A new brief from the Kaiser Family Foundation reports that President Obama’s health care reform represents a significant step forward for Americans with HIV, helping to expand health insurance to many HIV-positive individuals who would be...
Il fumo di tabacco, in Italia, è la principale causa di morte prematura, cui viene attribuito il 16% di tutti i decessi nella popolazione dai 30 anni in su, per cui contrastare il diffondersi del fumo nella popolazione rappresenta una priorità assoluta.
The South Carolina St. James-Santee Family Health Center used The Community Guide to develop a cancer screening program targeting African American women. Com...
AbstractObjective To identify modifiable factors associated with longevity among adults aged 75 and older.Design Population based cohort study.Setting Kungsholmen, Stockholm, Sweden.Participants 1810 adults aged 75 or more participating in the...
This study finds that the convergence of interactive media formats with web-based communication tools will likely enhance e-patient education and promote patient involvement in ways that alter traditional health care interactions, and may lead to...
Elspeth Murray recites the poem that was included at the International Initiative in Mental Health Leadership Conference in Edinburgh in 2006, where she cond...
Expert-reviewed information summary about factors that may increase the risk of developing breast cancer and about research aimed at the prevention of this disease.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - About two-thirds of women diagnosed with early stage breast cancer want to take part in making decisions about their treatment, according to a new survey of patients from five...
Mi septembre, la nouvelle tombe. "le Mycophénolate Mofétil (Cellcept) est exclu du dispositif "tiers payant contre générique"". Résultat du travail de "Renaloo", association de patients qui a su mobiliser son réseau et négocier avec l'ANSM et la CNAMTS... C'est une première....mais ce genre de situation va probablement devenir de plus en plus courante.
Patients titrating and administering their own medication? Sounds like some futuristic scene from a sci-fi movie where Doctors no longer exist and patients are in charge of their own healthcare. But this is actually not so futuristic explains Dr. David Judge, medical director of the Ambulatory Practice of the Future (APF) at Mass General.
È questo il quesito a cui hanno risposto 14 persone, uomini e donne di tutte le età e di varia estrazione sociale e culturale in un esperimento di democrazia deliberativa applicato alla medicina quasi senza precedenti in Italia.
Nei nosocomi italiani si sbaglia più o meno quanto in quelli francesi, spagnoli, olandesi e canadesi: in circa 5 casi su cento. Molto meno se si considera la media dei dati internazionali (9%). È vero, però, che più della metà di questi errori possono essere prevenuti con l’adozione di protocolli e linee guida rigorosi nella gestione del paziente.
The NSMC is currently working with The Department of Health (England)and UCL's Institute of Health Equity to identify ways in which social marketing can be used to address the social determinants of health
http://www.ted.com Hans Rosling unveils new data visuals that untangle the complex risk factors of one of the world's deadliest (and most misunderstood) dise...
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