MedicineWorld.Org brings daily society news from various sources to keep you updated on the latest events in the world on this topic. Medicineworld society news service is the most comprehensive society news service on the internet. We keep an archive of previous few days of news on this site. Please go down through the list to find the older news items. Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:09:10 GMT en-us http://medicineworld.org/images/Society-news.jpg 90 90 http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/8-2011/4-times-more-on-health-insurance-costs.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/8-2011/4-times-more-on-health-insurance-costs.html Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:09:10 GMT U.S. physicians spend nearly $61,000 more than their Canadian counterparts each year on administrative expenses correlation to health insurance, as per a newly released study by scientists at Cornell University and the University of Toronto. The study, reported in the recent issue of the journal Health Affairs, observed that per-doctor costs in the U.S. averaged $82,975 annually, while Ontario-based physicians averaged $22,205 � primarily because Canada's single-payer health care system is simpler........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/7-2011/smartphone-making-your-eyes-tired.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/7-2011/smartphone-making-your-eyes-tired.html Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:09:10 GMT Several reports indicate that prolonged viewing of mobile devices and other stereo 3D devices leads to visual discomfort, fatigue and even headaches. As per a new Journal of Vision study, the root cause appears to be the demand on our eyes to focus on the screen and simultaneously adjust to the distance of the content........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/6-2011/reducing-avoidable-rehospitalizations.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/6-2011/reducing-avoidable-rehospitalizations.html Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:09:10 GMT The rehospitalization of senior patients within 30 days of discharge from a skilled nursing facility (SNF) has risen dramatically in recent years, at an estimated annual cost of more than $17 billion. A newly released study from Hebrew Rehabilitation Center (HRC), an affiliate of Harvard Medical School, demonstrates improvements in discharge disposition following a three-pronged intervention that combines standardized admission templates, palliative care consultations, and root-cause-analysis conferences........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/6-2011/women-with-brca-mutations-can-take-hrt.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/6-2011/women-with-brca-mutations-can-take-hrt.html Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:09:10 GMT Women with the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutations, which are associated with a very high risk of breast and ovary cancer, can safely take hormone-replacement treatment (HRT) to mitigate menopausal symptoms after surgical removal of their ovaries, as per new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania which will be presented Monday, June 6 during the American Society for Clinical Oncology's annual meeting (Abstract #1501). Results of the prospective study indicated that women with BRCA mutations who had their ovaries removed and took short-term HRT had a decrease in the risk of developing breast cancer........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/6-2011/single-moms-entering-midlife-may-lead-to.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/6-2011/single-moms-entering-midlife-may-lead-to.html Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:09:10 GMT Unwed mothers face poorer health at midlife than do women who have children after marriage, as per a new nationwide study, which appears in the June 2011 issue of the American Sociological Review Scientists observed that women who had their first child outside of marriage described their health as poorer at age 40 than did other moms........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/6-2011/children-of-divorce-fall-behind.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/6-2011/children-of-divorce-fall-behind.html Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:09:10 GMT Divorce is a drag on the academic and emotional development of young children, but only once the breakup is under way, as per a research studyof elementary school students and their families. "Children of divorce experience setbacks in math test scores and show problems with interpersonal skills and internalizing behavior during the divorce period," says Hyun Sik Kim, a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "They are more prone to feelings of anxiety, loneliness, low self-esteem and sadness"........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/5-2011/virtual-workout-partners.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/5-2011/virtual-workout-partners.html Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:09:10 GMT Can't find anyone to exercise with? Don't despair: New research from Michigan State University reveals working out with a virtual partner improves motivation during exercise. The study led by Deborah Feltz, chairperson of MSU's Department of Kinesiology, is the first to investigate the Kohler effect on motivation in health video games; that phenomenon explains why inferior team members perform better in a group than they would by themselves........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/5-2011/employee-flu-vaccination-rates.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/5-2011/employee-flu-vaccination-rates.html Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:09:10 GMT A systematic effort to improve flu vaccination rates for healthcare workers has increased flu vaccinations rates from 59 percent to 77 percent at the University Health System (UHS) in San Antonio. A report detailing their interventions to increase vaccination was reported in the recent issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, the journal of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/4-2011/alcohol-mood-and-me.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/4-2011/alcohol-mood-and-me.html Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:09:10 GMT Thanks in part to studies that follow subjects for a long time, psychology experts are learning more about differences between people. In a new article published in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, the author describes how psychology experts can use their data to learn about the different ways that people's minds work........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/4-2011/mums-the-word.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/4-2011/mums-the-word.html Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:09:10 GMT As part of the study, which will follow 40,000 UK households over many years, young people aged between 10 to 15 years have been asked how satisfied they are with their lives. The findings indicate that a mother's happiness in her partnership is more important to the child than the father's. The findings are based on a sample of 6,441 women, 5,384 men and 1,268 young people........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/4-2011/skip-the-coffee-study-says.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/4-2011/skip-the-coffee-study-says.html Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:09:10 GMT Eating a fatty fast food meal is never good for you, but washing that meal down with a coffee is even worse, as per a new University of Guelph study. Researcher Marie-Soleil Beaudoin has discovered not only that a healthy person's blood sugar levels spike after eating a high-fat meal, but that the spike doubles after having both a fatty meal and caffeinated coffee � jumping to levels similar to those of people who are at risk for diabetes........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/3-2011/a-womans-blues-bring-a-relationship-down.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/3-2011/a-womans-blues-bring-a-relationship-down.html Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:09:10 GMT Depression erodes intimate relationships. A depressed person can be withdrawn, needy, or hostile�and give little back. But there's another way that depression isolates partners from each other. It chips away at the ability to perceive the others' thoughts and feelings. It impairs what psychology experts call "empathic accuracy" �and that can exacerbate alienation, depression, and the cycle by which they feed each other........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/3-2011/cost-of-heart-drugs-makes-patients-skip-pills.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/3-2011/cost-of-heart-drugs-makes-patients-skip-pills.html Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:09:10 GMT For more than 5 million Americans with heart failure, a critical step to better health is taking the medications they're prescribed. But a number of patients fail to do so, putting themselves at greater risk of hospitalization and even death. To date, studies have not fully answered why patients fall short when it comes to taking heart medicine. In a study appearing in the recent issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Mayo Clinic scientists found the drugs' cost is one of the biggest deterrents........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/3-2011/nicotine-as-main-culprit-in-diabetes-complications.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/3-2011/nicotine-as-main-culprit-in-diabetes-complications.html Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:09:10 GMT Researchers today reported the first good evidence implicating nicotine as the main culprit responsible for persistently elevated blood sugar levels � and the resulting increased risk of serious health complications � in people who have diabetes and smoke. In a presentation at the 241st National Meeting and Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS), they said the discovery also may have implications for people with diabetes who are using nicotine-replacement treatment for extended periods in an attempt to stop smoking........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/3-2011/surgeon-availability-in-vehicle-crashes.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/3-2011/surgeon-availability-in-vehicle-crashes.html Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:09:10 GMT Scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine claim that the availability of surgeons is a critical factor in public health and suggest that surgery should become an important part of the primary health care system. A recent study led by David C. Chang, PhD, MPH, MBA, director of Outcomes Research in the Department of Surgery at UCSD School of Medicine, points out that surgery in the United States continues to be seen as tertiary care and is mainly centered at large urban hospitals, creating an unequal distribution of surgical providers. The report, to be published on line in the Journal of American College of Surgeons March 28, shows that the insufficient availability of surgeons in certain regions of the country significantly lowers the quality of patient care and leads to unnecessary loss of lives........ ]]>