UMaine study looks at infants and chronic nighttime crying
...00 infants, toddlers and children at a well-infant clinic in Tokyo. It is customary in Japan for parents to bring infants and toddlers into their sleeping quarters typically a mattress on the floor (tatami) to nurse and fall asleep. Later, most infants stay with the parents, a practice termed "co-sleeping,...March/April 2005 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...ars. Patients who received care at an intervention clinic were up-to-date on a greater number of targeted screening tests and had 26 percent greater odds of mammography screening compared to patients at control clinics. Although still apparent, intervention effects on screening at 24 months had clearly dimi...Community-based care beats standard clinic in lowering heart
NEW YORK, March 15 Having a health clinic in the apartment next door may not be everyone's i... good neighbor. But a new study shows that such a clinic can be much more effective than a traditional one in improving African American's heart health. Prov...Radiography used to identify teens with sleep apnea
...en 7 and 18 years of age attending the orthodontic clinic at Case Dental School. They recorded age, gender, height and weight (abstracted from patient chart) along with tongue length and hyoid-to-mandibular-plane distance (measured from lateral cephalograms) in a linear model to generate a CRI score. The 30...Study examines lessons learned at Africa's first public antiretroviral treatment clinic
A public clinic offering antiretroviral (ARV) treatment to people ...available ARV treatment. Africa's first public ARV clinic opened in Gaborone, Botswana's capital city, in January of 2002, and was immediately inundated with ...Sex selection popular among infertile women
...of female patients at a hospital-based infertility clinic to determine the demand and preferences for nonmedical sex selection. They also looked at the type of sex selection method patients would choose. Of the 561 survey respondents, 229 would want to select the sex of their future child. Among the women w...2005 Oral Medicine and Pathology Research Award
...essor Johnson examined and treated patients in his clinic at the King's Dental Institute (London, UK), taught dental students and post-graduate students, and is the Editor of the journal Oral Diseases. As the new head of the first new dental school in Australia in nearly 60 years, he will be instrumental in...Jefferson Lab medical imager spots breast cancer
...ancies, and that it can be performed in the breast clinic with a small dose of FDG and a very short, 5-minute acquisition time." The Jefferson Lab/Duke team is now modifying the PEM system and imaging procedure to allow for better detection of lesions located near the chest wall. Dr. Rosen says the next st...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for March 2005 (first issue)
...ecutive patients attending a presurgical admission clinic at a university hospital to uncover risk factors for pulmonary complications after elective nonthoracic surgery. According to the authors, pulmonary complications after nonthoracic surgery are more frequent than cardiac complications and are associa...Assessing obstructive sleep apnea syndrome in snorers
...earchers evaluated 101 patients who came to an ENT clinic complaining of snoring using a routine examination, consisting of a medical history and an assessment of the anatomy of four points in their nose and throat, on a scale of zero to three and a test of the degree of obstruction in the throat. The patie...Clot-busting drugs may help detect potentially deadly leg clots
...f patients who are false positive. I had one in my clinic today. Those people have higher levels of d-dimer and we don't know why. It may be they have confounders, such as antibodies that mimic d-dimers," says Dr. Robinson. Adding tPA or some other clot-dissolving drug right before the test may clear up tho...International trial of two microbicides begins
...ondoms and extensive prevention counseling at each clinic visit. The trial is one of numerous studies conducted through NIH's HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN), which is funded by NIAID, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National In...UT Southwestern doctors track Oklahoma Alzheimer's patients via telemedicine
...a locations including the primary memory disorders clinic in Talihina, Broken Bow, McAlester and Hugo. "They can see me, and I can see them," Dr. Weiner said of the teleconference linkup. "We can assess any side effects of psychotropic medications and get an estimate of disease progression." Dr. Weiner, who...Risk factors affect parents' attitudes about STD vaccinations
...between the ages of 12 and 17 years to a pediatric clinic visit, completed a survey to test their reaction to nine hypothetical vaccine scenarios. Variables included the mode of transmission (sexually transmitted or not sexually transmitted); severity of infection (curable with antibiotics, chronic and incu...A Family's Guide to Living with HIV
...to remember that there is more to the child in our clinic than just his or her disease," says Dr. Cox, who s...wski detail medical information about the disease, clinic visits, psychological concerns, how medications work and their side effects, a glossary of terms and...State policies decrease youth smoking, drinking and sex
...ry to the thought that access to a family planning clinic increases sexual behavior, our study found the opposite--family planning clinics do not make kids have more sex," said Dr. Bishai. The authors report in their study that further research is needed to examine the effects of state and local laws and to...More homeless mentally ill than expected according to UCSD study: Interventions urged
...aul Village's Family Health Center, a free medical clinic located in one of San Diego's largest homeless service agencies. According to the UCSD researchers, homelessness was most frequently associated with people who were diagnosed with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, who were substance abusers, and wh...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for February 2005 (first issue)
...not have P. aeruginosa infection attend outpatient clinic appointments on a different day than those who are infected. As inpatients, they are housed on the same CF ward, but in rooms with in-suite facilities. They are told not to socialize with other inpatients. According to the authors, since these mea...$10-million study explores men's role in transmitting HPV
...the HPV virus. But they must be willing to visit a clinic at Moffitt twice a year for the four-year study duration. Giuliano is Moffitt's Program Leader for Risk Assessment, Detection and Intervention and a professor of Interdisciplinary Oncology at the University of South Florida College of Medicine. Sh...New method to fix cleft palate shows promise in Mayo Clinic lab study
..., but not in cleft palate. Before taking it to the clinic to use in people, we wanted to try it in an animal model. This study tells us that it is possible to close cleft palate with distraction osteogenesis." The Mayo Clinic researchers conducted this study in animals in order to find a method of repairing...