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Measurements fail to identify TB patients who could benefit from shorter treatment course

Tuberculosis (TB) is a difficult infection to treat and requires six months of multiple antibiotics to cure it. To combat the TB pandemic, a shorter and simpler drug treatment would be a huge advance since most TB occurs in resource-limited settings with poor public health infrastructures. T...

Mock CPR drills in kids show many residents fail in key skills, Hopkins study reveals

Research from the Johns Hopkins Children's Center exposes alarming gaps in training hospital residents in "first response" emergency treatment of staged cardiorespiratory arrests in children, while at the same time offering a potent recipe for fixing the problem. The research was conducted just...

Leapfrog Group Hospital Survey Finds Majority of Hospitals Fail to Meet Important Quality Standards

Few Hospitals Meet Standards for First National Measures of Hospital Efficiency for Heart Attack Care, Bypass Surgery, Heart Angioplasty, and Pneumonia Detailed Hospital by Hospital Results Available at www.leapfroggroup.org/cp WASHINGTON, April 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Though it ...

Divided We Fail Pushes to Keep Health Care Reform as a Top Priority for Congress and the New Administration

Divided We Fail Holds Rare Town Hall Meeting With U.S. Senator Arlen Specter on the Urgent Need to Fix Rising Health Care Costs PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AARP Pennsylvania, Business Roundtable, National Federation of Independent Business, and the Service Employees Inter...

Divided We Fail Launches Next Phase of National Campaign to Fix America's Health and Economic Crises

WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today leaders of the country's top consumer, business and labor groups launched the next phase of Divided We Fail, a national movement to bring health and financial security to every American. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070209...

Why prostate cancer patients fail hormone deprivation therapy

The hormone deprivation therapy that prostate cancer patients often take gives them only a temporary fix, with tumors usually regaining their hold within a couple of years. Now, researchers at Johns Hopkins have discovered critical differences in the hormone receptors on prostate cancer cells in p...

Vitamins Fail to Prevent Cancer: Study

C, E and beta carotene didn't halt women's risk of developing disease TUESDAY, Dec. 30 (HealthDay News) -- In another blow to the supposed cancer-fighting powers of vitamins C and E, new research suggests that supplement forms of the vitamins don't prevent the disease in women. And ...

Despite national guidelines, private insurers, ER, federal and state agencies fail to routinely test for HIV

WASHINGTON, DC (November 20, 2008) While the U.S. AIDS epidemic simmers largely unnoticed by most Americans, a failure to widely implement routine HIV testing continues to fuel its spread, HIV researchers and experts said today. Almost 60,000 Americans were infected with HIV last year, and, nation...

For Patients Who Fail on Viagra, Levitra or Cialis

TriMix Laboratories Announces Major Product Enhancement CHERRY HILL, N.J., Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- TriMix Laboratories LLC today announced a major enhancement to their flagship product TriMix-gel(TM). TriMix-gel(TM) uses the ED gel(TM) (pat. pend.) applicator system. The applicator has...

Most States Fail to Protect Consumers Against Insurance Company Abuses

First 50-State Survey of Insurance Commissioners Shows States Offer Few Protections against Common Insurance Company Abuses WASHINGTON, June 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A 50-state survey, released today, reveals that insurance companies in most states are not prohibited from denying health...

Girls in Sports at Record High, Yet Many Girls Fail to Meet Minimal Standards of Physical Activity, University of Minnesota Report Says

Girls need regular physical activity to reduce risks of obesity, diabetes and heart disease MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL, April 14 /PRNewswire/ -- A report released today by the University of Minnesota's Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport shows that girls are...

Home Defibrillators Fail to Boost Survival Rates

But they still may be valuable for heart attack patients, study suggests TUESDAY, April 1 (HealthDay News) -- Putting external defibrillators in the homes of people after they had a heart attack didn't improve their survival rate, a new study found. But, the leader of the study stil...

Authorities fail to recognize emotionally scarred brothers and sisters of child abuse victims

NORFOLK, Va. In many cases, when abusive parents with multiple children target just one child for emotional or physical cruelty, authorities often remove the abused child from the home and return the non-abused siblings. But brothers and sisters of abused children can suffer lifelong emotional...

