Happier hospitals means healthier patients
...to take a genuine interest in each others work and pool their resources. The business of the NHS should be health, not just managing the money, said Becky. The questions they should ask are: Are we doing the best for our patients" and how could we do it better" In the best places, the chief executive...Columbia dentists to improve oral health in sub-Saharan Africa
..., building or upgrading clinics, and expanding the pool of community or village health workers. The participating villages are integral partners in the project and take responsibility for the interventions. In addition to the oral health initiative, the new funding will support Columbia-led intervention...Human stem cell treatment restores motor function in paralyzed rats
...fting new spinal stem cells, which repopulates the pool of degenerated neurons. For this study, nine of 16 rats with induced spinal cord ischemia were injected with human spinal stem cells 21 days after paralysis. The other seven were injected with medium that contained no stem cells. The recovery of ...Brain activity reflects differences in types of anxiety
...tinct, the researchers selected 42 subjects from a pool of 1,099 undergraduate college students, using psy... Other psychological assessments standardized the pool of participants by removing those with mood disorders or other complicating factors. The researche...Limiting eligibility for medical studies can omit women and African-Americans
... negative consequences. In reviewing data from a pool of 100,000 alcohol treatment patients, Keith Humphreys, PhD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, determined that women and African-Americans were substantially more likely to be excluded from treatment studies than men or non-African-Ame...The hepatitis C link: Diagnose, treat, transplant
...first line therapy to increase the available donor pool of organs in those undergoing OLT for HCV-related cirrhosis, which is the most common cause of cirrhosis leading to orthotopic liver transplantation. We hope to further extend this research to understand how we can maximize the use of extended crite...The quest for an effective HIV vaccine presents new possibilities, challenges
...ng-term HIV infection may close permanently once a pool of latently infected cells is in place, Drs. Johnston and Fauci note. Neutralizing antibodies, which can attach to and eliminate free virus, only appear after HIV levels have declined substantially. Further, the effectiveness of these antibodies is s...Fingerprint instead of blood sample
... who made the fingerprints, which could shrink the pool of suspects. In this way, it should be possible to use fingerprints to detect drugs, medications, or food that have been consumed, and also to diagnose some diseases. Researchers want to coax all of these secrets out of the tiny traces of perspirati...Study finds decline in nursing faculty primary barrier to nursing program expansion
...ble in demographic characteristics to the national pool of registered nurses as measured in the last National Nurses Sample Survey. "The nursing shortage will not be remedied without having sufficient nursing faculty in place for both the immediate and long-range future," said James William Bevill, Jr, ...Older, lower income patients least likely to see a specialist for lupus
...use the current studys patients were chosen from a pool of participants reenrolling from a previous UCSF SLE study who presumably had greater access to care than SLE patients in the general population. Regarding why men were less likely to see a rheumatologist, the authors suggest that the relatively lo...Inaugural award honors collaborative team science
... interdisciplinary scientific teams. Chosen from a pool of nearly 30 applicants, the team will collectively receive a prize of $50,000 and their institutions will be cited for their support of team science and collaboration. Winning team members are: FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: Scott A. To...Kennedy Krieger Institute launches first national online autism registry
... end of the year, IANs goal is to have the largest pool of family-provided data on autism, enabling researchers to explore hypotheses and search for parallels among affected children in ways that have not been previously possible. Research Recruitment - IAN will match parents of children with autism wi...AACR awards minority and other underrepresented scientists
...e the inclusiveness of cancer research, so that no pool of potential talent goes untapped." 26 early-career scientists will receive AACR Minority Scholar in Cancer Research Awards to participate in the 2007 AACR Annual Meeting. These awardees were selected on the basis of their scientific qualification...Congressional proposals would cover all uninsured, reduce US health spending by up to $61B
...would save an average of $1,263. Proposals that pool health risk by covering people in large groups are the most efficient, saving anywhere between $57 and $74 billion in insurance administrative costs. The Stark AmeriCare proposal and the Wyden Healthy Americans Act would do this and, additionally, th...UCSF policy expert presents recommendation for health coverage
...." He says he sees a hybrid plan with a universal pool as a solution to this kind of problem. In additi...al scenarios for funding the pool. "Funding of the pool by a broad-based tax, as for Medicare, is preferable but may be politically unacceptable," he writes...US businesses not prepared for aging workforce
...be difficult to offset, given the relatively small pool of new workers and the competition for new talent likely to result from so many companies facing the same problem," said Mick Smyer, co-director of the Center. The study results are based on responses from 578 organizations from across the United S...Usefulness of cardiovascular disease test questioned
...n treating high-risk patients before expanding the pool to include so many low-risk patients. Their study was published in the February issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine. "There is a push to use this test, and that probably doesnt make much sense," says Steven Woloshin, one of the author...Sick teens in crisis: Organ transplant patients may die when insurance for medicine runs out
...es not continue to prematurely lose this promising pool of young adults. For families trying to make some difficult decisions, Schnitzler advises them to retain their insurance, as the cost of insurance is more affordable in the long term than the expense of transplant failure and hospital stays. Pedi...Teens may lose transplanted organs when insurance runs out
...es not continue to prematurely lose this promising pool of young adults." For families trying to make some difficult decisions, Dr. Schnitzler advises them to retain their insurance, as the cost of insurance is more affordable in the long term than the expense of transplant failure and hospital stays. "......ive, the selection process can sample a very large pool of DNA (up to 1,000 trillion molecules), amplify the desired sequence by the polymerase chain reaction, and introduce mutations to improve performance. Lu, with collaborators at Illinois, the Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, Oregon State...