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Nurse practitioners and physician assistants could aid in physician shortage
Date: Nov-06-2013Much of the shortage of primary care physicians expected over the next decade could be eliminated if the nation increases use of new models of medical care that expand the role of nurse practitioners and physician assistants, according to a new RAND Corporation study. Expansion of patient-centered medical homes and nurse-managed health centers could help eliminate 50 percent or more of the primary care physician shortage expected to face the U.S. by 2025, according to findings published in the November edition of the journal Health Affairs...
More sleep for children may decrease calorie intake
Date: Nov-06-2013It seems everyone is looking for a culprit when it comes to childhood obesity: fast food, sugary drinks, super-sized everything. But it turns out part of the blame may lie with the simple matter of turning out the lights and rolling into bed. That's according to the results of a study conducted by Chantelle Hart, associate professor of public health at Temple's Center for Obesity Research and Education (CORE), published in Pediatrics...
Health professionals designed and participated in cruel, inhumane, and degrading treatment and torture of detainees: new report
Date: Nov-06-2013An independent panel of military, ethics, medical, public health, and legal experts today charged that U.S. military and intelligence agencies directed doctors and psychologists working in U.S. military detention centers to violate standard ethical principles and medical standards to avoid infliction of harm. The Task Force on Preserving Medical Professionalism in National Security Detention Centers concludes that since September 11, 2001, the Department of Defense (DoD) and CIA improperly demanded that U.S...
Can cervical cancer be prevented with 1 dose of HPV vaccine?
Date: Nov-06-2013Women vaccinated with one dose of a human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine had antibodies against the viruses that remained stable in their blood for four years, suggesting that a single dose of vaccine may be sufficient to generate long-term immune responses and protection against new HPV infections, and ultimately cervical cancer, according to a study published in Cancer Prevention Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research...
The effect of electronic and internet health tools on in-person physician visits
Date: Nov-06-2013Will the growing use of health information technology (IT) and electronic-health (e-health) applications impact the future demand for physicians? Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and The Commonwealth Fund think so. Based on their analysis of recent trends in digital health care and a review of the scientific literature, the authors conclude that patients' future use of physician services will change dramatically as electronic health records and consumer e-health "apps" proliferate. The findings appear in the November issue of the journal Health Affairs...
Seeking a natural way to displace harmful germs from household plumbing
Date: Nov-06-2013Microbes are everywhere - thousands of species are in your mouth, and thousands are in a glass of tap water. The ones in your mouth are mostly harmless - as long as you brush and floss so they don't form a biofilm that allows gum disease a path into the blood stream. Microbes in the tap water delivered by modern water systems in a developed country are also mostly harmless - with some notable exceptions. A team of Virginia Tech researchers is investigating the challenges presented by four often deadly pathogens that have been documented in household or hospital tap water...
Novel findings about learning and memory
Date: Nov-06-2013A study in The Journal of Cell Biology describes how neurons activate the protein PP1, providing key insights into the biology of learning and memory. PP1 is known to be a key regulator of synaptic plasticity, the phenomenon in which neurons remodel their synaptic connections in order to store and relay information - the foundation of learning and memory. But how PP1 is controlled has been unclear...
Childhood obesity prevention and management in rural communities
Date: Nov-06-2013Using telemedicine to unite clinicians and provide health education for them - and by extension, their patients - is an effective way to manage childhood obesity in remote areas. For these communities, which often have limited access to pediatric subspecialists, having a HEALTH-COP can make all the difference. UC Davis research published in the American Journal of Medical Quality has found that HEALTH-COP - the Healthy Eating Active Living TeleHealth Community of Practice - improved health in rural communities throughout California...
Preeclampsia may be predicted by new test
Date: Nov-06-2013A new test that checks the level of a placental protein could help doctors determine if a woman will develop a severe form of high blood pressure during pregnancy, according to a study in the American Heart Association journal Circulation. High blood pressure affects 6 percent to 8 percent of pregnant women in the United States, according to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute...
Juvenile-like state induced in neurons of the prefrontal cortex of mice
Date: Nov-06-2013Brain development and maturation has been thought to be a one-way process, in which plasticity diminishes with age. The possibility that the adult brain can revert to a younger state and regain plasticity has not been considered, often. In a paper appearing in the online open-access journal Molecular Brain, Dr...
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