Alert system associated with increased clinical trial recruitment
...mber of referrals generated by physicians, 5.7 per month before intervention to 59.5 per month after. The number of physicians making referrals also increased, from five before intervention to 42...Satellite survey of Elbe flood helps Swiss Re insure for disaster
...ata gathered on the Elbe flood has been added this month to Swiss Re's CatNet online database, which supplies client insurance companies and others with comprehensive information on worldwide hazards and potential risk exposure. The activity has been carried out as part of a Flood Plain Monitoring project...Growth patterns into childhood reveal risk of coronary heart disease later in life
..., including weight and height, was recorded once a month for the first two years and then annually through age 11. A total of 357 men and 87 women had been admitted to the hospital for coronary heart disease or had died from the disease. Researchers examined coronary risk factors in 2,003 of the study subj...Web Forum launched for schizophrenia researchers
...izophrenia Research Forum, a website launched this month with funding from the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). Sponsored by NARSAD, The Mental Health Research Association, the site bills itself as a "virtual community" where researchers can link-up with co...Study findings show improvement in work attendance after consistent treatment of IBS
...nts reported improvement in the number of days per month missed at school or work. Significant findings in...y 50 percent of patients in the number of days per month when they accomplished less at school, work or home; while about 40 percent reported improvements in...Parents' safe gun storage behaviors improve after counseling
..., or a control group. Families were resurveyed one month later to determine changes in gun-ownership and gun storage. Of the 2,649 parents surveyed on visiting the clinic, 206 (7.8 percent) reported that they kept guns in their homes; 151 completed both the baseline and follow-up questionnaire. "At follow-...International team of experts leads new stroke journal
...Journal of Stroke, a new publication launched this month as a result of a partnership between the International Stroke Society and Blackwell Publishing. Professor Donnan, who is based at the University of Melbourne and is Director of Australia's National Stroke Research Institute, will lead an internationa...Vaccine for follicular lymphoma
...system. Finally, the vaccine was innoculated every month for three or four months, whereupon the frequency of this dosage was gradually reduced....Study: N.C. parents want tobacco use prevention to become higher priority
... than eight in 10 reported talking at least once a month about the dangers of tobacco use. Findings were consistent regardless of gender, race, education level or their child's age. Included were questions about awareness of North Carolina's first tobacco-use prevention media campaign, "Toabacco.Reality.Un...Johns Hopkins flu expert calls for mandatory vaccination of health care workers
...up, the Society for Health Care Epidemiology, last month endorsed just such a plan. However, she acknowledges that current federal workers' rights prevent employers from making vaccinations a requirement. Perl says her proposal is open to discussion at Hopkins. "Ultimately, we want to make vaccination a...Shire announces positive two-year study of ADDERALL XR in the treatment of adult ADHD
...The majority of side effects occurred in the first month of the trial, diminished over time and were generally mild or moderate in nature. The most frequently reported drug-related adverse events included dry mouth, insomnia, loss of appetite, headache and nervousness. Additional Study InformationThe ave...Women are receiving less aggressive treatment for chest pain and heart attacks than men, study finds
...sessed their status when they were discharged, one month later, and then one to three more times at three-month intervals. The problem started, Dr. Anand said, when women with ACS weren't sent for diagnostic tests, such as coronary angiography, during which physicians use a catheter to inject dye into the...Caution: New Medicare drug plan may cause headaches
...edHealth Group, which charge premiums from $9.48 a month to $67.88 a month. The plan's configuration reflec...ment will be subject to a penalty of 1 percent per month after the close of the enrollment period on May 15, 2006. In Kaplan's words, "A late enrollee will b...Heart care lacking for those with clogged leg blood vessels
... PVIs and were recuperating in the hospital. But a month after the patients went home, the gap widened again -- suggesting that the patients with no history of heart disease weren't sticking to their medication regimens and that their doctors could do a better job of monitoring and encouraging their use of...Fewer heart failure patients die when hospitals make efforts to improve care
...int, Mich. Significantly lower death rates in the month after hospitalization were seen among those patients treated at eight hospitals that cooperated to find ways to deliver proven care and educate patients about their treatment, compared with six hospitals that didn't take part in the cooperative effor...Illegal drug use could account for 1 million visits a year to emergency care in England
... But the figures for drug use within the preceding month are nearly three times as high. This suggests that recent or current drug use greatly increases the risk of requiring emergency care, they say. "with annual Emergency Department attendances currently exceeding 14 million in England alone, it is possi...Research reveals likely connection between early-life stress and teenage mental health problems
...ers removed from the social group when they were 1 month old. These infants went on to show increased cling...nkeys who had experienced maternal separation at 1 month old continued to show significantly more time in social contact compared to monkeys not experiencing...Study reveals best ways for pediatricians to educate families
...filled out a survey to relay what was discussed. A month later, the parents were asked to recall what was discussed during the visit. "The good news is both the provider and the parent agree about what was discussed," said Barkin. "However, parental recall declines with an increased number of topics discus...New labelling on foods still not clear enough for allergy sufferers
...ple with food allergies will be boosted later this month when new European laws will force manufacturers to label their food more accurately, but the laws do not offer full protection, says an editorial in this week's BMJ. The European Union directive on food labelling, which comes into effect on November ...