Many Patients Fail to Take Drugs After Heart Attack

One in five prescriptions were never filled after hospital discharge, study found MONDAY, Feb. 25 (HealthDay News) -- A quarter of the people who survive heart attacks don't take the drugs prescribed for them after they leave the hospital, a new study finds. That failure to adhere...

American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists and North American Menopause Society Fail to Disclose Financial Ties to Wyeth Pharmaceuticals

Organizations Support Wyeth Campaign to Eliminate Compounded Hormones WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists (IACP) today called on the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) and the North American Menopause Soc...

Divided We Fail to Ramp Up Efforts Leading Up to Maryland Primary

BALTIMORE, Feb. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Divided We Fail volunteers from across Maryland will be increasing efforts in advance of Tuesday's primary to press candidates and elected officials to make access to quality, affordable health care and long-term financial security top issues in ...

Virginia Legislators Fail to Act Responsibly in Wake of Virginia Tech

General Assembly offers nothing more than lip service reform ARLINGTON, Va., Feb. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following release was issued today by Jonathan Stanley, Esq., Assistant Director, Treatment Advocacy Center: The deaths of 33 people at Virginia Tech should have been a wa...

Divided We Fail to Ramp Up Efforts in Delaware Leading up to Super Tuesday

WILMINGTON, Del., Feb. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Divided We Fail volunteers from across Delaware will be increasing efforts in advance of Tuesday's Presidential Primary to press candidates and elected officials to make access to quality, affordable health care and long-term financial security top issu...

2008 Presidential Hopefuls Fail to Respond to Questions About Obesity in U.S.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Campaign to End Obesity (the Campaign) announced today that 15 of the 17 2008 Democratic and Republican presidential candidates failed to respond to its inquiry about how each specifically plans to address the Nation's obesity epidemic if elec...

Divided We Fail Presidential Side-by-Side to Reach 23M+ AARP Members

'In Their Own Words' Contains Candidates' Quotes on Health Care, Financial Security Issues WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A month out from the first caucus in Iowa, Divided We Fail and AARP are providing AARP members with the information they need come Election Day to decide...

Divided We Fail 'Faith Week' to Raise Health and Financial Security Issues in Communities of Faith

November 17-25 Places of Worship in Chicago & Across the Nation Will Discuss How Their Communities Can Bring Change on Key Issues CHICAGO, Nov. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- From November 17 through the 25, AARP will be reaching out to more than 200 diverse communities of faith to ask them t...

Revised California Stem Cell Research Rules Fail to Ensure Affordable Access to Cures, Consumers Warn

SANTA MONICA, Calif., Oct. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Proposed regulations that would govern who owns and controls discoveries resulting from California stem cell research grants to for-profit organizations fail to ensure affordable access to the drugs and cures for California taxpayers payi...

Doctors Often Fail to Spot Suicidal Patients

Actresses posing as depressed, distraught were seldom questioned, study found MONDAY, Sept. 24 (HealthDay News) -- Pointing to a disconnect between doctors and some of their neediest patients, a new study suggests that large numbers of physicians fail to spot symptoms that raise suici...

Frequent Prostate Screens Fail to Improve Aggressive Cancer Diagnoses

2- and 4-year PSA tests equally effective at detecting larger disease, study finds TUESDAY, Aug. 28 (HealthDay News) -- Being screened for prostate cancer more often does improve disease detection overall, but it doesn't help doctors spot aggressive cancers better, a new study finds. The res...

Conventional prognostic factors fail to explain better prostate cancer survival in most Asian men

Prognostic factors commonly used by clinicians to assess men with prostate cancer do not adequately predict survival outcomes in Asian men living in America, according to the first comprehensive ethnic analysis of Asian-American men with prostate cancer. Published in the September 15, 2007 issue ...

Is Bailout of Major League Baseball Next? Book Explains How Baseball Like Big Businesses Will Fail

PHILADELPHIA, May 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Major League Baseball (MLB) has set up the next generation of superstar players to mask legal but banned substances for multi-million dollar opportunities, setting the stage for the destruction of the game as we know it. Sports team management consultant Paul Ma...

