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New Study Measures Benefits of More Involved Fathers

SAN FRANCISCO, July 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Family service agencies are missing huge opportunities to help children by focusing only on mothers and ignoring fathers, according to a groundbreaking study by some of the nation's top family and child development researchers. The scie...

Global Fund Increases AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Prevention and Treatment Measures by 30-50% Over One Year

WASHINGTON, July 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria announced its latest prevention and treatment numbers, noting in particular that Global Fund-financed programs have put 2.3 million people on treatment for HIV/AIDS, 5.4 million people h...

Simple measures may prevent transmission of stomach ulcer bacteria

The stomach ulcer bacterium Helicobacter pylori is not transmitted through drinking water as previously thought, but rather through vomit and possibly faeces. This is shown in a thesis at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. It is therefore possible to prevent the spread of...

HMS Urges Healthcare Reform Measures to Manage Costs, Target Resources, Fight Fraud

Cost Management Provider for Government Programs Outlines Ways to Lower Costs and Expand Health Coverage for More Americans NEW YORK and WASHINGTON, June 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- HMS , the nation's leader in cost management services for government health and human services programs, to...

Heart Failure Society of America Applauds Inclusion of End-of-Life and Advanced Care Planning Measures in Senior Navigation and Planning Act

ST. PAUL, Minn., June 22 /PRNewswire/ -- The Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA) commends the inclusion of end-of-life planning and advanced care planning measures and directives as stated in Senate Bill 1263, The Senior Navigation and Planning Act of 2009 , recently introduced by Senator Mar...

Blacks more likely to opt for life-sustaining measures at end of life

PITTSBURGH, May 28 When faced with a terminal illness, African-American seniors were two times more likely than whites to say they would want life-prolonging treatments, according to a University of Pittsburgh study available online and published in the June issue of the Journal of General Inter...

Quality measures improve outcomes more than hospital volume alone

A new study by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco and Baystate Medical Center at Tufts University in Massachusetts concludes that patients facing coronary artery bypass surgery should, as a first priority, select a medical facility that has the highest adherence to quality ...

Experts to Discuss Worksite Preparedness Measures During May 19th Pandemic Flu Webinars

Designed to Help Employers and Business Owners Plan for Pandemic Impact PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa., May 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Health Advocate, Inc. is hosting two free webinars on May 19, 2009 to help employers prepare for a possible H1N1 flu pandemic. Following the webinar Health Advocate will relea...

Howard Leight Introduces QuietDose(TM): In-Ear Dosimetry Measures Noise Exposure in Real-Time to Help Prevent Workplace Hearing Loss

SMITHFIELD, R.I., May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Howard Leight today officially introduced QuietDose (TM) -- the only personal dosimeter that measures and records a worker's actual in-ear exposure to noise over an entire work shift. The introduction is a major advance towards stopping the progression o...

Union Survey on Influenza Pandemic Finds Lack of Adequate Health and Safety Measures for Health Care Workers

McEntee praises Obama request for $1.5 billion in additional funding WASHINGTON, April 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new union survey of more than 100 health care facilities across the country reveals that many are not adequately prepared to protect workers' health and safety during an i...

Safety Measures Urged for Tree-Care Workers

CDC report finds an average of 80 die each year while trimming trees THURSDAY, April 23 (HealthDay News) -- Between 1992 and 2007, an average of 80 tree-care workers died annually in the United States, according to a study that calls for safety training programs in this industry. Al...

Computer-aided system effectively detects and measures pneumothoraces in chest trauma patients

A new computer-aided method used with MDCT to detect and measure pneumothoraces in trauma patients helps physicians make quicker and more accurate decisions in busy emergency room settings, according to a study performed at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA. ...

Study Shows Simple Measures May Help Prevent Sudden Death Event in Young Athletes

A blunt, non-penetrating hit to the chest from a baseball or hockey puck at just the right time could cause sudden death in an athlete. The condition, commotio cordis and its prevention were investigated in the March/April issue of Sports Health: A Multidisciplinary Approach ...

LENA Foundation Technology Measures Effectiveness of Autism Therapy

BOULDER, Colo., Feb. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- The non-profit LENA(TM) Foundation, which develops technology for the improved treatment of autism and other language disorders, has released two case studies showing how the breakthrough LENA system is being used to improve autism treatment. The LENA softw...

