Older doctors less likely to follow current standards of care
...ality improvement interventions that are generally applicable to all physicians. The current requirements imposed on doctors to keep up to date and demonstrate continuing competence may need to be reconsidered, the authors suggest. Widely adopted techniques, such as distribution of printed materials and lecture...New mosquito control strategy proves successful against dengue fever
...t that this strategy is sustainable in Vietnam and applicable where the major sources of A aeygpti are large water storage containers. Professor Brian Kay concludes: "Although the government of Vietnam has adopted this strategy into their national programme, the challenge is to transfer this framework to the r...Inflammatory cells highly promising target in NF 1
...bromatosis," said Dr. Clapp. "Our work may well be applicable to other types of tumors such as breast and ovarian cancers, because inflammatory cells play an important role in tumor formation in these malignancies." Neurofibromatosis results from mutations in a gene called NF 1. In humans, NF 1 mutations result...Cell phone users drive like old folks
...cipants' driving speed, following distance and if applicable how long it took them to hit the brakes and how long it took them to regain speed. Those factors "have been shown to affect the likelihood and severity of rear-end collisions," Strayer and Drews wrote. The Findings: Age and Cell Phone Use Impair Dr...Reviparin effective in reducing risk of death after heart attack
...parin represents a moderate but important globally applicable advance in the management of patients with acute MI," the authors conclude. (JAMA. 2005;293:427-436. Available post-embargo at JAMA.com ) Editor's Note: The study had no external funding. Reviparin and placebo were donated by Abbott Laboratories. Dr...Clinical trial participants fare no better, no worse than other patients
...lts of RCTs (randomized controlled trials) are not applicable to usual clinical practice," report the authors, who say this review is the most comprehensive of its kind conducted to date. A randomized clinical trial is considered the "gold standard" of medical research because it is the best way to make sure th...Information fusion research simulates disasters to manage emergency response
...l is to produce response-system design guidelines, applicable to both natural disasters, such as earthquakes, tsunamis and wildfires, and to manmade incidents, such as chemical accidents and terrorist attacks, and test them in the simulated-disaster environment. The software Scott and his colleagues are ...New findings on patient safety at children's hospitals
... and 17 patients, respectively, out of every 1,000 applicable children treated at the hospitals in the study. The numbers are risk-adjusted to take into account patient characteristics. In two other categories, the analysis appeared to reveal a disturbingly high preventable death rate among young patients. But ...Good parent-doctor relationships may improve the advice parents receive
...ted to at-risk families, their findings may not be applicable to the general population of parents of infants. The study was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Annie E. Casey Foundation, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Hawaii State Department of Health, and the U.S. Maternal and Child Health Bur...Pegaptanib provides benefit for neovascular age-related macular degeneration
...able to slow vision loss, but have not been widely applicable to all patients. Pegaptanib is the first treatment designed to target the source of the disease and blocks the pathological form of a chemical called VEGF, which is produced in the eye of patients with wet AMD. The results of the two studies provide...Risk of tuberculosis doubles in first year of HIV infection
...high rates of tuberculosis, the results may not be applicable to all individuals with HIV infection. In an editorial accompanying the study, Diane V. Havlir and colleagues from the University of California San Francisco said that this research suggests a level of immunodeficiency in HIV infection that has not b...Canadian researchers' important discovery in HIV research
...d individuals. Such immunotherapies could be also applicable to patients requiring bone marrow transplantation to cure their cancer. ...Infections in low-birth-weight infants are associated with impaired neurodevelopment and growth
...We also need to determine whether our findings are applicable to larger preterm infants or to full-term infants, and also to assess the long-term impact of neonatal infections later on in childhood. Most importantly, though, it will be essential to develop interventions to reduce the high rates of infection in...Panel offers recommendations for monitoring adverse events from dietary supplements
...commendations, which they noted, should be broadly applicable to dietary supplements and not to any one particular type of supplement or manufacturer. The LSRO Committee concluded that an effective postmarket surveillance program can enhance the likelihood that true adverse effects, unknown at the time of marke...Stem cell therapy effectively treats heart attacks in animals
...ns researchers believe this could be a new, widely applicable treatment to repair and reverse the damage done to heart muscle that has been infarcted, or destroyed, after losing its blood supply. Nearly 8 million Americans alive today have suffered at least one heart attack and so are at greater risk for chron...Lung cancer specialist calls for cash to beat 'Cinderella' disease
...ch we encounter in lung cancer treatment is widely applicable to a number of other cancers, including cancers of the breast and of the blood." Professor Sethi's lecture is entitled: Rubor, Calor, Tumor and Dolor. He says: " These four classical signs of inflammation -- redness, heat, swelling and pain --r...Pediatricians often underestimate substance abuse problems in adolescents
...ng it likely that the findings of both studies are applicable to the population at large. Substance abuse is the number one health problem in the U.S., with an estimated annual cost of over $414 billion. It affects men and women of all races, ethnic groups and ages -- including adolescents....Family therapy reduces stress symptoms in adolescent survivors of childhood cancer
...nce beyond childhood cancer. "This approach may be applicable to other situations in treating the aftereffects of trauma associated with medical diagnosis and treatment," said Dr. Kazak. "For instance, we have studied stress symptoms following automobile injuries. Accidental injuries, burns, and chronic conditi...ESA looking for more European women to volunteer for WISE bed-rest study in Toulouse next year
...ittee in Toulouse and will comply in full with all applicable national and international laws and regulations. The results expected from WISE will be valuable to the European Space Agency's planning of future long-duration human space exploration missions. This research will also have clinical significance on ...Telephone follow-up does not reduce rehospitalization for low-risk heart failure patients
...ing hospitals. That makes the study's results more applicable to real-world health care, said DeBusk. The Stanford Cardiac Rehabilitation Program has collaborated with Kaiser Permanente for more than 20 years. DeBusk said it had been a fruitful relationship. "We jointly developed the basis for this ...