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Monday, February 1, 2010

Employees Fear Stigma of Seeking Mental Health Care

Fears about losing status at job and about confidentiality are among the main reasons that many American workers are more hesitant to seek dealing for mental health issues than for physical health problems, according to a national survey released this week by the American Psychiatric Association.
More than 40 percent of the 1,129 respondents said their employer was supportive or enormously supportive of their workers seeking care for health concerns. However, the online review also found that barriers persist for workers who said their workplace is contrary of employees seeking treatment, especially for mental health concerns.

Among employees, 76 percent believed their work status would be injured by seeking treatment for drug addiction, 73 percent for alcoholism, and 62 percent for depression, compared with 55 percent who thought seeking care for diabetes would concern their work status and 54 percent for heart disease.
"It is important to support an environment that encourages employees taking care of their physical and mental health," Dr. Alan Axelson, chairman of the relations Partnership for Workplace Mental Health Advisory Council, said in an association news release. "Research supports the fact that when people receive wanted care, they are healthier and more productive -- and employers comprehend the return on their health care investment."

The partnership offers the suggestions for employers:

  • Supervisors and managers should front by example by taking care of their physical and mental health.

  • Workplaces should promote prevention, premature intervention and wellness programs. This includes holding health fairs, providing good meals and snacks at meetings, encouraging exercise and promoting a balance between work and the rest of an employee's life.

  • Employees should be depressed from coming to work if they're ill.
    Workers should be reminded of health benefits and accessible programs, and efforts should be taken to make sure they know how to access care.

  • Employees should be free from worry about confidentiality, especially that seeking mental health treatment

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Friday, January 29, 2010

Haitian Children Required Specific Relief Efforts

Haiti children need relief Children are likely to account for about forty four percent of the estimated number of Haitians injured in the devastating 12th January 2010 earthquake -- information that could be used to guide rescuers, say U.S. researchers.

The statistical study by the team at Children's Hospital Los Angeles and the University of Southern California determined that extra than 110,000 children under age 18 are among the 250,000 injured people in Haiti. The researchers have set up a blog to help straight the choice and distribution of relief supplies.

Injured children have special requirements, including thinner hypodermic needles, children's doses of drugs and doctors who specialize in pediatrics.

For their study, the researchers used a software tool called the Pediatric Emergency Decision Support System (PEDSS), intended to help medical service provider's better plan for, train for and respond to serious incidents and disasters affecting children.

PEDSS uses statistical methods to estimation how many potential victims of a disaster in a exact location will be children and what types of medications and supplies they'll need.

The system analyzes 7 age groups, ranging from 0-1 months up to 12 to 18 year-olds. It also predicts how many injuries are predictable for each of 11 diagnoses, ranging from abdominal trauma to spinal injury, in each age group.

For example, PEDSS estimates that about 1,000 children ages 6 to 8 suffered crush injuries and that 265,263 doses of calcium gluconate 1g/10mL will be required to treat these victims.

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Thursday, January 21, 2010

Roche drug keeps patients cancer-free for longer time

http://www.livemedinfo.com/news/health-news.htmlRoche's cancer drug Xeloda enabled elderly patients being treating for colorectal cancer to be alive free of the disease for longer, the world's largest maker of cancer drugs said on Thursday.

A study showed that patients over the age of 65 or 70 years who took Xeloda, or capecitabine, with Xelox, or oxaliplatin, instantaneously after surgery lived disease-free for longer compared with those treated with regularly used chemotherapy regimen 5-fluorouracil/leucovorin.

In July, Roche said Xeloda, which is by now approved for the treatment of early-stage colon cancer as a monotherapy, increased the time patients lived when taken with oxaliplatin, meeting its prime goal in a late-stage trial.

Colorectal cancer is the 2nd most common cause of death from cancer in men and women in Europe, with nearly 1 million cases each year globally, said Roche.

Age is the biggest risk factor for the disease and above 90 % of cases are diagnosed in individuals above the age 50, Roche said.

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Thursday, January 7, 2010

Health Tip: Stop Denture Problems

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Dentures can cause pain and discomfort if they are not worn properly and cleaned thoroughly.

The U.S. National Library of Medicine suggests these denture-care suggestions:

. After you finish eating, give dentures a scrub using soap and warm water.

. At all times take out your dentures at bedtime. This will help prevent inflammation, infection and sores inside the mouth.

. Let dentures soak during the night in denture cleaner.

. Each day, swish a warm salt-water solution in your mouth to help clean gums.

. Avoid using toothpicks while you are wearing dentures.

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Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Quitting Smoking Raises Diabetes Risk: Study

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People who quit smoking are at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes after they lash out the habit, most likely because of post-quitting weight gain, a new study has found.

Experts warning, however, that the benefits of quitting smoking including a lower risk of heart attack and lung cancer far outweigh the jeopardy of developing diabetes, which can be treated with diet, exercise, and medication.

The study, which was published at present in the Annals of Internal Medicine, followed almost 11,000 middle-aged people without diabetes 45% of whom were smokers over a 9 year period. Compared to those who had never smoked, the people who quit smoking in the study had a 73 percent increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes 3 years after quitting?

The increased risk was even more dramatic in the years instantly after quitting. "Based on our analysis, probably 80% or even 90%," says the study's lead author, Hsin-Chieh (Jessica) Yeh, PhD, an assistant professor of internal medicine and epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

By contrast, the smokers who sustained to light up were only 31 percent more likely than non-smokers to have developed diabetes at the three-year mark. Earlier research has shown that smokers are at high risk of developing diabetes.

There was some good news in the study: The increased risk of diabetes doesn't appear to last over the long term. After 12 years with no cigarettes, the ex-smokers were at no greater risk for diabetes than the people who had never smoked the study show.

In total, 1,254 participants in the study developed type 2 diabetes, a chronic disease in which the body fails to sufficiently convert blood sugar (glucose) into energy.

The spike in diabetes risk that the researchers observed is most likely because of the extra pounds that many ex-smokers pack on after giving up cigarettes, Yeh and her contemporaries note. Weight gain is a major risk factor for type 2 diabetes, and it is also one of the most common side effects of smoking cessation.

The people in the study who quit smoking get an average of 8.4 pounds, which is in the usual range (most ex-smokers gain about 4 to 10 pounds), and those who gained the most weight showed the utmost risk for developing diabetes also the waistlines of the ex-smokers in the study also grew by an average of 1.25 inches; abdominal fat is one more risk factor for diabetes.

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