Costs of treating arthritis on the rise nationwide, study finds
...o the aging U.S. population, Yelin said, from 36.8 million adults to 46.1 million. Those numbers correspond t...ers is projected to increase steadily to nearly 67 million by 2030. She called urgent attention to the need for cost-effective efforts to decrease medical expe...Spinal manipulation in children studied
...ed by chiropractors. Children made an estimated 30 million visits to U.S. chiropractors in 1997, according to the study. While there is little Canadian data on the percentage of children receiving chiropractic care, a more recent survey of 1,800 participants in a Canadian pediatric hospital showed that 31 pe...Outdated policies are impediment for Americans with disabilities
... disability in America." Currently, more than 40 million Americans at least one in seven have physical mobility, sensory, or other impairments or limitations. Since IOM's previous reports in 1991 and 1997 that highlighted disability as a pressing public health issue, there has been growing recognition t...$7.5 million NIH grant to Yale for Autism Center of Excellence
... competitive and prestigious award comes with $7.5 million of direct funding over five years to the Autism Pr...me behavioral challenges. Autism affects about two million Americans. Autism Spectrum Disorders are diagnosed in one in 150 children in the United States and a...Hay fever can send work productivity down the drain
...work a week may seem small, consider that 20 to 50 million Americans suffer from at least some symptoms relat...ts, she said. Some estimates suggest that nearly 4 million days of missed work each year due to allergy symptoms. Hay fever symptoms can disrupt all areas of...UD receives $1.9 million for new spintronics center
The University of Delaware has been awarded $1.9 million from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to establ...human cells. UD's research grant is part of $7.5 million grant awarded to universities in four states--Delaware, Kentucky, Maine, and New Hampshire--by DOE's...Why GNEP can't jump to the future
...onsidering whether to approve or zero out the $405 million that President Bush is proposing to spend in fisca...f cesium 135a radionuclide with a half life of 2.3 million yearsto be disposed in the near surface and pose serious contamination problems for many thousands o...Clinical trial coordinators need more financial conflict-of-interest training
...terest Notification Study (COINS), a five-year, $3 million project funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health. The study is a collaboration among Duke University Medical Center, Johns Hopkins and Wake Forest University. The goal of the project is to analyze a...Malaria-infected mice cured by 1 dose of new drug
...human tests begin. Malaria afflicts between 300 million and 500 million people a year, killing between 1.5 million and 3 million, mostly children and mostly in developing n...NeuroArm: Navigating the future of surgery
... and brothers Doc, B.J. and Don Seaman provided $2 million to begin planning neuroArm. Their contribution was a natural extension of their support for the research centre that began with the development of the world's first intraoperative MRI scanner based on a movable high-field magnet. "As engineers, the...Research could lead to treatment for Alzheimer's disease
...l Institute on Aging estimates that as many as 4.5 million Americans suffer from Alzheimer's disease, which leads to dementia by affecting parts of the brain that control thought, memory and language. The new molecule prevents the first step in a chain of events that leads to amyloid plaque formation in th...Smoking ban dramatically reduces air pollution in Irish pubs
...similar policy, she estimates that between 5 to 10 million premature deaths from smoking could be prevented over the next generation. Although Dr. Godfrey admits that the impact of the Irish ban has been "enormous," she also highlights several "important caveat[s]" to the study's findings. While the h...Eating cured meats frequently can lead to lower lung function and potential COPD
...cause of death in the U.S. In 2004, more than 11 million U.S. adults were estimated to suffer from COPD, which results from chronic bronchitis and emphysema, two inflammatory lung diseases that frequently co-exist and interfere with breathing. The study cohort consisted of 7,352 individuals who particip...IOF and EU panel prepare osteoporosis audit
...umber of osteoporotic fractures in Europe was 3.79 million of which 890,000 were hip fractures. The total direct costs resulting from these fractures were estimated at 31.7 billion (21 billion) which were expected to increase to 76.7 billion (51 billion) in 2050 based on the expected changes in the demograph...Premiere cancer organizations partner to reduce disparities, prevent incidences
...rs. Komen for the Cure has granted more than $2 million to AACR to apply its scientific expertise and its ...ncer health disparities must be made. "While 10 million Americans are surviving cancer today due to progress in cancer research, unacceptable disparities st...MS patients not receiving medications to slow disease progression, research shows
...oss the United States. There were an estimated 6.7 million MS patient visits to physicians during this time. Neurologists recorded the most patient visits (50.7 percent). About 62 percent of patients visiting neurologists and 92 percent seen by family practitioners/internists were not using immunomodulato...DOE commits $27.5M for uranium contaminant transport field studies
...ranted Pacific Northwest National Laboratory $27.5 million dollars over 5 years to investigate the movement of contaminated groundwater at sites in Washington and Colorado. These two field research studies are funded by DOE's Office of Science and are intended to identify new approaches and strategies to he...Johns Hopkins begins aggressive screening for 'superbugs' in children
...ercent of the bacteria that cause infections for 2 million hospitalized Americans each year are resistant to at least one of the drugs most commonly used to treat them. ...Resident work hour restrictions may be costly for teaching hospitals
...he time of physician assistants) to more than $1.9 million (if 20 hours of care per week are provided by nurs...placing residents with nurse practitioners to $2.4 million (a savings of nearly $700,000) and of replacing residents with physician assistants or hospitalists,......s Latino population increased by 42.7 percent (7.7 million to 10 million) during that time. IMPACT: Latino dentists are likely to both speak Spanish and English, and to practice in areas with heavy Latino populations. As a result, there will be fewer dentists to serve this population. Also, the shortfall ...