States taking action to insure nation's 13.3M uninsured young adults
... companies to provide health insurance coverage to dependent young adults on their parents health plans beyond age 18 or 19, according to a new report from The Commonwealth Fund. While Utah has had such a law since 1994, recent legislative activity reflects states rising concern about the steady loss of covera...Geriatric health conditions have major effect on half of all seniors
...pants without any of the geriatric conditions were dependent on others for help with activities. That percentage jumped to 8.1 among people with one of the conditions, 19.4 among people with two conditions, and 45 among people with three or more conditions. All conditions increased in prevalence with advanc...AASM to school-bound: Sleep is the right ingredient for academic success
...e amount of sleep a child should get each night is dependent on ones age. The Sleep-Side Rule is found to be an effective classroom tool that improves childrens understanding of the relationship between age and sleep need. The AASM offers the following tips for children and teens on how to get a good night...Intensive-care patients with alcohol problems are more likely to require mechanical ventilation
... intensive-care unit. The rates of AUD are region dependent and thus vary from hospital to hospital, she said. At my institution, we estimate that more than 40 percent of our medical intensive-care unit patients have AUDs. Other researchers have reported a rate of more than 30 percent in their medical inten...Experts predict Tamiflu could halve the pandemic influenza death toll versus no intervention
...an important role but their effectiveness would be dependent upon how well the vaccine was matched to the virus.1 The World Health Organisation provides a strong recommendation for the use of Tamiflu for the prevention of avian flu in people who have been in contact with someone who is known, or suspected of...Sleep Slide-Rule improves children's understanding of the importance of sleep
...e amount of sleep a child should get each night is dependent on ones age. The Sleep-Side Rule is found to be an effective classroom tool that improves childrens understanding of the relationship between age and sleep need, according to a research abstract that will be presented Monday at SLEEP 2007, the 21st ...Journal Sleep: Longer CPAP use at night can normalize one's daytime functioning
...a recommended nightly duration of CPAP use is also dependent on which outcome is viewed as the most reflective of clinical improvement, added Weaver. OSA, a sleep related breathing disorder that causes your body to stop breathing during sleep, occurs when the tissue in the back of the throat collapses and bl...NY-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center doctors present at 2007 AUA Meeting
...er, this study demonstrated that this risk was not dependent on their BMI but rather was entirely predicted by their stage, grade and PSA. Preoperative Three-Dimensional Tumor Volume Predicts Outcome in Patients With Renal Cortical Tumors [1296] Authors: Mitchell C Benson, M.D., Carl A. Olsson, M.D., James...Same-day coronary angiography and surgery safe for many patients
...ents may benefit from this streamlined approach is dependent on careful patient assessment and collaboration between the cardiologist and cardiovascular surgeon, he says. Mayo researchers evaluated the medical records of 226 consecutive patients who had undergone cardiac catheterization on the day of electi...Novel treatments may help alleviate constipation, IBS in women
...he degree to which stool was loosened was strongly dependent on the dosage of linaclotide administered. "Among the study participants, linaclotide was able to improve a range of bowel functions, which are typically impaired in patients with IBS-C," said Viola Andresen, M.D., of Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Min...Alzheimer's weight gain initiative also improved patients' intellectual abilities
...ation problems and memory loss and were physically dependent on staff. Patients in the intervention group weighed between 31.5kg and 76kg at the start of the study, with an average weight of 55.9kg. By the end of the study this average had risen to 56.4kg. When the team looked at individual patients they...Swedish snus much safer than smoking but linked to pancreatic cancer
...et benefit than harm, with the size of the benefit dependent on how many inveterate smokers switch to snus." In the second Article, Dr Olof Nyrn, Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden and colleagues studied around 280,000 Swedish construction workers tobacco consumption habits ...Comparison of patients' access to new and better cancer drugs reveals inequalities between countries
...ess to new innovative cancer drugs does not become dependent on the patient's country of residence," they said. They pointed out that although cancer was second or third in terms of disease burden in most countries, the share of health care expenditure allocated to it was significantly lower than the share o...Who receives a kidney transplant first?
...gically advanced field of medicine that is totally dependent on public understanding and support, for without donors and recipients, transplantation would simply not exist," says Shapiro. ...$1.5 million awarded for palliative care research
...n of family caregiving responsibilities. It is not dependent on prognosis. The new collaborative initiative between the American Cancer Society and the National Palliative Care Research Center is designed to support clinician investigators conducting patient-oriented research in palliative care in hopes of b...Pistachios lower cholesterol, provide antioxidants
...are causing the effect and that they act in a dose dependent way," says Gebauer. In addition, during this study researchers, researchers looked at the effects of these diets on oxidized LDL and on antioxidants in the blood. "We were trying to see if the increased levels of antioxidants provided by pistach...Widowhood's economic consequences harshest on minority women
...hey were able to vest a pension are almost totally dependent on their husband's income and limited community assets. Even if their absolute drop in income is less than that of more affluent non-Hispanic White women, minority widows can end up far worse financially if they have few assets to liquidate or borrow...Review finds ways of helping children of drug and alcohol misusers
...lmost four million people aged 16-65 in the UK are dependent on alcohol or drugs and a further nine million people take drugs or drink alcohol at risky levels that affect their familys wellbeing. Assuming that every one of these people will negatively affect at least two family members, a conservative estima...University of Leicester research reveals rice bran could reduce risk of intestinal cancer
...evelopment of intestinal adenomas. The effect was dependent on the fibre content of the bran. The dose we used translates into approximately 200g rice bran per day in humans. We believe a promising area of future research would be to study the potential colorectal cancer-preventing properties of stabilized ...Jefferson scientists find that drug-eluting stents are disappointing in bypass grafts -- sometimes
...d vein grafts and found that long-term success was dependent on the healthiness of the vessel. Lead researcher Nicholas J. Ruggiero II, M.D., a fellow in cardiovascular diseases, will present the results at the American College of Cardiologys 56th Annual Scientific Session on Monday, March 26, from 4 to 4:50 p...