Health reform bills could improve quality and efficiency, but fall short of national plan
...between high payment for procedures and relatively low payment for primary care services. Creation of an entity such as a National Quality Coordination Board, as recommended by the Institute of Medicine, to ensure that public and private efforts reinforce each other. Creation of a center that would off...U of M researchers discover new method to combat HIV
...se the quality of life for AIDS patients hinges on low costing medication and minimal side effects, Wang said. Its huge, he said. This concept could lead to a replacement for the cocktail treatment....ESA's Earth Explorer gravity satellite on show
...h, GOCE has been designed to fly in a particularly low orbit - at an altitude of just 250 km. However, the remaining atmosphere at low altitudes creates a demanding environment for the satellite and presented a challenge for its design...Low hospital staff levels increase infection rates
...e ICU during this study. This study shows that a low nurse-to-patient ratio increases the risk of late-onset VAP, said Hugonnet. It adds also to the growing body of evidence demonstrating that adequate staffing is a key determinant and a prerequisite for adequate care and patient safety. VAP is caused ...Children and young people show elevated leukaemia rates near nuclear facilities
... understand. If the amount of exposure were too low to cause the excess risk, we would expect leukaemia rates to remain consistent before and after the start-up of a nuclear facility. However, our meta-analysis, consistently showed elevated illness and death rates for children and young people living ...'SCHIP funding levels too low' ACP tells Senate Finance Committee Leaders
... but expressed concern that funding levels are too low and that pending Medicare cuts are not addressed. Joel S. Levine, MD, FACP, noted in a five-point letter to Senator Max Baucus, chairman of the Finance Committee, and Charles Grassley, ranking member of the Finance Committee, that ACP believes th...Nonsmall cell lung cancer -- chemotherapy before surgery appears better than surgery alone
...tes across all stages of disease tend to be fairly low at around 14%, with only a quarter of patients being suitable for surgery. The Cochrane Systematic Review found that using chemotherapy before surgery can reduce the size of tumours making the surgery simpler, and increasing the number of patients ...Lower mortality rates associated with hospitals that rank highest on quality of care indicators
...ilable on the web, are very helpful in identifying low mortality hospitals, said Ashish Jha, Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management at HSPH and lead author of the study. The Hospital Quality Alliance (HQA), a public-private collaboration that includes the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid S...Organic farming can feed the world, U-M study shows
...igate the two chief objections to organic farming: low yields and lack of organically acceptable nitrogen sources. Their findings refute those key arguments, Perfecto said, and confirm that organic farming is less environmentally harmful yet can potentially produce more than enough food. This is espec...Scaling up HIV prevention programs is cost effective
...ks to improve HIV prevention funding allocation in low and middle-income countries. Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) collaborated with local teams to collect recent cost and output data from 206 HIV prevention programs in India, Mexico, Russia, South Africa and Uganda. ...Speeding up CT scans with cellphone technology, ultrasound warning signal for breast cancer
...stortions unaffected by magnetic fields, extremely low instrumentation noise, variable sensitivity down to very low x-ray exposures, and more than double the spatial resolution. Andrew Kuhls (atkuhls@buffalo.edu, 716...Patients with soft tissue sarcomas should be treated at high volume centers
... paucity leaves most health care institutions with low case volumes and outdated or inadequate resources,...169 cases (67.8% of the total) and were classed as low volume. Our analysis of 20 years surgical management of STS in Florida[showed that] volumes in 213 f...New heart disease risk score will help minimize health inequalities
...ne in ten patients being reclassified into high or low risk, they say. QRISK is likely to provide more appropriate risk estimates of cardiovascular disease risk based on age, sex and social deprivation, write the authors. It is therefore likely to be a more equitable tool to inform management decisions ...Holograms make for better vision tests
...ny advantages including simplicity, high speed and low cost and could open new doors in our understanding...n eye as well. Apart from being simple, quick, and low cost, holography offers the advantage of being an open field refraction system that is devoid of the...Chemical in brain acts like a fuel gauge
... its news page, identifies a chemical that sends a low blood sugar message to a part of the brain that ca...els from the hindbrain, which receives warnings of low glucose levels from the body, to the paraventricular hypothalamus, which authorizes the consumption ...Shoulder tapping -- Young males are most willing to purchase alcohol for underage youth
... Although 19 percent may sound like a relatively low success rate, it means that a given youth has about an 80 percent probability of obtaining alcohol within eight attempts with randomly selected adults, said Grube. The actual success rate is probably higher because youth are most likely selective in...Diabetes professionals join forces to identify gaps in diabetes care and better self care
...ills. Low level of health literacy Assume a low level of health literacy when choosing and developing educational materials. Use other media (such as DVDs) in addition to print. "With diabetes and prediabetes continuing to grow at unprecedented rates, addressing the disease as a public hea...New nutritional research: College students face obesity, high blood pressure, metabolic syndrome
...l fat, high blood glucose, high triglycerides, and low HDL or good cholesterol) that are predictive of future development of heart disease and diabetes, is particularly prevalent in males. Sixty-six percent of males (compared to 50 percent of females) had at least one risk for metabolic syndrome, and eig...ESA satellite guides polar explorers across disintegrating sea ice
... Russia to Greenland via the North Pole. Extremely low temperatures, high winds and a few fractures or openings in the ice, called 'leads', are to be expected. However, they recently faced a potential dangerous additional challenge as their expedition neared the Greenland coastline an unanticipated cha...... current risk of infection with avian influenza as low and are not particularly worried about it. They se...or eggs entering the food chain would be extremely low because of the rapid onset of symptoms in poultry as well as the safeguards in place, which include ...