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Web-Based Headache Impact Test Reveals Self-Reported Migraine As Most Common Reason For Headache
Results from a study presented at the International Headache Congress in New York City show that people taking the web-based Headache Impact Test (HIT) report themselves to have migraine more than any other headache type. While taking the Headache Impact Test, respondents are likely to report that their physician is diagnosing migraine as the reason for their headaches. Respondents have also reported that their migraines impact on their daily lives at least as much as people with cluster headaches and substantially more than sinus, tension, and stress headaches more
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Migraine Disability Assessment Questionnaire Helpful For Patients When Talking With Their Doctors
Results from the MIDAS (MIgraine Disability ASsessment questionnaire) Perception Study, being presented today at the American Headache Society Meeting, show that the questionnaire helped the majority of study participants and their physicians understand the impact of their migraine and encouraged the most disabled to seek medical care. The study also points out that although migraine sufferers with the most severe form of headache pain are more likely to use healthcare services, they are less satisfied with their current treatments. more
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Rare Fever Strikes Foot-And-Mouth Cull Workers
Workers helping with the foot-and-mouth cull have been affected by a potentially-dangerous infection. Thousands more are now to be screened for signs of the infection, called Q fever. While health fears have concentrated on the possibility that foot-and-mouth itself could infect humans - the consequences of Q fever are much worse. more
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Routinely Recommended HIV Testing At An Urban Urgent-Care Clinic --- Atlanta, Georgia, 2000
In 1993, CDC recommended that hospitals and associated clinics in areas with high human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevalence offer HIV testing routinely to all patients aged 15--54 years. Although voluntary routine screening among hospitalized and emergency department patients can identify many undiagnosed HIV-infected persons, few screening programs have been implemented in these settings. A 1997 study at Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia, found that nearly two thirds of inpatients newly diagnosed with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) had received medical care within the Grady health system during the 12 months preceding admission); these previous encounters were missed opportunities for earlier diagnosis of HIV. In response to the 1997 study, investigators studied routinely recommending HIV testing to patients presenting to the urgent-care clinic, an ambulatory clinic that provides episodic medical care to indigent and low income adults. This report summarizes the results of that study in which, compared with 1999 when testing was based on symptoms or risk behaviors, more patients were tested for HIV, more HIV infections were detected, and more infected persons learned their diagnosis and entered into care. These results reflect the benefits of recommending HIV testing routinely to patients in medical facilities located in areas with high HIV prevalence. more
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Backgrounder: Q Fever
Q fever is a zoonotic disease caused by Coxiella burnetii, a species of bacteria that is distributed globally. In 1999, Q fever became a notifiable disease in the United States but reporting is not required in many other countries. Because the disease is underreported, scientists cannot reliably assess how many cases of Q fever have actually occurred worldwide. Many human infections are inapparent. more
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