As more parents log onto the Internet, it is becoming an important resource for health information on common childhood ailments, including asthma. However, since there are no traffic cops, road signs or regulations for the information supperhighway, the accuracy and quality of information varies widely.
For the past two years, pediatricians at a medical center lacking on-site pediatric cardiology specialists have had access to pediatric cardiologists from Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, NC, at the touch of a button.
A survey of low-income families in an urban pediatric teaching hospital's primary care setting concluded that 63 percent of these families had access to computers, with 37 percent having a computer at home. The survey, conducted at Children's Hospital in Boston, was designed to determine the feasibility of using the World Wide Web as a vehicle for delivering pediatric health care information.
A disturbing 79 percent of kids visiting pediatric clinics in the inner cities have witnessed violence first hand, and 49 percent have been direct victims of violence, according to a recent study by pediatricians at Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY.
Despite a continuing controversy over the most appropriate scheule for immunization against polio, a majorty of pediatricians surveyed recently have adopted the Centers for Disease Control Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices' (ACIP) most recent recommendation to administer doses of both the oral and inactive polio vaccines.
The first major national study of the emergency medicine workforce shows that 32,026 physicians are clinically employed in this new specialty that emerged over the past 30 years in the United States, according to the May issue of Annals of Emergency Medicine. Another study in the issue reports that male spectators in the 20- to 35-year old age group consume the most alcohol at sporting events; 10.8 percent of those in the study were found to be legally intoxicated, and almost 5 percent of spectators with blood alcohol levels of .08 percent or higher claimed to be driving home.
Children as young as one year of age are being diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, a Michigan State University pediatrician has found. In addition, children as young as two are being treated for the disorder with psychotropic drugs such as Ritalin, Prozac and Zoloft.
DALLAS, May 5 -- Infection by a particularly strong strain of bacteria normally associated with stomach ulcers could be a contributing factor to heart disease, according to a report in today's Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
A breakthrough study on in vivo gene therapy may someda provide the medical know-how to eliminate inherited metabolic disorders.
For the first time, a school-based intervention called Planet Health, developed by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health, has been shown to reduce obesity in children.
In one of the first large, comprehensive studies to refute the longheld belief that cocaine-exposed babies often suffer major birth defects, University of Florida researchers found no consistent pattern of abnormalities in these children.
Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York have successfully disrupted the blood-brain barrier in lab rats and generated compacted protein/DNA complexes small enough to pass through the disrupted barrier, thereby achieving global delivery of genes to the brain for the first time.
The support of a doula, a female companion experienced in labor and delivery, adds a risk-free, human element to labor and delivery that lowers cesarean rates, shortens labor, and decreases the need for analgesia.
More than 3,500 incidences of children ingesting coins were reported to poison centers in 1996, with as many as 17 percent of the coins becoming lodged in the esophagus. Allowing for spontaneous passage, rather than performing more invasive procedures, may reduce related complications as well as institutional costs, a study at Boston Children's Hospital found.
Researchers at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto have determined that pregnancy is common among Toronto's female street youth and that risk of pregnancy is significantly associated with length of time on the street and age at which the youth enter street life. The researchers also discovered that fewer than one-third of street youth who deliver babies care for their children.
The increased risk of asthma in black children is due more to where they live than to their race, and air cleaners that remove tobacco smoke decrease the risk of asthma complications, according to two studies presented by Rochester pediatrician Andrew Aligne, MD, at the Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting in New Orleans.
Clinicians in rural areas refer a higher percentage of their patients to public immunization clinics than their urban counterparts, reports a study to be presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies' annual meeting in New Orleans May 1-5.
Researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch have found that a growing number of young women may be taking Rohypnol, commonly known as the date-rape drug, to minimize depression and increase self-esteem.
Organon Inc. has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to market MircetteË™ (desogestrel/ethinyl estradiol and ethinyl estradiol) Tablets, the first oral contraceptive to use a shortened hormone-free interval.
Treatments developed at the University of Minnesota have shown promise in halting or even reversing progress of a rare and deadly brain disease.
Providing women in labor with the continuous support of an experienced female labor-companion, known as a doula, results in significantly more positive levels of interaction between mothers and infants after delivery.
While safe, garlic treatment for children with high cholesterol does not lower their cholesterol levels, according to a study by researchers at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and St. Joseph's Hospital, Hamilton, Ontario.
The Gay and Lesbian Medical Association recently met with representatives of Pfizer Inc., which is launching Viagra, a new medication for treating patients with erectile dysfunction. At this meeting, GLMA and Pfizer Inc. discussed concerns about the impact of Viagra on the health of some gay and bisexual men.
Dr. Robert Gallo, of the University of Maryland at Baltimore, and Dr. Luc Montagnier, of Queens College, Flushing, N.Y., and Pasteur Institute, Paris, who discovered and isolated HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, are the winners of the Tenth Annual Warren Alpert Foundation Prize.
1) A study finds no link between aspirin use and colorectal cancer, but a separate study finds women on hormone replacement therapy have a 35 percent decrease in colon and rectal cancers. 2) Breast cancer is found at the same stage in black and white women who have regular mammograms. 3) Voluntary, rather than mandatory, testing for HIV in pregnant women is more effective. 4) Treating AIDS as an "exceptional" disease has drawbacks.
