Intervention program fails to increase managed care colorectal cancer screening
...reening need to be launched, physicians need to be educated about the life-saving value of fecal occult blood tests, flexible sigmoidoscopy and colonoscopy screening, and the tests must be easy for patient to access. Financial incentives for managed care practices perhaps rewards for higher screening rates o...Computers can teach patients about screening for cancer
...ucation and no computer skills can be successfully educated about health topics using computers, according to ...knowledgeable about the topic as patients who were educated by a nurse. In addition, the two groups had equal success rates completing the screening test. "Wit...Diabetes and depression can be a fatal mix
...diabetes accompanied by minor depression were less educated and were less likely to be Caucasian, in comparison to the diabetes patients without depression. Patients with diabetes and major depression were significantly younger, less likely to be married, and more likely to be female than were diabetes patie...Doctors and patients should discuss use of alternative medicines
...merica and they find it surprising that reasonably educated populations, who are on multiple heart medications, also are taking alternative medications without talking to their doctor. "There are specific interactions with cardiac drugs that could make alternative medicines dangerous," Abramson said. "Patie...Periodontal therapy may reduce the incidence of preterm births and low birthweight infants
...without periodontal infections, and they should be educated and motivated to maintain a high level of oral hygiene prior to and throughout pregnancy," said Lpez. "If periodontal infection is diagnosed at any time during pregnancy, the treatment should be administered as soon as possible in order to reduce th...Mayo clinic study finds occupation and education influence risk for Parkinson's disease
... lifetime to a risk of 4 percent if you are highly educated or a physician, or 1 percent if you are less educated or more physically active. So, I wouldn't change your schooling plans or your occupation based on th...Heavy drinking declines with age, though drop is slower among men and smokers
... IMPACT: Earlier studies have found that more educated people and those with higher income drink more on ...study's lead author. "Our study suggests that more educated people and those with higher income use alcohol regularly and moderately, while those with less inco...UCSD researchers report results of children's backpack study
... more objective data that the public has, the more educated they become, and perhaps more inclined to change the way children carry backpacks." "Furthermore, manufacturers and designers of backpacks often try to optimize design based upon the data available in the literature," Murthy states. "Our shoulder loa...Patients who trust their doctors more have better outcomes
...cted by trust. Surprisingly, patients who are more educated are more likely to have unmet or delayed health care needs than patients with less education. Peter Muennig, M.D., of Columbia University, said that some of the findings need to be examined more closely and the patients' characteristics disentangled...10 million 'missing' female births in India due to selective abortion
...as second children was more than twice as great in educated than illiterate mothers, but did not vary by religion. Based on the natural sex ratio from other countries, the team estimated that around 13.6 to 13.8 million girls should have been born in 1997 in India. However, the actual number was 13.1 million...HIV decline in Zimbabwe linked to behavioural change
...ced this change in behaviour, with Zimbabwe's well educated population, good communications, and health service infrastructure, all combining to create this effect." The researchers from Imperial College London and the Biomedical Research and Training Institute, Zimbabwe studied 9,454 people recruited from tw...Alzheimer's disease progresses more rapidly in highly educated people
...t is likely to be greater than it would be in less educated brains, because of the higher levels of accumulated damage....Clinical trial Buddy Program among innovative support offerings from the Colon Cancer Alliance
...al cancer patients will have the opportunity to be educated about clinical trials by someone who has just been in their shoes," said Amy Kelly, Co-Founder and Executive Director of the CCA. "We expect that the intimacy of this experience will encourage more patients to join trials. As more people participat...Senate RadCARE Bill would improve quality of patient care, says SNMTS
...education," she noted. "An individual specifically educated to perform imaging procedures knows correct patient positioning and technical factors, allowing for accurate diagnosis and treatment," added Cronin, who speaks for the 8,000 nuclear medicine technologists of SNM's Technologist Section. "If passed, th...Smoking cessation delivered at-home proves effective
...sease risks associated with that level. The nurses educated patients on the dangers of carbon monoxide using everyday examples they could relate to. "We communicated to the patients that the carbon monoxide they inhale from smoking cigarettes is the same poisonous gas that comes out of the tail pipe of their ...Doctors must work together better to improve survival in teenage and young adult cancer patients
...d to make sure that the medical profession is well educated as to the meaning of such signs and symptoms and do not fail their patients by delays in diagnosis. "None of this can be achieved without a coordinated effort from the medical professions." Professor Eden said that while much needs to be done to impr...HIV-1 prevalence decreasing in southern India
...the south was seen in rural and urban areas and in educated and illiterate men. The authors conclude that the most plausible reason is increased condom use in sex work or abstinence from sex work by males. "Strategies that focus on high coverage and quality of peer interventions of high-risk populations--wi...HIV infection rates down one-third in south India, University of Toronto study
...for example, among urban and rural women and among educated or illiterate women. Moreover, declines in the south are seen also among young men who visit STI clinics and these men represent those who are likely to use sex workers. It all fits." The study examined alternative explanations but changes in testin...Parents need better education to reduce drug overdoses in feverish children
...rile convulsions and death regardless of how well educated they are or their socio-economic status. Attitudes to fever seem to be similar in all countries. The use of cold or iced water and aspirin to lower fever has reduced, especially after research showed links between Reye syndrome, a potentially fatal...Level of education completed linked with coronary artery calcium deposits
...ion and intervention strategies effective for less educated persons are also needed," Yan and colleagues concluded....