Patient adherence for successful tuberculosis treatment
...ng a prescription manage to be cured. What are the reasons for this? Long distances from the health centres are among the first difficulties encountered. However, insufficient emphasis on listening to patients, counselling and information provision by health district personnel, associated with shortfalls in ...Children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder at risk for alcohol problems
...ildhood ADHD were." "It appears that one of the reasons for the past inconsistencies in research is that t...s reported their drinking histories. "One of the reasons that children with ADHD might be at risk for alcohol problems is that alcoholism and ADHD tend to ru...Transplanting organs from animals to humans -- what are the barriers?
...e says. In his paper, Dr Mohiuddin discusses the reasons why xenotransplantation offers greater potential than other techniques for replacing diseases organs. For example, mechanical devices that are aimed at replacing the function of an organ (like ventricular devices for treating heart failure) have ...Racial disparities seen in male breast cancer survival
...t cancer have in common may help us understand the reasons for these disparities." Male breast cancer accounts for less than 1% of all breast cancers and less than 1% of all cancers in men, but its incidence has been increasing, rising by about 60% between 1990 and 2000. In 2006, an estimated 1,700 new cas...Survey reveals misperceptions about Alzheimer's among African-American and Hispanic caregivers
...rvey. This gap in understanding sheds light on the reasons for delay in diagnosis and treatment, which is an ...panic (22%) and other race (18%) caregivers. Other reasons for the delay in diagnosis included not wanting to face the possibility of something being wrong, fe...Emergency Medicaid for immigrants goes to childbirth
...e heart failure and heart attack were also leading reasons for hospitalization. "Emergency Medicaid essentially functions as catastrophic coverage for a population with very limited access to primary and preventive healthcare," said DuBard, who is also a family physician at a federally supported community ...A new focus for health care reform -- realigning competition around patient value
... is usually less costly. One of the most important reasons to measure results is that the best way to reduce costs is to improve outcomes." How Value-Based Care Delivery Could Change Medicine The authors write that implementing these reforms will create powerful ripple effects throughout the health car...Men more likely to benefit from clot-busting stroke treatment
...demy of Neurology. "There are potential biological reasons why women may not respond as well as men to tPA, including the possibility that women have higher levels of substances in the blood that can cause blood clots, as has been seen in women with heart disease." Elkind says it is possible that postmenop...Health-care inequities underscore racial disparities in prostate cancer
...ng white men). Researchers continue to explore the reasons for this gap, but recent evidence suggests that socioeconomic, cultural, and behavioral factors play an important role. One promising hypothesis is that a lack of knowledge about prostate cancer and preventive care leads to less screening, delayed di...New study: Pine bark significantly reduces endometriosis
...omen in the United States. It is one of the common reasons women have to undergo hysterectomies and laparoscopic surgery. The average diagnostic age is 25-30, however endometriosis has been reported in girls as young as eleven years of age. There have been significant studies with Pycnogenol revealing trea...Do specialty heart hospitals drive up heart care use? Study suggests the answer is yes
... to be influenced by financial rather than medical reasons when referring patients for hospital care. Concern has also arisen about specialty hospitals' potential to "skim" the most lucrative patients from a region, leaving other hospitals with sicker and uninsured patients. Meanwhile, advocates for specialt......nd environmental factors; researchers can pinpoint reasons for the new prevalence of this disease." "Yet social scientists are held back from making such research breakthroughs. The researchers are developing the research skills, they have the computer power but they lack much of the data. Although a large...Residents in disaster areas face medication adherence dilemmas
...ent reported a medication change post-disaster for reasons that could have included a change in their condition or cases in which they had no medication or prescriptions when they evacuated. This may have resulted in medical personnel in other cities guessing at what the patients had been taking prior to th...Task force recommends greater use of exercise testing in chronic disease
...velopments in this kind of testing and look at the reasons why physicians should be considering it as a diagnostic tool. It does require expensive equipment and trained staff, but our review showed that the benefits for a large number of patients suffering from chronic conditions can be considerable." One ...New study demonstrates nicotine's role in smoking behavior
...esearcher Dr. Le Foll. While there are multiple reasons why people smoke, this study supports earlier findings identifying biological reasons for cigarette addiction. In order to examine the reinforcing effects of nicotine, Dr. Le Foll and co...Computer scientist reveals the math and science behind blockbuster movies
...on of gases, liquids and combustion for scientific reasons quickly translates into the ability to make animations of smoke, water and fire," Fedkiw says. "Similar statements hold for soft biological tissues, muscles, fractures and other solid material problems. Once the scientific numerical simulations are w...Updated guidelines advise focusing on women's lifetime heart risk
...e likely to die than their male counterparts. The reasons given for this difference have been that women are typically older than men when they have heart attacks, they more frequently have other medical conditions in addition to heart disease, and they are less likely to be treated with percutaneous corona...Charting our health by the stars
... Austin. Then we leap to conclusions, constructing reasons for why we saw the results we did. We did this study to prove a larger point the more we look for patterns, the more likely we are to find them, particularly when we dont begin with a particular question. Austin will discuss his results at the Ame...What prevents doctors from counseling their patients to lose weight, exercise and quit smoking?
...ated behaviors. Dagan's research revealed a few reasons why doctors feel more or less confident in their ability to bring about behavioral changes in their patients. "If, as part of his education, a doctor were to get training in how to counsel a patient to live a healthier lifestyle, he would be more apt...Take fatigue seriously, says University of Alberta researcher
...criptions of fatigue are the same. Thus, while the reasons for fatigue may vary, the kinds of adaptations required may not." Olson, who is currently an Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research (AHFMR) Health Scholar, has created new definitions for tiredness, fatigue and exhaustion and argues that ...