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Workplace opportunities and stresses are both increasing

Teamworking and other modern employment practices can put as much strain on a woman's family relationships as working an extra 120 hours a year, an extensive study of the British workforce funded by the Economic and Social Research Council suggests.

17 Dec 2007

Physician style and HMO affiliation impact lengths of patient visit

Apart from a more complicated medical case, what makes different physicians spend different amounts of time with their patients" Researchers at UC Davis have identified several key doctor- and practice-specific characteristics that affect the length of a patient's medical appointment, and ultimately with a patient's satisfaction with the doctor's visit.

5 Dec 2007

Research institutes from Finland and Singapore develop remote healthcare services

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and A*STAR Agency for Science, Technology and Research from Singapore have developed remote healthcare services that allow patients to be treated globally independent of time and location and irrespective of the solutions provided by hardware and data system suppliers. In Finland, the first trial services for treating cardiac patients and patients suffering from chronic illnesses have been promising.

5 Dec 2007

UK fertility regulator wants fewer IVF twin births in order to save lives

The fertility regulator in the UK, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has called for a reduction in the number of twin births from IVF.

5 Dec 2007

New psychiatric medication treatment guidelines for preschoolers

The number of preschool-age children being treated with stimulants, antidepressants and other psychiatric drugs is on the rise, despite limited research and a lack of clinical practice guidelines.

4 Dec 2007

Electronic patient tracking technologies versus manual whiteboards

Proper design of computational tools is critical if they are to be used with success in patient-care settings, particularly in hospital emergency rooms, a field study conducted by researchers at the University at Buffalo and other institutions recently revealed.

27 Nov 2007

New strategic relationship between PAHO and the Canadian government

The Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr. Mirta Roses, and the Permanent Representative of Canada to the Organization of American States (OAS), Ambassador Graeme C. Clark, have signed a master framework document that represents an important step forward in the strategic relationship between PAHO and the Canadian government Ambassador Graeme C. Clark and Dr. Mirta Roses sign the strategic cooperation framework.

27 Nov 2007

Top priorities for breast cancer research

The key priorities that will impact on the future treatment of breast cancer have been identified by a group of experts on the disease.

22 Nov 2007

Influenza vaccine strategies for broad global access

If an influenza pandemic occurred this year, fewer than one-fifth of the approximately 13 billion vaccine doses needed to fully vaccinate the global population would be available within six months in a best-case scenario.

21 Nov 2007

AIDS statistics revised by WHO in 2007

New data show global HIV prevalence - the percentage of people living with HIV - has levelled off and that the number of new infections has fallen, in part as a result of the impact of HIV programmes.

21 Nov 2007

Pedometers motivate diabetics to walk more

The use of a pedometer and a Web site that tracked physical activity levels proved to be powerful motivators for people with diabetes who participated in a recent walking study conducted by researchers from the University of Michigan Health System and VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System.

20 Nov 2007

Managing the chronic care of patients is not being captured in today's reimbursement system

Full-time physicians spend an average of one full day a week providing services for patients that are not reimbursed by Medicare, according to a new study conducted by Jeffrey Farber, MD, Assistant Professor of Geriatrics at The Mount Sinai Medical Center, and published the journal Annals of Internal Medicine.

19 Nov 2007

Tinea unguium frequently underdiagnosed by pediatricians

In Europe, Tinea unguium has an incidence rate between 0 and 2.6% (average 0.3%) in general population.

19 Nov 2007

Top selling diabetes drug to carry back box warning

The government watchdog body in the U.S., The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has placed a "black box" warning on the popular drug Avandia.

15 Nov 2007

SimPlant Planner provides perfect placement of dental implants

The University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry is using a computer program to find the perfect spot in the mouth to place dental implants.

6 Nov 2007

Consultation on the protection of patients and volunteers undergoing MRI examinations

The Health Protection Agency has published a consultation document on its website about the protection of patients and volunteers undergoing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) examinations.

1 Nov 2007

Family ties determine who gets heart disease

The genetic family ties that bind brothers and sisters also link their risk for developing clogged arteries and having potentially fatal heart attacks, scientists at Johns Hopkins report.

31 Oct 2007

Whole parasite malaria vaccine to be manufactured for clinical trials

Sanaria Inc. and the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative has officially opened a one-of-a-kind clinical manufacturing facility to produce a vaccine that uses a weakened form of the malaria parasite to fight a disease that annually kills more than one million people, most of them African children.

29 Oct 2007

Smoking does not result in more advanced stage diagnoses or aggressive breast cancers

Smoking cigarettes is associated with an increased risk of cancers of the lung, head and neck, esophagus, bladder and many others and also affects response to anti-cancer treatments.

28 Oct 2007

Foreign doctors in Britain in danger of being made scapegoats

The British Medical Association (BMA) says that foreign doctors already working in the UK must not be made scapegoats because of government plans to reduce medical immigration.

28 Oct 2007