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'Cancer Prevention' - In Your Hands

...ampaign will make an appeal to parents, healthcare professionals and policy decision-makers, to go the extra mile towards inculcating healthy lifestyle habits in children, so that they grow up to be healthy adults. Tobacco and Cancer: A smoke-free environment forms the basic premise of any cancer prevention...

IRS Helps Curb Malaria in the Tropics

... efforts to fight malaria. One tool used by health professionals is indoor residual spraying, or IRS//. Insecticides are applied to the interior walls of homes to protect the family against the mosquito that carries the disease. With IRS, protection can be guaranteed for up to one year. is a medical entomologi...

Mega Project to Revamp Karnataka’s Healthcar

...amp its healthcare infrastructure and train health professionals //at the grassroots - a scheme that is expected to...the initiative is to train thousands of healthcare professionals in the taluk (sub-district) and village level," Ganesh told IANS, adding that the scheme would remai...

'Families' - Doesn’t Cause Anorexia Nervos

...oping the disorder will require the cooperation of professionals in the eating disorders field, the media, and the fashion and entertainment industries. Only cooperatively, will we be able to move the field forward toward the elimination of this disease." “Anorexia nervosa has the highest death rate of any ment...

Downsizing Affects All Workers

...'Policy makers, employers, and occupational health professionals should recognize that organizational downsizing may pose mental health risks among employees,' Kivimaki said. The findings confirm that layoffs affect everyone in the workplace. 'This is an important study that supports the negative impact downsi...

Doctors Role in Preventing STD

...artners improves outcomes, say the authors. Health professionals should consider these three strategies for the management of individual patients. Source-Eurekalert PRI...

Informing Partners Can Help Cut Sexually Transmitted Infections

...artners improves outcomes, say the authors. Health professionals should consider these three strategies for the management of individual patients. Source-Eurekalert...

Binge Drinking Excessive Among Less Educated Middle-aged Women

...d be a reason as liquor makers target well-incomed professionals by creating smarter drinking lounges and using more powerful advertisements. In the case of lesser-educated women, they are likely to curb excessive drinking at younger ages due to domestic responsibilities like getting pregnant, rearing kids etc. T...

One in Four Specialist Trainee Doctors 'Very Worried' About Future Job Prospects

...graduate deaneries.' Community based healthcare professionals contemplating a move to specialist care provision must not lose their unique and valuable generalist skills, he advises, while specialists working in the community need to 'understand the value of generalism and how it complements specialist practice...

Too Few Americans Getting Preventive Health Screenings

...s,' Dr. Clancy said. 'Everyone is benefiting – the professionals who provide care, the insurers who help pay for care and the patients who receive care. But we can do much more to prevent or delay the occurrence of serious conditions.' As in previous years, the federal disparities report found access to care var...

Clear Guidelines on Oral Chemotherapy Needed

...ies, there is no apparent consensus among oncology professionals about safe practices for these drugs. The oncology community must define safe medication practices appropriate for oral chemotherapy, develop practice guidelines and accelerate their adoption.' Source-NewswiseBR>SRM...

Educate Teenagers About Sun Safety to Offset Skin Cancer Risk

...t the co-operation of schools, parents, healthcare professionals and sports program coaches. The study also established that the success of such endeavors was largely dependant on the co-operation of all these people, in helping teenagers adopt sun safety measures. The 'Primary Care Practice Manual' which was pu...

Special Children Need to Be Taught Sexual Safety

...f parents, teachers, careproviders, neighbours and professionals to implement changes within our community to protect all children. Every community has the strength to overcome child sexual abuse. The key to preventing sexual violence is to build on those strengths and diminish the influence of those conditions...

Offenders Unlikely to Seek Help

...udy finds that offenders' lack of trust in medical professionals means - many may not seek help when they are exper... Many of the participants did not feel that health professionals genuinely cared about them or had the ability to help with mental health problems. Others were reluc...

Health Claim from FDA Promotes Dairy Products to Fight Osteoporosis Risk

...al activity in contributing to bone health. Health professionals across the country continue to recognize the importance of dairy foods and osteoporosis. "A proposed new health claim demonstrating the connection between calcium and vitamin D and the role it plays in reducing the risk of osteoporosis will draw atte...

Osteoporosis Can Now Be Identified From Dental X Rays

...y introducing a simple tool and getting healthcare professionals working together, around two in five sufferers undertaking routine dental x-rays could be identified," he said. Dr Devlin hopes that this new test would motivate older women to visit the dentist regularly. "The test might even encourage older wom...

Medical Teams Are Key to Patient Safety

...ngland Journal of Medicine. Intensive care unit professionals use a number of devices and catheters to deliver intravenous fluids and medications to patients. There is risk of bloodstream infection anytime a worker handles a catheter, and the key organisms linked to these infections are commonly found on the pa...

Physicians Enlisted in Efforts to Keep Demented Drivers Off the Road

...ts of their workshop after presentations to health professionals in seven Missouri locations, including a number of...itions in this regard, but all states allow health professionals and others to report persons perceived as medically unfit to drive due to dementia or other conditio...

Medical Teams Are Key to Patient Safety

...England Journal of Medicine. Intensive care unit professionals use a number of devices and catheters to deliver intravenous fluids and medications to patients. There is risk of bloodstream infection anytime a worker handles a catheter, and the key organisms linked to these infections are commonly found on the pa...

Medical Clowns To Cheer Up Sick Children

...tions and the jobs are well paid.Clown Care has 84 professionals for the United States, who serve hospitals in Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston , Chicago, New Haven, CT; Providence, RI; and Washington apart from New York. The concept has crept to many other countries around the world, including Argentina, Australia, ...

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