School-based quality initiative improves childhood asthma outcomes
...ealth care system and suggested that the system is failing America because it is poorly designed and must be fundamentally changed. Pursuing Perfection was intended to be a catalyst for rapid, transformational change. Cincinnati Children's was selected, along with six other health care organizations to be ...Our memory wears rose-colored glasses
...ing. Negative events included losing possessions, failing a course, physical assault, and death of a loved one. Positive events included saving money for a purchase and falling in love. Regardless of how outsiders may rate the events, self-defining memories are significant to the person and are emotionall...Survivors of childhood cancer face unemployment hardship
...ger age at diagnosis also predicted higher risk of failing to find work. The authors conclude that "interventions aimed at obtaining and maintaining employment are needed, especially for the vulnerable subgroups." Interventions, they argue, "could mitigate the economic impact of surviving cancer and improve ...Young adults are fastest growing group of uninsured
...out needed health care because of cost-- including failing to fill a prescription, not seeing a doctor or specialist when needed, or skipping a recommended medical test or treatment. Uninsured young adults also face financial burdens, with 46% reporting that they were paying off medical debt or had trouble p...Patients, be patient: Brain images suggest new therapy for severe depression can take months to work
...atients who received vagal nerve stimulation after failing other therapies. Positron emission tomography (PET) scans showed significant changes in brain activity starting three months after vagal nerve stimulation treatment began. These changes continued to evolve over the course of the next 21 months. These...Health professionals must help tackle climate change
...n the opposite direction and no-one gets fired for failing to reduce the carbon footprint of a hospital or clinic. By 2010, 11 billion will be spent on new hospitals that are largely unsustainable. And so, in the name of 'healthcare,' gargantuan sums of public money continue to be spent in ways that are care...World's first approval of new HIV drug TMC114 provides potent new treatment option with FUZEON
... of adding one new drug, such as darunavir/r, to a failing regimen could be short-lived and result in what is called 'virtual monotherapy.' It is vitally important that patients who have developed resistance to a significant number of the available antiretroviral medications start at least two fully active d...Biomarker reduces length of antibiotic treatment
...c resistance or, even worse, place false hope in a failing regimen if ongoing infection really is the cause. The greatest clinical benefit of procalcitonin-directed therapy still appears to be selection of patients who may not need antibiotics at all or, at least not beta-lactam (penicillin) antibiotics."...New funding for research in primary health care
...tensen said. "It's not a matter of GPs currently failing these patients, but that there isn't enough evidence to offer best practice guidelines to deal with them. That means mental healthpatients in Australia are missing out." Identifying the procedures and incentives required for more effective manageme...Health savings accounts are not likely to stem rising health care spending
...igher income individuals disproportionately, while failing to achieve the purported advantages of high-deductible plans. Public subsidies should instead be targeted on these least able to afford health insurance or health care." ...Saving antiretroviral treatment in long-term HIV-positive patients
...ontinuing a course of treatment that appears to be failing could still be beneficial in delaying the progression of the disease. ...Commonwealth Fund commission says the US health care system needs thorough transformation
...care, accessible to all Americans--and that we are failing to deliver adequate value for the very high proportion of resources we devote to health care in this country. The report from the Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System states that there are concrete steps that could be ta...Exercise helps sustain mental activity as we age, may prevent dementia-like illnesses
... - ability to cover one function if another starts failing later in life." More research is needed to know exactly how much and what types of exercise produce the most rapid and significant effects on thinking and the brain; how long exercise effects last following the end of training; or how much exerci...Doctors warn: Do not rely only on what young athletes say when managing concussions
...ve deficits that they are either unaware of or are failing to report." Although neurocognitive testing has been recognized in recent years as a cornerstone of concussion management by the leading international Concussion in Sport groups, the UPMC study is the first to formally evaluate the sensitivity and s...Jefferson researchers find potential biomarket for heart failure
...ole in heart failure, is elevated in patients with failing hearts when compared to patients with normal heart...ly important in heart function. It is increased in failing human hearts and contributes to the loss of the heart's contractile strength during the development ...Concussion in athletes: Can they accurately evaluate their own condition?
...ve deficits that they are either unaware of or are failing to report."...Jefferson scientists find boosting protein levels staves off heart failure
...re S100A1 levels and heart function to normal in failing animal hearts. Congestive heart failure affects nearly five million Americans, many of whom have poor long-term prognoses, despite recent therapeutic advances. In the study, the researchers caused simulated heart attacks in the two groups of ani...M. D. Anderson reports first drug activity in T315I-Positive CML, ALL and JAK-2-Positive MPD
...rs, they are very aggressive and often fatal after failing standard therapy, said Giles. For the subset of leukemia patients who have the T315I mutation or for MPD patients with the JAK-2 mutation - about 10 percent of patients with the respective diagnoses - there are no therapies available to specifically ...Drivers ignore the risk of mobile phone use
...off the road, slowing down, lack of concentration, failing to indicate, lane drift and sudden braking. Action is urgently needed to reduce crashes caused by mobile phone use and driver distraction. Policies that include increased driver awareness and innovative enforcement practices are essential to decre...The UK government is failing sex workers by continuing to promote discriminatory laws and practices, argue experts in this week's BMJ. Professor Michael Goodyear and Dr Linda Cusick call on the prime minister to protect women by decriminalising all aspects of sex work now. Sex...