Women's mortality rates for cardiovascular disease differ widely among hospitals
... the nation's best- performing hospitals have a 39 percent lower risk-adjusted mortality rate when compared w... hospitals, the best-performing hospitals had a 46 percent lower risk-adjusted mortality for heart failure and a 44 percent lower risk-adjusted mortality for i...Students with symptoms of mental illness often don't seek help
...ssive or anxiety disorders, anywhere from 37 to 84 percent of students didn't seek treatment, depending on the disorder. However, 72 percent of students with positive screens for major depression did acknowledge they needed help for their me...Parents of chronically ill kids are helped by better access to federal and employer leave
...embers without the risk of being fired. Only 30 percent of parents reported having employer-provided leave...e used to care for ill family members, and just 15 percent reported having access to paid leave. Most parents reported missing some work in the past year to...HSPH's Lin wins prestigious MERIT Award from NIH
...e National Institutes of Health (NIH). Less than 5 percent of NIH-funded investigators are selected to receive MERIT Awards. The award will help support Lin's development of advanced statistical methods for analyzing correlated and high-dimensional data in cancer research -- especially for analyzing longitud...Columbia dentists to improve oral health in sub-Saharan Africa
...aque (calculus) and gingival bleeding. Ninety-five percent of the people they examined had significant dental erosion because of the presence of sand in their food as a result of the arid environment and lack of water for rinsing crops. We were surprised by the extent of the oral health crisis in Ethiopia,...Reduced greenhouse gas emissions required to avoid dangerous increases in heat stress
...d by a Purdue University researcher projects a 200 percent to 500 percent increase in the number of dangerously hot days in the Mediterranean by the end of the 21st century i...New nutritional research: College students face obesity, high blood pressure, metabolic syndrome
...e-third of UNH students are overweight or obese, 8 percent of men had metabolic syndrome, 60 percent of men had high blood pressure, and more than two-thirds of women are not meeting their nutritional ...Sleep-related breathing disorder common among aggressive, bullying schoolchildren
...'Brien. An SRBD may be a problem in more than 10 percent of children. It occurs when the airway is partial...s obstructive sleep apnea. It occurs in about one percent to two percent of children. Parents who suspect that their child might be suffering from an SRBD,...Poor sleep hygiene in children associated with behavioral problems
...t has been found in all age groups. Between 10-12 percent of children are found to snore. Almost everyone is likely to snore at one time or another. Snoring can, however, be indicative of a more serious condition, namely, obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), which refers to a sleep-related breathing disorder ...Extended duration work shifts risky to the safety, well-being of medical interns, patients
...ulted in an adverse patient event and reported 300 percent more fatigue-related preventable adverse events resulting in the death of the patient. Moreover, interns who reported a medical error that resulted in an adverse patient outcome were more than three times as likely to report high stress in that mont...Students with medical-related majors more likely to have poor quality sleep
... psychology, education). STEM majors comprised 55 percent of the participants and 45 percent were humanities majors. All subjects were administered the self-report Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Ind...Children's brain responses predict impact of sleep loss on attention
...ccording to the results, the ERPs accounted for 44 percent of the total variance in predicting NEPSY Visual Attention scores after the children's sleep was reduced for one week. "These data are interpreted to suggest that neutral based risk factors can signal the cognitive resilience of individuals in hand...Catastrophic events can affect a person's sleep
...orm, males in Group A and Group C accounted for 47 percent and 44 percent, respectively. After the storm, males in Group B and Group D accounted for 62 percent and 55 percent, respectively. Complaints related to the ability to initiate and maintain sleep show...Night shift nurses more likely to have poor sleep habits
...or not sleep deprived. The results showed that 56 percent of the sample was sleep deprived. "Reduction in the amount of sleep predisposes individuals to sleep deprivation, resulting in poor psychomotor performance," said Johnson. "Nurses who work the night shift may be particularly subject to sleep depri...Physician-researchers often less successful in obtaining NIH funding
...ent, while that for applicants with a Ph.D. was 31 percent and for applicants with an M.D. and a Ph.D. was 34...ual percentage of 78 percent). An average of 67 percent of individuals with an M.D. who apply annually for a first R01 grant application pursue clinical res...Avian influenza on people's minds
...and Drug Administration suggest that fewer than 60 percent of Americans own a meat thermometer and only 12 percent always use it when they cook chicken or chicken parts. Instead, suggests Condry, Consumers are lik...Split the difference: Pill-splitting study looks at cost-saving step that could be used by millions
... randomized to receive a financial incentive of 50 percent reduction in their co-payment per refill and half ...rol levels. The follow-up survey showed that 89 percent of all participants would be willing to continue splitting pills if they would receive a co-pay redu...Simple test predicts 6-year risk of dementia
...k for developing dementia within six years with 87 percent accuracy, according to a study led by researchers ... test, also developed during the study, that is 88 percent accurate. These are the first tools to accurately predict dementia, according to lead author Debor...Alzheimer's disease to quadruple worldwide by 2050
...to more than 106 million by 2050. By that time, 43 percent of those with Alzheimers disease will need high-le...valence of Alzheimers will occur in Asia, where 48 percent of the worlds Alzheimers cases currently reside. The number of Alzheimers cases is expected to grow ...CAM-oriented primary care providers result in cost savings, high patient satisfaction
...ng chiropractors and otherCAM-oriented PCPs had 60 percent fewer hospitalizations, 62 percent fewer outpatient surgical cases, and85 percent lower pharmaceutical costs when compared with total n...