Television in the bedroom may hurt child's school performance
...parents are looking for ways to improve children's standardized test scores. This study suggests that something as logical and straightforward as taking TV sets out of kids' bedrooms, or not putting them there in the first place, may be a solution," said the co-author of the study, Thomas N. Robinson, MD, MPH, an...Kids with bedroom TV sets have lower standardized test scores, Stanford/Packard study shows
STANFORD, Calif. - Want to improve your child's standardized test scores? You might want to start by booting ou...heir bedrooms perform significantly more poorly on standardized tests than their peers without. Conversely, those with access to a home computer earn higher test sc...Snoring now, hyperactive later?
...e baseline and at follow-up, the parents completed standardized questionnaires that measure a child's behavior and sleep characteristics. Children were encouraged to help their parents complete the questionnaires. The initial study, published in March 2002 in the journal Pediatrics, found that kids who snored re...Risk factors for tuberculosis and homelessness often overlap in US
...e Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) standardized national monitoring of TB disease among homeless persons by asking health departments to indicate whether annually reported TB cases occurred in homeless persons," the authors note. "Thus, 1994 through 2003 represents the first full decade of natio...Goals for TB control reachable for most of world
...olitical commitment; TB detection by sputum smear; standardized drug treatment (including directly observed therapy); a system to ensure regular drug supplies; and a standard reporting system, including treatment outcomes evaluation. Countries were grouped into nine different regions: African countries with a hig...Resettling the 'Lost Boys of Sudan' in the United States
...ere interviewed using questionnaires, adapted from standardized questionnaires using feedback from foster parents, resettlement program staff and the children themselves, to assess trauma, coping and quality of life. Of the 304 youths who returned questionnaires, most had directly witnessed or were victims of w...High school start times deprive teens of sleep, affect academic performance
...olved by changing school start times and by giving standardized tests later in the day, the authors suggested. F...times of 7:15 or 7:30 a.m. In addition, almost all standardized tests in high school begin at 8 a.m. Since this is when adolescents show their poorest performance...Resettling the 'Lost Boys of Sudan' in the United States
...ere interviewed using questionnaires, adapted from standardized questionnaires using feedback from foster parents, resettlement program staff and the children themselves, to assess trauma, coping and quality of life. Of the 304 individuals who returned questionnaires, most had directly witnessed or were victims...Diabetes knowledge has little effect on improving outcomes
...ospital for ACS. At enrollment each patient took a standardized test that measured his or her knowledge related to diabetes. The 14-question assessment asked about dietary and life style choices related to glycemic and lipid control, as well knowledge of the effects of the disease on other organ systems. Patients...Ontario's mental health care evaluated
... half the programs/hospitals report routine use of standardized care delivery approaches based on best practices. Only 27 per cent of facilities use feedback from clients to improve program quality. "This report provides information that will enhance our understanding of mental health care across the province,...Medication errors continue even in highly computerized hospital
...r systems on adverse drug events. Pharmacists used standardized criteria to classify adverse drug events. Among 937 hospital admissions, 483 clinically significant inpatient adverse drug events were identified. An adverse drug event was considered clinically significant when a change in the patient's treatment p...As morphine turns 200, drug that blocks its side effects reveals new secrets
...morphine was widely available in Western Europe in standardized doses from several sources, including the Darmstadt chemical company started by Heinrich Emanuel Merck. By the 1850s the first reliable syringes were developed and injected morphine became a standard method of reducing pain during and after surgery...Targeted cancer drug combined with low-dose chemotherapy shrinks tumors, slows ovarian cancer
...ng on how far the cancer has spread. To date, no standardized screening test is available to detect ovarian cancer. This study was sponsored by the National Cancer Institute under its Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with Genentech for the development of bevacizumab. It was performed as part of t...US Latinos may develop Alzheimer's disease symptoms at earlier age than white, non-Latinos
...zheimer's disease were evaluated using a number of standardized assessment tests for severity of dementia and psychiatric symptoms. In addition, information on each patient, including birthplace, migration history, years of education and the age of the onset of Alzheimer's symptoms was obtained from a knowledgeab...Specific behaviors seen in infants can predict autism, new research shows
... videos and direct observations of behavior, using standardized tools like the Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (CHAT). But these tools were designed for children 18 months and older; there has been no instrument to measure autistic behaviors in young infants. So the Canadian researchers designed their own. Led...Study finds moderate hypothermia a safe treatment for traumatic brain injury in kids
...moderate hypothermia treatment in conjunction with standardized head injury management versus normal body temperature. An additional 27 patients were entered into a parallel trial of those patients who were excluded because there was a delay in transfer of greater than six hours following injury but within 24 ho...Direct-to-consumer advertising may influence physicians' prescribing decisions
...nducted a randomized trial using trained actors as standardized patients to determine the effects of patients' DTC...prescribing rates were highest for visits in which standardized patients made general requests for medication (76 percent), lowest for visits in which standardized ...Columbia research suggests need to rethink causes of heart failure
...compared the cardiac failure patients' hearts to a standardized heart size similar to that of a healthy 25 year old, rather than taking into account that this disease predominantly affects elderly women, who have smaller hearts. "By accurately measuring patient heart size and comparing it to the hearts of healthy...Exercise may not be good enough to reduce mild hypertension in older people, Hopkins experts say
...men ages 55 to 75. Half were randomly placed in a standardized moderate exercise program while the rest maintaine...sual physical routine and diet. For those in the standardized program group, Hopkins arranged for supervised aerobic exercises, such as running on a treadmill and...Money doesn't buy happiness - - except when disability strikes
... rated their overall psychological well-being on a standardized survey, focusing on happiness, enjoyment of life, sadness and loneliness. They looked at how that self-reported well-being changed over time, from pre-disability to post-disability. The analysis showed that those whose financial assets had been abov...