AOA Doctors of Optometry Partner With FDA and Other Industry Leaders to Develop New Measures to Better Protect Contact Lens Wearers

Optometrists and other experts sponsor workshop to investigate increase in Acanthamoeba keratitis and to develop new testing methods to improve contact lens care products and protect against infections ST. LOUIS, Jan. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- In an effort to increase the safety and effectiveness of...

Bionovo Announces Cost Control Measures Taken

EMERYVILLE, Calif., Jan. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Compensation and Nominations Committee of the Board of Directors of Bionovo, Inc. (Nasdaq: BNVI ) announced today that despite significant corporate and scientific accomplishments and progress during the year, given current market conditi...

New Analyzer Measures CO2 at High Pressures

MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- A new sophisticated gas analyzer that measures carbon dioxide (CO2) under pressure extremes has been developed by Sensor Electronics of Minneapolis. CO2 dilutes explosive concentrations of ethylene oxide (EtO) in, for example, medical equipment steriliz...

US Oncology Applauds Senator Baucus's Healthcare Reform 'Call to Action' for 2009, Supports Collaborative Measures to Enhance Cancer Patients' Access to Care While Improving Quality and Access

Senate Finance Committee Chairman's White Paper Outlines Plans to Improve Healthcare Coverage While Launching New Initiatives to Improve Care Quality and Value WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- US Oncology, which supports one of the nation's largest cancer treatment and research...

NQF Endorses Measures to Address Care Coordination and Efficiency in Hospital Emergency Departments

Measures can help decrease wait time, increase physician productivity, and safety WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- To reduce overcrowding, decrease patient wait time, and improve quality of care, the National Quality Forum (NQF) endorsed 10 national voluntary consensus standard...

St. Peter's Hospital of Albany Improves Core Measures Processes

ANN ARBOR, Mich., Oct. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Thomson Reuters announced today that St. Peter's Hospital in Albany, NY, has significantly improved its core measures processes -- such as increasing its discharge instruction compliance for heart failure patients from 85.4 percent in first-quarter 200...

Pennsylvania Health Department Offers Measures to Reduce Spread of Drug-Resistant Staph Known as 'MRSA'

HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following reports of outbreaks of a drug-resistant staph in schools and other community settings, Pennsylvania Deputy Health Secretary Michael Huff today said there are measures that people can take to reduce the risk of contracting or sprea...

US must enact measures to support the role of IMGs in US health-care delivery, says ACP

(Washington) In a new paper, released today, the American College of Physicians (ACP) says that because of the important place that international medical graduates (IMGs) "have and will continue to have" in the internal medicine workforce, the U.S. needs to enact measures that would support their...

Mayo Clinic chest surgeons propose measures for indicating quality of lung surgery

ROCHESTER, Minn. - Even though 30,000 patients in the United States undergo lung surgery each year, no standard criteria exist to measure the quality of their care. In the current issue of The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Mayo Clinic surgeons have proposed a system of lung surgery quality indicat...

Head-to-Head 96-Week Study Shows EPZICOM(R) is Comparable to Truvada(R) in Efficacy and Safety Measures in HIV Treatment-Naive Patients

MEXICO CITY, Aug. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK) today announced that 96-week data from the HEAT study show that once-daily EPZICOM (abacavir + lamivudine) provides comparable efficacy to once-daily Truvada(R) (tenofovir DF + emtricitabine) as a first-line option for t...

Study Measures Real-World Comparative Effectiveness of Asthma Controller Medications

WellPoint's Health Outcomes Subsidiary HealthCore Finds Optimal Outcomes Can Be Achieved Through Compliant Use of Orally Administered Controllers INDIANAPOLIS, July 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Compliance with inhaled medications for asthma can improve clinical outcomes, as measured by reduced emergenc...

New combination of tests measures child's ability to taste and smell

Alexandria, VA Researchers have developed a series of tests that for the first time accurately measure the normality of taste (gustatory function) and smell (olfactory function) in young children, according to a new study published in the July 2008 edition of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surger...

URAC Releases Standards and Measures for Wellness Programs for Public Comment

Public comments for new accreditation programs due Aug. 7 WASHINGTON, June 24 /PRNewswire/ -- URAC has convened an expert advisory group for creation of accreditation standards and measures for wellness programs in response to employers' requests for quality standards and measures for b...

