Medicaid matters to children: How Medicaid can help drive quality improvement in pediatrics
...ar the brunt of those cuts." Recent federal budget cuts "give states the flexibility to cut benefits but not expand them," said Professor Sara Rosenbaum, J.D., from The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services. Effectively, she added, with the federal government giving stat...Pay cuts lead to worker insomnia, but supervisor training helps
...h nurses at two of the hospitals receiving the pay cuts first. Greenberg received permission to study how...ospitals participated in the research. Before pay cuts were announced, nurses at all four hospitals filled out questionnaires over four weeks measuring the...Massage for childbirth prep may reduce episiotomy rate
... amazing the number of women who are fearful about cuts and tears and afraid of an episiotomy," said Sally Avenson, a certified nurse midwife in western Washington state. As more women demand greater control and involvement in their childbirth plan, Avenson said, preventing an episiotomy -- or the spontan...Warning to government from biotech on PBS changes
...e PBS by hundreds of millions of dollars. If these cuts occur, they would be announced in the May Budget. Up to $300 million a year in financial support for biotechnology research and development from the pharmaceutical sector could be placed in jeopardy by anyGovernment measures which did not take into a...Text messaging speeds up treatment for Chlamydia infection
...dia test speeds up treatment for the infection and cuts down on staff time, suggests a six month study in the journal Sexually Transmitted Infections. The sexual health clinic at London's Chelsea and Westminster Hospital tried out a text messaging service for the test results of sexual health screens, inc...New faster screening test for MRSA
...methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) cuts by 75% the time taken to identify patients carrying MRSA and could be used to help prevent transmission of the bacteria in hospitals. A study published today in the journal Critical Care shows that a new molecular screening test for MRSA decreases th...Study indicates dramatic rise in antibiotic-resistant community-acquired staph infections
...nd in noses, and typically infects tissues through cuts or rashes. Those infections can remain minor, or lead to illnesses ranging from boils or abscesses to necrotizing skin infections, pneumonia and sometimes blood stream infections. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that st...Funding for, and societal impact of, cancer research to be discussed during AACR press briefing
...d cure this disease. For example, federal funding cuts likely will deter young investigators, meaning few...nation's competitive advantage in this field. The cuts come at a time when deaths from cancer are falling for the first time in 70 years, according to rece...President's budget proposal cuts critical infectious diseases programs to the bone
... the Society is deeply concerned about longer-term cuts to other parts of the budget. "Infectious diseases... In addition to harming flu research, the proposal cuts $15 million from HIV/AIDS research, harming research into vaccines, treatments, and prevention strat...Understanding cell death may bring new life to kidney treatment
...ive fragments. Although he still doesn't know what cuts Bid, that act enables the protein to move from its usual place in the outer region of the cell to inside its powerhouses or mitochondria. Cleaving results in what Dr. Dong calls truncated Bid or "tBid," which may interact with Bax and produce a confo...Italian researchers find fenretinide cuts the risk of second breast cancers in young women
...ide[1] a drug related to vitamin A significantly cuts the risk of a second breast cancer among younger patients. The Italian research team reporting the findings on-line (Thursday 4 May) in Annals of Oncology[2], are sufficiently convinced of the drug's protective potential to call for a trial to test i...JRRD tipsheet: Focus on stroke, Parkinson's treatment, wheelchair durability
...petitive-wage employment. New hearing loss test cuts clinical evaluation by half , pg. 839 Investigators developed a test that quickly measures speech understanding in background noise. An established 70-word hearing test was reduced to 35 words, which cut testing time in half. A shorter word list will...SCAI Hildner Lecture highlights innovative techniques for plaque imaging
...hen they burst, a blood clot blocks the artery and cuts off blood flow to the heart. Many patients have never had a minute's chest pain before the heart attack strikes. What's worse, vulnerable plaques cannot be detected with conventional imaging techniques, such as angiography. "If we can see the vulnera...National UK heart disease prevention threshold 'cheapest but least effective'
...quire just 12 people to be treated. But this only cuts the rate of heart attack or stroke in the overall population by 9%, which is the lowest preventive impact of all the recommendations. The US and European recommendations require 21 men to be treated, but cut the overall rate by around 23%. However, ...International study launched testing new drug combination to cut cardiovascular disease
...holesterol by about 1mmol/l for four to five years cuts the risks of heart attacks and strokes by about a quarter, and recent studies suggest that more intensive LDL-lowering can produce extra benefits. Even so, the risk among patients who already have vascular disease remains high, but there is limited s...DNA repair in mammal embryos is a matter of timing
...A damage called a double-strand break (DSB), which cuts completely through the DNA. DNA exists as two individual strands that associate to form its double-stranded, twisted-ladder--shaped structure. The researchers also discovered that a protein called ATM is required for apoptosis that is triggered by b...Shire's DAYTRANA, first patch medication for ADHD in children, now available in pharmacies
...ied daily to clean, dry skin, which is free of any cuts or irritation. Skin irritation or allergic skin rash may occur. ...Should patients have to opt out of electronic records?
...reduces the workload on hard pressed services, and cuts the bureaucracy for both practices and patients. However, he stresses the need for a large publicity campaign six months before the start of the service, telling patients what is going to happen, the potential benefits and dangers, and most importa...NIDA announces recommendations to treat drug abusers, save money and reduce crime
...he general population. Studies show that treatment cuts drug abuse in half, reduces criminal activity up to 80 percent, and reduces arrests up to 64 percent. However, fewer than one-fifth of these offenders receive treatment. Treatment not only lowers recidivism rates, it is also cost-effective. It is est...Cincinnati surgeon's pediatric laparoscopic liver surgery a world first
...eon then severs and ties off tumor's blood supply, cuts out the tumor itself, places it inside a sealed bag, and removes it through one of the incisions. "The liver is a self-healing organ," explains Thomas, "so once the cancerous tumor is removed the area typically heals within two to four weeks." Re...