Depression overtakes back pain for incapacity benefit claims
...orders then innovative policies, including a major expansion in occupational health and psychological therapy services in primary care, will be required alongside research into the most effective and cost effective methods of delivering service, say the authors. This would be a wise investment given the substa...Scottish health minister launches major new clinical trials project to boost business and health
...nt standard of clinical trial work in Scotland. An expansion of our clinical trials in Scotland will not only h.... This will provide the infrastructure for a major expansion of clinical research in Scotland. It will allow for vital research into illnesses such as diabetes,...Child sex abuse policy recommendations published in Science magazine
...s causes, consequences, prevention and treatment expansion of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, a federally funded coalition of 54 centers providing community-based treatment to children and their families, to address the enormous public health consequences of child trauma creation of an Institu...Institute of Medicine news: Changes needed in WIC program
...les, in comparable amounts, the report says. The expansion of the WIC food packages to include fresh produce applies a major recommendation of the new federal dietary guidelines, which call for people to eat more fruits and vegetables daily. The only fruits and vegetables currently provided through WIC are ...Little change in suicidal thoughts, plans or attempts in US
...atment increases during the 1990s. This means that expansion of disease management programs, treatment quality-assurance programs, and 'report cards' to improve the quality of care for suicidal patients may all be needed to reduce the burden of suicidality."...UK demand for overseas doctors severely affecting sub-Saharan Africa
Almost half of the recent 16,000 staff expansion of the NHS came from the recruitment of health professionals trained outside the UK and Europe, states an article in this week's issue of THE LANCET. John Eastwood (St George's, University of London, UK) and colleagues note that, while the serious c...Mental illness exacts heavy toll, beginning in youth
...ndards) in a nationally representative sample. The expansion includes detailed measures that will significantly...ago in the baseline NCS survey, at 13 percent. The expansion was mainly in the general medical sector, with more primary care physicians providing psychiatric se...Children need 60 minutes of daily physical activity, expert panel says
...ance. Restoration of intramural sport programs and expansion of the school day for such programs in middle and high schools may provide opportunities for all students to be physically active." "We need to educate teachers and administrators that physical education is important for youngsters," says Dr. Malina,...Children need 60 minutes of daily physical activity, expert panel says
...ance. Restoration of intramural sport programs and expansion of the school day for such programs in middle and high schools may provide opportunities for all students to be physically active." "We need to educate teachers and administrators that physical education is important for youngsters," says Dr. Malina,...Assuring the supply of vaccines
...nding for the existing immunization grant program, expansion of the Vaccines for Children program, regulatory h...upport adolescent and adult immunization programs; expansion of the Vaccines for Children Program to include underinsured children in all public health clinics; ...Hepatitis A in US drops substantially after implementation of vaccination program
...ion of hepatitis A virus transmission will require expansion of existing recommendations to include routine vaccination of all U.S. children," the researchers conclude. (JAMA. 2005;294:194201. Available pre-embargo to the media at www.jamamedia.org .) Editor's Note: Support for the analyses presented here was...NIAID funds Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology (CHAVI)
...rst year. In its first year, CHAVI will develop an expansion plan that will undergo scrutiny by an external advisory group. CHAVI's mission is to address key immunological roadblocks to HIV vaccine development and to design, develop and test novel HIV vaccine candidates. "Despite a wide variety of approaches t...UK Center for Research on Violence Against Women director to receive national justice award
.... During her time in that position she oversaw the expansion of Kentucky's Children's Advocacy Centers, eventually establishing a center in every region of the state. She also helped develop Kentucky's statewide AMBER Alert program which helps locate abducted children. Her efforts also led to increased fundin...'Heroes of Chemistry' honored for improving health, environment
...es, devices that improve health care delivery, and expansion of the Internet to enable mapping of the human genome. Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development developed RISPERDAL®, considered a standard in the treatment of psychosis, which helped revolutionize anti-psychotic therapies. I...New online atlas provides collective maps of human brain folds
...d in recent years." Van Essen envisions continued expansion and adjustment of the atlas through online contributions of data from researchers whose studies have benefited from the atlas. "After they publish their results, we'll encourage the investigators to display those results on the database and to place...MCW Research Foundation licenses invention for stroke treatment
... strengthen its prescription drug business through expansion of its novel original research and development and active collaboration with domestic and foreign pharmaceutical companies....Mayo Clinic research collaboration discovers why some DNA repair fails
... Mayo work brings to the problem of DNA's abnormal expansion within a cell, which appears to be the underlying ...nge in biochemical activity, in turn, promoted DNA expansion -- rather than repair -- and changed the function of Msh2-Msh3 from friend of DNA to foe by allowing......ies remain the most significant barrier to further expansion of live donation. There is a national network already in place that matches deceased-donor kidneys with compatible recipients. "A similar system now needs to be in place for living donors," Montgomery said. A matching system for living donors is ess...Yale researcher leads successful effort to access HMO fees for Medicaid patients
...ring SAGA non-emergency medical transportation and expansion of the Husky program to new populations struggling with health care. The team recommended building stronger relationships between private practice physicians, hospitals and federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), bringing specialists to FQHCs and...Clinical trial in China to test whether early blood pressure reduction improves stroke outcomes
...an Factor VII (NovoSeven), has been shown to limit expansion of bleeding in the brain and improve recovery in an international clinical trial that was published in the New England Journal of Medicine early this year. However, future use of this agent in clinical practice will be limited by the narrow time win...