Hurricane Katrina was the most significant natural disaster to strike the United States. Thousands of people were exposed to destruction, human violence and desperate circumstances. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder was likely to be a significant medical issue in the aftermath of Katrina.
How do climate change and other global environmental changes affect the average Kansan? Researchers at Kansas State University are working to find out.
A deadly new fish virus that caused huge fish kills in several eastern Great Lakes in 2005 and 2006 is likely already in Lake Michigan and may be in Lake Superior and the Mississippi River.
Employees who participated in a worksite health program improved blood pressure control by 9 percent and diabetes control by 15 percent, researchers reported at the American Heart Association’s 8th Scientific Forum on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research in Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke.
The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine has received a $23 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help victims of human filariasis — a worm infection which causes some of the world?s most debilitating and distressing diseases.
A survey of Medicare patients who had major elective surgery found that although most participated in the decision regarding the hospital at which they would undergo their procedures, physicians served as the main decision-makers one-third of the time, according to an article in the March issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
A new study by researchers at the University of Virginia Health System may change the way physicians assess a patient?s risk of having a stroke.
Network for the Improvement of Addiction Treatment (NIATx) will host the first NIATx Summit in San Antonio. Addiction treatment providers, payers, policymakers and clinicians will come together to celebrate recent successes in treatment access and retention, unveil a national campaign and learn cutting-edge practices to improve the quality of treatment service.
Using a cognitive behavioral therapy called “prolonged exposure” appears more effective than “present-centered” therapy, a supportive intervention to treat female military veterans and active duty women with posttraumatic stress disorder, according to a study in the Feb. 28 issue of JAMA.
Dartmouth/VA researchers show that adding CRP testing to routine assessments would increase the number of Americans eligible for cholesterol-lowering treatment by about two million if used judiciously, and by over 25 million if used broadly — with most of these people being at low risk for heart attacks or heart disease.