MRSA: Political point-scoring over hospital cleanliness ignores the real issue
...torial in this week's issue of THE LANCET. With a general election looming, all major political parties in the UK have seized on public fears about the health implications of unclean hospitals to fuel arguments over the rising rates of infection with MRSA. Labour has pledged to give 'power to patients' to m...UMaine study looks at infants and chronic nighttime crying
...n in the U.S. For this reason, these results have general implications for recommendations to parents and for describing the development of consolidated, full-night sleeping in infants and toddlers. ...March/April 2005 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...researchers found that a significant proportion of general health status can be attributed to family-level influences. Depending on the family configuration, the data indicate that between 4.5 and 26.1 percent of the variance in individual health status was derived from the family, with the shared characteri...Physicians may not be accurate in their confidence levels of their diagnoses, says Pitt study
... and third-year internal medicine residents and 72 general internists with faculty appointments and at least two years of post-residency experience. Each subject worked on nine cases. For each case, subjects were asked to provide a diagnosis and a measure of their confidence in the diagnosis. "Focusing on t...Professionalism and professional ethics in medicine
...nal random sample mail survey of cardiologists and general internists to determine why physicians often do not communicate with patients about out-of-pocket prescription costs, even though previous research indicates that out-of pocket costs may lead to cost-related failure to use prescribed medication and t...Corrected metabolism leads to health benefits and weight loss
...ver or renal function. Dr. Morin has worked in general practice for more than 30 years and is medical consultant to SureSlim Canada, which administers the Metabolism Correcting program. When he began consulting for the company five years ago, SureSlim was known primarily as a weight loss clinic, wher...Bullying among sixth graders a daily occurrence, UCLA study finds
... The URL must point to the specific release, not a general page oThis second paper is part of a long-term study of more than 1,900 sixth graders, and their teachers, in 11 Los Angeles-area public middle schools with predominantly minority and low?income students. Each student provides confidential reports an...Hepatitis C and health-related quality of life
...most dramatically in social and physical function, general health, and vitality. Nine studies stratified HRQOL by response to treatment measures. They indicated that HRQOL is consistently worse in patients who fail to achieve sustained viral response. Six studies examined HRQOL by neuropsychosocial effects, ...NIH state-of-the-science panel calls for 'demedicalization' of menopause
...o the conference topic: obstetrics and gynecology, general internal medicine, endocrinology, rheumatology, family and health psychology, geriatric medicine, health services research, demography, biochemistry, epidemiology, clinical research, and biostatistics, and because they are viewed by their peers as hi...First mouse model for multiple system atrophy points to new treatment targets for brain diseases
... bowel, bladder, and blood-pressure control. Other general symptoms include dizziness, impaired speech, breathing and swallowing difficulties, and blurred vision. Most patients develop dementia late in the course of the disease, which is usually diagnosed in people over 50. Currently there is no specific dr...Cardiac deaths peak in sleep hours for patients with sleep apnea
...riking because it comes when cardiac deaths in the general population are at their low point. "The cardiac death peak for the general population comes just after waking, from six to noon, which for several reasons is the most vulnerab...Treatment of cardiac lesions without anaesthesic
...arising from the transesophageal ecography and the general anaesthetic. In this way, it is much more convenient for the patients, as they are conscious during the operation, and their recovery is quicker; in fact, they can be released the same day, thus giving rise to considerable savings in health costs. S...Mental health service costs offset by savings in other public sectors
...tercare services. Similarly, we have not captured general administrative costs. In the case of child welfare, for example, these costs could be quite large. If, as seems likely, these omitted costs are proportional to the costs we analyzed, their inclusion would narrow the between-site gap still further."...Study finds factors linked to substance use disorder relapse among health care professionals
...e 10 percent to 15 percent, similar to that in the general population, according to background information in the article. Following completion of primary treatment, recovery is best achieved through continuing group therapy and regular attendance at mutual help groups. Data on the incidence of relapse and ...Sudan surveys show high rates of death and malnutrition among displaced population
...the relief efforts in those area. At each site, general household status, number of deaths among adults and children, and nutritional and vaccination status of children aged 6 months to almost 5 years were assessed. A questionnaire detailing access to food and basic services was administered to a subset ...Depression linked to insomnia in HIV patients
...ven that psychiatric disorders are often missed in general medical settings," Reid says. Reid and colleagues found little evidence suggesting that a patient's viral count or other signs of infection were important risk factors for insomnia until the very last stage of the disease, when AIDS-related illnesses...Kandel pays tribute to Hubel's and Wiesel's 25-year partnership and work in neurobiology & vision
... The Rockefeller University. He is also secretary general of the Human Frontier Science Program, president of the International Brain Research Organization, and chairman of the Board of the New York Academy of Sciences. Eric R. Kandel is Professor of Neurobiology, Columbia University and a Senior Investigat...Targeting mutant B-Raf protein reduces melanoma development
...l interfering ribonucleic acids, or BAY 43-9006, a general Raf inhibitor, to show that lowering mutant B-Raf protein reduced melanoma development. "Reducing B-Raf activity in melanoma cells before tumors had formed significantly decreased the growth potential of the melanoma cells and, in effect, prevented ...New studies show mixed results on epilepsy drugs and birth defects
...which is similar to the 2 to 3 percent risk in the general population. That risk jumped to 12.5 percent for w...ve an infant with a birth defect than women in the general population. For the second study on valproic acid, British researchers recruited 163 mothers with ep......emy of General Dentistry (AGD), an organization of general dentists dedicated to continuing education. Research shows that children who develop cavities in their baby teeth are more likely to develop cavities as an adult. So how can a parent determine if their child is at risk for cavities? It all begins wit...