Education level linked with presence of coronary artery calcium deposits
...ion and intervention strategies effective for less educated persons are also needed," they conclude....When the cause is right, politics and surgery sometimes mix
...pital and Editor of SURGERY. "Doctors must become educated about the issues, involved, articulate, and politically active in order to mobilize our patients, our legislators, and our payors through a coherent, cogent message," writes Dr. Warshaw. "We must work together with our patients in the political aren...Survey finds care for Europe's adults with congenital heart disease is inadequate
...ave one, preferably two, cardiologists trained and educated in adult CHD care; Specialist centres should prov... must be at least one nurse specialist trained and educated in the care of ACHD patients. Dr Moons said: "We found that less than a fifth of specialist centre...Study finds parents rarely use baby gates, bath thermometers
...are Center at Cincinnati Children's reported being educated about safety devices for less than five minutes, w...or less while 54 percent of parents recalled being educated about smoke detectors. Car seats were most commonly discussed at 75 percent of the time. Nationall...Patients have high expectations about screening mammography
...ased." "As stated, women in this study were highly educated and likely well informed about procedures such as mammograms. With more information, expectations are more accurate, thereby minimizing the negative physical and emotional aspects associated with this type of procedure," said Tang. "The results in th...Students feel safer in ethnically diverse schools, UCLA psychologists report
... most students in the United States continue to be educated largely in ethnically segregated schools, the authors noted. Students filled out written surveys about their perceptions of bullying and school safety. In earlier research in the school bullying project, Graham, Juvonen and Nishina reported that scho...More data needed to determine whether holes in heart lead to stroke
...physicians and patients the necessary data to make educated treatment decisions....Public needs to heighten awareness of dangers of elevated TVs that are larger, heavier
DALLAS - June 1, 2006 - Adults need to be better educated about television's potential harm - not content or programming, but the physical danger of falling sets, according to a recent UT Southwestern Medical Center study. UT Southwestern pediatricians reviewed a year's worth of emergency department cases ...More effort needed to prevent human rights abuses
...sions, says the author. Health students should be educated explicitly on active engagement with human rights, going beyond simply considering health to be a human right and ensuring abstention from participating in any behaviour which demeans human rights. He suggests a proposal put forward 10 years ago for ...Polverini to receive IADR Oral Medicine and Pathology Award
...ative of Everett, Massachusetts, Dr. Polverini was educated at Marquette University School of Dentistry (Milwaukee, WI), with post-graduate studies at the Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. He has been honored many times for his teaching and research in oral pathology, including...Study examines link between racial discrimination and mental and physical health
...income and higher education. "Specifically, highly educated and high-income African Americans were more likely to report experiencing discrimination and have light skin when compared to their counterparts," Dr. Borrell observed. "It is possible that lighter skinned African Americans with higher socioeconomic ...Study shows strong link between obesity and depression
... indicated that among Caucasian Americans and more educated people who are obese, that likelihood may be as hi... is more common--that is, among non-white and less educated groups--there is less depression among the people who are obese. But in groups where there is less ...Sawing the ZZZZZs: getting old needn't keep you awake, Saint Louis University geriatricians say
... the presence of sleep disorders. Patients must be educated on normal sleep-related changes but also made aware that sleep problems are not a part of normal aging. Sleep impairment may have a negative impact on health and health-related quality of life." ...Oral bisphosphonate risk slight, but dental patients should be aware, ADA says
...ning therapy), and that patients on these drugs be educated on maintaining oral hygiene, which is the best way to prevent oral diseases that may require dental surgery. The ADA notes that dentists, generally, will not need to modify dental treatments based solely on oral bisphosphonate therapy. Further, pat...Study links lead exposure to brain cancer in adults
...merged were slightly higher death rates among less educated and married individuals. Scientists have suspected for years that lead is a carcinogen, which passes through the blood-brain barrier, making the brain especially sensitive to the toxic effects of lead. Van Wijngaarden is continuing his research wit...Journal of Evidence-Based Dental Practice joins the curriculum at NYU College of Dentistry
...lum. "Today's dental students are the first to be educated wholly in the 'evidence-based' era--from their very first day of clinical practice, they'll be expected to know not just what to do but why they're doing it," comments Ralph V. Katz, DMD, MPH, PhD, Professor and Chair of the Department of Epidemiolog...State health department Web sites inaccessible to many, study finds
..., public e-health will remain the domain of highly educated and affluent individuals who speak English and do not suffer from physical impairments." West and Miller examined the accessibility, privacy, and security of public websites maintained by the 50 state governments in the United States in the last tw...Very low birth weight linked to reduced quality of life in pre-school children
...n the control group, and were half as likely to be educated to college degree or higher. 45 per cent didn't work, compared with 17 per cent in the control group....Physicians often do not communicate important medication information
...iptions," the authors write. "Although physicians educated patients more about psychiatric and analgesic medications, the overall quality of communication was poor even for these medication types and could contribute to patient misunderstandings about how and why to take their new medications. Physicians co...Nonminority medical students more satisfied than minority students, study finds
... and Cascino say research about how physicians are educated "must continue in the future if we are to further improve 21st century medical education."...