A new direction: Integrating best-practices to improve food responses
...e who need it, good targeting helps to prevent the unintended consequences of food aid displaced trade or production incentives, or labor market distortions by not providing food aid for those who dont need it. Maxwell discusses various methods of targeting that identify vulnerable populations and involving ...How to market diet pills: Prescription and over-the-counter pills may increase unhealthy behavior
...fective. But, on the other hand, the drug may have unintended consequences if its seen as too effective (because of the boomerang effect on a healthy lifestyle). So marketing these remedies requires a delicate balancing act. Time will tell if Alli has the right balance, but the present research suggests th...Benefits of school-based fitness programs fade after summer
...hese risks include the misallocation of resources, unintended consequences and a loss of credibility among policymakers. (Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2007;161:611-614. Available pre-embargo to the media at www.jamamedia.org .) Editors Note: Dr. Cawley is an evaluator of the following school-based anti-obesity...Novel catheter technique successfully patches holes in the heart
...rt attack. In the other 5 patients, the VSD was an unintended consequence of a previous heart surgery. In all cases, the VSD allowed a portion of the blood in the left ventricle to shoot backward into the right ventricle with each heart beat, rather than being circulated to the rest of the body. As a result,...'Wrapping' Gleevec fights drug-resistant cancer
...teins as KIT, to make sure the drug would not have unintended consequences. Finally, a range of in vitro tests were conducted. The tests confirmed that WBZ-7 was just as effective against both non-resistant and drug-resistant strains of gastrointestinal cancer cells. WBZ-7 is not yet available for human testi...Physicians should be able to review performance rates before release
...nsideration process is yet another way to minimize unintended consequences that may compromise the care of the patient," said ACP President Lynne M. Kirk, MD, FACP. "These principles reflect the importance of balancing stakeholders' urgent need for useful information with the need for due diligence to ensure t...Statins linked to lower risk of infection
...esearchers at Johns Hopkins may have discovered an unintended benefit in the drugs millions of Americans take to lower their cholesterol: The medications, all statins, seem to lower the risk of a potentially lethal blood infection known as sepsis in patients on kidney dialysis. The study is published in the cu...Major discovery raises prospect of better patient care by improving platelet life span
...y life-threatening bleeding. This is caused by the unintended depletion of platelets, tiny circulating blood cells that are essential for blood clotting and wound healing. Consequently, the well being of some patients depends upon platelet transfusions, particularly during the vulnerable periods that follow ant...American College of Physicians commends MedPAC support for physician-directed care coordination
... volume increases. This approach has the risk of unintended shifting of providers and services from high volum...s would happen without the complexities and likely unintended adverse consequences for beneficiaries of other forms of spending targets, either at a national or r...Hungry for a Super Bowl victory?
...the plate is empty. This is the best strategy for unintended overeating at your Super Bowl party," says Wansink. "Dish it out, eat it slowly, and stop."...Estimated 5 million women admitted to hospital each year following an unsafe abortion
...nes unsafe abortion as a procedure to terminate an unintended pregnancy undertaken either by individuals lacking...d, more immediately achievable, goal is to prevent unintended pregnancies in the first place through improved contraception use. These goals are a continuing and...Ultrasound mammography, volcano monitoring for aircraft safety
...ts dismissed acoustical features at Mayan sites as unintended artifacts. Stimulated by archaeological acoustic studies and reports since 1999, eminent Mayan archaeologists Stephen Houston and Karl Taube have reinterpreted certain Mayan glyphs as vibrant sounds and ballcourt echoes, and have called for a new arc...Most US adults in favor of more balanced approach to sex education in schools
...behaviors and preventing additional infections and unintended pregnancies," the authors write. Amy Bleakley, Ph.D., M.P.H., and colleagues at the Annenberg Public Policy Center, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, analyzed data from 1,096 adults (average age 46.8, 46...Criminalizing HIV transmission is a threat to public health, say experts
...ations that this use of the criminal law is having unintended negative consequences. Awareness is spreading among those infected with HIV that they face the threat of criminal prosecution, while media coverage has vilified those convicted as "AIDS assassins," exacerbating the stigma already associated with infe...Mayo clinic finds aspirin, other NSAIDs, may prevent or delay enlarged prostate
...mptoms. "Our study suggests that one potential unintended consequence of so many people in our society taking NSAIDs could be an improvement in urinary health for men," he says. "So, if a person's primary care doctor recommends NSAIDs for some other reason, prostate health might be an additional benefit. Ho...Better after-school snack choices boost nutrition for low-income kids, UC Davis research confirms
...ut their overall calorie intake by 7 percent. An unintended consequence was a 67-percent reduction in the students' daily intake of calcium and a 79-percent reduction in vitamin A intake, due mostly to the removal of dairy products from the snack menu. The U.S. Department of Agriculture recommends two daily s...Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet for Aug. 15, 2006, issue
... The review found some positive effects and some unintended negative effects of financial incentives. The authors propose a 13-point research agenda for studying explicit financial incentives in health care....Reduced antibiotic prescribing is associated with increased hospital admissions
...issions for respiratory infections in the USA. "An unintended consequence of a strategy to decrease antibiotic resistance appears to be a practice that limits the use of antibiotics in cases where such drugs would be beneficial," said Professor Arch Mainous from the Medical University of South Carolina. "There...... even years, say physician-scientists studying the unintended effects of surgery. "The first insight we take away from this is that when bad things happen down the road, months, maybe even years later, that we cannot, as we have in the past, just attribute it to the natural course of illness," says Dr. Steffen ...... this focus on binge drinking is that it sends the unintended message that drinking at any level below the threshold is safe and that all people are at equal risk once they cross the threshold. Clearly this is not the case. There is a huge difference between having four or 40 drinks, although both are defined...