AIDS depleting health workforce more than brain drain in some African countries
...is Comment, he lists components for governments to consider in programmes to tackle this problem, such as special provision for treatment in remote locations. Dr Feeley comments: "If the death rate of Zambian nurses could be cut by 60%, Zambian health institutions would benefit more than they would from a t...Studies examine physician disclosure of medical errors
...but at the moment of a medical error, we also must consider the professional who was involved in that error," Kaldjian said. "Often an error is not directly an individual person's fault, but a system-based problem. Yet disclosing errors can be a very individual issue because sometimes only one person knows ab...Focus on weight undermines motivation for healthy lifestyle changes among people of all sizes
...ericans are least likely and whites most likely to consider themselves overweight. The study finds that even a...edentary individuals is not higher among those who consider themselves overweight, versus average weight, the study shows. White women are also the only ethnic-...Researchers aim to give nurses a lift
...r so to prevent him from getting bed sores. If you consider that nurses often work 12 hours shifts, the amount of lifting in one shift adds up a lot, and you can see how the job could be very hard to manage physically," said Vieira. However, Vieira believes a few simple changes may prevent nurses from susta...Identifying medical proxy should be part of routine medical care
.... Lipkin commented that doctors do not ordinarily consider advance planning unless patients are elderly or seriously ill. At the same time, he and others have found, most patients are willing to discuss plans for future medical care and are waiting for their physicians "to begin the conversation and to raise...Most doctors not adequately trained in family planning options
...t choose an appropriate contraceptive method is to consider her preferences as well as medical eligibility cri...ay be perceived by some as advantages while others consider them disadvantages. For instance, Dr. Jennings says, the fact that natural family planning requires...Hopkins scientists show hallucinogen in mushrooms creates universal 'mystical' experience
...ine line between neuroscience and areas most would consider outside science's realm. "But establishing the basic science here is necessary," says Griffiths, "to take advantage of the possible benefits psilocybin can bring to our understanding of how thought, emotion, and ultimately behavior are grounded in bi...Emphasis on performance measures may lead to inappropriate antibiotic use
...firm pneumonia diagnosis is made. "We must also consider the numerous patients who receive antibiotics due to suspected pneumonia but are discharged with another diagnosis," said Dr. Metersky. Furthermore, researchers believe their findings are not unique in that overzealous medicating may be seen in other...Whooping cough 'endemic' among UK school children
...al practitioners in the UK seldom diagnose or even consider pertussis in older children. It is perceived as a disease of very young children who have not been immunised and who have classic features such as whoop. So researchers set out to estimate the proportion of school age children in Oxfordshire with a...Montefiore and Einstein receive $2-million grant from Donald W. Reynolds Foundation
...rch opportunities that hopefully will lead some to consider geriatrics as a focus for their careers at a time when we find ourselves treating more and more patients who are elderly," said Joe Verghese, M.D., the grant co-leader and associate professor of Neurology at Einstein, who is active in research regard...ASH Katrina Relief Program receives ASAE's 2006 Associations Advance America Award of Excellence
...ust knew we had to do our best to provide help. We consider ourselves privileged to be able to support the people of New Orleans through ASH's Katrina Relief Program," said Kanti R. Rai, MD, ASH President. In recognition of the economic impact that losing a city-wide convention has on the host city, ASH com...Patient care threatened by workforce shortage
...rience of our overseas counterparts. "We need to consider the experience of the United States and other comparator countries, like the UK, when trying to find solutions to our workforce shortage at home.These are serious issues and patient health outcomes need to be at the forefront of our thinking when dev...Higher death rates associated with increasing degrees of obesity, PITT researchers report
...eatment options for obesity, they should carefully consider the degree of obesity, not just think of obesity as an overall entity. The degree of obesity will influence how likely it is that her health will be harmed by her current weight. These findings also underscore the importance of learning more about th...New study shows people sleep even less than they think
...society," Quan wrote, "most sleep clinicians would consider those values indicative of sleep deprivation even by current standards." Lack of sleep has long been connected with reduced ability to concentrate, trouble learning, decreased attention to detail and increased risk of motor vehicle accidents. Mor...Teen sexual assault survivors seldom complete HIV prevention therapy
...elines published in 2005 recommend that physicians consider prescribing a 28-day course of antiviral medications after sexual assault to reduce the risk of contracting HIV, an extension of a practice first used by health care workers exposed to the virus by needle sticks. Elyse Olshen, M.D., M.P.H., then a...For men, catheter type makes a huge difference in urinary infection risk, study finds
...icians in hospitals and nursing homes will stop to consider whether a male patient can use a condom catheter rather than an indwelling one. "Even if the infection rate were the same between the two, we should err on the side of giving patients the option they would probably prefer. The only drawback is that w...Drivers on cell phones are as bad as drunks
...nt to address driver distraction, then they should consider outlawing cell phone use while driving." Psychology Professor David Strayer, the study's lead author, adds: "Just like you put yourself and other people at risk when you drive drunk, you put yourself and others at risk when you use a cell phone and ...Lancet and Mexican government to hold meeting on health-system reform
...cy options for middle-to-low income governments to consider as they grapple with multiple health challenges," state Dr Horton and Dr Frenk. "We believe that country experiences of health-system reform have great global relevance as policy-makers struggle to adapt to profound development, demographic, and di...Avoiding house dust mites and changing diet proves ineffective
... atopy, at least in the short term, we now need to consider other possibilities. " It is possible the benefits of the measures taken in early life may not be apparent until after the age of five, so we're really interested to contact these children again in a few years and see how they have developed in reg......ine programs exploited in the area of interest, to consider development cost to date and the potential resources implications of expanding services to draw upon the WHO's existing data on health policy priorities for each country/region, and identify opportunities for telemedicine to support nationally define...