Raising alcohol prices can lead to more drinking instead of less
...ay not, reduce alcohol sales. The authors suggest minimum price posting as an alternative policy measure. ...findings suggest that a simple form of regulation, minimum price posting [that retailers cannot undercut], may be the best form of regulation."...CMS announces fewer, prioritized, less burdensome measures
...tended that because each of the CMS measures had a minimum of three potential G-codes, physicians and their staff would need to be familiar with as many as 39 potential codes for the 12-13 measures that might need to be reported for a 70-year-old woman with diabetes, coronary artery diseases and osteoporosis...Medicare payment stabilization options suggested by ACP
... CMS, ACP's options would stabilize payments for a minimum of two years by preventing the SGR cuts from going into effect and, beginning in 2007, by providing higher updates for physicians who voluntarily report on quality measures. It also specifies that physicians who are unable to participate in the init...Sooner is better with cochlear implants, Stanford scientist shows
... to 14, born profoundly deaf and each having had a minimum of one year with a cochlear implant. At the time of the study, they could perceive spoken language and communicate verbally. All of the children could read lips, but until they received hearing input from their implants they could not make the connec...Young children getting fewer hours of sleep
...y children from newborn to age four do not get the minimum 12 to 15 hours of sleep per day recommended by the NSF and pediatric sleep experts. Acebo and colleagues studied 169 children between 1 and 5 years old, once a week in their homes. The children wore activity monitors on their ankles or wrists to re...World first trial to test human implant of HeartPOD
...Alfred already completed. The trial will involve a minimum of 20 patients from four investigation sites across Australia and New Zealand. Principal researcher and Head of Clinical Pharmacology at The Alfred and Monash University, Professor Henry Krum, said that the current treatment for congestive heart fail...UC San Francisco's Harrington wins GSA's 2005 Doris Schwartz Gerontological Nursing Award
...99 her efforts led to budget legislation on higher minimum staffing standards and salary increases for California nursing home staff....Cannabis-based medicine relieves the pain of rheumatoid arthritis and suppresses the disease
...s to see exactly where CBM could be best used with minimum side effects." If further trials are run, researchers will probably extend the dosing period over the full 24-hour period. Dr Robson said: "The beneficial effects in this study occurred in the context of a dosing regime restricted to evening dosing ...Regular physical activity may strenghten knee cartilage
...ent of U.S. adults with arthritis fail to meet the minimum recommendations for physical activity. Based on the "wear and tear" nature of OA, the commonly held belief is that exercise will not strengthen joint cartilage and may even aggravate cartilage loss. Until recently, investigators were unable to put t...Sandia researchers determine that common anthrax sampling methods need improvement
... methods used to sample amounts of spores, 2) what minimum amounts of spores have to be present if anthrax is to be detected by these methods, and 3) how effective are the various methods for extracting material from samples for analysis. Brown became involved in the study as part of a DHS-funded Domestic De...Local anesthetics are effective for neuropathic pain
...thic pain is unknown, but estimates hover around a minimum of 3 million, according to the Society for Neuroscience. Neuropathic pain is a complex, chronic pain state often with no obvious cause; often, nerve fibers themselves may be damaged, dysfunctional or injured and send incorrect signals to other pain ...Controlling neglected tropical diseases could help make poverty history
...mere 40 cents per person per year, compared with a minimum of $200 per person per year to treat HIV/AIDS, $200 to treat a single episode of TB, and $7-10 to treat a single episode of malaria. Three of the drugs in the package (ivermectin, azithromycin, and albendazole) are being donated by their manufactu...Trauma victims' survival may depend on which trauma center treats them
... magnetic resonance imaging, acute hemodialysis, a minimum annual volume of patients and extramural trauma educational activities. The research team analyzed data from the National Trauma Data Bank, which is maintained by the Committee on Trauma of the American College of Surgeons and tracks information on ...Heavy smokers who cut their smoking in half may reduce their risk of lung cancer
...s (reduced from 15 or more cigarettes per day by a minimum of 50 percent without quitting), continued light smokers (one to 14 cigarettes per day), quitters (stopped between first and second examination), stable ex-smokers, and never smokers. During follow-up, 864 participants were diagnosed with lung cance...Treat stuttering before children start school, say experts
...age of 43% but only 15% of children had attained a minimum level of stuttering (1% of syllables stuttered). ...77% and over half (52%) of children had attained a minimum level of stuttering. The Lidcombe programme is a significantly and clinically more effective treatme...Academic medical centers face multiple challenges for conducting medical research
...has made substantial progress in moving beyond the minimum requirements prescribed by federal regulations to strengthen the safeguards against conflicts of interest in human research. However, this survey also revealed that the academic medicine community still has more work to do to establish a uniformly ro...Garvan Insitute scientists suggest new approach for treating patients with brittle bones
...wo bone mineral density (BMD) measurements taken a minimum of 1-2 years apart, can improve the accuracy of fracture risk assessment. Currently a bone density (DXA) scan is used to diagnose osteoporosis but, in Australia, treatment is usually only prescribed when an individual has had a fracture - regardless...New study examines impact of nurse-patient ratios law
...n to enact legislation requiring hospitals to meet minimum staffing standards, limiting the numbers of patients that registered nurses (RNs) and licensed vocational nurses (LVNs--known in most other states as licensed practical nurses) may care for at any one time. That legislation , AB 394, charged the Cali...HIV therapy success rates similar in developing and developed world, study shows
...erapeutic regimens that require patients to take a minimum of three pills a day for the rest of their lives," said Dr. Karen Doucette, a professor in the U of A Division of Infectious Diseases. "It's often difficult for people in North America to maintain the regimens, so some critics believe these programs ...... comprised a total of 5,259 participants and had a minimum follow-up period of three months. "This systematic review suggests the utility of metformin monotherapy as first-line therapy in the management of type 2 diabetes and the prevention of its vascular complications," say the authors, led by Dr. Antoni...