First baseline data by REACH supports and extends ESC's Euroaspire findings
...ssor Graham. "Above all, the findings indicate the urgent need to promote a cultural change that favours physical activity, the avoidance of being overweight and the consequent avoidance of diabetes, together with a culture that avoids tobacco. Such an approach would inevitably have beneficial consequences...Study reveals Maori and Pacific islanders have increasing incidence of stroke
... and ongoing ethnic disparities in stroke call for urgent development and the implementation of prevention strategies for different ethnic groups in New Zealand." Carter said. "Significant change in the patterns of stroke management were identified over the 20 year period, however substantial action to impr...International breast health guidelines
... all female deaths worldwide. "Breast cancer is an urgent public-health problem in high-resource regions and is becoming an increasingly urgent problem in low-resource regions, where incidence rates have been increasing by up to 5 percent," the...Internet game provides breakthrough in predicting the spread of epidemics, report scientists
... make predicting the spread of these diseases more urgent than ever. Historical pandemics, like the 14th-century plague, moved slowly in waves across geographical areas, because in the Middle Ages people could typically only travel a few kilometers a day. The speed with which epidemics could spread was thu...New survey indicates preemie parents uninformed about RSV prevention
...high of one in eight births each year, there's an urgent need to close this information gap -- especially now that RSV season is well underway. RSV infection occurs most often from late fall to early spring. Most illness occurs between November and April, although there may be seasonal variation in differ...Scientists develop potential pandemic influenza vaccine in mice
...hly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 viruses are an urgent and global public-health priority. However, there are a number of problems with current vaccine manufacturing strategies. To produce a H5N1 vaccine using standard methods would involve first growing a virus strain in millions of fertilised chicken eg...Sexual health clinics will need to more than triple capacity to meet 48 hour access target
...nt to respond rapidly. But they warn: "The current urgent need to attempt to address the capacity/demand mismatch cannot wait for training and development of additional or alternative providers if we are to control the burgeoning epidemic of STIs within our population."...Radiologists have a duty to communicate their reports effectively to clinicians
...re are radiologists apparently content to discover urgent medical problems, and then file these discoveries away without mentioning them to anyone, least of all their patients. Unsurprisingly, the result is often an unnecessarily bad outcome for the patient, and a costly law suit for the radiologist."...Course of bipolar disorder in youths described for the first time
...cognitive and social development, establishing the urgent need to diagnose and treat these patients early on." The study assessed the symptoms of 263 children and adolescents between the ages of 7 and 17 years who were diagnosed with bipolar spectrum disorders. Bipolar disorder, commonly called manic-depres...One in 14 men having a heart attack drive themselves to hospital
... an ambulance or that they should be used for more urgent cases. Seven per cent of men and one per cent of women drove themselves to the hospital and a further four per cent of men and three per cent of women used public transport. 33 per cent of women and 29 per cent of men were driven to the hospital. ...Drug treatment before angioplasty or stent placement not beneficial for heart attack patients
...rtality, along with greater rates of reinfarction, urgent repeat revascularisation, major bleeding, haemorrhagic stroke, and total stroke." In a different trial (ASSENT-4), also published online today by The Lancet, FransVan de Werf (Gasthuisberg University Hospital, Leuven, Belgium) and colleagues looked a...Global toll of glaucoma set to reach 80 million by 2020
... treat means that it is often viewed as less of an urgent issue, particularly in developing nations where other more remediable diseases are more prevalent," he says....Pregnancy, not high-risk behavior, predictor of STD testing among newly homeless youth
...1007/s10461-005-9044-8 , indicate that there is an urgent need for outreach programs targeting sexually active homeless youths -- who are at particularly elevated risk for becoming infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) -- for early STD screening. Contracting an STD can predispose one to becom...Intellectual property law and the protection of traditional knowledge
Growing biopiracy concerns have fueled urgent calls for a new system of legal protection for traditional knowledge. Detractors of the current patent systems say that the traditional knowledge of indigenous peoples and local communities does not readily fit into the existing rules of the industri...NIH grant to support research on new treatment for severe OCD
...ericans. Patients struggle with obsessions and the urgent need to repeat behaviors that can relieve anxiety. Sufferers may feel compelled to wash their hands or clean constantly with the hope of making obsessive thoughts go away, but such rituals provide only temporary relief. "DBS is one of the most promis...New theory suggests treatment for immune disorder could be effective against avian flu infection
...btype H5N1 infection is around 50% and there is an urgent need for novel treatments. In their Hypothesis Jan-Inge Henter (Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden) and colleagues in Hong Kong state that patients with H5N1 infection have similar symptoms and post-mortem features to people with an immune disord...5,000 rare diseases need drugs, but Europe only approves a handful each year
...ogy. "It's difficult to find a balance between the urgent need for drugs for patients with rare diseases and guaranteeing their quality, efficacy, safety and, where necessary, making comparisons with existing drugs" says co-author Professor Silvio Garattini from the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological...Tool to reduce elderly driving deaths nationwide
...creases and declining driver competence becomes an urgent public health problem," said Freund. Twenty-eight states and the District of Columbia have passed some form of elderly driver restrictions, including accelerated renewal procedures and requirements for vision tests. Two states, Illinois and New Hamp...Preparation needed as children enter schools already overweight
...n Chicago overweight. For the authors, this is an urgent problem reflecting the nutritional status and heal...ety-fourth percentile. "These results indicate an urgent problem facing Chicago children, families, health providers, and schools," the authors state. "Ongo......to tooth loss in Mexican and German adults, to the urgent need for caries-preventive treatment in pregnant women, to dental trauma as a significant health issue in Canadian adults, and to controlling sugar consumption in rural Haiti. The consensus was that people with less education and of lower socio-econo...