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(AP) -- At least 17 infants have died in the last 48 hours at a government-run hospital in eastern India and the state is investigating, media reported Thursday. http://phys.org/news228652109.html Medicine & Health Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:28:38 EST news228652109 (AP) -- Too many doctors are testing the wrong women, or using the wrong test, for a virus that causes cervical cancer. http://phys.org/news227812217.html Medicine & Health Mon, 20 Jun 2011 18:10:34 EST news227812217 (AP) -- Average life expectancies are increasing steadily in most of the world, but men in Iraq and women in South Africa are bucking that trend with notable drops in their time on Earth. http://phys.org/news224509916.html Medicine & Health Fri, 13 May 2011 12:52:21 EST news224509916 Seven of 10 adults think the U.S. health care system needs to be fundamentally changed or completely rebuilt, according to a Commonwealth Fund survey released today. The concerns reflect widespread experiences with access barriers, poorly coordinated care and growing costs. The survey also reveals strong support for more patient-centered care systems and innovative use of teams and information systems. http://phys.org/news221278973.html Medicine & Health Wed, 06 Apr 2011 03:23:10 EST news221278973 Despite the intent of recent mental health "parity" legislation, including the Affordable Care Act, even steep reductions in co-pays for outpatient mental health care will not motivate more seniors in managed care plans to seek that care, according to a new study by Brown University researchers. http://phys.org/news216384769.html Medicine & Health Tue, 08 Feb 2011 10:53:04 EST news216384769 Studies have shown that regions spending more on medical care, such as Miami, do not have better health outcomes than regions that spend relatively less, such as Minneapolis. However, less is known about how medical spending affects health at certain critical times, such as in the immediate period after a patient is admitted to the hospital with a life-threatening condition. http://phys.org/news215718608.html Medicine & Health Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:50:22 EST news215718608 Use of electronic health records by hospitals across the United States has had only a limited effect on improving the quality of medical care, according to a new RAND Corporation study. http://phys.org/news212332232.html Medicine & Health Thu, 23 Dec 2010 13:28:03 EST news212332232 Infants in the Netherlands born to mothers who have been classified as low risk, are more than twice as likely to die during or shortly after birth than babies born to high risk mothers, finds a study published in the British Medical Journal today. http://phys.org/news207979213.html Medicine & Health Wed, 03 Nov 2010 05:10:01 EST news207979213 The medical costs of obesity are twice as high as previously reported, according to the first study to estimate the causal effects of obesity on U.S. medical costs. http://phys.org/news206809030.html Medicine & Health Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:30:01 EST news206809030 Researchers at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School have embarked on an ambitious study of the link among genetics, lifestyle, environment, and health that organizers hope will set the stage for a new generation of personalized disease analysis and medical care. http://phys.org/news205481968.html Medicine & Health Tue, 05 Oct 2010 07:30:01 EST news205481968 When looking for a new physician, patients are often encouraged to select those who are board certified or who have not made payments on malpractice claims. Yet these characteristics are not always a good predictor of which physicians will provide the highest quality medical care, according to a new study from the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit research organization, and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. http://phys.org/news203614780.html Medicine & Health Mon, 13 Sep 2010 16:50:05 EST news203614780 Almost 40 per cent of people admitted to hospital after taking an overdose received sub-standard care that may have contributed to their death, a new study by researchers at the Universities of Manchester and Bristol has found. http://phys.org/news200302488.html Medicine & Health Fri, 06 Aug 2010 08:35:06 EST news200302488 Brief interventions among adolescents reporting to emergency departments may be associated with a reduction in the experience of peer violence and alcohol misuse in this population, according to a study in the August 4 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on violence and human rights. http://phys.org/news200047025.html Medicine & Health Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:00:01 EST news200047025 (AP) -- The Obama administration on Tuesday rolled out an ambitious five-year plan for moving doctors and hospitals to computerized medical records, promising greater safety for patients and lower costs. http://phys.org/news198256864.html Medicine & Health Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:21:20 EST news198256864 Patients admitted to a teaching hospital for an end-of-life illness generally receive high-quality medical care, but there is a need for better communication about family expectations and for timely efforts to keep patients comfortable, according to a new study. http://phys.org/news196951863.html Medicine & Health Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:00:05 EST news196951863 A new analysis has found that two million cancer survivors did not get needed medical services in the previous year because of concerns about cost. Published early online in Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study raises the concern that the long-term health and well-being of cancer survivors could suffer because patients have financial worries about their care. http://phys.org/news195706566.html Medicine & Health Mon, 14 Jun 2010 03:56:26 EST news195706566 When the high cost of health care forces families to forgo paying for basic household expenses, such as rent, utilities or food, children's health suffers, according