Migraine and depression, two commonly linked conditions, may now be treated together, according to results of a new study presented today at the 50th annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology. The new oral medication for the treatment of acute migraine from Zeneca Pharmaceuticals, Zomig (zolmitriptan), is safe when taken with the antidepression treatment fluoxetine, commonly known by its trade name Prozac.
A new discovery by researchers at the University of Georgia may help explain why -- when it comes to people -- all veins are not created equal. The scientists demonstrated for the first time dramatic differences in the density of receptors for a powerful blood-borne substance called endothelin. And once again, it's bad news for white males.
Research strongly suggests that PSA tests can reliably gauge the effectiveness of chemotherapy treatment for advanced prostate cancer. It shows doctors whether the prescribed therapy is working and allows them to quickly and confidently change the treatment plan when it's ineffective---possibly improving the patient's quality of life as a result.
When clinic patients were taught to take control of their health needs, the results were dramatic---fewer days in the hospital, fewer trips to the emergency room, fewer lost work days. In addition, the cost of health care for each patient declined nearly $3,400 a year.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.-- Researchers at the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Duke University Medical Center have found that a deficiency of S-nitrosothiol (SNO), a chemical that dilates the bronchial tubes, is associated with severe asthma in children. The finding, published in the May 2 issue of Lancet, may help doctors develop new asthma therapies aimed at correcting this deficiency.
1) Panic Reoccurs More Often in Women, 2) Practice Guideline for Treatment of Panic Disorder, 3) ADHD More Treatable in African American Kids, 4) IQ Drop During Childhood Predicts Future Psychosis, 5) May Special Issue of Psychiatric Services: Focus on Women, 6) New Books
Researchers at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital have developed a new imaging agent for Parkinson's disease that could allow clinicians to diagnose the disease more accurately and earlier in its progression than is currently possible, as well as to utilize imaging technologies that are cheaper, faster, and widely available.
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine report an association between the use of prescription sleeping pills and an increased risk of death. The research findings are published in the May 1, 1998, issue of the journal Biological Psychiatry.
Children are at slightly increased risk for seizures with fever following some vaccinations, but children who have these types of seizures are not at increased risk for subsequent seizures, epilepsy, or long term psychiatric or behavioral problems.
Biomedical research has been shifting from a commons to a privatization model. Federal patent policy in biomedical research imposes social costs overlooked in the public debate. Granting too many patent rights in pre-market or "upstream" biomedical research paradoxically may stifle discovery of life-saving "downstream" products.
If current clinical trials are successful, within a few years the daily insulin injection for diabetes could be a thing of the past. A new type of dry insulin-delivery system, the result of research at Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc., an affiliate of Cornell University, is now undergoing the second phase of human clinical trials required by the Food and Drug Administration.
NEW YORK-- At "Fight Asthma Now!" events in New York and Los Angeles, Allergy and Asthma Network/Mothers of Asthmatics (AAN/MA), HOPE for Kids and Combat Insect Control Systems released results of a new Harris survey that shows that less than 1 percent of Americans can identify roaches as a leading cause of asthma attacks in inner cities.
IOWA CITY, Iowa -- A researcher in the University of Iowa College of Medicine says the funding provided by the federal and state governments to help pay for increasingly expensive treatment for AIDS is a fragile, short-term solution that may not provide a stable, long-term way to improve access to health care.
Many studies have concluded that sun exposure, especially a sunburn, during childhood appears to increase the risk of melanoma, the most serious form of skin cancer.
MINNEAPOLIS--Results from two new studies demonstrate an advance in the medical community's ability to quantify what migraine sufferers have known for years-the disabling impact of migraine on sufferers' quality of life. These data may help migraine patients clearly communicate the social, physical, and emotional setbacks caused by the most common neurological condition in developed countries.
Much of the suffering from lung disease in children is due to largely preventable causes-air pollution, secondhand smoke and cockroach allergen, suggest studies presented here the American Lung Association/American Thoracic Society International Conference.
Researchers have discovered a potential method to help treat inflammatory forms of arthritis by using an enzyme naturally produced by the human body.
The longer patients with kidney disease remain on dialysis before receiving a transplant, the more likely they are to die prematurely, new research shows.
Bungee cords, elastic devices used for securing equipment, can cause serious damage to the eye that may result in future vision problems if they are not used carefully.
IOWA CITY, Iowa -- A research team in the University of Iowa College of Medicine cautions physicians that the increasingly common practice of fathers videotaping births has both risks and benefits.
Surgeon General David Satcher today joined the AHCPR and ODPHP in urging clinicians, health plans and consumers to work together to make prevention--screening, immunizations and counseling for health behavior change--a part of every health care visit, in every clinical setting.
A life with cancer is often a life with pain. But it doesn't have to be that way. Physicians and multimedia designers at Michigan State University have developed a CD-ROM that addresses the issue of pain and cancer. Extremely interactive and visual, "Easing Cancer Pain" gives people with cancer the information they need to overcome their pain.
Several advances in the evaluation of regional lymph nodes, adjuvant therapy and genetic immunotherapy for the treatment of malignant melanoma have improved the treatment options for patients.
The direct cost of treating newly diagnosed melanoma in 1997, was estimated to be at least $563 million and may exceed $1 billion, according to findings from a new study.
Recent controversy over the role of sunscreens in preventing melanoma and skin cancer have raised questions about the use of these agents.
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