Influenza pandemic will pose tough choices for use of mechanical ventilation
... of resources," comments Dr. Hick. "We need to be talking now about how we are going to allocate scarce reso...t of a decision-making process. "We need to start talking about this now and develop a fair process so that, in a crisis, a mechanism is in place to apply the...HIV risks reduced when mothers teach daughters about disease
...iastic about the program. They felt more confident talking to their daughters about the dangers of HIV because they had all of the information." Two hundred and sixty-two girls aged 11 to 14 participated in the study. Dancy determined the effectiveness of the Mother/Daughter HIV Risk Reduction program by c...A little household help may reduce health-care costs among elderly
...d some form of care within the next decade. "We're talking about helping people stay relatively independent as long as possible," she said. "That's what many elderly people and their younger family members desire." Sands also said that $132 billion is spent yearly in the U.S. on long-term medical care, about...New sensor to provide early warning of oxygen loss to unborn children
...s own fine tuned probe to examine the chemical. On talking with colleagues in the University of Warwick's Med...Ltd - to take the work further. Sarissa is already talking with a number of medical instrument manufacturers and aims to establish a partnership between Sariss...Pregnancy, not high-risk behavior, predictor of STD testing among newly homeless youth
...to improve STD testing in this population -- we're talking about very young kids -- we have to develop outreach programs to educate them and advise them where they can get tested," Solorio said. "They're so young they may not think they have acquired an STD. Some STDs are asymptomatic; they may not know they...Experts question prevalent stereotypes about autism
...ociety fall prey to a slippery slope when we begin talking about members of our society as not appreciating that they or others have a mind," says Gernsbacher. "An uncritical acceptance of the hypothesis that autistic individuals lack a theory of mind can seriously compromise how autistic individuals are tre...Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders among children living in Russian 'Baby Homes'
...his is hardly unexpected, she added. "When you're talking about Baby Homes and orphanages, you're not talking about middle-class people who've got their lives together, you're talking about the foster-care syst...Defining the beginning and end of life
... discourse that never addresses what we are really talking about," Khushf claims....Marijuana compound may help stop diabetic retinopathy
...ty increases the retina's need for oxygen. "We are talking about nerve cell death," Dr. Liou says. "In the retina, if a lot of our nerve cells die, our vision is directly affected." And that's not all that goes wrong in the nerve-packed retina. Glial cells, which support nerve cells by supplying nutrients an...Mental stress effects on heart more common than previously known
...ts. "Nobody has followed the patients that we are talking about in this article. Nobody has followed that population. So we don't know whether it is predictive in this population or not. It's an important question," he said. The results tend to support proposals that mental stress works through a different ...New breast cancer dictionary for doctors
... use common words and phrases used by patients. By talking in a language patients understand doctors can make the breast cancer experience slightly easier." It is hoped that the complete French dictionary will be available next year. The French team then hope to work with the UMLS (Unified Medical Language S...Doctors must work together better to improve survival in teenage and young adult cancer patients
...dults (TYAs). We all need to be involved in this, talking to each other and coordinating our efforts. Otherwise there will be little or no improvement in survival for this age group." Professor Eden, who is based at the University of Manchester, the Christie Hospital and Central Manchester and Manchester C...Chronic pain hurts both workers and employers, says FSU professor
...When projected over the course of the year, we are talking about more than $5,000 per employee." According to Hochwarter, this result does not take into consideration indirect costs, which can double or triple the amount. "An inability to be productive also affects customer retention and increases bottleneck...NFL team physicians to host conference on football injury prevention and conditioning
... begun but sports medicine specialists are already talking about gridiron injuries and football players' health. What's the NFL's current policy on anabolic agents and supplements? Do certain helmet designs reduce concussion rates? What can team physicians do to prevent heatstroke and sudden cardiac death ...Suicide awareness, prevention programs needed in schools
When it comes to talking about suicide, Americans avoid the topic much the ... says the time is long overdue for people to start talking about the problem and to launch suicide awareness and prevention programs in the nation's schools. ...What is the sound of one person talking? New speech collection tells all, syllable by syllable
... 60-minute casual interviews with these residents, talking about how Columbus has changed over the years, how families should get along, as well as issues in sports, traffic and politics. The participants were told that the purpose of the study was to learn how people express "everyday" opinions in conversa...Five surprising facts about starvation that could change the international agenda
...d. The world cannot afford to waste another decade talking about global targets, waiting for the macro-effects of economic and political development to reach children ignored by the development process." Patrick Webb served as chief of nutrition for the United Nations World Food Programme until August 2005. ...Cure for reading glasses may be in view
.... The team, which will begin testing this year, is talking with several companies about commercial opportunities....Vaccinate or not? Treat or not? Study looks at tricky health decisions
... for themselves. If physicians think this way when talking with patients, they may end up helping patients by talking them into decisions -- good decisions -- that they otherwise would not make." The researchers were s...Study finds sizeable underutilization of hip and knee replacement procedures
...tely after a surgery, but not beyond. "When you're talking about an older population, you're not looking for a return to work, necessarily, but people who can now or continue to take care of themselves and do their own shopping or housework may not need assisted living or nursing home services," said Georg...