Role for medical journals and general news media to raise awareness of child survival
...me Ministers and Presidents from richer nations to spend more time and resources on child and maternal health. The moral and instrumental arguments are all there. But, collectively, we have still failed to make the case at the highest political levels. A new Global Fund is one proposal that merits further ...Predicting the future of primary care in England
... wellbeing centres, allowing doctors and nurses to spend more time with the sickest patients. The concept of "patients as partners in their own healthcare" has also become a reality. GP Dougal Jeffries predicts a return of a system based on social values. Expenditure on weapons has been diverted to the NHS...Anesthesia duration not an indicator of adverse outcomes for patients having plastic surgery
The length of time patients spend under anesthesia during outpatient facial plastic surgery procedures does not appear to be linked to their risk of injury or death, according to a study in the January issue of Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Se...Complications in plastic surgery are unrelated to duration of anesthesia
The length of time patients spend under anesthesia during facial plastic surgery procedures does not appear to be linked to their risk of complications or death, Yale School of Medicine researchers report this month in Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery. Several high profile patient...Even with more free time, women feel no less rushed, study finds
...did in 1975," Sayer said. "The amount of time they spend in household labor declined during that period, but not enough to offset the increase in paid work hours." Men increased the amount of time they spent on childcare and housework between 1975 and 1998, but also decreased the amount of time they spent...Premature babies and SIDS: Doctors should make special effort to talk to parents About Risk
...tational age of 40 weeks. Premature babies usually spend the early weeks of their lives in the hospital, Halloran says. "They are home for the same amount of time when they die of SIDS as full-term infants," she says. "This suggests SIDS has, in part, an environmental trigger." In addition, premature infa...Indoor pollution from cooking on wood stoves affects women in developing countries
...uction in lung growth. Likewise, because the girls spend more time with their mothers and help with the domestic work at a very early age, these girls as women may be more susceptible to pulmonary infection, because they may have a very long time response to biomass, lasting at least 40 to 50 years. Women ...New, expensive, widely-used drugs continue to cause liver problems, says Jefferson liver specialist
...oving very costly to pharmaceutical companies that spend millions of dollars on development, only to find later that a new medicine is potentially toxic to the liver. "Any drug can cause liver problems," says Dr. Navarro, who is also medical director for hepatology and liver transplantation in the Departme...A link is found between morphine addiction and the tendency to explore
...e the animal likes morphine, the more time it will spend in the compartment that it associated with the effects of this drug, and this gives us an indication of the rat's addiction to the drug....Concern over institutional care for children in Europe
...n attachment to a parent figure or carer, and they spend less time on play, social interaction, and individual care than children in a family. Is this evidence of harm being ignored, ask the authors? Children who move from institutional into family care before the age of 6 months will probably recover thei...SNM awards $30,000 for 2006 visiting physician/scientist grants
...aging physician or scientist from North America to spend one to two weeks to lecture, consult and train at ...o-week period, a visiting physician/scientist will spend time lecturing, training and consulting on molecular and nuclear imaging. Eligible applicants includ...Should heart attack care be more like trauma care? Study suggests regional system could be feasible
...t attack, every minute counts. But should patients spend a few more of those minutes getting to a hospital that can provide the most advanced treatment, rather than just the closest hospital? That question is at the heart of a current debate among heart specialists: whether to make heart attack care more l...Could a simple test save Medicare hundreds of millions?
...s the data may be useful in decisions about how to spend resources for this type of care -- and that further research will examine how often doctors should conduct MTWA tests in patients who don't receive an ICD, to help them monitor for changes in sudden cardiac death risk over time that might warrant an ...Cutting-edge procedures cut costs, time associated with cardiac episodes
... significantly reduces the amount of time patients spend waiting for treatment after entering the hospital, and, in combination with optimal treatment, significantly lowers mortality rates."...Clinton Foundation, Yale and Ethiopian Ministry of Health forge partnership
...rs from the United States and other countries will spend one year working side-by-side with directors of 10 to 12 public hospitals and health bureaus in Ethiopia. With their Ethiopian partners, this group will identify systemic changes that can improve access to, and delivery of, health care services to th...Lack of specialist training for nurses is failing adolescent cancer patients
...tudies show that within an adult environment staff spend little time with the adolescent patient. It is unclear whether this is due to inadequate staffing levels or simply an avoidance strategy. However, there is evidence to suggest that staff within adult environments have insufficient understanding on ...Watch not, want not? Packard/Stanford study links kids' TV time and consumerism
... also have a lot of influence of how their parents spend the family's money." Chamberlain collaborated with pediatric researcher Thomas Robinson, MD, for the study. Robinson is well-known for his investigations into the links between television viewing and obesity, violence and test scores. He is...Children's viewing time may increase requests for advertised products
Children who spend more time watching television and movies and playing video games may be more likely to ask their parents for toys, food and drinks they saw in advertisements, according to a study in the April issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, a ...M-rated video games contain unlabeled violence, sexual themes, substances, and profanity
...? the researchers find that the more time children spend viewing violent programs, the less time they spend with their friends. The video game study authors, Thompson, Karen Tepichin, and Kevin Haninger, rese...One percent reduction in cancer mortality would be worth nearly $500 billion
...phy and Topel wrote. "A war on cancer that would spend an additional $100 billion on research and treatment may be worthwhile even if it had a one-in-five chance of reducing mortality by just one percent," they said. During the 20th century, average life expectancy of Americans increased by 30 years, due...