Tag: "surveys" at medical news

Fears of Pandemic Flu makes Americans Ready for Change

...ng and ordering effects. Non-response in telephone surveys produces some known biases in survey-derived estimates because participation tends to vary for different subgroups of the population. To compensate for these known biases, sample data are weighted to the most recent Census data available from the Cur...

Sex Among Teens More Rampant says Irish Reports

...mely alarming and grim situation as other current surveys prove that early sexual encounters endanger young lives to be open to the ravages of sexually transmitted diseases(STD's).There is 70% chance of ending up with unplanned pregnancies and the chances of going through the trauma of abortions gets tr...

Physical Activity and Weight Management, Checks Onset of Arthritis

...e communicated the results conducted from national surveys conducted between 2003 and 2005, that more than 46 million adults in the United States have got arthritis, gout, lupus or fibromyalgia, a rheumatic condition in which people experience pain. At this rate, the CDC feels that nearly 67 million US adult...

Emerging from the shadows of Breast Cancer

...have clearly borne fruit shows the results of many surveys conducted among breast cancer //survivors and support groups.Reports reveal that more than 85% of women today diagnosed with breast cancer live on for an average of 5 years. Way back in the early eighties the risk of dying from breast cancer had r...

NHS De-addiction, Rehabilitation waiting time ticking into months

...s have dramatically dropped. It has been noted by surveys that the addicts who have come up for treatment but do not find medical intervention immediately without fail slither back to former habits leaving their families under further stress. It has been estimated that about 800 people were waiting for comm...

Trail Users Twice as Likely to Get Enough Exercise

...ett and colleagues analyzed data from two national surveys to find out who uses community trails. Their study...f whether more trails mean more trail users. “In surveys of trail neighborhoods, we asked people whether they exercised more because of the development of a ...

India Records Over 1.3 mn Chikungunya Cases

...e reported in December last year when we conducted surveys in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu," said N.K. Ganguly, director general of Indian Council of Medical Research. "The total number of confirmed cases in the country stands at 1,533," he said. "There has been such a wide-scale spread of the virus aft...

Iraqi’s Gripped with Insecurit

...rn Iraqi nation. The analysis is an outcome of the surveys conducted in Iraq in 2004 and 2006 as part of the World Values Survey. The research findings appear in an article coauthored by Ronald Inglehart (University of Michigan), Mansoor Moaddel (Eastern Michigan University) and Mark Tessler (University of...

Ethnic Differences in Healthcare

...ent records, matching Medicare claims with patient surveys of the last preventive screening test they had received. The researchers made statistical adjustments for age, gender, income, education level and health status. With the exception of PSA testing for prostate cancer, results showed that minority pa...

Polio cases in Maharashtra

...nicipal hospitals in Maharashtra have to carry out surveys for polio.The World Health Organisation was just about to announce Maharashtra a polio-free state, when the cases were reported. According to officials, migrants from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar will be targeted for immunization. GYT...

Surveys Find Outright Hunger among Latino Immigrants in North Carolina

...ine researchers have found high rates of hunger in surveys of immigrant Latino families in eastern and wester... rate for the U.S. is 4.3 percent. The Wake Forest surveys found that rates of hunger among Latino immigrants ranged from almost twice the national rate (8 per...

Scottish Prisons May Get Needle Exchange Programs

...ke Hepatitis C and HIV. "If you look at prisoner surveys some say they have shared needles in prison. There will always be people who continue to take drugs in prison," a SPS spokesman told BBC. "If you're not going to change that behaviour and have people who are going to do this, we have a responsibility...

Obesity on a high in France

...ing concern on obesity in France and mirrors other surveys that reveal increase in average clothes sizes.However, this problem is more severe in other nations like the US than in France. The increase in severe obesity needing medical care is stable. "There is a small hope that a favourable trend is startin...

‘Healthy Stores’ Program Boosts Demand for Better Food in Marshall Islans

...ocal economic and cultural factors. They conducted surveys and interviews with store managers, customers and community leaders, in some cases asking community members to review their findings and make suggestions. The team took two main approaches to improving the food environment: through in-store activi...

Vitamin D May Cut Pancreatic Cancer Risk by Nearly Half

...udy examined data from two large, long-term health surveys and found that taking the U.S. Recommended Daily A...hey identified 365 cases of pancreatic cancer. The surveys are considered valuable for their prospective design, following health trends instead of looking at ...

Designer babies

... prospective parents. The results of a series of surveys of 100-200 participants included: · The better educated prospective parents are, the further they are prepared to go to improve their children's IQ. · Women interpret certain interventions in child rearing as "design acts" more readily than men. ...

Lost Opportunities for Organ Donation

.... The figure is lower than was anticipated from surveys of public donor intention and is at odds with community support for transplantation, when the health outcomes for transplant recipients in Australian are equal to or surpass those internationally. The authors said there is real potential to increas...

Malpractice Worry Discouraging Medical Students From Taking Up Obstetrics And Gynecology

...ge may get even worse." The USF researchers sent surveys to all fourth-year medical students in Florida in fall 2005. The senior year is when medical students find out where they will conduct their residencies – the period of specialized training for licensed medical graduates in their chosen medical field...

Proper Fitting Of Football Helmets Essential To Prevent Concussion

...higan State University analyzed responses from 289 surveys of directors of athletics from Pennsylvania and New Jersey high schools. The authors found that helmets were often ineffective because they were not fitted properly to the players. The study found that high school football players are at high risk...

Students Not Getting Enough Exercise

...ough 12. All students had taken part in government surveys in 1999, 2001 and 2003. They found that many students were not getting the exercise despite increased hours. "Some schools are ignoring the laws and not meeting the state requirements," Cawley said. "The real risk here is that states may increase t...

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