Health geography study finds health care resources distributed unevenly in Kansas
...e counties -- Sedgwick, Shawnee and Johnson -- are what Ghosh calls "very high health care resource regions." There's a positive correlation between population density, income and health care resource availability. Almost all counties of western Kansas and southeastern Kansas would be classified as "low ...Two studies document rise of superbugs in the environment
...rease" in MRSA infections, physicians should learn what percentage of staphylococcal isolates are drug-resistant in their own communities so they can monitor for increases and adjust treatment accordingly. Prevention of MRSA infections mainly involves common sense. "If you get a cut or an abrasion, try to...Girl juvenile offenders exhibit more problems, risks than boys
...ere available to help Ohio professionals determine what kind of treatment would be most appropriate for th...s aren't geared to do work with families, which is what girls often need the most," he said. "We can't provide the same treatment to boys and girls and expe...Fear of falling: It's not only grandpa's phobia
...ays. Dr. Wilson called for more research to see at what age the fear of falling first develops and to learn why the phobia appears to strike minorities harder than majority populations. "In the meantime, clinicians should be aware that fear of falling is common even in middle-aged patients and that the as...Physical pain aggravates majority of Americans, according to poll
...n to a specific cause. And in a surprising look at what works for pain relief, researchers find that just ... about 40 percent said pain plagues them often. So what do the multitudes do when physical distress kicks in? Most - about 80 percent - go for over-the-cou...Marijuana withdrawal reported by teens seeking treatment
...y of withdrawal symptoms, which is consistent with what we have seen in several studies of adults who use marijuana frequently," said Vandrey. "Overall, our research indicates that the majority of people who abruptly stop daily or near daily marijuana use experience some withdrawal symptoms. Though there ...Misunderstanding real cost a barrier to mammography
... insurance and health plan benefits to help reduce what appears to be a major barrier to the exams for som...n's insurance coverage. Researchers later compared what the women believed about their insurance coverage with what their policies actually covered. Over h...Untreated low-grade ductal carcinoma in situ poses long-term risk
... treated by biopsy only in the 1950s and 1960s for what were identified at the time as benign lesions. However, they were later recognized to be small DCIS lesions on subsequent examination in the 1970s when DCIS and ADH were better defined. Follow-up investigations of this group of women were previously ...New research raises questions about buckyballs and the environment
...sts simply don't know enough to accurately predict what impact buckyballs will have on the environment or in living systems, which is exactly why research of this type needs to be done in the early stages of development, Hughes says. He suggests that his findings clearly illustrate the limitations of curr...Genetic testing divides families
...at the decision making process of 29 participants, what and how they chose to disclose to family members, ...ce clinical practice regarding genetic testing and what or how to discuss findings with family members....Liverpool placenta study could save lives
...e University, Kampala. He said: "We are evaluating what could prove to be a life-saving treatment for women in the developing world. For women in Uganda who live many hours walk away from the nearest hospital, it is vital to develop a way of delivering the placenta without the need for an anaesthetic." Th...Asymptomatic HIV-infected newborns may benefit from early drug treatment, Stanford study shows
...were able to see the real distribution of illness, what kinds of treatment the children were given and the...ren for the first three years of life, tracking at what age they developed AIDS and the rate of survival through their third birthday. As might be expected,...Younger is better when implanting cochlear implants, IU study finds
...elp answer a question that would otherwise require what Dr. Svirsky calls a "forbidden experiment" -- whether there's an age after which children have significantly more difficulty learning language and speech perception skills. The experiment -- forbidden because it would be unethical -- would involve de...Saving virtual lives with nanobots goal of UH-led project
...w any other variety of instructions in reaction to what they encounter in the simulated environment. As head software developer for Associate Professor Ioannis Pavlidis' Computational Physiology Laboratory at UH, Dowdall is well prepared for this challenge. Pavlidis has gained a reputation for his wor...Statin therapy cost-effective for a wider range of individuals
...generate information in a way that allows us to do what economic evaluations do best--to inform decision-making about resource allocation that maximises population health."...Penn study shows liver receptor key to diet-dependent differences in blood lipid levels
...ding interactions between genes and the reality of what most people eat are increasingly recognized as cri...atural molecule," says Lazar. "We're saying, maybe what we need are drugs that mimic the natural ligand rather than a sledgehammer like the potent pharmaceu...Barriers prevent many Hispanics from participating in research studies
...ffect Hispanics, how treatments work for them, and what areas we need to pay particular attention to with Hispanic patients." "There are differences in how you treat different populations," says Carol Lee, M.D., assistant professor of internal medicine, with a focus on geriatrics, at the U-M Medical Schoo...Novel stem cell trial in heart failure patients to begin
...In order to help the researchers better understand what effects the stem cells have on the cellular structures that surround the injection sites, they also will give patients injections containing only plasma to a different area of the heart. That way, once the native heart is removed, pathologists will b...Professor criticises medicine's 'blind spot'
...uses and treatments. That is, we need a science of what was previously thought to be the 'art' of medicine, In order to do this, we must accept the subjective experience of the patient as real and measurable and consider psychological as well as biological aspects of medical treatment as important. Even t......ery is effective," he added. "We want to identify what causes spasmodic dysphonia and gain insights into how the surgical results vary for different people." Typically appearing between the ages of 30 and 50, spasmodic dysphonia at first sounds like laryngitis, or a scratchy throat. As the disorder wo...