Widespread media coverage contributes to rapid decline in HRT prescribing
... rapidly in the Netherlands after widespread media coverage of the UK's Million Women Study, according to a pa...he fact that the first study received little media coverage in the Netherlands compared with other countries such as the UK and USA while the second study was...ESA participating in UN's Montreal summit working for a better atmosphere
...ia and Sweden as well as offering pan-continental coverage to the European Environmental Agency. Beyond Europe, the service is working with countries including Indonesia, Namibia and South Africa, and includes the evaluation of Kyoto-authorised Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) afforestation to foster inward...Caution: New Medicare drug plan may cause headaches
...he plan as "fashioned like no other pharmaceutical coverage in the world." For starters, the program, known as...ther unusual aspect of the new plan is that, while coverage is voluntary, seniors who delay enrollment will be subject to a penalty of 1 percent per month after...Headlines about Herceptin show equality of access to costly drugs must be tackled
The recent press coverage on the use of Herceptin (brand name for the drug trastuzumab) for treating breast cancer in its early stages shows that issues of equal access to costly but effective drugs must be confronted, says an editorial in this week's BMJ. Trastuzumab was "r...Research by Mailman School of Public Health cites New Jersey's high healthcare costs
...f a three-part series on public health and medical coverage in the state. Findings of Dr. Glied's paper, "The...innovator it has taken a series of steps to expand coverage and has experimented with a variety of strategies to keep costs down," observes Dr. Glied. Particu...Which drugs should health plans cover?
...stems have begun adopting restrictive policies for coverage of newer drugs. How can consumers and health care organizations be sure that such policies don't lean too far in either direction--either restricting necessary treatment or wasting consumers' premiums on expensive medicines that offer no real advanta...Preventing pneumonia in children helps prevent pneumonia in older adults
..., and then dropped further in 2002-2003 as vaccine coverage in children increased," the authors write. "We have documented a consistent decrease in incidence of invasive pneumococcal disease in an age group at high risk for serious disease and death from these illnesses. Policy makers elsewhere who are consid...Dalai Lama, top scientists to discuss science & clinical applications of meditation
...entists. That meeting received international media coverage and was included in a cover story on meditation in TIME Magazine.The Mind & Life conference offers science and medical professionals a rare opportunity to learn about the intersection of meditation and medicine. The conference, which will be held in ...World's poorest children missing out on child survival strategies
...ssue of The Lancet. In most low-income countries, coverage rates for child-survival interventions are low, an...earchers found that countries with higher rates of coverage had less inequity than those with lower coverage rates. Professor Victora states: "Most of the inter...Bariatric surgical procedures increase substantially
...ctive procedure for weight loss. Type of insurance coverage also may play a role in socioeconomic disparities," the researchers write. "Other sources of disparities include the possibility that cultural attitudes toward morbid obesity may differ by socioeconomic status, that primary care physicians may be les...Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet for Oct. 18, 2005
...income Medicare patients without drug prescription coverage who had, at some point, received aid from pharmaceutical company assistance programs (Article, p. 600). Authors put the patients into one of four hypothetical groups: no financial assistance, aid from pharmaceutical programs, Medicare drug discount ...Medicare elimination of essential drugs will affect elderly
...on Medicare, or 1.7 million people, will lose this coverage completely. The paper reports that negative effects are likely to take place, including withdrawal reactions, seizures, emergency department visits, and hospital admissions because the Medicare patients will not be able to afford these sometimes esse...Practice makes perfect when implanting cardioverter-defibrillator devices
...xperienced MDs to implant ICDs, including expanded coverage by Medicare, which greatly enlarges the number of patients who are candidates for the ICD, smaller and easier devices to implant, and reduced cost of the devices to hospitals," Dr. Hammill said. Disclosure Box Dr. Al-Khatib receives research fundin...Florida physicians decrease or eliminate services
... most common services eliminated were nursing home coverage (42.1 percent), vaginal deliveries (29.1 percent) ...an deliveries (26.0 percent), emergency department coverage (22.8 percent) and mental health services (21.2 percent). In addition to outright elimination, a num...Research Australia unveils top 12 issues threatening our children's health
...are striving to find out. 8. Immunisation vaccine coverage needs to exceed 90% to stop ongoing transmission of diseases but only 84% of six year olds were fully immunised in 2004. As we develop more and more effective vaccines, the challenge is how to give them all and, with many diseases now disappearing, h...Yearly mass antibiotic treatment could help eliminate leading cause of blindness
... of our community based study show that antibiotic coverage as high as 86% decreases, but does not eliminate, ocular infection with C trachomatis over 18 months. Trachoma and infectious load began to rise 12 months after treatment, suggesting that yearly mass treatment for this community would be effective."...Nursing Resource Teams can recruit and retain nurses
...ore efficient means of providing appropriate staff coverage and has facilitated the discontinuation of agency use. "The NRT supports the efficient allocation of staff and is considered to provide safer, more productive, and higher quality staff than agencies. The use of a nursing resource team provides a wa...Massachusetts General Hospital launches magazine that examines medicine's leading edge
...s and discovery, seeks to travel new ground in its coverage of medical innovation. Unlike data-laden academic journals or consumer magazines that serve up the latest health information, Proto describes, reflects upon and assesses medical advances in a style that is engaging, colorful and provocative. Each i...Definitive gene screen confirms MS suspects
...he latest technology, which provides very detailed coverage of the entire human genome," said Haines. "Other genes may still play an important role in MS, but finding them will require using new genomic techniques." Multiple sclerosis is an enigmatic disease of the nervous system and results in the loss of ...Survey finds many Katrina evacuees had chronic health problems and no health insurance
...s include: 52% report having no health insurance coverage at the time of the hurricane. Of those with coverage, 34% say it is through Medicaid and 16% through Medicare. Before the hurricane 66% of people evacuated to Houston shelters used hospital or clinics as their main source of care and of those, a majo...