Science news articles about 'health gains'

... Orchard, M.D., professor of epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. "Gaining a reasonable amount of weight may be a sign patients are getting enough insulin and ...

... pound spent, we got £2.48 worth of health gain back, and the USA has had similar ... profitable". Although there must be limits to spending on health care, they should not be defined by a "fixed fraction ...

... low handicap are the safest. It is a well-known fact that exercise is good for the health, but the expected health gains of particular activities are still largely unknown. A team of researchers from ...

... concludes that it results in $14 million in savings and health gains of 920 life-years over 10 ... supervised injection site is associated with improved health and cost savings, even under conservative ...

Reducing air pollution brings measurable health gains. The average life expectancy in 51 US cities increased nearly three years over recent decades, and ...

... is rising, but the agave plant contains a range of fructose levels, calling into question any healthful ... ingredient in bottled teas, energy drinks, nutrition bars and desserts from health food stores. ...

... involve educating health care planners and purchasers so that they understand the evidence base for both health gains to patients and cost effectiveness. Education will also be needed for emergency ...

... a limited amount of advice on adjusting therapy. They are likely to deliver even greater health gains than first generation systems." And now, further generations of telemonitoring systems are being ...

... compromise with the tobacco industry that can lead to short-term public health gains at the expense of long-term progress. The new policy repeals federal pre-emption of state and ...

... are factors that appeal to the values of decision makers beyond the simple metric of cost and health gain." "Perhaps the main lesson from the experience of the 3 countries is that systematic, durable ...