Largest NIH grant for NYU will create research network in dental practices
...blems confronted in dental offices. It bridges the gap that has traditionally existed between practicing dentists and academia, and has the potential to transform the way dentistry is practiced. This award places NYU College of Dentistry in the vanguard of efforts to improve the practice of healthcare in...Nanotechnology's miniature answers to developing world's biggest problems
...y 2015. "Most waves of technology can increase the gap between rich and poor but the harnessing of nanotechnology represents a chance to close these gaps. The targeted application of nanotechnology has enormous potential to bring about major improvements in the living standards of people in the developin...ACP and ACP Foundation launch 3-year effort to improve diabetes care
...omponents of high-quality diabetes care and of the gap between current practice and acceptable standards of diabetes care. Provide proven educational interventions to improve diabetes care. Recognize physicians and physician practices that demonstrably improve care of their patients with diabetes. At ...Independent voice rises to help consumers navigate health care
...pendent help agencies are increasingly filling the gap in resolving consumers' problems, according to researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. Patients have had few places to turn-other than their own health plans-for help if they receive unexpected medical bil...Adolescent health ill-catered for in the NHS
...considerably, young people have fallen through the gap in targeted services, argues Dr Russell Viner, the UK's only consultant in adolescent medicine. Mortality rates for adolescents from injury and suicide have increased fivefold over the last century - rising from 11% of total deaths for 15-19 year old...Pessimism and depression increase dementia risk
...tations of the disease due to the significant time gap between the time of the personality test (in the 1960s) and the appearance of dementia or cognitive impairment (anytime between the 1960s and 2004). The test takers ranged in age from 20 to 69 when they took the test in the 1960s. The Mayo Clinic in...NCI's Patient Navigator Research Program: Questions and answers
...ymakers have determined that a major disconnect or gap exists between cancer research discovery and the d...this goal requires immediate action to address the gap between development and delivery, particularly among underserved populations. NCI is addressing thes...Kidney donation program may provide more matches for previously incompatible recipients and donors
...esents the most promising solution for closing the gap between organ supply and demand. Unfortunately, about one-third of patients with willing live donors will be excluded from kidney transplantation because of blood type or tissue incompatibility. Kidney paired donation (KPD) offers an incompatible do...Health inequalities continue to widen, despite government rhetoric
...y 2001 it announced national targets to reduce the gap in infant mortality across social groups and to ra...Social Attitudes Survey, 82% of people thought the gap between those with high incomes and those with low incomes was too large. Although New Labour has su...Fiber supplements may lower cardiovascular risk in type 2 diabetics
...uct (a fiber supplement) was designed to fill that gap between the real intake and the advised intake," Verdegem said. Study participants received 10g to 15g of BiosLife 2, an over-the-counter fiber supplement manufactured by Unicity International. The drink contains both soluble and insoluble fiber fro...Medical-errors gap widens between best and worst hospitals: Healthgrades study
...st hospitals grew even safer, resulting in a wider gap in patient safety incident rates among the nation's best and worst hospitals, according to a new study of 37 million patient records released today by HealthGrades, an organization that evaluates the quality of hospitals, physicians and nursing homes...Obese workers' pay lower due to health costs, Stanford study finds
...similar jobs, leading many people to attribute the gap to prejudice against workers based on their appear...g the wages in greater detail, they found that the gap is modest when these workers are young, but widens over time, meaning that this set of obese workers...Soft drinks consumption may increase the risk of childhood obesity
... has suggested that "altering the energy (calorie) gap by 100 calories a day--which, ironically, is the equivalent of one 8-oz. serving of a sweetened soft drink--would prevent excessive weight gain in most Americans." The prevention of childhood obesity is of great importance. It has been estimated...Neuroimaging confirms the greater vulnerability of women's brains to alcohol
...: Clinical & Experimental Research addresses this gap in research, using computed tomography (CT) to examine brain atrophy in the brains of alcoholic men and women. The findings support and build upon a prior hypothesis that women develop alcohol-related brain damage more readily than men. "Studies us...Everyone is entitled to a good doctor, says former GMC president
...hreat. Other actions include closing the standards gap and ensuring that revalidation is based on assessment of performance. The GMC also needs to be accountable to the public through parliament. Done well, revalidation will both protect patients and support doctors, he says. However, it must be based on...For disabled parents, extra family services could improve entire family's health
.... Disability, in this study, is identified as the gap between a personal capability and an environmental demand, and is therefore avoidable or modifiable through intervention. "We found that children living in households with one or more parents who are disabled are 65% less likely to receive the reco...Changing sexual behaviour in the UK
...coming sexually active in the 1950s. Here too, the gap between the sexes has been narrowing over time, and by the 1990s had closed. Despite the convergence of men and women's age at first intercourse, there remain gender differences in the experience of the event. Women are twice as likely as men to r...'X-factor' causes Scots to have higher heart disease rates, say scientists
...e in Scotland, they will not do much to narrow the gap in heart disease rates between Scotland and England. More research is called for into how and why Scots get heart disease at such high rates. Researchers at the University of Edinburgh, University College London and Imperial College London compared ...Johns Hopkins scientists use gene therapy to prevent heart arrhythmias from stem cell transplants
...he stem cell injections. Connexin 43 makes up the gap junctions between muscle cells, allowing cells to ...ise healthy, these muscle fibers are known to lack gap junctions, or protein connections between cell membranes that allow neighboring cells to communicate...Conflicts pitting doctors vs. patients / kin is #1 issue in medical ethics, Canadian experts say
... Research and experience consistently show a huge gap between informed consent in theory and informed consent in practice. Many patients do not or cannot read consent forms. Consent discussions and capacity assessments are often superficial and rushed due to time constraints; rushed staffs often fail ...