Gap in Medical News

Worldwide Gap Between Vision Care Attitudes & Behavior

JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Aug. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Across cultures and national boundaries, sight is valued as the most important of the five senses. Yet, new research reveals that across the world, nearly half (44%) share the misguided belief that seeing well translates to good eye he...

Cancer Gap Between Whites, Blacks May Be Biological in Part

Disparity remains when treatment, socioeconomic factors are the same, study finds TUESDAY, July 7 (HealthDay News) -- Even when they get identical medical treatment, black Americans with breast, ovarian and prostate cancer tend to die earlier than patients of other races, a finding tha...

New Clues to Race Gap in Breast Cancer Outcomes

Studies shed light on why black women more likely to die, but questions remain TUESDAY, July 7 (HealthDay News) -- The racial gap in breast cancer outcomes, with black women more likely to die from the disease, can't be explained completely by any one factor, new research shows. Fo...

Tropicana Launches 'Get Your Fruit On!' Campaign to Help Narrow the Gap in the Nation's Fruit Consumption

Tropicana Donates Up To A Quarter Million Fruit Servings Of Orange Juice to USDA's Summer and School Food Service Program For Kids and Encourages Americans to Increase Fruit Consumption CHICAGO, June 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Seven out of ten American adults are not getting enough fruit in their dai...

Fewer Than One Percent of Infertile Couples Who Need Treatment Receive It - Website to Bridge Gap Between Infertile Couples and Fertility Clinics

National Fertility Link is Helping Infertile Men and Women Find the Solutions to their Infertility Issues by Bridging the Gap and Delivering Resources from Fertility Clinics Through Technology. (PRWEB) May 16, 2009 -- National Fertility Link is a nation wide resource ...

Several Minnesota Medical Groups Improve Care for Patients Served by Minnesota Health Care Programs, but Disparities Gap Remains

MN Community Measurement issues second annual report on health care disparities - the first of its kind in the nation MINNEAPOLIS, April 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Although the care provided to patients insured by Minnesota Health Care Programs, including MinnesotaCare, improved since the ...

National Survey Reveals Gap in 'Uncontrolled Asthma' Knowledge - Putting Asthma Patients at Risk for Serious Health Consequences

PHYSICIANS CONCERNED THAT ASTHMA PATIENTS WHO STOP USING ASTHMA CONTROLLER MEDICINE MAY VISIT EMERGENCY ROOM MORE OFTEN WASHINGTON , April 15 /PRNewswire/ -- A new nationwide telephone survey of 1,001 patients found that while most asthma patients know the risks of "uncontrolled asthma," t...

Upcoming Symposium to Bridge the Gap between Osteoporosis Research and its Applications to Clinical Practice with Focus on Secondary Osteoporosis, Osteoporosis in Men, and Lessons from Space Travel for Improving Bone Health

Advances In Osteoporosis Prevention, Diagnosis And Treatment Presented At 8th International Symposium Of National Osteoporosis Foundation WASHINGTON, April 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A faculty of internationally-renowned osteoporosis experts are gathering today to share the latest clinicall...

Federal funding gap cited for research on human health impacts due to climate change

March 26, 2009 -- Climate change will seriously impact public health, but the United States has yet to allocate adequate research funding to understand and prepare for these impacts, according to a report published in Environmental Health Perspectives , the journal of the U.S. National Institute ...

DeVry University announces Employment Gap Scholarship program to aid displaced workers

OAKBROOK TERRACE, Ill. March 16, 2009 DeVry University is establishing a new, unique scholarship program that offers to assist recently displaced workers pursue their dream of a college degree and gain new skill sets that are critical for career success. The Employment Gap Scholarship program wi...

Closing the Addiction Treatment Gap Initiative Highlights Opportunities for New 'Drug Czar'

BALTIMORE, March 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Open Society Institute's Closing the Addiction Treatment Gap (CATG) today said key opportunities exist for the new Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDPC) to shift and strengthen the United States' approach to the problem of...

GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare Helps to Bridge Oral Care Gap in Appalachia

PITTSBURGH, March 9 /PRNewswire/ -- In Kentucky, nearly one out of every two of the state's children are enrolled in Medicaid, but barely a quarter of the dentists accept the insurance; therefore families on Medicaid are left with few options when it comes to seeing a dentist or receiving dental...

