A simple request, when placed in a certain context, has the potential to create conflict. This is epitomized in the phrase — “does he take sugar?” — an approach society has learned to avoid when speaking about a disabled person. New research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council seeks to better understand the ways in which people strive to avoid disagreement in everyday conversation.
High blood pressure in children often goes unnoticed at the doctor?s office, and many children go home without follow-up or treatment, suggests a study from the Johns Hopkins Children?s Center.
Despite new guidelines from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control saying that all teens be routinely tested for HIV, many pediatricians continue to test only patients with high-risk behaviors, according to a study from the Johns Hopkins Children?s Center.
A small study of conversations with 26 parents of babies who died shortly after birth found that what parents said they had been told about treatment or end-of-life options was frequently at odds with what caregivers reported in the medical record.
People with HIV who drop out of care do not live as long as those who remain under a doctor’s treatment, said Baylor College of Medicine and Veterans Affairs researchers in a report published in the June 1 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases and available on line.
If you have some form of lung or cardiovascular disease, has your doctor told you how to check today’s “AQI”?and what to do if it’s over 100? Health care professionals should inform sensitive patients about the risks of exposure to air pollutants and recommend avoidance strategies for days when air quality is low, according to a special report in The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, published by the Southern Society for Clinical Investigation by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health.
Only one per cent of women know that older women – those 80 or older – have the greatest risk of developing breast cancer according to new research published.
The movement to overhaul the country?s broken health care system took another step forward today at the Better Health Care Together Strategy Summit in New York. SEIU and other co-founders of the partnership of business, labor, government, and nonprofit leaders committed to comprehensive health care reform by 2012 called on policy makers to heed the public?s plea for bipartisan, common sense solutions to this country?s health care crisis.
Scientists from the Center for Applied Medical Research from the University of Navarra investigate whether cardiotrophin 1, a molecule that can be measured in blood, can be used as a diagnostic marker for hypertensive cardiopathy.
Physicians and staff at UCSD Medical Center say this is the perfect time to remind San Diegans that they can take care of their skin and still have fun in the sun.