Almost all heart attack patients who need the emergency artery-opening procedure known as angioplasty are receiving it within 90 minutes of being admitted to the hospital, a marked improvement from five years ago when most patients waited longer for the life-saving procedure, according to a report by Yale School of Medicine researchers and their colleagues.
Culture
A new study finds that boys feel that discussing problems is a waste of time.
A group recently conducted four different studies that included surveys and observations of nearly 2,000 children and adolescents. The researchers found that girls had positive expectations for how talking about problems would make them feel, such as expecting to feel cared for, understood and less alone.
When you buy what looks to be a nice piece of certified sustainable fish at the supermarket, you'd like to think that's exactly what you're getting. Unfortunately, things aren't always what they seem, according to researchers who have analyzed DNA isolated from store-bought, eco-labeled Chilean sea bass and report their findings in Current Biology,.
Avoidable readmissions after discharge from hospital are fairly uncommon and are not an accurate measure of quality of care, found a study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) (pre-embargo link only) http://www.cmaj.ca/site/embargo/cmaj110400.pdf
Urgent or unplanned hospital readmissions are increasingly being used as a measure of the quality of hospital care in Canada. It is therefore important to understand how many of these readmissions are avoidable as that is a better measure of quality.
Drivers over age 65 are the fastest-growing segment of the driving population, and their eye care providers—ophthalmologists and optometrists—are playing an increasingly important role in assessing their ability to drive safely.
Kellogg researcher David C. Musch, Ph.D., M.P.H., recently led a multidisciplinary University of Michigan (U-M) study team, which was supported by a grant from M-CASTL, a unit of the U-M Transportation Research Institute, who surveyed how 500 vision care providers in Michigan assess the driving capabilities of their senior patients.
COLUMBIA, Mo. – Researchers have found that using a combination of disturbing images and threatening messages to try and further limit smoking is not effective and could potentially cause the opposite reaction.
Efforts to improve traffic safety have been aided by mathematical models that allow researchers to better assess those factors that impact the degree of injury suffered as a result of traffic crashes, a Wayne State University researcher says.
Forget the myth that men 'get back down to dating weight' after a divorce, it actually causes a 'weight shock' in divorced men but it's marriage that leads to extra pounds in women, especially among those over age 30, according to research presented at the 106th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association.
While there have been many studies about weight gain after marriage or divorce, most of them look at average changes in weight and find very small increases in weight after marriage and often small decreases in weight after divorce.
There's a myth among left-wing women on the coasts that right-wing women in the middle are somehow more oppressed or timid. Not at all, said a talk last year at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association.
Instead, Texas women who hold concealed handgun licenses (CHLs) are motivated to do so by feelings of empowerment - and they don't feel like they need a man or police to defend them.
LAS VEGAS — American voters sympathetic to the Tea Party movement reflect four primary cultural and political beliefs more than other voters do: authoritarianism, libertarianism, fear of change, and negative attitudes toward immigrants and immigration, according to new research to be presented at the 106th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association.
LAS VEGAS — Happy adolescents report less involvement in crime and drug use than other youth, a new University of California-Davis study shows.
The authors used 1995 and 1996 data from nearly 15,000 seventh- to ninth-grade students in the federally funded National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, the largest, most comprehensive survey of adolescents ever undertaken.
Atheists like to portray religious people as intellectually immature but 40% of scientists in the AAAS claim to be religious in surveys. Religious service attendance has decreased among white Americans since the early 1970s but the rate of decline has been more than twice as high for those that snooty urban progressives claim all religious people; those without college degrees.
Jobs that come with large paychecks but longer work hours are behind the slowdown women have made since the late 70s in narrowing the gender wage gap.
A study by sociologists from Indiana University and Cornell University finds that the growing trend of 'overworking', working 50 hours a week or more, is partly responsible for the slowdown Americans have experienced since the mid-1990s in the convergence of the gender gap in pay.
The decline in active memberships in civic groups, fraternal organizations and other local associations is greater than the increase in checkbook memberships, according to new research.
As Medicare expands a controversial "competitive" bidding program for home medical equipment and services, economists, consumer groups, and members of Congress have gone on record to oppose that program citing reduced patient access to care, flaws in the program design, and impact on local jobs.