Modelling costs of dementia in Australia: evidence, gaps, and needs.
Abstract With the rapid ageing of the Australian population, dementia has emerged as a major health and economic challenge. Consensus exists that the number of people with dementia will grow significantly because the prevalence is strongly correlated with age. However, there are substantial gaps in our understanding...

Use of VA and Medicare services by dually eligible veterans with psychiatric problems.
Non-VA services may provide an important alternative to veterans affairs (VA) services for VA patients who are eligible for Medicare coverage, especially in areas with poor geographic access to the VA. As Medicare and the VA are legally prohibited from billing each other for services provided to dually eligible...

AMA urged to use apology as a 'Springboard'.
African American physicians are looking for action to back up the words of apology recently tendered by the American Medical Association for more than a century of racial inequity and bias. In accepting the AMA's apology, Dr. Nelson L. Adams, president of the National Medical Association (NMA),...

Leaders in Health and Medicine to Examine Healthcare Disparities.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-11 August 2008-Leaders in Health and Medicine to Examine Healthcare Disparities(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com In an effort to help reduce racial, ethnic and gender disparities in healthcare, professional organizations and academic medical institutions have joined forces in a collaborative alliance with the goal...

Prescribing in maternity care: the legacy of Soviet medicine in Russia.
The Soviet Union did not develop a modern pharmaceutical industry due to lack of access to scientific information and restrictions on imports of equipment such as computers, among other reasons. There is now greater access to modern drugs in Russia but concerns exist that they are being prescribed inappropriately....

Hypnotherapy: an adjunct to complementary medicine.
Abstract This paper argues that hypnotherapy is a potentially effective adjunct to complementary medicine. Using existing research and professional publications, the paper considers the impact hypnosis could make as an adjunct to complementary medicine. Just as hypnosis is effective within the orthodox health arena, it could have...

Antiretroviral therapy in adults: January 2008.
Southern African HIV Clinicians Society These guidelines are intended as an update to those published in the Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine of March 2005 (issue 18, pp.18 - 31). Since the previous guidelines, the scale-up of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in the region has expanded considerably....

Physician characteristics and the reported effect of evidence-based practice guidelines.
In 2002, health spending in the United States had climbed to 14.9 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP), advancing much faster than the rest of the U.S. economy and is projected to rise to $3.4 trillion or 18.4 percent in 2013 (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services 2004;...

Nutrition and HIV/AIDS: nutritional guidelines for HIV-infected adults and children in Southern Africa: meeting the needs (Sections 3-6).
3. PROVIDING APPROPRIATE NUTRITION TO THE HIV-INFECTED 3.1 PROVIDING NUTRITION, PROVIDING FOOD To maintain or achieve good health, each person requires energy-providing nutrients (protein, fat and carbohydrates), vitamins, minerals and water. The average minimum daily energy requirement of an adult in the developing world is...

Online drug education attracts young teens.
In 2006, more than 2.1 million youths ages 12 to 17 reported abuse of prescription drugs, Predominantly opioids, according to results from that year's National Survey on Drug Use and Health. Did these young people know that a single use of prescription drugs with other drugs or alcohol can...