideration of alternative models," said Routtenberg. The authors noted that most of the evidence supporting the curren...National Academies advisory: Report assesses health implications of perchlorate exposure
...developmental outcomes in children. Because of the weaknesses in the studies of the health effects in human populations exposed to perchlorate in the environment, the committee recommended against using them to determine a reference dose. Rather, it recommended using a 2002 clinical study in which groups of he...Child health must become UNICEF's priority over next decade
...ted failure to grapple with critical institutional weaknesses in their own ranks. A commentary in this week's issue of THE LANCET provides an analysis of UNICEF, its decade-long failure to create and implement a strategy for child survival (the fourth Millennium Development Goal) and a call to action as the UN...Virtual colonoscopy shows significant promise as colorectal cancer screening option
...practice and training understand the strengths and weaknesses of CT colonography and have the option to use this technology. This will necessitate a comprehensive approach to training and curriculum development, as well as the practical issues relevant to incorporating CT colonography into practice. "Patients ...Study finds computer vignette to be effective way to measure quality of physician practice
...very precise estimate of where their strengths and weaknesses are. But in medicine, we don't get a lot of feedback. And in order to change that, we need a new measurement method." At present, the most common measurement system is medical record abstraction, a summary of a doctor's patient care records. Howe...'Science of better' convenes operations researchers in Denver
... operations researchers skilled at analyzing these weaknesses are offering new approaches to the seemingly intractable problems. Expert William Pierskalla sheds light on this important new work being done in health care operations, policy, and economics, as well as clinical practice. Sunday, October 24, 11:40 A...Circumcised newborns respond best to anesthetic relief
...antages of these techniques, Brady-Fryer says that weaknesses in the original trials must be considered as well. Many of the trials enrolled small numbers of patients (80 or fewer in 32 of the 35 trials), while some did not describe the tools or techniques used for the circumcision. "None of the reports include...Panel finds that scare tactics for violence prevention are harmful
...vement. The panel also identified strengths and weaknesses in the field of violence prevention research, and made a number of recommendations to shape future efforts. Among these, the panel advocated a national population-based adolescent violence registry, and greater emphasis on economic research into the ...UW to lead most comprehensive study of air pollution and cardiovascular disease
...ted related to cardiovascular disease. One of the weaknesses of most previous studies was that their researchers could only assume everyone in a particular city has the same exposure to pollution, Kaufman said. In fact, that's not true. Exposures vary within a metropolitan area. Pollution varies in a community...Siblings help children get along with others in kindergarten
... "We believe this study addresses some of the weaknesses of previous research and gives a better view of how siblings may affect social skills," he said. Downey said parents of only children should not view these results as a reason to have another child. "We wouldn't encourage parents to hav...3D neutron-based medical imaging, 4D lung scans, and hitting a moving tumor
...m ) used to evaluate drugs designed to exploit the weaknesses in the tumor vasculature is a process called dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) MRI, in which MRI scanning is performed before, during and after the injection of a contrast agent. From this a quantitative measure of the pharmacodynamic effectiveness of...Hospitals following heart attack guidelines have better outcomes
...ata generated by the CRUSADE initiative highlights weaknesses in the process of delivering health care, it clearly shows the areas that need improvement," Peterson said. "The goal of the program is to stimulate hospitals to re-evaluate their care processes."...Community hospitals do not transfer high-risk heart patients for aggressive therapy
...of hospitals," Roe said. "While CRUSADE points out weaknesses in the health-care system, it also can help in showing us where to improve the system. We hope these findings will stimulate community hospitals to re-evaluate their care processes for patients with UA/NSTEMI."...HPV testing helps identify potential cases of cervical cancer, meta-analysis suggests
...n with cervical abnormalities. They point out some weaknesses in the meta-analysis and note that some of these stem from the fact that cervical cancer screening is a rapidly evolving field. "Eventually, we hope to identify and validate markers of cancer risk that are even more accurate than either cytology or H...OHSU researchers study recent monkeypox outbreak
...erstanding of the disease process, we can identify weaknesses or vulnerabilities of the disease upon which we can base new vaccines or therapies,' Wong said....The statin wars: Why AstraZeneca must retreat
...tool for the drug; the Lancet editorial points out weaknesses of many of the trials, commenting that 'with no clinical end-point trial yet completed, the company has chosen to market rosuvastatin by applying adventurous statistics to an overinterpreted syllogism.' The editorial concludes: 'Since there ar...Annals of Internal Medicine, tip sheet, July 16, 2002
... The article discusses how individual mistakes and weaknesses in the hospital's systems led to the error, and describes how the hospital responded.......ed in designs. Knowledge of material strengths and weaknesses helps engineers set limits in structural designs so that certain materials are not used in conditions unsuitable to the strengths of that material. This system will provide engineers with state-of-the-art materials testing and analysis to aid in desi...