New study counts the economic cost of persistent pain in Australia
...ta to identify priority actions to ease suffering, save healthcare dollars and to help patients get on wit...ef, he said. Federal and State Governments could save enormous amounts of tax-payers money by providing the resources to deliver proper treatment. At leas...Michigan-CDC study supports value of social restrictions during influenza pandemics
...solating people after exposure to ill people would save lives during an influenza pandemic. Until now. ...that social restrictions allowed 43 U.S. cities to save thousands of lives during the Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918-1919. Although these urban commu...Rutgers professor Bart Krekelberg is named 1 of 20 US Pew Scholars for 2007
...wledge that may lead to new medical treatments and save lives. Krekelberg is the only researcher in New Jersey named a 2007 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences.Working at the neural systems and network levels, Krekelberg and his research team plan to pinpoint those areas of the brain involved in visual...Many heart attack patients still not getting emergency clot-busting treatment
...efit from this urgent treatment which is known to save lives and prevent lasting damage to the heart musc...t-busting medications to emergency angioplasty may save 12 to 20 lives for every 1,000 heart attack patients treated, if the angioplasty is performed in a t...RAND presents first Victor Fuchs Research Award to economists at Carnegie Mellon University
...events long-term complications, and ultimately can save a substantial amount of money. The paper examined the effects of increased drug co-payments on drug spending and on spending for other medical care. Results showed that increases in drug co-payments caused people to reduce their use of prescripti...Scaling up HIV prevention programs is cost effective
... go down as scale goes up is good news. This could save millions of lives, as well as keeping in check the number of new patients requiring expensive anti-retroviral therapies. Larger prevention programs use money more efficiently than smaller ones, analysis of the Prevent AIDS: Network for Cost-Effecti...Hib vaccine: A critical ally in Asia's effort to reduce child deaths
... causes deadly Hib pneumonia and meningitis, could save hundreds of thousands of children in Asia. Result... related to Hib pneumonia and meningitis and could save the lives of a significant number of Asian children who die under the age of five. Bangladesh vie...Emergency department guidelines enhance quality patient care
...says Wright. We want to prove the CPQE tools can save lives and money and improve the quality of patient care, and then we expect to be able to bring use of our site or a similar system to the national level. ...Experts predict Tamiflu could halve the pandemic influenza death toll versus no intervention
...saving of $70,000 per 1,000 population which would save $21 billion in the US alone versus no intervention. Adding other strategies such as school closures further reduces the attack and death rate and provides a health benefit at a reasonable cost. The research also showed that pre-pandemic vaccination p...Split the difference: Pill-splitting study looks at cost-saving step that could be used by millions
... the same dose of medicine. So, pill-splitting can save money for the insurance plan or pharmacy-benefit m...e do it without their doctors knowledge, to try to save money. But others do it with help from physicians who write prescriptions for a higher dose and inst...Extra pay does not improve hospital performance
...o use drugs and therapies that have been proven to save lives in large-scale clinical trials, the researchers said. The theory is that the possibility of receiving higher reimbursements will motivate hospitals to improve the quality of their care. A study recently conducted by Premier, Inc., a group tha...Once-fatal metabolic disorders treatable, says Stanford/Packard researcher
...ectiveness. Prompt treatment does more than just save lives, however. It also protects patients' brains ...ho can't do anything"' Now we've shown that we can save these kids." He added, "Although there are still significant hurdles to overcome - in particular, ...Limiting stroke damage is focus of study
...stopping it. "We are trying to block this event to save the penumbra. Part of the recovery is if you can r...s, so this is basically a window of opportunity to save this region, but we don't yet have good drugs to do this. We need to target this area for drug treat...Researchers find deadly prescription drug effects 6 years before FDA
...p five. This is the way to start that process and save thousands of lives. Bennett envisions a formal partnership with the FDA in which he would share RADARs investigations on safety issues, arrive at a joint insight on drug problems and have the FDA distribute the information to doctors. The old way...Syphilis screening, lithium fights neurodegeneration, monoclonal antibodies against avian flu
...his weeks press release: - Rapid test would save babies from syphilis Lithium shows promise in ...aight to the online articles Rapid test would save babies from syphilis Screening pregnant women with newer, rapid syphilis tests would improve the ...Commonly used drug offers promise for premature babies
...re the baby is born is a tremendous opportunity to save the baby from potentially lifelong complications," said Maiken Nedergaard, M.D., Ph.D., a neuroscientist at the University of Rochester Medical Center who is presenting the results at a neuroscience meeting, Brain '07, in Osaka, Japan May 20-23. Th...Blood transfusions from precancerous blood donors do not increase risk of cancer
...ntial for standard allogeneic blood transfusion to save lives is incontrovertible, our understanding of the full consequences of transfusion is rudimentary." He adds: "With their thoughtful analysis of a large and relatively complete dataset, Edgren and colleagues have taken an important stride forward ...Female auto crash rates increase alarmingly; airbags can be dangerous for tall and small people
...rsation the staff may have with them in the ED may save their lives." In another study to be presented at the same meeting, Craig Newgard, MD, Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine and Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, analyzed crash data for over 65,000 front-...Screening men over 65 for abdominal aortic aneurysms could save lives
...ould detect these aneurysms before they burst, and save lives as a result, Cochrane Researchers performed a systematic review of screening trials. They identified four controlled trials that were conducted in the UK, Denmark and Australia, and involved a total of 127,891 men and 9,342 women. The results......nt of critically important public health tools can save millions of lives," says Dr. Zerhouni. "The U.S. government remains steadfast in its commitment to this program and its scientific vision." Dr. Bhan, a former VAP grantee who currently oversees the government department that implements the program...