Seat belt injuries could signal more serious trauma in children
... physicians are diligent, spinal-cord injuries are hard to diagnose in children. In the event of a car accident, seat belt injuries such as bruising and tenderness should warrant a search for other injuries, including spinal-cord injury, vertebral fractures and intra-abdominal injuries. If spinal-cord inj...Not all 'drug-related deaths' are 'drug-related'
...uropean and national definitions. This means it is hard to know what sorts of deaths are included, the demographic profile of those who died, and whether or not individuals were tapped in to services designed to assist drug abusers. Dr. Caryl Beynon from Liverpool John Moores University and colleagues ...New research discovers independent brain networks control human walking
...s they unlearned the correction. Regardless of how hard subjects tried, they were unable to stop this after-effect, because walking patterns are controlled by automatic brain systems that recalibrate themselves according to current conditions. As we understand more about the way the brain learns, relear...Parents' depression can weigh on children
...ng strategies for peer bullying. Sometimes its hard to change peer interactions, but just giving the child an ear can be very powerful, Janicke said. Helping parents take care of themselves and be effective listeners is a starting point....RAND, Health Dialog form alliance to create tools to evaluate health-care quality and efficiency
...gement products to our clients. We looked long and hard to find the best strategic collaborator for this endeavor and our conclusion was theres only one RAND. This is an important step in taking the advances weve made through decades of research and applying that knowledge to day-to-day health care e...Medical students respond positively to simulated patient experience
...will appear in the August print issue. It was hard to do and we really wanted to engage the students, said Fitch.High fidelity patient simulation of this kind has typically been done with small groups to teach clinical patient management and decision-making. What Fitch found through his student surve...Should adult male circumcision be recommended for HIV prevention in the US?
...ircumcision on HIV transmission rates in the US is hard to predict, given the many differences between the underlying HIV epidemics in Africa and the US, differences in the prevalence of male circumcision in Africa and the US, and the considerable gaps in knowledge that exist regarding the potential impac...Children and young people show elevated leukaemia rates near nuclear facilities
...hey rely on a wide range of factors that are often hard to quantify explains Dr Baker. It is also possible that there are environmental issues involved that we dont yet understand. If the amount of exposure were too low to cause the excess risk, we would expect leukaemia rates to remain consistent befo...Physician and congressional leaders convene on Capitol Hill
...as to get assurances that Congress will get to the hard work of replacing the broken payment formula for the sake of the physicians and the patients they serve. We all agree that the pay for is complex, but mechanisms exist to support the creation of a package that provides positive, stable and predicta...K-State researcher working on a way to make snack foods with extra fiber
...With fruit- and vegetable-based snacks, it's still hard to process the dough, so you really don't see those kinds of products out there," he said....Diabetes professionals join forces to identify gaps in diabetes care and better self care
...likely to perform self-care. Poor vision makes it hard to measure the correct amount of insulin. Those with multiple disorders may have to contend with additional dietary restrictions and medications. Poverty, a patient's literacy and health insurance can further complicate the situation." The sympo...New nutritional research: College students face obesity, high blood pressure, metabolic syndrome
...his is a very understudied population. Theyre very hard to reach, says Reilly, noting that large phone surveys of this age group, such as one conducted by the Centers for Disease Control in 2003, generally do not reach students at college or cell phones. As part of the course curriculum, students conduc...How to market diet pills: Prescription and over-the-counter pills may increase unhealthy behavior
...t the road to long term weight loss goals requires hard work and a long term commitment. Its effectiveness is maximized in conjunction with other behaviors. Bolton cautiously adds however, that: Consumers wont buy the drug if its seen as ineffective. But, on the other hand, the drug may have unintended...USC and Childrens Hospital Los Angeles both receive grants for stem cell facilities
...ol of Medicine of USC. "The grants complement our hard work in developing strong programs and recruiting an outstanding team of scientists. The funding will help develop more vitally important facilities that are needed for stem cell investigation and the eventual translation of new discoveries to patien...Extra pay does not improve hospital performance
...s of improving care. In fact, it all comes down to hard work by individual caregivers and institutions. Here, it appears that a voluntary effort to do good and improve care was equally as powerful as the incentive for additional payment, Peterson said. Finally, heart attack mortality declined significan......es typically have been too small and their results hard to confirm in subsequent studies. The National Institute on Aging decided to fund grants at three institutions to do studies of this sort in the right way, he says. In six to 10 months, once all the mice in the control group have died, the scienti...More rib fractures, but better survival rates
...asurements have been recorded to quantify just how hard people push in a simulated CPR test. The findings ... the scale. "All we are trying to establish is how hard people are able to push in a simulated CPR situation," Geddes said. "You can't tell from the data ho...New mothers often not asked about depression, UNC survey finds
... to be happy when we have a child so sometimes its hard to talk about the fact that women feel sad, or that its hard being a new mother, Sleath said. The Patient Health Questionnaire and the Edinburgh Postnatal Depr...Fatalistic beliefs about cancer cause many to ignore cancer prevention advice
... many recommendations about preventing cancer, its hard to know which ones to follow." People who mainta...uits and vegetables. People who believed that "its hard to know" what to do were more likely to smoke. All three beliefs, the researchers say, were associat......an option. The only available treatment is to wear hard contact lenses or corneal transplant with a donore...entional lenses and rigid gas permeable lenses, or hard contact lenses. Corrections with the custom lenses resulted in an average improvement of 2.1 lines i...