http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. In the next 25 years, the number of Americans living with diabetes will nearly double, increasing from 23.7 million in 2009 to 44.1 million in 2034. Over the same period, spending on diabetes will almost triple, rising from $113 billion to $336 billion, even with no increase in the prevalence of obesity, researchers based at the University of Chicago report in the December issue of Diabetes Care. http://www.physorg.com/news178525274.html Medicine & Health Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:22:07 EST news178525274 eHealth -- the organisation and delivery of health services and information using information technology (IT) systems -is playing an increasingly important role in shaping health care systems. This week PLoS Medicine publishes the third in a series of articles evaluating eHealth. Richard Lilford and colleagues consider the evaluation of health IT systems as they are employed following pre-implementation testing. http://www.physorg.com/news178264007.html Medicine & Health Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:47:42 EST news178264007 A whirlwind of activity is under way to apply the findings of the $3 billion Human Genome Project to improve health care in the United States and around the world. http://www.physorg.com/news177788607.html Medicine & Health Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:30:01 EST news177788607 At birth, children with Down syndrome aren't developmentally delayed. But as they age, these kids fall behind. Memory deficits inherent in Down syndrome hinder learning, making it hard for the brain to collect experiences needed for normal cognitive development. http://www.physorg.com/news177777639.html Medicine & Health Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:41:41 EST news177777639 An analysis of quality of cardiac care following the public release of data on measures of care at hospitals in Ontario, Canada, did not result in significant systemwide improvement in hospitals' performance on most quality of care indicators, according to a study to be published in the December 2 issue of JAMA. The study is being released early online because of its presentation at an American Heart Association scientific conference. http://www.physorg.com/news177770040.html Medicine & Health Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:00:04 EST news177770040 Slowing the growth in U.S. health care spending will most likely require adoption of an array of strategies as well as an improved approach to moving promising strategies into widespread use, according to a new analysis by the RAND Corporation. http://www.physorg.com/news177186304.html Medicine & Health Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:25:52 EST news177186304 (AP) -- In Britain, there are no long lines of people seeking swine flu vaccine. Doctor's offices aren't swamped with desperate calls. And there are no cries of injustice that the vaccine is going to wealthy corporations or healthy people who don't really need it. http://www.physorg.com/news176741297.html Medicine & Health Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:49:24 EST news176741297 Research published in the November 2009 issue of the Journal of Thoracic Oncology has found that intervals between lung cancer suspicion, diagnosis and treatment may be attributed to health care system discrepancies. http://www.physorg.com/news176403719.html Medicine & Health Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:10:01 EST news176403719 The swine flu (H1N1) pandemic has received extensive media coverage this year. The World Health Organization, in addition to providing frequent updates about cases of infection and death tolls, recommends hyper vigilance in daily hygiene such as frequent hand washing or sneezing into the crook of our arms. News reports at all levels, from local school closures to airport screenings and global disease surveillance, continue to remind us of the high risk. http://www.physorg.com/news176387200.html Medicine & Health Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:40:03 EST news176387200 Residents can serve a vital role in educating Congress, the medical community, and the general public regarding the efficacy of cutting-edge technologies like CT colonography (CTC) as well as the importance of radiologists' training and education and the role that radiologists serve in the provision of quality health care, according to an article published in the November issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR). http://www.physorg.com/news175955551.html Medicine & Health Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:30:01 EST news175955551 The design of a consultation room can improve the quality of a visit to the physician's office. A collaborative research study developed by Nurture by Steelcase and Mayo Clinic, was conducted to understand the extent to which a consultation room designed to support present-day clinical encounters could affect the consultation between patients and clinicians. The results of this randomized trial, the first of its kind, will appear in the October issue of Health Environments Research and Design Journal (HERD). http://www.physorg.com/news175935751.html Medicine & Health Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:14:27 EST news175935751 In the latest article in PLoS Medicine's series proposing the delivery of "packages of care" for mental, neurological and substance-use disorders in low- and middle-income countries, Vivek Benegal and colleagues discuss the treatment of alcohol use disorders in settings where resources are limited. "Packages of care" are combinations of treatments aimed at improving the recognition and management of conditions to achieve optimal outcomes. http://www.physorg.com/news175842850.html Medicine & Health Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:30:02 EST news175842850 (AP) -- Health care legislation heading for the Senate floor will give millions of Americans the option of purchasing government-run insurance coverage, Majority Leader Harry Reid announced Monday, although he stopped short of claiming the 60 votes needed to pass a plan steeped in controversy. Reid, D-Nev., said individual states would have the choice of opting out of the program. http://www.physorg.com/news175796704.html Medicine & Health Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:40:01 EST news175796704 (AP) -- The head of the AFL-CIO said Monday he's willing to consider a tax on high-end health insurance plans to help pay for President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, as long as middle-class workers aren't hurt. http://www.physorg.com/news175758694.html Medicine & Health Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:20:02 EST news175758694 Men largely make decisions about prostate cancer screening based on conversations with their clinicians, but these discussions often do not include