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Quality Improvement Effort Pays Off in Diabetes Care

...crinologists' annual meeting in Seattle found that poorly managed type 2 diabetes costs the U.S. health system an extra $22.9 billion a year in direct medical costs. Diabetic complications cost almost $10,000 per patient each year, concluded the author of that study, Willard Manning, PhD, a University of Ch...

Bali Bombings Helped Improve Trauma Care

...e bombings. In 2002 the mental health response was poorly planned, but the lessons learnt from the first incident meant that in 2005 patients' physical and mental health needs were better co-ordinated by staff who had already recognized and established a stronger link between trauma and psychiatric support....

Research may Yield Improved Treatment for Diseased Lungs

... is that patients with scleroderma do particularly poorly because all this excess collagen is stiffening the large and smaller vessels," she says. "We're not addressing that with modern treatments, and so we need to look at effects of stiffness on blood flow patterns and ventricular function in this context...

Concern Expressed Over Poor Quality Bird Flu Vaccine Used in Nigeria

...e imported vaccines through local markets that are poorly regulated and frequently sell fake or defective products. The head of the poultry farmers' association in Nigerias northern state of Kano, Auwalu Haruna, said over 60 percent of farmers in the association have been forced out of business due to bird ...

Low Weight Newborns at Greater Risk in Community Hospitals

...ot that we think the community services are bad or poorly staffed," he added. "But a regional structure of services may be best able to help these kids."...

Iceland Introduces Smoking Ban in Bars and Restaurants

...owners who feel the prohibition is too severe and poorly executed. 'The authorities didn't give us any opportunities to create a smoking area outside bars and restaurants so most people have to resort to smoking on the pavement,' Arnar Thor Gislason, owner of a popular Reykjavik bar and restaurant, told ...

Research Says Small Penis Syndrome Affects Men Than Women

...review also showed that the results of surgery are poorly documented and significant complications can ensue...enis syndrome with gadgets or surgery. There is poorly documented evidence to support the use of penile extenders, and while information is starting to eme...

New Strategy To Tackle Rheumatic Heart Disease

...nous Australians. Yet individual cases are often poorly managed, Professor Jonathan Carapetis of the Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, and colleagues report in the latest issue of the Medical Journal of Australia. Most jurisdictions with high rates of these diseases do not have formal control s...

Survey Shows Asthma Not Controlled in Severe Asthma Patients

...ity of their asthma. Also likely contributing to poorly controlled asthma was the fact that only a minority of patients reported having received a personalized asthma action plan from their physician (26 percent of controlled asthmatics and 35 percent of uncontrolled asthmatics). Written asthma action pla...

Cisplatin-very Effective Than Carboplatin in Nonsmall Cell Lung Cancer Treatment

...nts with metastatic NSCLC for whom the drug may be poorly tolerated, such as those with significant baseline renal impairment, hearing loss, peripheral neuropathy, or other serious medical comorbidities, the authors wrote....

Test Drug Seen as Best Hope in Decades for Tackling Parkinson's

..., making them less vulnerable to the toxins, still poorly understood, that kills them. "They start acting like they're youngsters again," Northwestern quoted Surmeier as saying. The study is published online on Sunday by Nature, the British science journal. So far the work has only been carried out on...

Fake Drug Found in Chinese Hospitals, Outlets: Report

...eries of public health scares have surfaced due to poorly made or fake products....

Exposure to Cocaine During Pregnancy Weakens Kindergarten Kids Attention

...hildren born to cocaine-addicted women scored more poorly on attention tests than the other kids, were more likely to make errors of omission, and had slower reaction times on tasks. This study provides further evidence of a subtle but consistent effect on attention through early school-aged years, said ...

Hillary Clinton Speaks Up Strongly for Stem Cell Research

...is is not something that has been done in a quick, poorly thought out way. ... I think there is a false difference between the president's position and ours."...

Arcoxia Slammed –Nothing Better Than Vioxx Says FD

...icials criticized Merck for using what they called poorly designed scientific studies in an attempt to put Arcoxia in the best possible light. Bruce Psaty, director of the cardiovascular health research unit at the University of Washington, says manufacturers can "rig" trials by comparing their drug to one ...

Social Factors Not Genetics Drive Racial Disparities in Colorectal Cancer Survival

...e of biologic versus socioeconomic factors, remain poorly characterized. For their new study, Dr. Xianglin Du, Tamra Meyer, and Dr. Luisa Franzini of the University Of Texas School Of Public Health at Houston reviewed the literature and aggregated the data from ten studies that investigated the associatio...

Fault the School System in US for Massacres, Say Sociologists

...ciously saw their massacres as rebellions, however poorly expressed or thought through, Ames says. "It isn't the schoolyard shooters who need to be profiled -- they can't be. It is the schools that need to be profiled."Michael Carneal, who slaughtered three students in a high school prayer class in West P...

One-fifth of Obese Women Undergo Caesarean Due to Uterus Failure

...en and studied them in the lab they also performed poorly and contracted less well than matched samples from normal weight women". The research team found that less calcium was able to enter the uterine cells of the obese women to support uterus muscles in contracting during labor. Professor Wray expla...

Chondroitin may Not Have Any Beneficial Effect on Arthritis, New Study Says

...nded to involve small numbers of patients and were poorly designed, without proper documentation and analysis, Jüni says.After examining those studies, the Swiss researchers concluded that there is no evidence that chondroitin is unsafe, but also none to suggest that it helps diminish joint pain. As to wh...

Link Between Brain Protein and Blood Pressure Rise Found

...bility of new ways to treat this common, but often poorly managed, condition," he said. Source-IANS...

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