Onvia Fills Critical Information Gap with Launch of its Economic Stimulus Toolkit, Enabling Businesses to Understand, Prepare for and Capitalize on Pending Stimulus-Driven Opportunities

SEATTLE, Jan. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Onvia, Inc. (Nasdaq: ONVI ) ( http://www.onvia.com/fp/Default.aspx ), the leading provider of business-to-government solutions in the United States, covering the broadest set of industries and products at every level of government, today announced t...

Colorectal Cancer Racial Gap Still Growing

Blacks 45 percent more likely to die from the disease than whites, report says MONDAY, Dec. 15 (HealthDay News) -- Despite major progress reducing overall colorectal cancer incidence and death rates in the United States, black men and women are still 45 percent more likely than whites...

Psychologists report that a gender gap in spatial skills starts in infancy

Men tend to perform better than women at tasks that require rotating an object mentally, studies have indicated. Now, developmental psychologists at Pitzer College and UCLA have discovered that this type of spatial skill is present in infancy and can be found in boys as young as 5 months old. ...

Primate disease field guide covers critical gap in global health

Why are so many infectious diseases jumping from animals to humans? Why do we have so little capacity to predict epidemics, or avoid them? Some answers, and possible solutions, can be found in the first trench-to-bench guide to wild primate infectious diseases, published Nov. 17 in the Yearbook o...

LearnCDHC Bridges Education Gap on Consumer Directed Healthcare : Interactive Web resource engages and educates consumers about consumer-directed healthcare

LearnCDHC, a Web-based resource designed to engage and educate viewers about consumer-directed healthcare (CDHC) options including Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), Health Reimbursement Accounts (HRAs) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), has partnered with sister company, Axcept Media, to offer ...

Study reveals gap in HIV testing knowledge among college students

Athens, Ga. Most college students understand how they can prevent the transmission of HIV but are less knowledgeable about HIV testing, according to a new University of Georgia study. Su-I Hou, associate professor in the UGA College of Public Health, surveyed more than 500 students and found t...

Communication gap exists between seniors and surgeons, study finds

INDIANAPOLIS -- The decision to undergo surgery can be particularly difficult and confusing for older adults. In a study published in the July 2008 issue of the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery , Richard M. Frankel, Ph.D., of the Indiana University School of Medicine, and colleagues report that ...

CIT GAP Funds Invests in OTraces, Inc.

Company offers more accurate blood tests for breast, ovarian cancers HERNDON, Va., June 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Center for Innovative Technology (CIT), a state-chartered non-profit, announced today that its GAP BioLife Fund, part of the successful GAP Family of Funds, made a $100,00...

New 'Expert Radiology' series fills a gap among available clinical imaging references

Philadelphia, 10 June 2008 Elsevier, the world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today introduced Expert Radiology, a new series of 2-volume titles designed to fill an important niche among imaging references. The new Expert Radiology ser...

New Survey Shows Americans Value Oral Health But Knowledge Gap Remains

Oral Health America Launches National Smile Month on May 18 CHICAGO, May 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Oral health is a top health priority for 64 percent of adults in the United States right now, but even more adults (82 percent) are unaware of the role that infectious bacteria can play in tooth d...

Death Gap Widens Between Educated and Those Not

Socioeconomic inequalities blamed for increasing disparity overall, study finds WEDNESDAY, May 14 (HealthDay News) -- Being well-educated can lengthen your life span, according to new study. The research, published in the May 14 issue of PLoS ONE , shows that the gap in overall dea...

Alcoholism Gender Gap Is Closing

Changing social mores, opportunities for women make it not just a 'man's disease' anymore TUESDAY, May 6 (HealthDay News) -- Drinking and alcohol dependence has increased substantially among women, particularly white and Hispanic women born since 1945, new study finds. Alcohol use...

CIT GAP Funds Invests in STR, LLC

HERNDON, Va., April 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) today announced that CIT GAP Funds is leading an investment round in Soft Tissue Regeneration, LLC (STR), a medical device company based in Earlysville, VA, that develops synthetic scaffolds to encoura...

Consumer Watchdog Praises CA HMO Regulator's Promise to Reinstate Health Coverage for Wrongfully Cancelled Patients; Cautions That All Health Costs During Gap Must be Covered

SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Consumer Watchdog today praised a California state regulator's efforts to begin reinstating the insurance coverage of patients left uninsured, uninsurable and often hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical debt when their health insu...

