Pediatricians must confront community-based threats to health
...nable to remove the victim from the environment of failing schools, gangs, drugs, violence, and struggling families that constitute the culture of poverty. Such obstacles to health require pediatricians to expand their roles to include that of advocate, not just for the individual but for the population of ...Heart valve ring reverses damage from congestive heart failure, easing symptoms
... complement another device now under study to help failing hearts continue to pump, Bolling says. That device, called the Acorn CorCap Cardiac Support Device, is a mesh sac that wraps around the heart and holds the enlarged left ventricle in. Bolling is part of a team that presented results at the AATS meet...Anxious and pessimistic personalities linked to Parkinson's disease later in life
...ut their children's safety or their aging parents' failing health. "I think it's important to understand that what our study looked at is people with anxious personalities," says Dr. Bower. "These are the chronic worriers -- the people who worry about things that most people don't seem to worry about. Those ...Anti-malaria drug combination could help address treatment crisis in Africa
...trine is a very promising option for the replacing failing antimalarial therapies in Uganda and other African countries. Our experience suggests that providing systematically a short explanation on drug intake to patients at the point of prescription is a simple but important intervention to enhance adherenc...Doctor voices concerns over new NHS IT system
...s national programme for information technology is failing to take account of professionals' anxieties, argue...hat the political drive to implement the system is failing to take account of professionals' anxieties." Before allowing its delivery, clinicians from all back...Children in foster care may be underaccounted for in the Medicaid program
...significant numbers of children in foster care are failing to receive needed health care services. Medicaid, the federal health care program for low-income families and many children with disabilities, also insures most children living in foster care. As a result, "most prior studies that estimated health se...PediPump presents hope for children with heart failure
...have had few options for mechanical support of the failing heart," states lead researcher, Dr. Brian Duncan. "The PediPump is an artificial heart pump designed specifically for children with heart failure. The experimental development of the PediPump and similar devices will give new hope to children with ...Government policy changes lead to dramatic drop in heart disease deaths in Poland
...ricultural production and economics above health", failing to produce the range of foods the population needs, and subsidising animal fats, tobacco and alcohol production. Reform of the Policy is currently on Brussels agenda, but seems clouded by "political horse trading", say the authors....Less than 1 percent of health plan members are diagnosed with alcohol use disorders
... month following diagnosis. Health plans also are failing to reach out to members in ways that would promote successful treatment, Dr. Goplerud said. For example, few plans are sending educational materials, and only 17 percent are making follow-up calls to members who miss appointments. However, the resp...Newest HIV drugs should be used with FUZEON(R)
...ass experienced patients facing HIV resistance and failing to reach undetectable viral load." Studies presented this week show that when FUZEON was given in combination with the novel HIV medication, tipranavir, an impressive 70% of FUZEON nave patients achieved a ten-fold reduction in their viral load and f...Coalition's refusal to record Iraq's civilian deaths failing to respect international law
The US-led Coalition is failing to respect the Geneva Conventions by refusing to facilitate an accurate count of civilian deaths in Iraq, states an editorial in this week's issue of THE LANCET. Last week, a dossier produced by Iraq Body Count (IBC), an organisation set up with the...Dialysis treatment choice affects risk of death in patients with end-stage kidney disease
...ucts and excess water from the blood because their failing kidneys have less than 15 percent of their normal function remaining. On average, a healthy kidney filters approximately 200 quarts of blood per day. By 2030, the number of Americans needing dialysis is expected to jump to 2 million, due in part to...Livelihoods under siege in Darfur
...e traditional backbone of the region's economy, is failing fast," says Young, associate professor at the Frie...ed to a loss of vital income." This combination of failing livestock markets, constraints on migrant workers, and direct destruction of household and community...Public patients denied effective obesity treatment
... need it most," he says. "Our public hospitals are failing to offer appropriate care for the severely obese in the community." More than 20 per cent of Australian adults an estimated 2.6 million people and seven per cent of teenagers are considered obese. Obesity is more prevalent among low socio-economic ...From aircraft aerodynamics to improved heart implants
...ceive implants either as a long-term solution to a failing heart or as a temporary 'bridge' while they await ...ices (VADs), battery-operated pumps that support a failing left ventricle and help supply blood to the rest of the body. VADs are primarily used to buy patient...Mayo Clinic research collaboration discovers why some DNA repair fails
...ture.com/nsmb/journal/v12/n8/pdf/nsmb965.pdf ). By failing to initiate repair, the defective mechanism may give rise to disabling inherited brain diseases such as Huntington's disease, which causes select brain nerve cells to waste away. Huntington's affects 30,000 adults in the United States, and another 15...Retiring early is not linked to longer life
...65. Although some workers retired at 55 because of failing health, these results clearly show that early retirement is not associated with increased survival, conclude the authors. On the contrary, mortality improved with increasing age at retirement for people from both high and low socioeconomic groups....Alert system associated with increased clinical trial recruitment
...tely, achieving recruitment goals is difficult and failing to meet these goals can hamper the development and evaluation of new therapies and can increase health care system costs. When treating physicians identify and recruit potentially eligible participants for clinical trials, the likelihood that a given...Pediatricians ignore screenings that flag hearing problems in children, new SLU research finds
...Screening that does not result in action for those failing the screening wastes resources and fails to initiate necessary intervention for hearing loss."...African-Americans have worse quality of life after heart attack or unstable angina
...urrent post-acute coronary syndrome health care is failing blacks," Dr. Rumsfeld said. "This study is the first to highlight this racial disparity, but the reasons for these results remain unclear. Are blacks not getting the same level or quality of follow-up care? Are they not getting appropriate cardiac re...