Health insurance fails to protect Americans from financial risk
...nt at Brandeis. "A large percentage of the insured find themselves with unmanageable burdens of medical debt. This study details the many ways in which health insurance can fail to provide the financial protection people believe they are paying for," said Prottas. Key findings from The Illusion of Cover...Key science Web sites buried in information avalanche
...ore and more people are turning to the Internet to find information, important science websites are in dan...or research results on climate change or terrorism find themselves directed to a few top sites rather than a wide array of diverse sources? Do they encounte...... but people with dyscalculia do not. We wanted to find out what would happen when the areas relevant to maths learning in the right parietal lobes were effectively knocked out for several hundred milliseconds. We found that stimulation to this brain region during a maths test radically impacted on the su...Position of car indicator lights affects safety -- designers should take note
People find it harder to make rapid decisions about which way a car will turn if its amber indicator lights are inside the headlights (i.e. nearer the middle of the car) than if the indicator lights are outside the headlights, according to research published tod...American College of Physicians releases new patient education resources
...fter age 65. It can be difficult for patients to find out they have Alzheimers disease, said Patrick C. Alguire, MD, FACP, ACPs director of education and career development. By learning more about Alzheimers disease, patients and their families can understand what to expect and plan for the future. Sp...ACP hosts 'Internal Medicine 2007' in San Diego
...re Topics Track is designed for subspecialists who find it difficult to keep up with the clinical topics outside of their subspecialties. This track identifies a series of sessions covering many of the core topics in internal medicine that are useful to all internists, independent of specialty.The Hospita...Educational video increases knowledge but not behavior
...d more time and energy helping low vision patients find good low vision experts who can in turn help them in selecting assistive devices and adaptations that work for them," concludes Peli. ...Online book helps children understand the effects of stroke
...uperating family member can make it challenging to find time to explain to kids the causes and effects of a stroke, which adults may only partially understand themselves. "For kids, this can be very frightening," Goldberg comments. "The stroke patient's changes in mood and ability to communicate are sca...Aga Khan University team discover which patients keep on taking their medicine
...and Depression Scale (AKU-ADS) was incorporated to find any association between depression and adherence. The questionnaires were pilot-tested on 50 patients, who were not included in the final cohort of 460 subjects. The surprising result was that 77 per cent of the cases were adherent. Indeed, low educa...US businesses not prepared for aging workforce
...nies that do not plan for this aging workforce may find themselves suddenly faced with a loss of labor, experience and expertise that will be difficult to offset, given the relatively small pool of new workers and the competition for new talent likely to result from so many companies facing the same probl...Research finds music training 'tunes' human auditory system
...nes of inquiry. The researchers now are looking to find ways to "train" the brain to better encode sound work that potentially has far-reaching educational and clinical implications. The study was supported by Northwestern University, grants from the National Institutes of Health and a grant from the Nat...85th General Session, International Association for Dental Research
..., March 21, 1:30-2:00 p.m.), where new members can find out about becoming more involved in the IADR and its specialty Groups and Committees. This reception is generously supported by the Colgate-Palmolive Co. For the 27th consecutive year, commercial exhibits will be featured at the Meeting. Meeting par...Undergrad: Mothers in African study undereducated on diarrhea
...ren I saw there," he said. "It was not uncommon to find them experiencing diarrhea for two weeks continuously. They came to the clinic with sunken eyes, poor skin turgor and poor thirst, all signs of severe dehydration. They were malnourished, were not receiving adequate fluids, and their mothers were not...Do shopping lists promote or prevent healthy choices?
...erwise be used to counter impulsive choices. "We find that consumers who must generate options from memory are more likely to select fun, hedonistic, and sinful options over sensible options or "appropriate" options," write Yuval Rottenstreich (Duke University), Sanjay Sood (UCLA), and Lyle Brenner (Uni...Breast cancer survivors experience long-term heart disease risk from radiotherapy
...t heart attacks. The researchers were surprised to find that smoking had an unexpectedly large effect on the risk of heart disease. "We found that the joint associations between radiotherapy and smoking and [heart attack] risk were greater than expected when individual risks were summed. Consequently, the...Prescriptions for health advice online
...er or not to trust the information and advice they find online. The researchers observed the search strategies of people who wanted to find specific health information and advice (about hypertension, menopause and HRT, the MMR vaccine, or g...Teenagers with retail, service jobs at risk of injury, robberies, sleep deprivation
... teenagers start working at an early age, and most find jobs in retail or service industries. Our aim is to examine the conditions under which they are working, and suggest ways to protect them at work," said lead study author Carol Runyan, Ph.D., director of UNC's Injury Prevention Research Center (IPRC)...Medical, IT, engineering experts form advisory panel for electronic health record safety
Electronic health records (EHRs) allow doctors to find the information they need to manage a patient's care at the touch of a button. But several journal articles have reported errors related to EHR use. As hospitals and doctors across the country adopt EHRs, they will need information on limiting such e...Link found between teens' stress levels and acne severity
...s and low-stress conditions. The researchers did find that students reporting high stress were 23 percent more likely to have increased severity of acne papulopustulosa. Levels of stress were not linked to severity of acne comedonica. "Our research suggests that acne severity associated with stress ma...Antidepressants improve post-stroke 'thinking outside the box'
...ed. "We were somewhat surprised to initially not find any difference after the first 12 weeks of treatment. It took another 21 months after the initial treatments for the antidepressants to have a detectable effect," Paradiso said. The investigators hypothesize that antidepressants may foster recovery...