Gap Launches Limited Edition Gap (PRODUCT) RED(TM) Mulberry Bag for Valentine's Day

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Gap, with the help of influential fashion stylist Katie Grand, has partnered with British luxury handbag brand Mulberry to create a new version of Mulberry's iconic Roxanne bag for the Gap (PRODUCT) RED(TM) collection. The bag was first released...

ITRAC on track and bridging gap between academic research and applied discovery

INDIANAPOLIS -- In a novel manner which gives new meaning to the word transformative, researchers from the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center are integrating some of the best practices of industry into the strengths of the academic research process to propel the development of ...

Addressing care gap in underserved women not easy, Mayo researchers find

SAN ANTONIO In an effort to fill a significant gap in the breast care of underserved women, physicians and nurses at Mayo Clinics campus in Jacksonville, Fla., developed a program, still ongoing, to help overcome barriers that prevent women from receiving timely care after an abnormal mammogram. ...

The widening mortality gap between people with rheumatoid arthritis and the general population

An autoimmune inflammatory disease that takes a progressive toll on the heart, kidney and liver as well as the joints, rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is associated with a high risk of early death. This sobering fact is well known. Less is known about whether longevity has improved for RA patients ove...

Wide income gap linked to deaths in both rich and poor nations

A wide income gap between the most affluent and the worst off in society is closely associated with higher death rates worldwide, especially for younger adults, finds a study published on bmj.com today as part of a global theme issue on poverty and human development. Many studies have suggest...

Gap Introduces Inspirational Marketing Campaign to Celebrate First Anniversary of Global Launch of Gap (PRODUCT) RED

Anne Hathaway, John Legend and Wyclef Jean join Terrence Howard, Natalie Maines and Abigail Breslin to help launch the new (2 WEEKS) T-Shirt and latest Gap (PRODUCT) RED collections SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Gap is proud to introduce its latest marketin...

A Place for Mom, Nation's Largest Senior Care Referral Service, Fills a Gap in Employee Benefits

Elder Care Company Serves as a Free Resource to Employees Seeking Senior Housing Guidance SEATTLE, Sept. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- A Place for Mom, the nation's largest referral service of senior care options, was recently recognized in a Good Morning America segment as a f...

Regence Offers InterM to Fill Gap for the Uninsured

Company offers short-term medical plan for individuals who are between jobs, recent graduates, start-up business owners or others in need PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Regence Life and Health Insurance Company offers an affordable, short-term medical solution for uninsured Oregoni...

Parent's Guide to Cord Blood Foundation Introduces New Brochure During Cord Blood Awareness Month to Address Critical Education Gap

Published Data Reinforces Need for Better Cord Blood Education BROOKEVILLE, Md., July 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Expectant parents are poorly informed about cord blood banking, according to a study published in the Journal of Reproductive Medicin e . In fact, of the expectant...

PhRMA Statement on Medicare Part D Coverage Gap

WASHINGTON, June 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) President and CEO Billy Tauzin and PhRMA Board Chairman David Brennan, Chief Executive Officer, AstraZeneca, issued the following statement regarding today's commitment, as part of health ca...

Financial Incentives Could Improve Organ Donation and Reduce Donor-Recipient Gap

CHICAGO, June 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, the AMA adopted policy calling for the modification of current law to allow pilot studies on financial incentives for cadaveric organ donation. The current law, the National Organ Transplantation Act, prohibits financial incentives for organ d...

Love Drug may Help to Bridge the Gap Between the Couples

Marriage guidance counseling sessions are sometimes fraught affairs with estranged partners quick to blame and slow to accept responsibility for a relationship that has soured. While two-thirds of couples report progress, the others say counseling failed to budge entrenched positions. ...

Black-white Life Expectancy Gap Reduces, Yet Remains Significant

Decline in the death rate due to homicide, HIV disease, accidental injuries and heart ailments, especially among women are some of the key reasons// behind the reduction in the life expectancy gap between blacks and whites in the United States, although significant differences still exist. The stud...

Racial Gap in Florida's Infant Mortality Rates Increasing

The gap between black and white women's infant mortality rates in Florida is widening, Florida Department of Health officials told a state Senate// committee on Wednesday, the Tallahassee Democrat reports. According to William Sappenfield of Florida's Health and Family Health Service divisio...