Uncover Best Measures for Ensuring Brand Safety in the Pharma Industry

CHAPEL HILL, N.C., April 2, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- Best-in-class pharmaceutical companies have begun to proactively protect their products throughout their value chain to mitigate the risk from counterfeit products. According to research by Best Practices, LLC, a leading pharmaceutical research ...

Long Islanders Take Unhealthy Measures to Afford Their Prescriptions

State Budget, due April 1, Holds Remedy for Long Islanders NEW YORK, March 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A Stony Brook University Center for Survey Research poll conducted this past month reveals that Long Islanders are taking very unhealthy measures to cope with the high cost of prescript...

Skills Application and Productivity Rank as the Most Effective Training Measures for First-Year Pharmaceutical Reps

CHAPEL HILL, N.C., March 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Benchmarked companies ranked skills application/productivity as the best measures of training effectiveness, with before and after testing ranked as a close second for measuring Returns on Investment (ROI), according to research by Best Practices, LL...

A device that measures optimum state of an organ prior to transplanting has been patented

This release is available in Spanish . Ikerlan-IK4 (CIC microGUNE Microfluidics Unit - the Basque Micro and Nanotechnologies Research Centre) has patented a device that enables the verification of the optimum conditions for a human organ prior to its transplant. By means of a microelectrod...

Caregiver Magazine Urges Preventive Measures Against Wandering, Falls, Abuse

Release Coincides With National and Local News on these Issues NEW YORK, Feb. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --- When Elda Jackson of Fonthill, Ontario got a call from the police that her husband had tried to enter a house that he mistakenly thought was his own, she knew she had to take action....

Landmark Articles Published by QualityMetric Scientists Report Improvements in Short Form Health Status Measures and Establish Criteria for Future Development

Invited Commentary by John E. Ware, Jr., PhD, provides context to the past, present and future use of patient-reported outcomes as a leading performance metric for healthcare quality LINCOLN, R.I., Jan. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- As the healthcare industry struggles to balance cost with...

American Heart Association President Urges Congress to Support Preventative Measures to Reduce Risk Factors for the Nation's No. 1 Killer

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- American Heart Association President Daniel W. Jones, M.D. today urged Congress to pass legislation to help Americans control their risk factors for cardiovascular diseases. With obesity, hypertension, diabetes and other risk factors on the rise, ...

Medicare Anti-Fraud Measures are Way Overdue, Says Durable Medical Equipment Industry

Statement by the American Association for Homecare ARLINGTON, Va., Jan. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Association for Homecare welcomes and supports efforts to crack down on Medicare fraud announced today in another of a series of press conferences held by the Centers for Medic...

New Gas Analyzer Measures Two Gases at Once!

Low-Cost and Reliable Dual Gas Analyzer from Sensor Electronics Provides Alternative to Gas Chromatography MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Sensor Electronics, Minneapolis, MN, has recently released the SEC DIR Dual Gas Analyzer designed to measure two gases simultaneously...

AMAS Test Measures Lethal Replikin Gene Activity in Lung and Other Cancers

BOSTON, Dec. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- A gene related to rapid replication and lethality has been found to be present in, and to contain some identical protein sequences in, tobacco mosaic virus and non-small cell lung cancer. The early detection diagnostic test for cancer, the AMAS(R) test, appears t...

New Lancet Study: Tobacco Control Measures Are Effective and Affordable Strategies to Reduce Chronic Disease Deaths Globally

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a statement by Matthew L. Myers, President, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids: A new study published in the December 5, 2007, issue of the scientific journal The Lancet shows that tobacco control measures, including higher tobacco...

Nano-sized voltmeter measures electric fields deep within cells

ANN ARBOR, Mich.---A wireless, nano-scale voltmeter developed at the University of Michigan is overturning conventional wisdom about the physical environment inside cells. It may someday help researchers tackle such tricky medical issues as why cancer cells grow out of control and how damaged nerv...

New Measures Improve Heart Care

Programs that simplified treatment choices led to better outcomes, research shows SUNDAY, Nov. 4 (HealthDay News) -- Simplify. Simplify. Simplify. New research shows this mantra works when it comes to controlling high blood pressure, which is the leading risk factor for premature de...