Almost half of men who pay for sex already have a partner
...ry 2004. One in 10 of the men said that they had paid for sex. Their average age was 34. Most said that they had paid for sex with women, and over half said that they had paid for sex while abroad. But four out of 10 s...Second-generation antipsychotic medications appear to offer little advantage over older drugs
...st of $10 billion annually, 70 percent of which is paid through Medicaid. Although they are more expensive, most expert panels recommend using second-generation medications first in the treatment of schizophrenia, and current health policy supports open access to both first- and second-generation drugs. ...New allergy vaccine provides long-lasting hay fever relief after just 6 weeks of shots
... of Creticos' early safety studies. Creticos was a paid consultant of Dynavax during that period. The current study was sponsored by the Immune Tolerance Network, which receives its funding from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive ...Forget basal body temperature -- check out her clothes
...regnant. Yet the women not only seemed to have paid more attention to their appearance as they approached their most fertile period, but the more fertile the women were, the more likely their pictures were to be selected. Interestingly, the approach of menstruation did not seem to have any observab...In case of pandemic flu majority of Americans willing to make major changes in their lives
...t paid, and 22% do not know whether they would get paid or not. "These findings are a wake-up call for business, that employees have serious financial concerns and are unclear about the workplace plans and policies for dealing with pandemic flu," said Blendon. MethodologyThis is the 25th in a series ...Louisiana Tech receives award for hurricane-relief efforts
...ived tuition payments for students who had already paid tuition elsewhere until arrangements could be worked out. Tech delayed tuition payments for students who couldn't pay because of the storm. A professor and five students in the computer science program created a Web site aimed at locating people d...Kennedy Krieger awarded $9 million to study learning disabilities in growing ranks of adolescents
... further testament to the national attention being paid to learning disabilities....ITN America's Freund to receive GSA's 2006 Maxwell A. Pollack Award
...driving. ITN uses automobiles and a combination of paid and volunteer drivers to provide door-to-door service to older persons. Freund first envisioned the idea for this model during her master's thesis work at the University of Southern Maine. Appointed by President Bush to the Advisory Committee for th...Leading healthcare authorities to address safety and effectiveness
...n practices nationwide, greater attention is being paid to issues such as EHR safety, reliability and testing, monitoring and implementation strategies. Geisinger Health System, under whose auspices the panel is being assembled, has successfully deployed an integrated EHR that provides access to critic...RAND study shows little public money spent on health care to undocumented immigrants
...more than one-fourth the costs. The remainder was paid for out of pocket. Researchers estimate that total medical spending on undocumented immigrants in Los Angeles County was $887 million in 2000 6 percent of total costs, although undocumented immigrants comprise 12 percent of the region's residents....Fresh use of targeted therapy advances treatment of early HER2-positive breast cancer
...itive, Dr. Perez says. It appears the hard work paid off. This change in treatment is now available outside the parameters of a clinical study. Today it's FDA-approved. "Our ultimate goal is to prevent cancer from returning," Dr. Perez says, "and this drug takes us closer to reaching the era when bre...Extra payments to Medicare Advantage plans totaled $5.2 billion over fee-for-service costs in 2005
...30, 2006Private Medicare Advantage (MA) plans were paid an average 12.4% more per enrollee in 2005 compared with what the same enrollees would have cost in the traditional Medicare fee-for-service program, according to a new report from The Commonwealth Fund. In the report, Brian Biles of George Washing...Researchers suggest new direction for development of psychotropic drugs
...ow, notes Carpenter, additional attention is being paid to other important symptoms that may have a greater impact on long-term functionality, including cognitive impairment and depression in people with schizophrenia. Because of limitations in animal models of complex psychiatric disorders like schizop...Infectious disease researchers develop basis for experimental melanoma treatment
...s his promising discovery to luck and a hunch that paid off. "Scientific breakthroughs often occur completely through serendipity, and this is just one of those instances," says Dr. Casadevall. "We're still working on cryptococcosis and developing a general strategy for using radiolabeled monoclonal antib...Law professor finds home health-care workers have few legal protections
... illegal immigrants who work off the books and get paid under the table. The annual turnover rate is about...health care for the elderly on the backs of poorly paid workers," she said. "All too often, when policymakers consider home health care work, they focus on ...Binghamton University researcher to study declining US fertility rates
...s, including women's ability to participate in the paid labor force, parental resources available for children's education, the age structure of the population and even the future of the social welfare state." Declining fertility in that period was a major factor in the aging of the population. The media...1 in 3 drivers under 'the limit' for alcohol still test positive for drugs
... with drug taking. Too little attention has been paid to the adverse effects of drugs on driving, but drugged driving can be as dangerous as drunken driving, say the authors....Nursing home or hospital: State policy has big impact on elderly
...yment policies, which determine how much homes are paid per resident, per day for care through the federal program for the poor and disabled. The second was "bed-hold" policies. Currently, 36 states reimburse nursing homes for holding the beds of patients admitted to the hospital in order to guarantee tha...Do we need a world health insurance to realize the right to health?
...ed a human right, but much less attention has been paid to the ensuing legal obligation to provide international assistance, says a team of authors from Mdecins Sans Frontires, led by Gorik Oooms. There are two major reasons, say the authors, why many countries get out of their obligation to provide su...Race impacts professional lives of physicians of African descent
...ikely to be created unless sufficient attention is paid to the specific ways in which race shapes physicians' work experiences, according to Nunez-Smith and her co-authors. "Increasing racial and ethnic diversity in the physician workforce is a national priority and has been offered as one solution to ad...