US child health system needs total overhaul, UCLA researchers say
...s, but todays children and youth face more chronic conditions that will impact them for the rest of their lives diseases like asthma, diabetes and mental health problems like ADHD and depression," Halfon said. "These emerging health needs are simply not being addressed." The authors call for ground-up refor...Conference honoring UH professor attracts researchers from United States, abroad
... every five years. Growing up under challenging conditions during World War II as a Jewish youth in Nazi-occupied France, Glowinski went on to earn a bachelor's degree in communication engineering and worked as an engineer for the French broadcasting system. After earning master's and doctoral degrees in ...Nanomaterials in Biology and Medicine
...that can probe the human body and diagnose medical conditions such as tumors. These "nanoprobes" could help reduce the need for surgery by handling diagnosis and drug delivery on a small scale. At this event researchers will discuss new ways to create functional nanomaterials in biology, challenges involved in...Opening of specialty cardiac hospitals associated with increase in rate of cardiac procedures
...ls, which provide care limited to specific medical conditions or procedures, are opening at a rapid pace across the United States, according to background information in the article. Proponents argue that specialty hospitals provide higher quality health care and greater cost-efficiency by concentrating physici...Red flag for repetitive stress injuries identified for first time in humans
... to early detection and prevention of debilitating conditions such as carpal tunnel syndrome and tendonitis. T...preventing the development of chronic work-related conditions and, consequently, the need for more serious measures such as surgery. "If the injury to the tiss...Teenagers with retail, service jobs at risk of injury, robberies, sleep deprivation
...l or service industries. Our aim is to examine the conditions under which they are working, and suggest ways to protect them at work," said lead study author Carol Runyan, Ph.D., director of UNC's Injury Prevention Research Center (IPRC) and professor of health behavior and health education in the UNC School of...Most children in US hospitals receive medicines off-label
...cians may legally prescribe the drug for different conditions and for patients in other age groups. This study m...tside the United States, often limited to specific conditions or to patients in single medical centers. This current study focused on 90 drugs that were either ad...Severe PTSD damages children's brains, Stanford/Packard study shows
...ms make PTSD difficult to differentiate from other conditions such as attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Children predisposed by genetics or environment to be more anxious than their peers are also more likely to develop PTSD in response to emotional trauma, perhaps because their responses to other lif...Chronic disease management quality improvement efforts yield better care delivery
...care in health centers for three prevalent chronic conditions has improved processes of care for these conditions but did not improve intermediate clinical outcomes, according to results of a study collaboratively ...Residents in disaster areas face medication adherence dilemmas
...s to medication adherence in patients with chronic conditions for several years prior to the disaster, and had received a $2 million grant from the National Institute on Aging just two weeks before the hurricane and flood. The researchers work, part of an ongoing four-year study, has expanded in New Orleans s...Task force recommends greater use of exercise testing in chronic disease
...owerful tool for diagnosing chronic heart and lung conditions and measuring responses to treatment, according to...ve to changes in performance important in chronic conditions where improvements can be small and very slow. Professor of Sports Science at the University of Le...Patients with type 1 diabetes don't wake in response to hypoglycemia
...induced hypoglycemia with insulin under controlled conditions and then assessed sleep with polysomography. A fall in plasma glucose to 2.2 mmol/l, which provoked an awakening response in most healthy control participants, did not provoke awakening in most patients with T1DM. On a control night, with no hypoglyc...Penn researchers find that chronic dizziness may be caused by psychiatric and neurologic illnesses
... heartbeats. Two-thirds of patients had medical conditions associated with the onset of dizziness, whereas one-third had anxiety disorders as the initial cause. Therefore, CSD may be triggered by either neurotologic or psychiatric conditions. Key diagnostic features were identified in the clinical histo...Updated guidelines advise focusing on women's lifetime heart risk
...t attacks, they more frequently have other medical conditions in addition to heart disease, and they are less likely to be treated with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) a procedure that re-opens blocked arteries. Disparities in care have been suspected as a key culprit for the difference in heart atta...Blood marker helps predict prognosis among those with abdominal infection
... and sepsis," the authors write. Currently, these conditions are diagnosed with imaging procedures and guided aspiration (suction) techniques. "An accurate and readily available biochemical marker for identifying patients at risk for abdominal infections would definitely contribute to easier and safer diagnos...CRP liver protein induces hypertension, UT Southwestern researchers have found
... "Doing so provides a new perspective on how these conditions have a negative impact on cardiovascular health." ...Better designed roadway intersections can boost older drivers' performance
...nclude tests of the federal guidelines under other conditions such as in bigger cities, rural areas or at night, Classen said. In addition, ongoing driving simulator studies led by Orit Shechtman, Ph.D., an associate professor in UFs department of occupational therapy, may demonstrate that the simulator is just...Increased risk of stillbirth in older pregnant women
... and intrauterine growth restriction. All of these conditions have been associated with a higher rate of stillbirth. To determine if AMA was an independent risk factor for stillbirth, and when fetal testing would be most beneficial for reducing stillbirth rates, the authors conducted a cross-sectional stu...Benchmark fetal surgery study finds timeliness to be critical factor in success of treatment
...ransfusion syndrome (TTTS), one of the most common conditions requiring fetal surgery and the leading cause of mortality in twins? The benchmark, NIH-funded study on TTTS, conducted at 17 centers in the United States, will be presented February 9 at the annual meeting of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicin...New data supports a non-invasive approach to routine prenatal genetic testing
... of the biggest steps forward to determine genetic conditions in the fetus. The ability to make an early diagnosis is the key that opens the door for the future treatment of many birth defects before the child is born," says Dr. Moise. "This shows promise as an excellent alternative to amniocentesis and may g...