Medical debt undermines housing security for working families, new national study shows
...bottom line is that our health insurance system is failing in many instances to fulfill its fundamental purpose, protecting American families from the catastrophic effects of large medical bills," Seifert added. "And the ripples of that failure can persist into the next generation." Housing, credit counsel...Mayo researchers lead team that discovers role of dendritic cells in childhood autoimmune disease
...mune disorders share the general trait of the body failing to recognize itself, and erroneously mounting an immune attack that destroys function. Insights gained in JDM may possibly be applied to other autoimmune diseases. Explains Ann Reed, M.D., Mayo Clinic pediatric rheumatologist/immunologist who led the...Aspirin-a-day advice unheeded by those who need it, Stanford study finds
...- medications. "Our concern is that physicians are failing to use the full range of strategies available to reduce patients' risk of heart disease and stroke," said Randall Stafford, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine at the Stanford Prevention Research Center and the first author of the study. Cardiov...Study suggests that aspirin is under-prescribed
... researchers expressed concern that physicians are failing to use the full range of strategies available to reduce patients' risk of heart disease and stroke....Research published in the NEJM challenges 30-year-old standard of care for lupus patients
...eceived MMF and 69 patients received IVC; patients failing to improve in at least one key area after 12 weeks were converted to the other regimen. A total of 24 patients were withdrawn from the study; nine in the MMF group and 15 in the IVC group. There were 16 complete remissions; that is, the disease bec...Investigational boosted protease inhibitor, TMC114, works better with FUZEON
...etectable viral loads more achievable for patients failing on their current therapies, when used in combination with the latest HIV drugs. The 'FUZEON effect' has also been seen in other FUZEON/boosted PI combination trials, including with lopinavir/r and tipranivir/r. This effective strategy for treatment-e...NYU Child Study Center expert co-authors 'Who Invented Lemonade?'
...d from a job, broken up with a partner, received a failing grade in a class, or even lost a loved one, Who Invented Lemonade? will give you the tools you need to think positively, change your perspective, and ultimately live life to the fullest and make lemonade. The book was co-authored by Joshua Shaw, COO...Congo conflict 'The world's deadliest humanitarian crisis'
..., France states: "Rich donor nations are miserably failing the people of the DRC, even though every few months the mortality equivalent of two south-east Asian tsunamis ploughs through its territory[this] paper should spur the UN and member states to intensify efforts to prevent a resumption of widespread ho...ACP releases annual report on 'The State of the Nation's Health Care'
...eases," Dr. Arora continued. "The consequences of failing to act will be higher costs, greater inefficiency, lower quality, more uninsured persons, and growing patient and physician dissatisfaction." Providing a public policy perspective, Robert Doherty, senior vice president, ACP Governmental Affairs and ...Research shows promise for using stem cell transplantation to treat patients with severe lupus
... a high disease-related mortality rate. Continuing failing therapy for such patients is problematic but necessary to confirm that the increased acute risk of HSCT would be offset by better disease control and improved long-term survival, especially because the standard of care for lupus is constantly changin...Hormone linked to good hearing as we age
...lated hearing loss." Nearly everyone wrestles with failing hearing at some point. While some people suffer from hearing damage as a result of exposure to loud noise, or from other causes such as the side effects of some medications, for many people hearing problems occur with no known cause. Some people noti...Poor, ethnic children at greater risk for exposure to toxic pollutants
...ent local, state and federal policies appear to be failing to address these inequities. That's the finding laid out in a review of social injustice and environmental pollutants and their effects on children published in the March/April issue of Child Development. Researchers from the University of Wisconsin...Loneliness linked to high blood pressure in aging adults
... challenging, and to passively cope with stress by failing to solicit instrumental and emotional support and by withdrawing from stress rather than by actively coping and attempting to problem solve," Cacioppo said. The study on young people showed that stress caused an increase in resistance to blood flow b...Doctors must work together better to improve survival in teenage and young adult cancer patients
... low entry rate into clinical trials. Are doctors failing to enter them because they think they will not agree, or are young people voting with their feet and refusing to join trials? Anecdotal evidence to date suggests that principally it is doctors who don't enter them into trials and a questionnaire of ...VCU Medical Center team implants total artificial heart
...juvenate vital organs that have atrophied due to a failing heart. In 2004, the American Heart Association named the TAH-t the No. 1 advance in cardiovascular medicine. An August 2004 paper in the New England Journal of Medicine found in a pivotal clinical trial that the one-year survival rate following huma...Sociologists find low self-esteem at 11 predicts drug dependency at 20
...meone who exhibits three or more symptoms, such as failing attempts to quit using drugs, giving up important activities like work, sports or seeing family or friends in order to get or use drugs and using increasingly larger amounts of a chosen drug or for a greater period of time than intended when the drug...$500,000 grant launches health literacy project to benefit older adults
...rs struggling to correctly take their medications, failing to recognize chest pain as a sign of a possible heart attack or grappling with the multitude of new prescription drug plan options illustrate a glaring national problem -- low health literacy levels among our nation's fastest growing population. An i...Lack of basic research putting patients at risk
...s week's BMJ. He believes that medical academia is failing patients and clinicians by neglecting this vital area of research. Basic observational research provides the information that doctors need to diagnose and treat patients appropriately, writes neurologist Professor Peter Rothwell. But in the field of ...Youngest hurricane victims facing...
...hool in the past month. The study concluded that failing to provide stable health and mental health care will likely have long-term consequences. For example, a parent's untreated depression increases the risk of mental health problems in their children, who in this case are already psychologically vulnera...Studies show improving pacemaker reliability, increased implantable defibrillator failure rates
... 1,000 times greater than the chance of the device failing when it's needed." The analysis of FDA data (first study) was funded by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, for which Maisel serves as a paid consultant and Chair of the FDA Circulatory System Medical Devices Advisory Panel. Study coauthors includ...