July/August 2005 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...lp people avoid and change unhealthy behaviors and adopt and maintain healthier lives. Lessons learned by 16 practice-based research networks are depicted in brief peer-reviewed articles. The Prescription for Health program was a joint effort of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Agency for Healthca...Many cancer survivors initiate lifestyle changes to benefit their health
... male, older, and less educated are less likely to adopt such changes. The term "cancer survivor" refers to... since 1996. Researchers found that many survivors adopt healthier behaviors, such as following a healthier diet (30-60% of survivors), quitting smoking (46-...Fun foods and exercise may reduce childhood obesity
...-oriented diet and exercise programs are likely to adopt healthier eating and activity patterns, according to an updated systematic review. Although the youngsters did not experience significant weight loss during the studies, most of which lasted a year or less, the reviewers note promising trends. "If th...New drug is effective in reducing rejection in heart transplantation
...by the transplant community before recommending we adopt it in our program, said Hershberger. Since it started in 1985, OHSU's Heart Transplant Program has transplanted more than 460 hearts....Routine vaccination could eliminate Hib disease in children in developing countries
... sub-Saharan Africa will now be encouraged to also adopt routine Hib vaccination programmes as this could help achieve the United Nations' Millenium Development goal of decreasing childhood deaths by two-thirds by the year 2015." (Quote by e-mail; does not appear in published paper) In an accompanying comm...Tight glucose control lowers CVD by about 50 percent in diabetes
...the conventionally treated group was encouraged to adopt intensive control and shown how to do it, and researchers began the long-term follow-up of participants. To the researchers' surprise, the benefits of the original 6 years of intensive control have persisted despite the fact that both groups' HbA1c ...Should everyone over 50 be taking aspirin?
...dcliffe Infirmary warns that it would be unwise to adopt such a policy, whatever age threshold is chosen, until we are sure that older patients will derive net benefit from it. Based on data for 55-59 year olds, aspirin prevents around two first heart attacks per 1000 population each year. However, this be...Johns Hopkins team finds 'ancestral' hepatitis-C virus at the root of evolution in infections
..."In a newly infected person, the virus may need to adopt new mutations to escape recognition by the immune system's T cells, which fight infection, but it may need to lose the mutations that had protected it in someone else. Despite pressure to change, the virus is always is restoring its shape." The Hopk...Fitter by degress? Higher education no panacea for adult health
...er, well paid job. This in turn encourages them to adopt healthy lifestyle behaviours." Links between education and health have been found consistently in various studies around the world. These show that people with limited education have poorer health, more disability and greater chances of death. For t...New NHLBI-sponsored study shows programs can teach children to eat healthier
...r the age of about 2 years, as well as all adults, adopt a heart-healthy eating pattern to reduce their risk of developing heart disease as adults. Children and adults can also lower their risk by maintaining a healthy weight and by being physically active. Parents and others play an important role in sha...UC Davis Cancer Center awarded $4.5 million
... common in Asian countries and resist pressures to adopt the higher-fat American diet. increasing the rates of colorectal cancer screening among Asian Americans. Cambodian, Chinese, Filipino, Hmong, Korean and Vietnamese communities in Seattle, San Francisco, Honolulu, Los Angeles and Sacramento will b...Home-based intervention increases physical activity in breast cancer survivors
...d been treated for early-stage breast cancer could adopt a home-based physical activity program and monitored the effects it would have on their fitness, mood, physical symptoms and body image. "Many treatments for breast cancer are toxic in nature, increasing the risk for a number of medical problems incl...Active vaccine prevents mice from developing prion disease
...s invade brain tissue and force normal proteins to adopt their configuration. In time, the diseased animal develops dementia, loses control of its limbs, and eventually dies. There are no treatments for prion-related diseases, and prions can easily infect the body because they do not elicit any immune...Medical-errors gap widens between best and worst hospitals: Healthgrades study
...mprovement advocate for -- and providers begin to adopt -- protocols for minimizing these events." Distinguished Hospital Awards and Findings Based on the study, HealthGrades identified 135 hospitals falling into the top 10% in the nation in terms of patient safety, qualifying them to receive the Health...Risk scores may identify young individuals with atherosclerosis
...lic health strategy of encouraging young people to adopt a healthy lifestyle," the authors write. "The present study shows that a risk score, based on simple and inexpensive measurements, has sufficient discrimination that physicians could identify and advise high-risk adolescents and young adults concerni...Rockefeller University researchers are changing the face of drug addiction treatment
...ss. I would love to see the whole treatment system adopt this intervention."...