C M G Buttery

This so-called research gets the fickle finger of fate award  Published in Archives of Internal Medicine;this needed research to validate it?  And there are those who say we need to spend more on research!

 Drawing on years of experience in cancer research and patient care, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center released today the most comprehensive, risk-based screening guidelines publicly available to date for breast, cervical and colorectal cancers (also see the MDAC Screening Guides). The new recommendations represent the first wave of an effort by [...]

Patients who die in the hospital in the United States are almost five times as likely to have spent part of their last hospital stay in the ICU than patients in England. What’s more, over the age of 85, ICU usage among terminal patients is eight times higher in the US than in England, according [...]

A study released today in Pediatrics by The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia offers updated evidence that children ages 4 to 8 who are restrained in the rear seat of a car in a belt-positioning booster seat are 45 percent less likely to be injured in a crash compared with children using a seat belt alone. [...]

More than 8,700 infants end up in the emergency room each year because their car seats are used improperly outside the car, according to study presented Monday at the American Academy of Pediatrics’ annual meeting in Washington. Babies are spending more time in car seats, which have saved nearly 9,000 lives in the past three [...]

A new report from the Guttmacher Institute identifies how improved access to family planning services has reduced the use of abortion services worldwide although problems if access to either opportunities varies widely among different countries, particularly in the developing  countries..

In a report issued by the  Institute of Medicine “It’s clear that smoking bans work,” said Lynn Goldman, professor of environmental health sciences, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, and chair of the committee of experts that wrote the report.  “Bans reduce the risks of heart attack in nonsmokers as well as smokers.  [...]

Researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have demonstrated that it is possible to successfully recruit and retain a large number of adolescent smokers from the general population into a smoking intervention study and, through personalized, proactive telephone counseling, significantly impact rates of six-month continuous quitting. The trial, funded by the National Institutes of Health, [...]

The Los Angeles Times (10/14, Stein) “Booster Shots” blog reported that as bicycles ride a wave of popularity, “cyclists may be suffering more injuries,” according to University of Colorado researchers. After looking at “accident rates and severity from 1996 to 2006,” they noted that “among 329 bicycle accident cases admitted to the Rocky Mountain Regional [...]

In a new study, Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers found that if vaccine coverage and efficacy are high in girls, a universal recommendation to vaccinate young boys is unlikely to provide comparatively good value for resources, compared with vaccinating girls only. The study was reported in the BMJ  October 9..