Primary Care Doctors Are Critical To Detecting Mental Illness In Children
The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) has released a survey on family experiences with primary care doctors in treating children and adolescents living with serious mental illness-exposing a broad gap between family needs and practitioner knowledge and resources. “Most Americans rely on family doctors and pediatricians for early detection of mental illness and in
AHCA Commends Legislation To Modernize Long Term Care Survey System – Rep. Stupak Praised For Leadership In Updating Survey Process
Emphasizing the need for a more streamlined approach in assessing long term care facilities, the American Health Care Association (AHCA) today praised Congressman Bart Stupak, for introducing the Enhancing Quality through Survey System Improvements Act of 2010 (HR 6074). This measure would seek to modernize the decades-old survey system that assesses and monitors long term
Tony Abbott’s New Health Plan Fails On Workforce And Won’t Deliver For All Australians, Says Australian Nursing Federation
Tony Abbott’s plan to fund 2,800 new public hospital beds will create a national nursing workforce crisis and fail to deliver improved health services for the Australian community, according to the Australian Nursing Federation. Australian Nursing Federation Secretary Lee Thomas said nurses represent the largest section of the health workforce and want to see a
Falls The Leading Cause Of Injury Among Older Adults In China
Falls are the most common injury for both urban and rural elderly in China, responsible for more than two-thirds of all injuries in people 65 and older, according to a new study by researchers from China and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Injury Research and Policy. This is the first
As Evidence Of Waterborne Diseases In Pakistan’s Hardest-Hit Communities Grows, World Vision Says, ‘Situation Is Desperate’
With evidence that waterborne disease is on the rise, World Vision has opened an emergency primary health clinic in Lower Dir, an area of Pakistan severely hit by monsoons and floods. The clinic has already received an influx of patients from the area, including many who lost their homes. The effort comes as forecasters predict
The European IVF Monitoring Group Celebrates Its 10-year Anniversary
The European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology invites you to join the 10-year celebration of the European IVF Monitoring Group Reasons why you should attend this workshop: Opportunities for in-depth interviews and discussions with key players in Assisted Reproduction Technologies (ART) data monitoring in Europe and beyond You will hear different aspects of ART
Teams To Study Brain Injuries, Trauma Care Outside Urban Centers
When the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) announced its latest awards for injury research, only five teams were on the list and two of them were headed by doctors at St. Michael’s Hospital. Neurosurgeon Dr. Michael Cusimano will lead a team studying traumatic brain injuries (TBI). Researchers working with Dr. Avery Nathens, the hospital’s
Faith Healing: Study Finds Proximity Could Be Key To Success Of Healing Prayer
Findings reported from a new international study of healing prayer suggest that prayer for another person’s healing just might help — especially if the one praying is physically near the person being prayed for. Candy Gunther Brown, an associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University Bloomington, led the study of “proximal
Teens Who Feel Responsible To Their Parents Are More Engaged In School
As children enter middle school, their engagement in school often declines and so does their achievement. A new longitudinal study looked at students in the United States and in China – two countries likely to have considerably different ideas about adolescence – to find that children who feel more responsible to their parents stay engaged
Unlocking The Secrets Of Cross-Species Rabies Transmission
Like most infectious diseases, rabies can attack several species. However, which species are going to be infected and why turns out to be a difficult problem that represents a major gap in our knowledge of how diseases emerge. A paper just published in the journal Science by a team of researchers led by Daniel G.