Drama certainly has the power to entertain, but can it also change behavior? A play about substance abuse was successful at prompting audience members to participate in substance abuse prevention activities, according to Allyn Howlett, Ph.D., from Wake Forest University School of Medicine.
Family-oriented psychosocial interventions seem to be beneficial in improving the mental and physical well-being of both patients with chronic illness and their family members, but the results aren?t as robust as researchers had hoped.
Overweight adults are significantly more likely to sustain injuries that require medical treatment than their normal-weight peers, finds a new study of more than 40,000 people. For the extremely obese, the risk is nearly twice as high.
As Abbott Laboratories concluded its Annual General Meeting in Chicago, advocates from AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the US’ largest HIV/AIDS healthcare, prevention and education provider, which operates free AIDS treatment clinics in the US, Africa, Latin America/Caribbean and Asia, continued to press Abbott to rollback its punitive drug blacklist against Thailand on six new Abbott medicines and drop its demand that Thailand rescind a compulsory license for a generic version of another blacklisted Abbott drug, Aluvia, in order to access Abbott’s version of the lifesaving AIDS drug at a significantly reduced price from the company.
More than 600 school nutrition professionals will call on Congress to adopt national school food and beverage standards for ?competitive foods? sold on school campuses.
Despite the potential for conflict of interest, virtually all practicing physicians in the U.S. have some form of relationship with pharmaceutical manufacturers but the nature and extent of those relationships vary, depending on the kind of practice, medical specialty, patient mix, and professional activities, reports a study in the April 26 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
Depression may be an early symptom of Parkinson’s disease, according to research that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology’s 59th Annual Meeting in Boston, April 28 ? May 5, 2007.
Federal Health Minister Tony Clement joined the Canadian Lung Association to announce the development of a national action plan to improve the respiratory health of Canadians.
Arthritis and other rheumatic conditions exact a large and growing economic toll on the nation as a result of the increase in numbers of persons affected, rather than an increase in mean expenditures and earnings losses, attests Charles G. Helmick, M.D., at the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Scientists and a former supermodel are joining forces to promote healthier practices within the fashion industry as part of the Academy for Eating Disorders (AED) international conference in Baltimore, Maryland, May 2-5, 2007.