Growing diabetes epidemic: Patient/physician disconnect on disease management
...ition. At the same time, 81 percent of physicians surveyed say they are frustrated with the number of their t...rstanding of the disease itself. Half of patients surveyed say they have little or no understanding of their A1C level or in the past six months have not had i...Embargoed materials for Complementary & Integrative Medicine Conference
... authors wrote. The majority (92%) of pharmacists surveyed felt that more education on natural health products was needed on this subject. According to the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, a part of the National Institutes of Health, just because an herbal supplement is labeled "n...New survey reveals top summer health concerns
...gers of pertussis outbreaks, 92 percent of parents surveyed agree that young teens should receive a pertussis booster vaccination. The good news is that in 2005 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved booster vaccines for diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis for use in adolescents. "I am pleased th...Patients need help finding medical information, U-M study finds
...er Center's Patient Education Resource Center were surveyed about the information they received in response to a search request. For 65 percent of visitors, the professional search returned information they had not obtained from other sources, and an additional 30 percent said the librarian provided some new ...Fraternity/sorority members who get drunk weekly at higher risk of injuries
... 10 North Carolina universities. The students were surveyed in the fall terms of 2003-2005. "This single question could potentially be used as a screening tool to identify students who are most likely to get hurt as a result of drinking," said lead researcher Mary Claire O'Brien, M.D., assistant professor of ...Emergency departments carry heavy loads
...g the 2004 Influenza Vaccine shortage. Researchers surveyed 802 patients older than 23 months who met CDC guidelines for vaccination. In 2004, the year of the vaccine shortage, only 45% were vaccinated and 10% reported attempts to receive vaccination that were unsuccessful or denied, compared to 57.7% who r...Safe sex messages in schools don't change behaviour
...h the existing sex education course. Students were surveyed at the start of the study and again at four months and 16 months. Neither strategy had any affect on reported condom use or sexual behaviour. However, students who received emergency contraception education also reported increased use of emergency co...One in 50 teenagers still wet the bed
... 512 children - just over three per cent of those surveyed - reported night-time bedwetting and one in five of those also had daytime incontinence. 302 were boys and 210 were girls. The researchers found that although bed wetting was less common as children got older, the percentage reporting severe problems......ence of visual impairment in the U.S. has not been surveyed nationally in several decades. Susan Vitale, Ph.D., M.H.S., and colleagues with the National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md., conducted a study to estimate the number of U.S. individuals aged 12 years or older with impaire...World Hypertension League calls for urgent action to get more hypertensive patients to goal
...ther than fully to the recommended goal4. Further, surveyed physicians overestimated the proportion of their patients reaching blood pressure goal. Over half believed 70% of their hypertension patients are at their blood pressure goal,4 when epidemiological data show that worldwide only 30-50% of hypertension...Mothers use evasive action to protect sick children from smoking fathers
...ursing. Researchers at The University of Hong Kong surveyed the mothers of 1,483 children admitted to four major hospitals to see if a health educational initiative would help them to protect their children from passive smoking. None of the mothers smoked, but all of the children's fathers did. The study, by...Pandemic challenges for Asia-Pacific region
...pean plans - the remaining Asia-Pacific countries surveyed are likely to be less prepared for an imminent pandemic and might consider developing operational plans that recognise current capacity limitations'. The LSHTM researchers examined the preparedness plans of five countries in the Asia Pacific region...New research reveals Australians too busy for lunch
... most likely to skip lunch; with almost half those surveyed (46%) doing so at least once in the past week. Too...they were simply too busy. Only a handful of those surveyed blamed their lack of lunch on takeaways being too expensive, fattening or unavailable in their area....Incarcerated women more likely to use birth control when given in jail
...rtment of Health and the RI DOC. Participants were surveyed about their desire to use birth control, as well as history of sexual activity and sexually transmitted diseases, number of pregnancies, previous birth control use, sexual abuse and drug use along with demographic factors. The majority of women had...Physician approaches to patient spirituality vary according to doctors' religious characteristics
...time soon about what is suitable." The researchers surveyed 2,000 practicing U.S. physicians from all specialt...ive and comforting. Thirty-eight percent of those surveyed thought doctors spent too little time addressing spiritual needs. Others see it as a violation of bo...Survey suggests parents' perceptions about children's access to household guns are often inaccurate
...., Sc.D., Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, surveyed 314 pairs of parents and children aged 5 to 14 years in a family practice clinic in Alabama. Parents in the waiting room completed a 20-question survey about firearms, while children went to a separate room and answered questions read aloud by resea...Maternal difficulties may increase risk of behavior problems in children
...domestic violence. Three years later, researchers surveyed the mothers about their children's behavior, asking about instances of aggressive, anxious/depressed or inattention/hyperactive conduct. After one year, half of the mothers had a condition in at least one of the three categories and 22 percent of chi...Multiracial youth more likely to engage in violent behavior, substance abuse
...oved to Arizona State University. The researchers surveyed more than 2,000 Seattle middle-school students, co... American Indian adolescents in the middle schools surveyed did not permit meaningful comparisons. The students averaged 12.7 years of age when surveyed and gi...Study finds parents rarely use baby gates, bath thermometers
...ren's and lead author of the study. But, parents surveyed by researchers at Cincinnati Children's say that o...t four to six months old. The majority of parents surveyed in the Pediatric Primary Care Center at Cincinnati Children's reported being educated about safety d...Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator generator replacement associated with complications
...ed 17 ICD implanting centers in Canada, which were surveyed to assess complication rates as a result of generator replacements because of ICD advisories from October 2004 to October 2005. During the period of the survey, 2,915 patients had recall devices, including 533 (18.3 percent) patients who underwent el...