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NHS Will Have To Be Re-Reformed Within Five Years, UK published
Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:00:00 PST
In five years the NHS will require another reform, caution the editors of three leading healthcare publications. In addition, they request a public debate regarding the NHS's future to "salvage some good" from the government's "damaging" reforms. According to a second BMJ report discarding the Health and Social Care Bill, now would save more than £1 billion in 2013...
IPM Decreased Pesticide Use In Univ Of Florida Housing published
Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PST
A new study recently published in the Journal of Integrated Pest Management (JIPM) shows that from 2003 to 2008, the use of insecticide active ingredients was reduced by about 90% in University of Florida housing buildings after an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) program was implemented...
Malaria Deaths Grossly Underestimated published
Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PST
A new analysis of malaria mortality published in The Lancet this week suggests deaths to the parasitic disease worldwide have been grossly underestimated, especially in adults. If confirmed, the study has huge implications for how large amounts of charity money are spent in controlling the disease...
Sugar Should Be Regulated Like Alcohol And Tobacco Say Scientists published
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:00:00 PST
Scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), argue that added sweeteners pose dangers to public health, and the government should regulate sugar in the same way as it regulates alcohol and tobacco. They set out their reasons for viewing sugar as "toxic" in a comment article published in Nature this week. First author Robert H...
Pedestrians Detected From Within The Car By A New System Of Stereo Cameras published
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PST
A team of German researchers, with the help of a lecturer at the University of Alcala (UAH, Spain), has developed a system that locates pedestrians in front of the vehicle using artificial vision. Soon to be integrated into the top-of-the-range Mercedes vehicles, the device includes two cameras and a unit that process information supplied in real time by all image points...
Mentoring Helps Survivors Of Violence, Child Abuse published
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PST
Can mentoring relationships help female students who survive childhood abuse or domestic violence? Absolutely, according to new research from Concordia University, published in the Journal of College Student Development...
Detection Of Cyanide Poisoning Extended By Forensic Research published
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PST
Researchers have found a new biomarker for cyanide poisoning, which may extend its detection window in death investigations by weeks if not months. Unless cyanide is discovered at the time of death on the mouth or nose, elevated cyanide concentrations can only be found for up to two days under current toxicological testing...
Assessing The Value Of BMI Screening And Surveillance In Schools published
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PST
The value of routine body mass index (BMI) screening in schools has been a topic of ongoing controversy. An expert Roundtable Discussion in the current issue of Childhood Obesity, a peer-reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc...
Key Factors In Student Weight - Impoverished Schools, Parent Education published
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PST
Attending a financially poor school may have more of an effect on unhealthy adolescent weight than family poverty, according to Penn State sociologists. Poor schools even influence how parental education protects kids from becoming overweight...
Challenges Posed By A Major Terrorist Attack Highlighted By Mumbai Hospital Review published
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PST
Meticulous forward planning, effective casualty assessment by a senior surgeon and efficient teamwork by medical and administrative staff are essential when handling injuries sustained in major terrorist incidents...
Public Health Burden Could Be Eased By Societal Control Of Sugar published
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:00:00 PST
Sugar should be controlled like alcohol and tobacco to protect public health, according to a team of UCSF researchers, who maintain in a new report that sugar is fueling a global obesity pandemic, contributing to 35 million deaths annually worldwide from non-communicable diseases like diabetes, heart disease and cancer...
The Leading Cause Of Infection Outbreaks In US Hospitals Is Norovirus published
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PST
Norovirus, a pathogen that often causes food poisoning and gastroenteritis, was responsible for 18.2 percent of all infection outbreaks and 65 percent of ward closures in U.S...
CPOE System With Clinical Decision Support For Radiology Successfully Implemented By Large Hospital published
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PST
In an effort to reduce the inappropriate use of medical imaging and improve quality of care, a large, tertiary-care hospital has successfully implemented a computerized physician order entry (CPOE) system with clinical decision support for radiology, according to a study in the February issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology...
Those Living In Poor Neighbourhoods Suffer Higher Incidence Of Arthritis published
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PST
Results revealed that people who live in socially disadvantaged areas were 42 per cent more at risk of getting arthritis than people in more affluent areas. The study revealed more than 30 per cent of people living in socially disadvantaged areas reported having arthritis, as opposed to 18.5 per cent in the more affluent areas...
'Wake-Up' Stroke Patients Can Be Treated Safely With Clot-Busting Drugs published
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PST
Clot-busting drugs may be safe for patients who wake up experiencing stroke symptoms, according to preliminary research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2012. In "wake-up" stroke, the person wakes up with symptoms after going to sleep with none...
Emergency Departments' Quality Evaluation Requires Hospital-Wide Effort published
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PST
Time can be important in an emergency department especially in a busy Level 1 Trauma Center like MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland, when getting patients appropriate care is essential. However, when the quality of an emergency department is judged by a patient's length of stay, time takes on a new meaning...
How Genes Are Affected By Weightlessness - A Fly's Perspective published
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PST
On Earth all biology is subjected to gravity. Some biological systems require gravity for correct orientation (geotropism: plants grow up, roots grow down). In the absence of gravity even human biology is affected: astronauts lose bone density at 1-2% a month rather than the usual 1-2% a year on Earth. But the effects of gravity on cellular processes are less well understood...
Spread Of Pandemic Flu Could Be Drastically Slowed By Hand Washing And Wearing Masks published
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PST
Masks and hand hygiene could cut the spread of flu-like symptoms up to 75 percent, a University of Michigan study found...
Sugar - Attacking Health Globally published
Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:00:00 PST
A recent study published in Nature by Robert Lustig, MD, Laura Schmidt, PhD, MSW, MPH, and Claire Brindis, DPH, and colleges at the University of California, San Francisco, reveals that sugar is as dangerous when over-consumed as tobacco or alcohol, and should be used in moderation...
Inquests More Likely For Younger People And Deaths From Medical Care Complications published
Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PST
Coroners are more likely to hold inquests for deaths involving younger people or people who died of fatal complications from medical care, according to a study published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal)...
Divorce Hurts Health More At Earlier Ages published
Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PST
Divorce at a younger age hurts people's health more than divorce later in life, according to a new study by a Michigan State University sociologist. Hui Liu said the findings, which appear in the research journal Social Science & Medicine, suggest older people have more coping skills to deal with the stress of divorce...
Medication Errors In Hospitals Reduced By e-Prescribing published
Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PST
A study published in this week's PLoS Medicine shows that commercial electronic prescribing systems (commonly known as e-prescribing, in which prescribers use a computer to order medications for their patients through a system with the help of prompts, aids, and alerts) could substantially reduce prescribing error rates in hospital in-patients...
Mismatch Between Global Burden Of Ill-Health And Published Research published
Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PST
Comprehensive work studying the burden of ill-health and death resulting from specific conditions, injuries, and risk factors - the Global Burden of Disease project - has shown that the burden of ill-health around the world is highly inequitable. In this week's PLoS Medicine, the editors review progress towards the journal's goal of reflecting and addressing this inequity...
Smart Paint Could Revolutionize Structural Safety published
Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PST
An innovative low-cost smart paint that can detect microscopic faults in wind turbines, mines and bridges before structural damage occurs is being developed by researchers at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. The environmentally-friendly paint uses nanotechnology to detect movement in large structures, and could shape the future of safety monitoring...
New Guidelines To Prevent Infection In Minor Surgery published
Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PST
New guidelines from the Healthcare Infection Society (HIS) aimed at minimising surgical infection in day centres and primary care are now published in the Journal of Hospital Infection...
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