Disability payments may spur drug abuse
... the substance abuse hospitalizations and consider changing the bulk of their aid from cash payments to in-kind support such as food or housing assistance. ...Preventive treatments in elderly people needs rethinking
...risk of a particular cause of death, we are simply changing the cause of death without the patients informed consent" This is fundamentally unethical, undermining the principle of respect for autonomy. Financial incentives for doctors that are linked to guidelines and targets may coerce doctors into persu...Happier hospitals means healthier patients
...think that these problems can be changed simply by changing management structures, said Becky. You find people fiddling about with structures when in fact its more important to get the actual relationships right. Managers and doctors are always going to have different points of view about the way the NHS sh...New study examines effectiveness of tailored health messages
...ing than weak messages, and were more effective in changing behavior. When messages were relatively weak or contained anecdotal evidence, tailoring the message seemed to have little effect. That tells us when someone reads a message that is congruent with his disposition, hes really paying attention to it,...K-State researcher working on a way to make snack foods with extra fiber
...ith ways to add fiber to the foods we love without changing what we like about our favorite snacks. Sajid Alavi is an assistant professor of grain science and industry at K-State's College of Agriculture. His expertise is in extrusion processing, which is used to make products from cheese puffs to pet food....ESA satellite guides polar explorers across disintegrating sea ice
... ice conditions and an invaluable synoptic view of changing ice conditions along the explorer's route. With the aid of these satellite images, Leif has been able to help the expedition to try to avoid the rapidly disintegrating ice pack in the Robson Channel between Greenland and Ellesmere Island in the ex...Medicalizing the human condition
...s University sociologist Peter Conrad explores the changing forces driving the medicalization of society through case studies of short stature, shyness, "male menopause," erectile dysfunction, adult ADHD, and sexual orientation. In The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions in...Revlimid data presented at ASCO stands to change the way physicians treat multiple myeloma
...hich are very effective combined with the model of changing myeloma into a chronic disease process is making us rethink our traditional treatment paradigm, where therapy is decided on if or if not the patient qualifies for high dose therapy and bone marrow (stem cell) transplant. With the current knowledge of...Study: Who claims to be a pediatrician?
...s, they may feel less comfortable discussing their changing bodies with a physician of the opposite sex. While adolescence may be years away, Freed encourages parents to plan ahead, and select a pediatrician with whom their children will feel most comfortable as they grow. ...Help for pediatricians in treating behavioral health problems only partially successful
... resource guides were only partially successful in changing the way that pediatricians handled behavioral health problems, according to a follow-up study at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. But external factors, especially "black box warnings" from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration "exerted a ...12-month study demonstrated tolerability and efficacy of Daytrana
...ividualize ADHD treatment to meet their children's changing schedules." This study was an open-label extension of four clinical trials. Those children not optimized on DAYTRANA from the previous trials entered a four-week stepwise DAYTRANA dose-optimization phase. All children then entered an 11-month DAY...Ulcerative colitis remission rates from long-term safety study of LIALDA presented at DDW
... they had remained in remission when staying on or changing to LIALDA for 12 months. A total of 198 patients who received LIALDA or Asacol in the parent studies entered the maintenance phase of study 303 directly. Of these patients, 151 were in clinical and endoscopic remission, while 47 were considered we...Study: Chain-owned nursing homes hurt by too much standardization
...chain. "Standardization is a way to think about changing service delivery across many areas, including administrative and clinical processes and even within facility layout," said Banaszak-Holl. Chains that over-emphasize administrative processes don't take advantage of how much their staff can learn---and...Start school later in the morning, say sleepy teens
...e reverse. School systems should be thinking about changing their start times. It would not be easythey would have to change the busing systembut it would increase their student's sleep time and likely improve their school performance....Drug eluting nanostructured coatings enable targeted drug therapy for orthopedic patients
...g the diameter and length scales of the tubes. By changing these physical parameters of nanotubes, they could precisely control the dosage and deliver drugs at physiological rates for desired duration of time. In the case of orthopedic implants with nanotubes on the implant surfaces, drugs such as antibioti...Fatalistic beliefs about cancer cause many to ignore cancer prevention advice
...rchers conclude, there has been little progress in changing the belief that "everything causes cancer" in the ...fatalism, Niederdeppe believes that the constantly changing messages people get from the news are often confusing. "Cancer is a difficult thing to talk abou...AGA Institute takes leadership role in exploring obesity and its complications
...gets and various sectors of the economy leading to changing attitudes about the obesity epidemic. As the AGA Institute Obesity Task Force examined the current and potential roles of the gastroenterology community in addressing the severe worldwide problem of obesity and its complications, we were encourage......ound that web-based intervention programs aimed at changing the behavior of sedentary adults were just as effe...ies have shown that direct mail programs geared at changing behavior in order to boost a persons physical activity can work, but come with built-in drawbacks, i...Experts debate role of stenting, bypass surgery in left main coronary artery disease
...esults of this randomized, controlled trial before changing from the gold standard," Dr. Mack said. Drs. Mack and Mehran will face off to debate the treatment of left main coronary artery disease on Friday, May 11, at 5:10 p.m.......cognitive-behavioral therapy a treatment based on changing unhelpful patterns of thinking for pain management. An important facet of this therapy was training in specific coping skills, such as using relaxation techniques and pacing daily activities. Other interventions included biofeedback, stress mana...