News tagged with preventative care
Study: Docs overtesting for cervical cancer virus
(AP) -- Too many doctors are testing the wrong women, or using the wrong test, for a virus that causes cervical cancer.
Jun 20, 2011 |
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Alarming combo: Bedbugs with 'superbug' germ found
Hate insects? Afraid of germs? Researchers are reporting an alarming combination: bedbugs carrying "superbug" germs.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 11, 2011 |
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Africa loses $12 bln a year to malaria: study
Malaria costs Africa $12 billion (eight million euros) a year in lost productivity, an expense that businesses can reduce by investing in prevention schemes, said a study released Thursday.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 05, 2011 |
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Largest study of high-deductible health plans finds savings, less preventive care
The largest-ever assessment of high-deductible health plans finds that while such plans significantly cut health spending, they also prompt patients to cut back on preventive health care, according to a new RAND Corporation ...
Mar 25, 2011 |
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Wash your hands and you may approach the patient bed
Each year patients in the U.S. get more than a million infections while in the hospital being treated for something else. The best way to prevent infection is to practice proper hand hygiene, according to the U.S. Centers ...
Mar 17, 2011 |
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New state scorecard on children's health care finds wide geographic disparities
Two years after the reauthorization and expansion of the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), a new Commonwealth Fund state-by-state scorecard evaluating how the health care system is working for children finds that ...
Feb 02, 2011 |
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Expansion of HIV screening cost-effective in reducing spread of AIDS, Stanford study shows
An expanded U.S. program of HIV screening and treatment could prevent as many as 212,000 new infections over the next 20 years and prove to be very cost-effective, according to a new study by Stanford University School of ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Dec 20, 2010 |
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Half of emergency care doctors prone to burn-out
One in two emergency care doctors is prone to burn-out, suggests a representative survey of French physicians, published online in Emergency Medicine Journal.
Dec 01, 2010 |
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People with mental illness receive inadequate mass screening for prevention of medical conditions
Dr Alex Mitchell, of the Department of Cancer Studies and Molecular Medicine at the University of Leicester, led the study which has been published in the journal General Hospital Psychiatry.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 01, 2010 |
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Many cancers detected late in US: study
Almost half of cervical and colorectal cancers in the United States are diagnosed in the late stages of the disease when treatment is unlikely to help, a US government survey said Wednesday.
Nov 24, 2010 |
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US survey: 1 in 10 kids has ADHD, awareness cited
(AP) -- A government survey says 1 in 10 U.S. children has ADHD, a sizable increase from a few years earlier that researchers think might be explained by growing awareness and better screening.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 10, 2010 |
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More Americans uninsured, but rate about the same
(AP) -- The government says the number of uninsured Americans is now nearly 47 million, up about 7 percent from 2006. And a large percentage of people say they have put off health care for conditions like diabetes and high ...
Nov 10, 2010 |
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Rate of falls in hospitals significantly reduced after use of intervention for fall prevention
Use of a fall prevention tool kit, which included a fall risk assessment, patient-specific prevention plan, an educational handout and a poster for over the patient's hospital bed reduced the number of older patients with ...
Nov 02, 2010 |
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Contraception could be free under health care law
Fifty years after the pill, another birth control revolution may be on the horizon: free contraception for women in the U.S., thanks to the new health care law.
Oct 31, 2010 |
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Innovative Web-based tool helps doctors improve care
A Web-based tool that extracts information from the electronic medical record (EMR) helps primary care physicians improve care and manage their entire panel of patients. Those are the findings of two new Kaiser Permanente ...
Oct 02, 2010 |
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