Medical debt undermines housing security for working families, new national study shows
... Project Policy Director Robert Seifert. "The big surprise was that having health insurance did little to pro...over into housing problems." That will come as no surprise to many housing counselors. "We counsel working families struggling to meet their housing needs. M...Johns Hopkins flu expert calls for mandatory vaccination of health care workers
...care workers by as much as 60 percent. And to the surprise of those conducting these surveys, the reason most likely to motivate health care workers to get the shot is that it benefits patients, not themselves. However, in the editorial, Perl concludes that, "'Shifting the message from self-interest to altru...Emergency bypass surgery on angioplasty patients drops 90 percent
...eduction, but the magnitude of the reduction was a surprise to us," Dr. Singh said. "The bypass surgery rates, which were close to 3 percent, came down to 0.3 percent in the most recent time period." Dr. Singh said the fact that angioplasty is being offered to sicker patients now makes the reduction even more...Mayo Clinic researchers: Stroke risk significant in month following heart attack
...k of stroke among patients with heart disease, the surprise was that the risk was so high in the month after a heart attack," says Veronique Roger, M.D., M.P.H., the Mayo Clinic cardiologist who led the study. "A lot of patients survive heart attacks today, which is why this study is so relevant," she says. ...Black baby girls more likely to live when born very premature
...es." Hein says the findings of the UF study do not surprise him. Prior research has shown that black women tend to have more premature babies than women of other races, possibly because their babies mature a little earlier and faster, he said. There isn't conclusive evidence yet to explain why girls and blac...Penn researchers call for new paradigm in clinical trials
...times to assess variability within individuals. "A surprise of the study was that factors in our environment result in varied response of the same individual to the same dose of a drug, even when we try to standardize as many variables as we can think of," says Grosser. Approximately 30 percent of the variab...Patient safety monitoring at Hopkins Hospital finds law of unintended consequences at work
...related infections. This is why it came as quite a surprise to Perl and her team when they were called in to investigate the bloodstream infection cases in the PICU during just such a patient safety exercise to implement best practices for insertion and care of catheters. According to statistics compiled qu...Taking a taxi could increase your exposure to pollution
...nd first author of the paper, said: "It was a real surprise to find the extent to which walking resulted in the lowest exposure. The higher exposure from travelling in taxis may come from actually sitting in the vehicle while being stuck in traffic where you are directly in the path of the pollutant source. A...Bush's health care initiatives will make America's system worse
...ly one in seven Americans. Therefore, it came as a surprise when Mr Bush dedicated only two short paragraphs of his speech to health care and did little more than tout three old initiatives, states the editorial. Bush promised to promote the use of electronic records and information technology, he asked Congr...Women's high heart-surgery death rate may be due to infection
...than men who had an infection. "This finding was a surprise since, overall, women had greater mortality," says Rogers. "But when we looked closer, we found that there were two underlying relationships here: a greater prevalence of infection in women, and a higher mortality once infected for men." This pattern...Confidence in memory performance helps older adults remember
...better recall performance, Lachman notes. "It's no surprise that age-related losses or lapses in memory can challenge our deeply embedded sense of control," says Lachman. "Thus, we find an increase with age in beliefs that memory declines are an inevitable, irreversible, and uncontrollable part of the aging p...Soy foods associated with small reduction in risk of breast cancer
...l Cancer Institute. This conclusion may come as a surprise to many women who have come to depend on soy supplements to limit their risk of either developing breast cancer, or reducing breast cancer recurrence, says Robert Clarke, Ph.D., D.Sc., a professor at Georgetowns Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. ...Soy intake associated with reduced risk of breast cancer
...l Cancer Institute. This conclusion may come as a surprise to many women who have come to depend on soy supplements to limit their risk of either developing breast cancer, or reducing breast cancer recurrence, says Robert Clarke, Ph.D., D.Sc., a professor at Georgetown's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center....Benefit of chemotherapy in breast cancer depends on estrogen-receptor status
...rson Cancer Center. This conclusion will come as a surprise to many oncologists, Berry says. Women with "node-positive" breast cancer routinely are given chemotherapy, regardless of their tumor type. Women who have ER+ tumors are also given tamoxifen, a drug which inhibits estrogen use by the cancer cells. "O...Residents report less fatigue, better care under 80-hour work week mandate
...erences. "Most of these findings do not come as a surprise to us, but one thing that was quite surprising was how much more impact the benefits of reduced work hours had on interns vs. second- and third-year residents," says senior author Julia McMillan, M.D., professor of pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Childre...Fussy babies and postpartum depression linked, study finds
...we did find a link between the two. And this won't surprise anyone who knows a mother coping with a fussy baby." High directs the Infant Behavior, Cry and Sleep Program known locally as the Colic Clinic in Providence. High and other Colic Clinic staff have helped hundreds of families having trouble with the...Study finds no link between marijuana use and lung cancer
...r esophagus, the study found. The findings were a surprise to the researchers. "We expected that we would find that a history of heavy marijuana use--more than 500-1,000 uses--would increase the risk of cancer from several years to decades after exposure to marijuana," said the senior researcher, Donald Tash...Telemedicine solutions to optimise healthcare
... to talk to them and see them over a computer, but surprise turned to satisfaction when they realised they wouldn't have to come to the hospital," says Dr Marco. "Barbastro, [where he works], is the only hospital for a widely distributed population. Many people live up to a hundred kilometres away, the winter...Homeless young people warn researchers about the dangers of cash incentives
... one representative comment. "This finding did not surprise us as most homeless young people in the USA have had their formal schooling interrupted by multiple foster care placements or other physical moves and many have lower reading abilities" says Dr Ensign, associate professor of psychosocial and communit...Study uncovers 'significant' functional differences of novel estrogen receptor
...on-mediated by ER-?66." The researchers expressed surprise that anti-estrogen treatments such as tamoxifen stimulate cell growth and that the anti-estrogens appear to have a stronger and a more prolonged activation of the MAPK/ERK signaling pathway than the estrogens tested. These findings, the study said,...