Surgeons Often Are Blamed When Hip Replacements Fail

Consumers urged to pay more attention to choosing the doctor, not the device FRIDAY, Jan. 2 (HealthDay News) -- Though viewed as a safe and long-lasting way to alleviate hip-related pain, hip-replacement surgery isn't foolproof. And when the procedure fails, the problem more often lies...

NFIB Joins AARP, Business Roundtable and SEIU in Divided We Fail

Group representing millions of small businesses and their employees join effort to influence debate on critical domestic issues WASHINGTON, Nov. 1/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, the nation's leading consumer, business and labor organizations have a new ally: America's small businesses. (Log...

China Cracks the Whip Against Drug Manufacturers Who Fail Quality Norms

As reports of the allegedly substandard Chinese products make constant headlines in the western media, the emerging Asian giant has decided to crackdown. For starters it has suspended the sale of a drug used to treat acute leukemia and rheumatoid arthritis. In the past week alone, ...

Prison Healthcare Continues to Fail Despite Emergency Measures, Warns BMA

The early release of more than a thousand prisoners has failed to solve the crisis that is undermining prison healthcare and prisoner rehabilitation programmes, said the BMA today. The 19th July marks the one month anniversary of the Ministry of Justices introduction of emergency measures ...

Surgical Students Fail to Report Needle Stick Injuries

Most of the surgical students stick themselves with needles and sharp instruments while in training. Most of the resulting injuries could be infectious and very often they are unreported. This is according to a new study by reported Martin Makary, M.D., a surgeon at the Johns Hopkins Hosp...

Why Humans Fail to Act on Climate Change

Many people know about the dangers of global warming, but only few act. The explanation, says Professor Andreas Ernst of the University of Kassel, has two parts. One, human beings get stubbornly comfortable in their habits. On the other, the human species is biologically programmed to act...

When Smell Cells Fail They Call In Stem Cell Reserves

Hopkins researchers have identified a backup supply of stem cells that can repair the most severe damage to the nerves responsible for our sense of smell. These reservists normally lie around and do nothing, but when neighboring cells die, the scientists say, the stem cells jump into action. A rep...

Experts Stress Need for Follow-up Evaluation of Children Who Fail Hearing Loss Screening

The proportion of newborns screened for hearing loss in the US has climbed steadily in recent years, hitting 95% by mid-2006. But a third of them do not turn up for follow-up evaluation they could be susceptible to delays in language development that they might never overcome, says author Karl ...

Why Humans Fail to Act on Climate Change

Many people know about the dangers of global warming, but only few act. // The explanation, says Professor Andreas Ernst of the University of Kassel, has two parts. One, human beings get stubbornly comfortable in their habits. On the other, the human species is biologically programmed to act ...

Many NYC Pharmacies Fail to Translate Prescription Labels for Patients Who Don't Understand English

Despite widespread capacity to provide prescription medication labels in languages other than English, few New York City pharmacies do so and as a result//, limited-English patients face serious risk of medication error, according to a study by The New York Academy of Medicine presented today at th...

Electronic Mosquito Repellents Fail to Prevent Malaria Transmission

Electronic mosquito repellents don’t prevent bites and therefore don’t prevent disease transmission, according to a new study.// “EMRs should not be manufactured, advertised or used for mosquito bite and malaria prevention, as they do not do so,” said lead author A. Ali Enayati, Ph.D., lectur...

Primary Health Care Parishioners of Second Largest HIV Infected Area in US Fail to Offer HIV Tests

Los Angeles is the second largest AIDS capital in the United States. The Aids epidemic has shifted largely to the Hispanics//. However its been found that primary care practitioners serving this segment of the population are often failing to offer either HIV testing or safer sex advice to their pat...

Developing Countries may Fail MDG Sanitation Targets

Developing countries may fail to meet the sanitation target of the UN Millennium Development Goals because they lack civil engineering capacity, warned a civil engineering// professor. Jennifer Davis of Stanford University said international aid projects too often focus on new constructions t...

Infant Car Seats Fail Crash Tests

Consumer Reports conducted a study which found that most infant car seats "failed disastrously" the crash tests even at low speeds such as 35 mph. //The seats come off their bases or get warped in place or sometimes even get thrown away. Only two brands of infant car seats were recommended an...