information about the risks of testing in addition to the benefits, according to a report in the September 28 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. A second report in the same issue uses statistical modeling to estimate the benefits and risks of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening in men of various ages and risk levels. http://www.physorg.com/news173375071.html Medicine & Health Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:30:05 EST news173375071 (AP) -- Trumpeting nurses' support for a health care overhaul while lamenting a worsening toll of uninsured, President Barack Obama kept up the pressure Thursday for congressional action. http://www.physorg.com/news171801805.html Medicine & Health Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:10:01 EST news171801805 (AP) -- Time is running out for a two-party compromise on health care as a bipartisan group of six Finance Committee senators considers a new proposal that might be the last, best hope for an overhaul agreement. http://www.physorg.com/news171611020.html Medicine & Health Tue, 08 Sep 2009 06:44:08 EST news171611020 (AP) -- If you pay the mechanic $1,000 to fix your transmission and it breaks again next week, the garage should find and fix the problem for free. So if you get an infection following open-heart surgery because the doctor forgot an antibiotic, why are you charged extra to clear up the wound? http://www.physorg.com/news171545976.html Medicine & Health Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:39:54 EST news171545976 The labeling information that comes with prescription drugs tells you what's known about the medication, but researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine think it's high time that the labeling tell you what isn't known. http://www.physorg.com/news169316971.html Medicine & Health Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:20:02 EST news169316971 Infection with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) appears relatively common among patients discharged from the hospital into home health care, according to a report in the August 10/24 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine. In addition, about one-fifth of infected patients may transmit the organism to other people in their households. http://www.physorg.com/news169141307.html Medicine & Health Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:42:16 EST news169141307 (AP) -- Electronic medical records are a life-or-death issue at Sac-Osage Hospital - not necessarily just for the patients, but for the hospital itself. http://www.physorg.com/news168613120.html Medicine & Health Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:10:02 EST news168613120 Americans spent $33.9 billion out-of-pocket on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) over the previous 12 months, according to a 2007 government survey1. CAM is a group of diverse medical and health care systems, practices, and products such as herbal supplements, meditation, chiropractic, and acupuncture that are not generally considered to be part of conventional medicine. CAM accounts for approximately 1.5 percent of total health care expenditures ($2.2 trillion2) and 11.2 percent of total out-of-pocket expenditures (conventional out-of-pocket: $286.6 billion2 and CAM out-of-pocket: $33.9 billion1) on health care in the United States. http://www.physorg.com/news168178763.html Medicine & Health Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:20:40 EST news168178763 (AP) -- Obesity's not just dangerous, it's expensive. New research shows medical spending averages $1,400 more a year for an obese person than for someone who's normal weight. Overall obesity-related health spending reaches $147 billion, double what it was nearly a decade ago, says the study published Monday by the journal Health Affairs. http://www.physorg.com/news167924447.html Medicine & Health Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:00:03 EST news167924447 It is an amazing sight: What looks like a tiny beating heart is actually a piece of synthetic, gauze-like mesh, barely the size of a fingernail, floating in a Petri dish. And yet it keeps squeezing away, nice and rhythmically. http://www.physorg.com/news167380516.html Medicine & Health Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:35:45 EST news167380516 As lawmakers debate how to pay for an overhaul of the nation's health care system, a new report from The Commonwealth Fund projects that including both private and public insurance choices in a new insurance exchange would save the United States as much as $265 billion in administrative costs from 2010 to 2020. Congressional leaders are attempting to keep 10-year federal budget costs of health care reform legislation under $1 trillion. http://www.physorg.com/news166941941.html Medicine & Health Thu, 16 Jul 2009 05:46:37 EST news166941941 A new study by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers sheds light on the challenges involved in identifying which high-risk population would benefit most from bladder-cancer screening. http://www.physorg.com/news166941395.html Medicine & Health Thu, 16 Jul 2009 05:40:47 EST news166941395 A study by a bi-national team of global health researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, examining HIV infection among male clients of female sex workers in Tijuana, has found that over half of male clients had recently had unprotected sex. They also reported a high prevalence of drug use. http://www.physorg.com/news166452379.html Medicine & Health Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:08:20 EST news166452379 (AP) -- When it comes to health care spending, an ounce of prevention is seldom worth a pound of cure. Take Mrs. Jones, a hypothetical 55-year-old obese woman at risk for diabetes. It costs $900 a year to hire a personal lifestyle coach to help her lose weight and prevent diabetes. Suppose that the coaching works for Mrs. Jones, and she is spared diabetes and all the resulting health bills. http://www.physorg.com/news165080196.html Medicine & Health Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:37:11 EST news165080196 (AP) -- President Barack Obama on Monday welcomed the pharmaceutical industry's agreement to help close a gap in Medicare's drug coverage, calling the pact a step forward in the push for overhaul of the nation's health care system. http://www.physorg.com/news164895454.html Medicine & Health Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:30:02 EST news164895454 (AP) -- A Republican senator seeking a bipartisan health deal spoke Sunday of "dialing down" expectations while one of President Barack Obama's Democratic allies questioned whether the White House had the votes necessary for a such a costly and comprehensive plan during a recession. http://www.physorg.com/news164815744.html Medicine & Health Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:09:41 EST news164815744