When minority patients have insurance and a medical home, their health care improves
...medical advice can help them better manage chronic conditions and obtain critical preventive care services. A...gnificantly improve rates of routine screening for conditions such as heart disease and cancer. For example, eight of 10 adults who received a preventive reminder...UCLA, Italian chemists move closer to solving Lou Gehrig's disease mystery
...he normal protein forms aggregate at physiological conditions when the metals are gone, Valentine said. It was such a puzzle, but this hypothesis can solve it. If scientists can figure out why ALS patients lack the copper and zinc, that would be a major advance that could lead to treatment, she said. The re...Nepalese researchers identify cost-effective treatment for drug-resistant typhoid
...ase affecting the developing world, where sanitary conditions remain poor. The best global estimates are of at least 22 million cases of typhoid fever each year with 200,000 deaths. Drug resistance is becoming a major problem and treatment is becoming increasingly difficult, leading to patients taking longer to...Emergency department guidelines enhance quality patient care
.... Although guidelines for care on select disease conditions may be available in some emergency departments, th... evidence-based online system that covers numerous conditions from triage and diagnosis to treatment and discharge. Weve been developing a system for the last t...Smoking may interfere with alcoholics' neurocognitive recovery during abstinence
...chronic smoking may impact neurocognition in other conditions where is it a prevalent behavior, such as schizophrenia-spectrum and mood disorders. Further research is imperative....Students with symptoms of mental illness often don't seek help
...orders on college campuses is rising, studying the conditions surrounding the phenomenon presents an opportunity. "Often college student mental health is framed as a problem on the rise," Eisenberg said. "One can also think of it as a unique opportunity because college campuses offer several ways to reach st...STAMP system can help professionals to identify potentially violent individuals
... were raised by the disorientation associated with conditions such as mental illness, substance misuse, dementia, epilepsy, diabetes and head injuries, this became a real issue. Nine violent episodes involved disorientated people with raised anxiety levels. Eleven of the 16 patients who became violent we...Columbia dentists to improve oral health in sub-Saharan Africa
... problems in the developing world, and oral health conditions are one of the most common chronic disorders, acco...th problems is one spoke in the wheel of improving conditions in sub-Saharan Africa, said Dr. Syrop. By improving their health, we enable this population to be mo...Diabetes professionals join forces to identify gaps in diabetes care and better self care
...table conditions. "For those with diabetes and conditions like depression, heart disease or retinopathy, self-care can be even more challenging," said Jane Jeffrie Seley, MPH, MSN, NP, CDE, co-editor of the AJN report and diabetes nurse practitioner at New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center, NYC...ESA satellite guides polar explorers across disintegrating sea ice
...rctic Ocean were recently guided through hazardous conditions using observations from Envisat, as sea ice in the...xtremely harsh, dangerous and physically demanding conditions encountered during their three and a half-month expedition from Russia to Greenland via the North Po...News briefs from the journal Chest, June 2007
...lationship between ISP occurrence and meteorologic conditions in Bologna, Italy. Atmospheric pressure and ambient temperature were obtained for each day of the study period, and researchers defined ISP clusters as the hospitalization of at least two people with pneumothorax within 3 days of one another. By the ...Researchers develop criteria to detect bone mass deficiencies in children with chronic diseases
...valuation of bone status will determine if certain conditions or treatments affect some skeletal sites differently from others. The research was funded by and conducted under the auspices of the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) of the National Institutes of Health. The research ...Rochester spreads knowledge of cancer-related fatigue
... first step to managing cancer fatigue is to treat conditions that may contribute to it, such as anemia, pain or depression. Studies show that anemia medications alleviate cancer fatigue to some degree. Other classes of drugs called psychostimulants have shown promise in open-label trials. Further research is n...Conference to investigate basis of parental behavior
...derstand the role of the central nervous system in conditions such as postpartum depression and female anxiety at the Parental Brain Conference at Bostons Back Bay Hilton. The event begins at 7 p.m. on Thursday, June 7. The four-day event, hosted by Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University ...New study reports hotel guests at risk from carbon monoxide poisoning
...d, 66 developed pathological conditions, and 6 had conditions resulting in a jury verdict. Jury verdicts have averaged $4.8 million per incident (range=$1 million-17.5 million). Poisoning occurred at hotels of all classes. According to Lindell K. Weaver, MD, medical director of the LDS Hospital Hyperbaric Me...Advances in understanding bipolar disorder topics of press briefings June 7, 8
...possible genetic link between bipolar disorder and conditions such as auto-immune diseases. Other sessions that may be of interest to news media include: Thomas R. Insel, M.D., director of the National Institute of Mental Health, will discuss the Institutes vision of research, which includes revolutionar...Born to lose: How birth weight affects adult health and success
...of low birth weight apart from other common family conditions siblings share. According to the authors, economists Rucker Johnson at the University of California, Berkeley, and Robert Schoeni at U-M, the study provides the most detailed look to date at how well-being and disadvantage are transmitted across ge...Explaining a link between strokes and Alzheimer's
...ry. It has been known for some time that the two conditions were linked, but now the Leeds team has shown how ...are reduced by a number of factors, from long-term conditions like emphysema and angina, to sudden incidents such as a heart attack, stroke or even head trauma. E...Stanford researchers track human stem cells transplanted into rat brain
...ody knows the best way of inserting the cells, the conditions that are best for cell survival, or the optimal timing after an injury for when transplanting the cells is most effective. With the ability to watch the cells in real time, researchers can compare different techniques to learn what works best. The ...Blocking stress protein decreases Alzheimer's peptide in mice
...y and Dong showed that raising them under isolated conditions in smaller cages accelerated the deposition of brain plaques and declines in cognitive ability. Brain plaques are believed to be a primary cause of the memory loss and other mental damage inflicted by Alzheimer's disease. They are mostly comprised of...