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A project in Scotland to tackle child poverty led to more than £2.2 million in financial gains over 15 months and other positive outcomes for families, including improved child care and housing. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-nurses-child-poverty-scotland.html Health Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:00:02 EST news290245720 More than 40 percent of patients being treated for COPD at a federally funded clinic did not have the disease, researchers found after evaluating the patients with spirometry, the diagnostic "gold standard" for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-copd-over-diagnosed-uninsured-patients.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 22 May 2013 09:19:42 EST news288433175 Giving patients better access to primary health care could save nearly $4 billion a year in unnecessary emergency room visits for a single common complaint – urinary tract infections – according to a study by the Vattikuti Urology Institute at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-er-urinary-tract-infections-billion.html Health Mon, 06 May 2013 13:30:01 EST news287057228 Doctors should be able to provide subsidised "prescriptions" for healthy food to people in remote Aboriginal communities, says an Indigenous nutrition expert. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-prescription-healthy-food-remote-indigenous.html Health Mon, 15 Apr 2013 09:00:04 EST news285233395 A survey of UK doctors found that 97% have prescribed placebo treatments to patients at least once in their career. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-percent-uk-doctors-placebos-patients.html Medications Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:26:56 EST news283019202 A new computer tool to help reduce the risk of commonly made drug prescribing errors has been launched by a primary care research team and the PRIMIS business unit at The University of Nottingham. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-tool-safer-gp.html Health Mon, 18 Feb 2013 07:59:26 EST news280396741 A new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that the average life expectancy of men and women with schizophrenia is 15 years and 12 years shorter respectively than for those who do not suffer from the disease. The study has been carried out in collaboration with Stanford University in the US. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-mortality-individuals-schizophrenia.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 21 Jan 2013 11:57:07 EST news277991815 Smokers who try to quit would be more successful if they combined medication or nicotine-replacement therapy with behavioral counseling, finds a new review in The Cochrane Library. Few lifestyle changes deliver as many positive health benefits as quitting smoking, including improved circulation, lowered blood pressure and a decreased risk of cancer and heart disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-combined-approach.html Health Wed, 17 Oct 2012 07:50:02 EST news269678032 In a study that included more than 2,700 women receiving care in primary care clinics, those who were screened for partner violence and received a partner violence resource list did not experience significant differences for several outcomes, including overall quality of life, general health, and recurrence of partner violence, compared to women who just received a partner violence resource list, according to a study in the August 15 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on violence and human rights. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-computer-based-screening-partner-violence-significantly.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 14 Aug 2012 16:00:05 EST news264160875 Expediting primary health care for chronically ill inmates soon after release from prison results in fewer visits to hospital emergency departments, a Yale study has found. The study is published in the American Journal of Public Health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-health-prisoners-high-emergency-department.html Health Fri, 20 Jul 2012 09:28:02 EST news261995271 New research from the University of Alberta's School of Public Health has demonstrated that community-based resources in rural Uganda can successfully provide HIV treatments to patients, where economic and geographical barriers would typically prevent access to care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-community-based-approach-hiv-infection-rural-uganda.html Health Thu, 19 Jul 2012 11:00:01 EST news261913813 Researchers who examined the income levels of patients at central Toronto hospitals found that people in the highest and lowest income brackets are being hospitalized for different reasons and that different hospitals serve different income groups. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-richest-poorest-people-toronto-hospitalized.html Health Mon, 04 Jun 2012 11:53:33 EST news258029607 A scheme supporting newly graduated, unemployed, and retired midwives to work in rural areas of Nigeria and provide essential obstetric care has helped to improve maternal, newborn, and child health and could potentially serve as a model for other low-income countries. This includes helping redistribute health workforce in low-income countries to reduce the health inequities between urban and rural areas. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-midwives-rural-areas-essential-obstetric.html Health Tue, 01 May 2012 18:00:01 EST news255107917 The benefits of a one-off group education programme for people with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes are not sustained over the long term, concludes a study published on BMJ today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-term-impact-group-diabetes-patients.html Diabetes Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:30:02 EST news254672945 A new study from researchers at Queen Mary, University of London reveals the many difficulties faced by people with diabetes in self-managing their disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-approach-diabetes-self-management-narrow.html Diabetes Tue, 10 Apr 2012 09:38:00 EST news253269473 The traditional separation between primary health care providers and public health professionals is impeding greater success in meeting their shared goal of ensuring the health of populations, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine. Integration of these fields will require national leadership as well as substantial adaptation at the local level, said the committee that wrote the report. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-federal-agencies-advantage-opportunities-primary.html Health Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:35:05 EST news252160497 Medication errors are common in primary care but the number of mistakes could be reduced significantly if GPs introduced an in-house pharmacist-led intervention scheme. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-in-house-pharmacists-gps-errors-percent.html Medications Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:00:02 EST news248957279 Among obese individuals, having bariatric surgery was associated with a reduced long-term incidence of cardiovascular deaths and events such as heart attack and stroke, according to a study in the January 4 issue of JAMA. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-bariatric-surgery-reduction-cardiovascular-events.html Cardiology Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:24:10 EST news244830226 (Medical Xpress) -- Patients who monitor their own treatment with warfarin or other blood-thinning drugs reduce their risk of developing blood clots by half, an Oxford University study has found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-blood-clot-halved-patients-warfarin.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 01 Dec 2011 09:50:10 EST news241952023 It has long been known that hereditary factors play a role in coronary heart disease. However, it has been unclear whether the increased risk is transferred through the genes or through an unhealthy lifestyle in the family. A new study from the Center for Primary Health Care Research in Sweden, published in the American Heart Journal, shows that genes appear to be most important. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-coronary-heart-disease-due-genes.html Cardiology Fri, 26 Aug 2011 10:33:24 EST news233573586 Transferring care of HIV patients from doctors in hospitals to nurses in primary health clinics is both clinically successful and cost effective http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-hiv-patient-clinic-nurses-hospital.html HIV & AIDS Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:11:08 EST news230316679 Experts have called for increased awareness about the issue of adverse drug reactions after hearing how everyday prescription medicines are destroying the lives of some patients. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-everyday-medicines-conference.html Medications Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:24:57 EST news229263872 The research will be presented today at the 40th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society of Academic Primary Care, hosted this year by the University of Bristol's Academic Unit of Primary Health Care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-role-gps-women-experiencing-domestic.html Health Thu, 07 Jul 2011 05:23:36 EST news229234961 The research will be presented today at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society of Academic Primary Care, hosted this year by the Academic Unit of Primary Health Care, University of Bristol. The research was funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) School for Primary Care Research (NSPCR). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-vital-severity-illness-children.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 07 Jul 2011 03:47:11 EST news229229221 Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is the third most common type of cardiovascular disease after coronary heart disease and stroke. Researchers at the Centre for Primary Health Care Research in Malmo have mapped the significance of hereditary factors for venous thromboembolism in the entire Swedish population by studying the risk of VTE in children of parents with VTE compared with the children of parents who have not had VTE. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-blood-clots-veins-hereditary.html Cardiology Tue, 31 May 2011 10:21:05 EST news226056056