Old McDonald's has a hold on kids' taste buds, Stanford/Packard study finds
...ing" has a very literal meaning. "It's really an unfair marketplace out there for young children," said Robinson, who is also a member of the Stanford Prevention Research Center. "It's very clear they cannot understand the persuasive nature of advertising." Robinson is the lead author of the research, w...Support for Children's Health and Medicare Protection Act given to House leaders by ACP
...al taxes on tobacco products. Reducing costly and unfair overpayments to Medicare Advantage plans and applying these savings to ensuring health care access to children and seniors. Dr. Dale completed the letters by commending each of the Congressmen for their efforts and pledging that ACP will work for...Unfair treatment boosts heart attack risk
...oeconomic status, gender, age, chronic job stress unfair treatment at work, and personality traits, such as hostility. But the results still showed that the higher the sense of injustice, the greater was the risk of a heart attack or angina. People in the "high" category were 55% more likely to have se...Who receives a kidney transplant first?
...odification to the system that may be perceived as unfair runs the risk of undermining patient confidence. "Transplantation is the only technologically advanced field of medicine that is totally dependent on public understanding and support, for without donors and recipients, transplantation would simply no...Taking the wraps off drug safety data from clinical trials
... the information will give other drug companies an unfair competitive advantage," said Mello. "But it is strange to argue that evidence that a drug is harmful will enable others to develop similar drugs." The authors suggest that current FDA policies can and should be changed in ways that allow the scientif...Operations research pioneer outlines ways to make kidney transplant allocation more equitable
...as shown that a purely utilitarian approach can be unfair to certain populations of patients and that more refined models involving shared decision-making between physicians and patients that also provide priority points based on waiting time would achieve a better balance on the efficiency-equity spectrum....New study reveals postcode lottery for rheumatoid arthritis treatment
...primary care trusts to put an end to this patently unfair situation, which is in direct contravention of gov...ven though NICE aims to stop this happening. It's unfair on patients with these devastating, painful and unglamorous conditions to be forced to take a low pr...Racism effects health of Maori in New Zealand
...stions about verbal attacks, physical attacks, and unfair treatment by a health professional, at work or when buying or renting housing. The researchers found that Maori were almost ten times more likely to experience discrimination in three or more settings than their European counterparts. The team also ...Poor, ethnic children at greater risk for exposure to toxic pollutants
...children. "Lead exposure gives these children an unfair start in life in addition to placing additional burdens on schools serving disadvantaged populations," notes lead author Janean E. Dilworth-Bart, Ph.D., assistant professor of human development and family studies. However, she adds, strict enforcemen...Intellectual property law and the protection of traditional knowledge
...nis, existing IP rules, the closely related law of unfair competition, and associated contractual mechanisms can provide far more comprehensive legal protection for the traditional knowledge of indigenous peoples than is generally acknowledged. "Minor modification of the patent application process could not...Paternalism not to blame for failure to implement resuscitation policies
...l decline in anxiety after this discussion. "It is unfair to assume that paternalism is driving the failure of implementing a policy not to attempt resuscitation," say the authors. "We must ask our patients if they wish to be involved, and until they feel well enough, health professionals continue to carry ...NHS should have an independent regulator
...nt regulators to see that commercial interests and unfair pricing do not disadvantage the public. At present the UK does not have an independent regulator of healthcare reform, yet the consequences of ill judged reform of the NHS may inflict long term damage to the delivery of health care to its citizens, ...Key strategy to limit managed care drug costs failing, survey shows
...another example of a drug-risk contract considered unfair by physician groups, the authors report that one physician group was penalized for not controlling its costs as well as another group in the HMO's network, even though the other group was in a different health care market. Under the new Medicare dru...The GMC'S judgement against Roy Meadow could put children at greater risk of abuse
...eir work. Horton also accuses the GMC of making an unfair example of Meadow in the wake of the Harold Shipman case in order to protect its own status. He writes: "Many doctors today believe that the GMC is acting more out of self interest than public interest. It is impossible to put into words the low este...Discrimination against individuals with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria
...ious research studies. In addition to experiencing unfair treatment by their families, communities, and employers, they may encounter discrimination from healthcare professionals. An article to be published on July 19 in the international open-access medical journal PLoS Medicine shows that such discriminat...Health professionals believe gender bias limits women's progression in NHS
...tion to redress this imbalance was perceived as an unfair recruitment strategy by the majority of participants who were mainly of White British origin. Disability and sexual orientation was also perceived as a barrier to career progression - 87% of disabled respondents felt their disability limited their ch...Doctors argue for new ways to resolve health treatment choices
...live three months longer then it seems intuitively unfair that this should be ascribed the same low value-for-money rating - and potentially not be funded as a treatment that gives three months to those with, for example, diabetes or high cholesterol, when these patients may live for decades with standard ...Perceived discrimination linked to coronary artery calcification
...status stressors in the form of discrimination and unfair treatment may have a negative impact on a variety of risk factors for heart disease, she said. "Most of these studies have focused on clinically manifest disease, which may actually underestimate the impact of discrimination on cardiovascular outcom...