New book guides boomers through retirement maze
...a charity. According to the authors, the law often lags behind the latest fraudulent schemes. Hegland was motivated to write Alive and Kicking once he began teaching an elder law class at the UA. I began to realize that are so many complicated issues to think about when approaching retirement, and baby b...Women's mortality rates for cardiovascular disease differ widely among hospitals
...urse of the study, their overall performance still lags considerably behind the best-performing hospitals. If all of the 513 study hospitals in the 19 states studied performed at the level of the best-performing hospitals during the years 2003 through 2005, 15,925 deaths among women hospitalized for card...Good news on heart attack and chest pain
...m. Previous data have shown that the U.S. actually lags behind some other countries in several aspects of acute coronary care. The study is from the Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events (GRACE), which has collected data from 44,372 patients treated at 113 hospitals in 14 countries. The new paper is...Diabetes risk factors develop earlier in women than men
...in death rates for heart disease in diabetic women lags behind that of diabetic men, he said. Previous research had shown that hypertension and cholesterol were elevated among women who later developed diabetes. However, current findings that these novel risk factors [markers of endothelial dysfunction...Medicaid patients less likely than those with private insurance to receive recommended cardiac care
... The quality of cardiac care for Medicaid patients lags behind the care given to those with HMOs and private insurance according to a new study. The study by Dr. James Calvin, lead study author and director of cardiology at Rush University Medical Center, found Medicaid patients were less likely to receiv...Duke University study finds hearing aids are underused
...ancer), available information on device evaluation lags substantially behind advances in technologies. For example, most of the evidence available to the researchers was based on hearing devices that have been superceded by newer versions. The study examined the impact of medical technologies on treatme...LSUHSC public health documents unmet health needs of Katrina-displaced
...of resettlement, and a number of parents described lags in re-enrolling children at a new school with each move. Nearly half of parents and other care givers believe that their children are either never or only sometimes safe in their community, compared to 21% of care givers answering the same questi...UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center named Survivorship Center of Excellence
...search and development of effective models of care lags behind the need," said Caroline Huffman, LAF survivorship network officer. "To help accelerate the pace of progress in addressing the needs of the growing survivor community, we established the LIVESTRONG Survivorship Center of Excellence Network to ...Lung cancer survival rates may be linked to access to care
...stages of the disease, survival for black patients lags behind that of non-blacks. A number of potential explanations have been proposed, including later stage at diagnosis, differences in treatment, and differences in the biologic aggressiveness of the disease. Among the most controversial of these issue...EU and G8 countries must help Russia tackle its health crisis
...London. Russia's total life expectancy of 66 years lags behind that of Japan by 16 years, the European Union by 14 years, and the United States by 12 years. High levels of death and illness from non-communicable diseases, along with a low birth rate, mean that Russia's population is rapidly becoming small...Clinical burden of stroke greater than that of heart disease in the UK
... than those for heart disease and research funding lags far behind. The lack of investment in stroke has resulted partly from a perception that it is less common than heart disease and that stroke tends to occur in the very elderly whereas heart disease presents in middle age. However, until now, there ha...Intervention program fails to increase managed care colorectal cancer screening
...y," the study states. "Colorectal cancer screening lags behind other recommended examinations and there have been only modest improvements in recent years." "There's a real opportunity here to make a difference by successfully promoting colorectal cancer screening," Ganz said. "We can prevent this cancer...According to a new study, Canada lags behind other western countries in the level of financial support it gives to family caregivers. The international review was conducted as part of the Hidden Costs Invisible Contributions (HCIC) research project. The financial support review was led b...