Grandparents, older adults encouraged to seek help for a sleep disorder
...r osteoarthritis patients. This demonstrates that improving sleep can be analgesic in older osteoarthritis patients, and that techniques to improve sleep should be considered for addition to treatment programs for pain management in osteoarthritis and possibly other pain-states. Regular aerobic exercise,...1 of 2 pediatric kidney disease research centers in world established
...actical patient therapies, as a vital component of improving human health. Also, the grant will enable us to recruit additional physician researchers who can pursue a career in pediatric nephrology research. One research project headed by Drs. Avner and William E. Sweeny Jr., M.S., assistant professor o...Some women benefit more from exercise when emphasis is on health, not appearance
...e, even if those women chose the class in hopes of improving their physique. Researchers studied nearly 100 college-aged women who had social physique anxiety a disorder in which someone chronically worries that others are critiquing his or her body. Women who have this disorder usually are interested in ...Bioengineering to prevent iron deficiency?
...duce the incidence of iron deficiency worldwide by improving the quality of dietary iron, conclude authors of a Seminar in this weeks edition of The Lancet. Dr Michael Zimmerman, Laboratory for Human Nutrition, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, and colleagues have reviewed published literature w...'Heroes of Chemistry' honored for medical, energy, environmental breakthroughs
...s will be named Heroes of Chemistry by the ACS for improving health and well-being by creating new drugs or oth...CS applaud them and their corporate management for improving our lives through chemistry in so many ways." The Heroes of Chemistry program, started in 1996 b...Indiana University Imaging Center receives $6M grant for kidney research
...re advanced microscopy: An emphasis on improving quantitative analysis accompanyingimages: "Instead of just getting an impressive image, we get animpressive image with quantitative physiological data associated withit. Instead of just saying, it looks like the blood flow is lower, wehave developed ...Novel candidate biomarker for heart failure also strongly predicts risk of death
...ath, even though they appear to be symptomatically improving during treatment. There are studies underway here at MGH and elsewhere investigating whether such biomarker fingerprints can guide specific treatment strategies for heart failure and other cardiovascular diseases. Januzzi is an associate professor o...Early-childhood intervention may improve well-being through young adulthood
...rk will create a strong evidentiary foundation for improving intervention effectiveness and generate even greater policy support for quality preschool. Some will argue that the quasi-experimental evidence on quality components is so strong that we dont need randomized controlled trials to sort out these deta...Shining light on pancreatic cancer
... now being tested during colonoscopies. "Besides improving on the technology, we need to determine whether other medical conditions including other cancer types or diseases of the pancreas such as chronic pancreatitis or acute pancreatitis can be distinguished with our technology from pancreatic cancer. It i...National quality agenda, payment reform, care integration keys to improving quality, patient safety
...chnology was identified as a promising vehicle for improving quality and efficiency, said Anthony Shih, M.D., assistant vice president for Quality and Efficiency Programs at the Fund. But in addition to that, there was a strong call for federal leadership in actively promoting adoption, including through finan...Health reform bills could improve quality and efficiency, but fall short of national plan
...ancement of federal programs and policies aimed at improving health system performance. By focusing on quality improvement and efficiency, the government and the private sector can get a better return for their substantial investment in health care, according to the analysis. Legislative proposals that woul......ial life or work schedule," explains Bai, "thereby improving their psychological well-being and quality of life." The researchers are now working on how to enable global-positioning system, GPS, in the modified cell phone, so that the medical centre can more quickly pinpoint the patient. They also hope to im...U of M researchers assess effectiveness of computerized physician order entry system
...problem. Medication errors are a central aspect of improving hospital safety. CPOE can help that process, says Robert Kane, M.D., review co-author. Hospitals would be short-sighted not to use it. Kane also notes that CPOE systems can be combined with existing computerized medical records, creating a central l...When minority patients have insurance and a medical home, their health care improves
... performance benchmarks would go a long way toward improving the way care is delivered and eliminating disparities, say Commonwealth Fund authors. We know the medical home is a promising model of care for narrowing health care disparities and providing patients with much higher quality care in terms of prev...Nepalese researchers identify cost-effective treatment for drug-resistant typhoid
... access to thousands of patients, can help make to improving treatment for our patients and to global health....Millennium development goals: Are we on track?
...s. Development efforts can address these issues by improving protocols and products for treating malnutrition, and preventing malnutrition by enhancing behaviors and choices that lead to improved nutrition throughout the lifecycle. Poverty and hunger are multidimensional problems requiring multidimensional ...A new direction: Integrating best-practices to improve food responses
...lity about information gathered. In addition to improving information systems, better tools and methods are needed to plan aid responses that may include not only food, but may also include the provision of complementary resources, such as water or cash. New analytical tools not only track trends in food se...Damon Runyon renews its $2.25 million investment to support young clinical cancer investigators
...Dr. Irwin Berstein and Dr. Fred Appelbaum focus on improving on hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. The use of umbilical cord blood for transplantation is an attractive alternative for cancer patients who cannot identify a suitable adult donor such as minority patients or patients of mixed ethnicity. Ho...Columbia dentists to improve oral health in sub-Saharan Africa
...alth, both of which showed the direct link between improving public health and economic growth. Those reports e... oral health program is an essential ingredient to improving the lives of these people. Teams of five or so Columbia faculty, staff and students will travel th...ESA satellite guides polar explorers across disintegrating sea ice
...ng climate models as well as inputs to methods for improving the accuracy of CryoSat-2 maps of sea-ice thickness. Now on stable ice and with less than 50 km to go and clear views of Greenland in front of them the explorers are expected to reach the end of their long trek across the entire Arctic basin this ...