to research to be presented Sunday, May 2 at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. http://phys.org/news192026459.html Medicine & Health Sun, 02 May 2010 13:41:14 EST news192026459 UCLA researchers sought to compare how two different approaches to providing follow-up care to health fair participants impacted blood-pressure control. http://phys.org/news190375592.html Medicine & Health Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:40:05 EST news190375592 More than one in four elderly Americans lacked the capacity to make their own medical care decisions at the end of life, according to a study of 3,746 people to be published April 1 in the New England Journal of Medicine. http://phys.org/news189281532.html Medicine & Health Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:30:04 EST news189281532 UCSF researchers have shown that delivering HIV prevention services to people living with HIV in clinical settings can sharply reduce their sexual risk behaviors. http://phys.org/news188671974.html Medicine & Health Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:50:02 EST news188671974 Here's a question that's not being asked in the health-care debate: How much medical care do we want in our lives? It's something we should be discussing. http://phys.org/news187991077.html Medicine & Health Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:50:02 EST news187991077 Studies in the United States have long shown that rich people tend to be healthier than poor people, and that this "health gap" between the haves and have-nots gets worse as people get older. But is that because the U.S. is a capitalist society? Apparently not. A new study from North Carolina State University shows that the same is true in China. However, there is one key difference. In China, the overall health gap across generations is getting narrower - and it's getting wider in the U.S. http://phys.org/news187870170.html Medicine & Health Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:09:41 EST news187870170 Admission to a hospital when most of the beds are already full can be deadly for patients, according to a new University of Michigan Health System study showing high occupancy increases the risk of dying in the hospital by 5.6 percent. http://phys.org/news187361121.html Medicine & Health Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:10:01 EST news187361121 California's dirty air caused more than $193 million in hospital-based medical care from 2005 to 2007 as people sought help for problems such as asthma and pneumonia that are triggered by elevated pollution levels, according to a new RAND Corporation study. http://phys.org/news186728835.html Space & Earth Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:20:01 EST news186728835 Approximately 66 percent of respondents to a Maryland telephone survey do not have advance medical directives, according to a new report by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Department of Health Policy and Management. Younger adults and blacks were less likely than older adults and whites, respectively, to report having an advance directive, which includes the living will and health care power of attorney. Advance directive is an end-of-life planning tool that provides instructions for types of medical treatment that are desired and/or who can make decisions about medical care should someone be unable to do so for him or herself. The results will be published in an upcoming issue of Health Policy and are available online at the journal's website. http://phys.org/news185627256.html Medicine & Health Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:30:01 EST news185627256 Patients admitted to hospitals with higher-intensity end-of-life care live longer than those admitted to hospitals with low-intensity approaches, according to a University of Pittsburgh study available online and published in the February issue of the journal Medical Care. Higher-intensity care refers to greater use of life-sustaining measures such as ICU admission, intubation or mechanical ventilation, kidney dialysis and feeding tubes. http://phys.org/news185112574.html Medicine & Health Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:20:01 EST news185112574 A significant percentage of U.S. women 70 years or older who were severely cognitively impaired received screening mammography that was unlikely to benefit them, according to a study of 2,131 elderly women conducted by researchers from the University of California, San Francisco. http://phys.org/news182709028.html Medicine & Health Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:38:13 EST news182709028 A national survey of 15,762 households by UCLA/Wayne State University researchers found that only 21 percent of Americans suffering from clinical depression receive medical care consistent with American Psychiatric Association guidelines. Half receive no treatment at all. http://phys.org/news181851337.html Medicine & Health Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:30:01 EST news181851337 At the request of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce as part of an investigation into preventable medical errors, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) has issued a report recommending further restrictions regarding duty hours for resident physicians and other actions to reduce resident fatigue and ensure patient safety, according to an article published in the January issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR). http://phys.org/news181833859.html Medicine & Health Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:00:01 EST news181833859 A new study led by a team of researchers at New York Medical College suggests that that medical liability concerns may be playing a role in the increase of MRSA in healthcare settings by encouraging clinicians to prescribe antibiotics more often and more broadly than clinical circumstances and evidence-based guidelines warrant. The study appeared in the September-October issue of the American Journal of Therapeutics. http://phys.org/news180377056.html Medicine & Health Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:00:01 EST news180377056