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Study reveals relationship between migraine and low income status

Studies show that migraine is more common among people with lower incomes. This relationship is examined in a study published in the August 28, 2013, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, looking at whether developing migraines limits people's educational and career achievements, leading to a lower income status, or whether problems related to low income such as stressful life events and poor access to health care increase the likelihood of developing migraines.

29 Aug 2013

Patients attending specialist nurse clinics do not get inferior treatment to that offered by rheumatologists

Patients attending clinical nurse specialist clinics do not get inferior treatment to that offered by consultant rheumatologists, the results of a major new clinical trial have revealed.

29 Aug 2013

ASD children appear to outgrow critical social communication disability

Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have shown that high-functioning autism spectrum disorder (ASD) children appear to outgrow a critical social communication disability. Younger children with ASD have trouble integrating the auditory and visual cues associated with speech, but the researchers found that the problem clears up in adolescence.

29 Aug 2013

Health Union publishes RA in America 2013 survey results

Health Union, LLC announced today that it has published detailed results from the "RA in America 2013" survey on its newly launched website http://RheumatoidArthritis.Net. The survey covered a broad array of topics impacting people with Rheumatoid Arthritis (also called RA), and was taken by 1,055 respondents making it one of the largest of its kind conducted with RA patients in the United States.

28 Aug 2013

Stroke patients with attention disorders can be helped by brain-training computer games

A majority of stroke patients have problems paying attention and could be helped by brain-training computer games, a new study suggests.

28 Aug 2013

$Coordinator-based FLS helps identify, manage people at high risk of secondary fractures$

Coordinator-based FLS helps identify, manage people at high risk of secondary fractures

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27 Aug 2013

Physicians and health professionals need to be on alert for caregiver-fabricated illness in children

While it's rare for a parent to fabricate an illness in their child, a McMaster University researcher says physicians and other health professionals need to be on the alert for this form of child abuse.

27 Aug 2013

Tips from experts can help cancer survivors continue pre-diagnosis daily routines

A person is considered a cancer survivor from the minute they are diagnosed with the disease. Tips from experts at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) can help survivors continue pre-diagnosis daily routines that may include working; one such expert, a cancer survivor herself, experienced firsthand the benefits and challenges of survivorship in the workplace.

27 Aug 2013

Comprehensive test of biomarkers have prognostic and diagnostic value in Parkinson's disease

Perelman School of Medicine researchers at the University of Pennsylvania report the first biomarker results reported from the Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative (PPMI), showing that a comprehensive test of protein biomarkers in spinal fluid have prognostic and diagnostic value in early stages of Parkinson's disease.

27 Aug 2013

VA health system scrutiny draws headlines

Howard and Jean Somers have been meeting with VA officials and congressional staffers to tell their son's story. "If your system is so difficult to get into," Howard Somers asked, "how the hell are you going to prevent suicides?" ... (Daniel's) service in Iraq, including multiple combat missions as a turret gunner, left him with severe post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury.

27 Aug 2013

Health professionals need to be alert for fabricated illness in child, says researcher

26 Aug 2013

Research roundup: Moving kids onto Medicaid; competitive markets

Each week, KHN compiles a selection of recently released health policy studies and briefs.

26 Aug 2013

Post-doctoral fellow receives grant from NIH to study the response levels to FES in stroke patients

Rakesh Pilkar, Ph.D., a post-doctoral fellow in Human Performance and Engineering Research at Kessler Foundation, was awarded a R03, $153,000 grant by the National Institutes of Health to study the response levels to function electrical stimulation (FES) interventions in the rehabilitation of stroke patients-titled, "Identification of Responders to the FES Interventions in Stroke Populations".

26 Aug 2013

Study looks at cost benefits of knee replacement surgery relative to societal, economic savings

The full impact of knee replacement surgery on both patients' lives and on society includes significant overall cost savings, according to a new study published in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery.

22 Aug 2013

Researchers report overall increase in use of tPA to dissolve clots blocking arteries

Use of the "clot-busting" drug tissue plasminogen activator to treat patients with strokes caused by a blockage of blood flow nearly doubled between 2003 and 2011.

22 Aug 2013

Griffith-led online initiative aims at supporting people with developmental disabilities

Supporting children, adolescents and adults with developmental disabilities is the aim of a new online initiative led by Griffith in collaboration with La Trobe University and Sydney University.

21 Aug 2013

Risk factors linked to death may be reversible in severe encephalitis patients

People with severe encephalitis - inflammation of the brain - are much more likely to die if they develop severe swelling in the brain, intractable seizures or low blood platelet counts, regardless of the cause of their illness, according to new Johns Hopkins research.

21 Aug 2013

Study: Attention, financial investment needed in places where HIV/AIDS has not reached epidemic levels

The HIV/AIDS epidemic is changing in unexpected ways in countries around the world, showing that greater attention and financial investment may be needed in places where the disease has not reached epidemic levels, according to a new study from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington.

21 Aug 2013

Viewpoints: GOP trapped between angry base and reality of health law; small businesses 'scrambling;' competing views of Medicaid expansion in Va.

Recent political reporting suggests that Republican leaders are in a state of high anxiety, trapped between an angry base that still views Obamacare as the moral equivalent of slavery and the reality that health reform is the law of the land and is going to happen (Paul Krugman, 8/18).

20 Aug 2013

US model of treating depression could effectively be imported into UK

A US model of treating depression through a network of specialists could effectively be imported into the UK, new research has revealed.

20 Aug 2013

Disability News and Research

Study reveals relationship between migraine and low income status

Patients attending specialist nurse clinics do not get inferior treatment to that offered by rheumatologists

ASD children appear to outgrow critical social communication disability

Health Union publishes RA in America 2013 survey results

Stroke patients with attention disorders can be helped by brain-training computer games

Coordinator-based FLS helps identify, manage people at high risk of secondary fractures

Physicians and health professionals need to be on alert for caregiver-fabricated illness in children

Tips from experts can help cancer survivors continue pre-diagnosis daily routines

Comprehensive test of biomarkers have prognostic and diagnostic value in Parkinson's disease

VA health system scrutiny draws headlines

Health professionals need to be alert for fabricated illness in child, says researcher

Research roundup: Moving kids onto Medicaid; competitive markets

Post-doctoral fellow receives grant from NIH to study the response levels to FES in stroke patients

Study looks at cost benefits of knee replacement surgery relative to societal, economic savings

Researchers report overall increase in use of tPA to dissolve clots blocking arteries

Griffith-led online initiative aims at supporting people with developmental disabilities

Risk factors linked to death may be reversible in severe encephalitis patients

Study: Attention, financial investment needed in places where HIV/AIDS has not reached epidemic levels

Viewpoints: GOP trapped between angry base and reality of health law; small businesses 'scrambling;' competing views of Medicaid expansion in Va.

US model of treating depression could effectively be imported into UK

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