Happier hospitals means healthier patients
...als across the UK, focussing on the often troubled relationships between doctors and NHS managers. It found that wh... the Leeds University Business School, blames poor relationships between the two sides for the fact that increased productivity in hospitals has not kept pace with t...Early-morning Friday classes may prevent students from getting sloppy on 'thirsty Thursdays'
... requests for information. "We found significant relationships between the presence and timing of Friday classes and Thursday drinking," said Wood. "About half of the students with late or no Friday classes consumed at least one drink on Thursday, but only a third of students did so if they had Friday classes w...Research probes seniors' plans for end-of-life care
...onses came from people outside traditional married relationships who had no kids. "This suggests that when people have innovative family lives, they have to innovate about end-of-life issues, as well, because they can't just knee-jerk go to a spouse or a child," says Carr. With nontraditional families on the ri...Dating violence and sexual assault associated with suicide attempts among urban teens
...ionals highly trusted and often with long-standing relationships with youth, pediatricians are in a prime position to act as leaders in implementing interventions for families and communities, they conclude. This community engagement will require pediatricians to become a necessary and ongoing linkage to partners ...Psychological bullying hits just as hard
...her individual, through the manipulation of social relationships (or relational aggression), is just as significant... how other forms of aggression that target victims relationships and peer standing can lead to school-related problems. Contrary to other work in this field, it also...Small infants have greater survival rate in high level intensive care facilities
...hile lower-level NICUs are required to have formal relationships with high-level NICUs, the mere fact that they have such a relationship is no guarantee that the lower-level NICUs are going to get the same level of results as can be obtained at the large high volume NICUs," Dr. Phibbs said. Dr. Phibbs and his co...Tiny newborns face higher risk of death at community hospitals, Stanford/VA study finds
... higher-level centers, the study suggests that the relationships offer little benefit to tiny babies unless the laboring mother is transferred before the delivery to a facility with sophisticated obstetrical and neonatal support. "It's not good to move these kids around," said Phibbs. "The best way to transport a ...U of M teen sex and depression study finds most teens' mental health unaffected by nonmarital sex
...ls who have sex earlier than their peers and whose relationships are uncommitted and ultimately fall apart. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, Ann Meier, University of Minnesota assistant professor of sociology, studied 8,563 seventh- through 12th-graders over an 18-month perio...Pioneering UK skin researchers achieve international quality standard
... has an impressive client list, with long-standing relationships with blue-chip companies such as Unilever, Stiefel, Proctor & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, Smith & Nephew and 3M Woundcare - and is now seeking to increase its collaborative activity with commercial partners. "ISO 17025 accreditation is testament to ...Some vitamin supplements don't protect against lung cancer
...ng cancer, they found no statistically significant relationships between different types of supplements and lung cancer. In 1996, a large study known as the CARET study which was looking into the effects of the dietary supplements beta-carotene and retinol (vitamin A), was halted after the supplements were found...Erectile dysfunction -- the canary in the mineshaft?
...nd greater than 40 inches). Significant positive relationships between waist circumference and prostate volume, PSA, IPSS, erectile dysfunction and ejaculatory dysfunction were observed. Flow rates were inversely related. Higher waist circumference was also associated with an increase in diabetes mellitus, hyper...Elsevier announces launch of Brain Stimulation
...with remarkable potential to reveal brain-behavior relationships and to produce interventions with novel and powerful therapeutic properties," said Dr. Harold A. Sackeim of Columbia University, Founding Editor of Brain Stimulation. "This discipline necessarily involves combining knowledge of basic neurophysiology...Childhood obesity intervention shows promising results
...mos. "SUS researchers spent several years building relationships within the Somerville community before the intervention could be implemented." The researchers were only able to measure and follow BMI z-scores for approximately 60 percent (385/631) of students assigned to the intervention community mainly because ...Major employers, physicians, stakeholders unite to revolutionize America's healthcare system
...ge patients and their families in positive ongoing relationships with their personal physicians. Further, the patient-centered medical home will improve the quality of health care delivered and help control the unsustainable rising costs of healthcare for both individuals and plan-sponsors. Through May 8, member...'Marked departure' in Medicare practice of paying physicians in Geriatric Care Improvement Act
...The patient-centered medical home incorporates the relationships and systems required to support more effective care coordination for patients with multiple chronic diseases. As defined by the joint principles: Care is coordinated and/or integrated across all elements of the complex health care system (e.g., s...Health officials renew Indo-US Vaccine Action Program
...alented young scientists have been trained through relationships fostered by this program," he notes. VAPs research priorities include acute respiratory illnesses, hepatitis, rotavirus diarrhea, cholera, leishmaniasis, typhoid, rabies, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and emerging and re-emerging infectious disea...Monthly interpersonal psychotherapy prevents relapse of depression in many women
...aintenance IPT, a form of therapy which focuses on relationships and interpersonal events that tend to trigger depression, was effective in preventing recurrence of depression in women who achieved remission through IPT alone. In fact, women who received prophylactic IPT once a month were no more likely to have a ...Culture sculpts neural response to visual stimuli, new research indicates
...re more likely to pay attention to the context and relationships in a picture than are Westerners, who more often notice physical features or groupings of similar subjects. More recent research, which analyzed the eye movements of East Asians and Westerners viewing identical images, found that Westerners were mo...Strong marriage helps couples deal with tempermental baby
...ition, the researchers have found that coparenting relationships affect later marital quality, Schoppe-Sullivan said. "The quality of a coparenting relationship is important for both the children and for the couple's marital relationship," she said....Child and adolescent psychiatrists could improve their screening for dating violence
...t spontaneous disclosure of details about romantic relationships are infrequent, so clinicians need to take the lead in initiating this discussion. Screening for teen dating violence is everyone's job, says Brown; Teens may not volunteer about an abusive relationship for a variety of reasons, one of them being tha...