Even with more free time, women feel no less rushed, study finds
...time. But even when women have more time free from paid work and household tasks, they don't feel less rus...eriod. Free time was measured as time not spent at paid work, household chores, child care, or self care such as eating, grooming and sleeping. Participants...UK plans to cut street prostitution will threaten sex workers' health
...ly" and argues that neither having sex nor getting paid are inherently degrading, abusive, exploitative, or harmful. The problems, she says, are the associated coercion, drug dependency, and lack of choices, not prostitution itself. BMJ Editor, Fiona Godlee also supports the idea of legalisation. "It is s...Pollution puts fat rats at heart attack risk
...ung cancer and pollution, more attention should be paid to the impact it has on the cardiovascular system. "It raises a real question about the effects of these pollutants, especially in vulnerable members of the population". "This is something that needs to be debated publicly. Some efforts have been mad...Take meds as directed, reduce overall healthcare costs
...nd his colleagues used information from the claims paid by the HMO for all health care services to determine each participant's total healthcare costs. Total health care costs included all health care service use and prescription charges for which the HMO reimbursed the participant. The researchers used ...A little household help may reduce health-care costs among elderly
...h goes to nursing homes. Half of long-term care is paid by the government. Keeping a person in a nursing home costs the government around $30,000 per year, while paying a personal assistant to visit for a few hours a day would cost perhaps a third as much, she said. "More importantly," Sands said, "you'd...Farmworkers' paradox: Stanford study shows field laborers not eating what they grow
...icultural employers to provide healthy lunches and paid time off for workers to attend a wellness program," Winkleby said. Senior centers have received healthier government foods from food banks that supply much of their menu. "If you want to effect change it's not enough to educate people," Winkleby said...Boys face greater burns risk than girls, says new research
... children. "Particular attention also needs to be paid to children under three, as they are less aware of the dangers they face, and parents of small boys need to be extra vigilant."...Bush's health care initiatives will make America's system worse
...e the often staggeringly high malpractice premiums paid by many US doctors, especially those in high-risk specialties such as obstetrics and neurosurgery, and may reduce some costs because of the practice of "defensive medicine", but alone will do little to reduce overall health spending. And HSAs are lik...Parents of children with rare diseases benefit from intensive support programmes
...ternal demands such as problems with their spouse, paid work and social networks. "Mothers were more likely to experience high stress levels and physical and emotional strain, with single mothers who made up ten per cent of the female sample recording the highest levels" says lead author Dr Lotta D...Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders among children living in Russian 'Baby Homes'
... be associated with prenatal alcohol exposure. We paid special attention to the shape of the upper lip and philtrum (the area between the nose and the upper lip), which can show changes in appearance after prenatal alcohol exposure. We also looked at some less specific features, such as mobility of the ...Globalization: Children and working parents pay too high a price
...ty-seven percent had left a child in the care of a paid or unpaid child. 67 percent of parents with inco...wed parents to take leave from work either due to paid leave or flexibility halved the risk of parents having to leave children home alone sick. Fifteen p......aking medicine for it. Each husband and wife was paid $150 to participate, and also received free of charge a $300 CT scan to look for calcification in their coronary arteries the arteries that supply the heart muscle and that can cause a heart attack when clogged. Smith says that in otherwise healthy ...Declines in exercise capacity may be due to lack of training, not just age
...dynamic exercise increase with aging. These debts, paid during recovery from exercise are likely attributable to an inability of the older body to adapt to the energy requirements of exercise," they wrote. But there was also good news in the results. "A relatively low level of aerobic training for six mon...Warning over 'poor surgery' at private treatment centres
...ead of running them as a private healthcare system paid for by the state."...Heart devices, procedures evaluated across patient populations
...thor of the study. "Special attention needs to be paid to women's health, especially in examining new ways to help them achieve the same survival success rate as male patients." Gender and Racial Differences in Invasive Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiac Procedures (Abstract 904-230) Invasive cardio...Disclosure of physicians' financial incentives may increase trust, loyalty among their patients
Providing notices that explain how physicians are paid appears to increase patients' knowledge about compensation models, does not harm trust and may increase the loyalty patients feel toward their physicians, according to a study in the March 27 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Ar...Shire's DAYTRANA(TM) transdermal patch approved by FDA for treatment of ADHD
...e payments up to $125 million; $50 million will be paid dictated by this FDA approval and $75 million conditioned upon the achievement of certain sales targets. DAYTRANA Significantly Controls ADHD Symptoms Data from phase II and phase III clinical trials demonstrated statistically significant improvem...Chemical guidance of T cells leads to immunologic memory and long-term immunity
...ystem, but also suggest that attention needs to be paid to chemokines and chemokine receptor function when designing new vaccine strategies and evaluating whether drugs targeting chemokines might have unanticipated effects on immune function....Middle-aged caregivers keep their jobs according to SAGE publications' Research on Aging article
...amily-friendly benefits such as flexible hours and paid vacation and sick days helped middle-aged women remain employed, only unpaid leave made a significant difference for caregivers. None of the benefits, Pavalko notes, eased the caregivers' psychological distress. "Despite growing attention to family-...Studies show improving pacemaker reliability, increased implantable defibrillator failure rates
... Drug Administration, for which Maisel serves as a paid consultant and Chair of the FDA Circulatory System Medical Devices Advisory Panel. Study coauthors included Megan Moynahan, MS, Bram D. Zuckerman, MD, Thomas P. Gross, MD, MPH, Oscar H. Tovar, MD, Donna-Bea Tillman, PhD, MPA, and Daniel B. Schultz, M...