Rockefeller University researchers are changing the face of drug addiction treatment
...nity-based treatment setting," Kreek says, "and he educated people at the HHC so they could implement it." Contingency management is designed to reinforce small steps, especially at the beginning, like celebrating each attendance at a group meeting or each drug-free test result. Later, patients can move on to...About 70 percent of older adults use alternative medicine
...ng alternative medicine and ensuring that they are educated about the medicines and therapies they are using."...Relatively few US adults report having a healthy lifestyle
...a healthy weight were likely to be younger, better educated and also in general better health. Only 23.3 percent of people reported consuming five or more fruits and vegetables a day and only 22.2 percent reported undertaking regular physical activity (at least 30 minutes of moderate physical activity at leas...College education protects middle-age caucasian women against obesity
...ps." "The lack of an observable benefit on BMI for educated African American women is particularly alarming given their disproportionately high rates of obesity and obesity-related illnesses," Lewis said. "Because race-education patterns appear to be well established by midlife, prevention efforts aimed at re...Nation's leading researchers, scientists reveal findings at occupational therapy conference
...ng positions. Occupational therapists assessed and educated seven musicians about posture, breathing and rest breaks. Results revealed a significant decrease in pain and increase in body awareness after treatment. Addressing the Emotional Needs of Students School-based occupational therapy practitioners ar...OHSU study says national injury prevention program working
...on in Oregon, more than 250,000 children have been educated on injury prevention. At a cost of about $2 per child, its total cost remains lower than the $750,000 spent to treat one child with a spinal cord or traumatic brain injury in the first year. "This is an enormous public health problem, yet injury is n...Study shows doctors and patients think differently about clinical trials
...[range 22 to 85]; 11 percent non-white; 57 percent educated beyond high school). Eighty-four (84) percent of patients responded that they had heard of clinical trials. A higher education and white race were associated with awareness. "The majority of both patients and doctors strongly agreed that clinical...The better educated a woman is, the better she sleeps at night
... higher rates of insomnia than men, but the better educated a woman is, the more likely she is to sleep throug...ology and Community Health. Conversely, the better educated a man is, the less likely he is to get a good night's sleep, the research shows. The findings are ba...Relationships improve quality of life for prostate cancer patients
...ze support groups, and these men tend to be highly educated and of high economic strata. Although personal relationships may provide an alternative to support groups, few studies have evaluated the impact of partnerships on quality of life. Led by John L. Gore, M.D. of the University of California, Los Ange...Psychosocial aspects of genetic testing for hereditary cancers meeting at Jefferson June 9-10
...Insurance companies, she says, are becoming better educated also. Most pay for genetic testing, with the realization that testing and preemptive changes in lifestyle to prevent disease are more cost-effective than treating disease later, she notes. Genetic testing is certainly on its way to changing the way ...Fitter by degress? Higher education no panacea for adult health
... new research sponsored by the ESRC. Though highly educated men and women are generally healthier, what happen...d no evidence that better health among more highly educated adults is linked to high intelligence as a child. The study argues that policies on reducing inequa...Survey shows that physicians are more religious than expected
...and income levels increase, yet doctors are highly educated and, on average, well compensated. The finding also differs radically from 90 years of studies showing that only a minority of scientists (excluding physicians) believes in God or an afterlife. "We did not think physicians were nearly this religio...Cedars-Sinai's live donor liver transplant program receives 'unos-approved' designation
... certain that they are appropriately motivated and educated regarding the risks," he said. Among its minimum requirements, UNOS expects approved programs to employ two qualified liver transplant surgeons. At Cedars-Sinai, three surgeons Klein, Colquhoun and Nicholas N. Nissen, M.D. all meet the criteria. C...Spousal violence affects one in three Albanian wives
...tion, women in white collar jobs, women with least educated husbands, and women married to men raised in rural.... Women were also at higher risk if they were more educated than their husbands. These findings, related to women's and men's status, are in keeping with theori...Wealth doesn't always equal health
...health than children with more affluent and better educated parents, say researchers in this week's BMJ. These... child. Among Danish children, those with the most educated and highest earning parents were the least insulin resistant. But the opposite was true for children...Many cancer survivors initiate lifestyle changes to benefit their health
...osis, but that those who are male, older, and less educated are less likely to adopt such changes. The term "c...). In addition, researchers found that males, less educated individuals, survivors over age 65, and those who live in urban areas were less likely to initiate o...Epidemiology in Europe: the problem starts in childhood
..., the gap in obesity between the high and the less educated has grown in recent years. The consequences resulting from this modern epidemic represent an enormous burden upon European health services, although fortunately not to the magnitude of that in the US. Resources are urgently needed to research and und...Kidney transplant patients face higher skin cancer risk
...n addition, kidney transplant recipients should be educated about melanoma and instructed on the importance of routine self-examination." In the largest study to date, Hollenbeak and his colleagues compared melanoma incidence rates from a registry of renal transplant patients (89,786 patients) to melanoma inc...... that before they left the hospital, patients were educated about their disease, their medications, and the need to change their smoking, eating and exercise habits to decrease their chances of another heart attack -- and pledged that they understood all of this. The checklist also made sure that patients kne......izations could be prevented if parents were better educated about the child's condition, what medications they should be taking, the need for follow-up care, and the importance of avoiding known disease triggers," Dr. Flores says. About one-third to one-half of preventable asthma hospitalizations were medicat...