UW study shows blacks and Latinos are more satisfied with physicians of the same race
Latino and black patients who perceive racism in the health care system prefer and are more satisfied with physicians from the same race or ethnicity, according to a new study published in the March-April edition of the Annals of Family Medicine. ...In analyzing a national survey of more than 3,800 blacks, Latinos and whites, Dr. Frederick Chen, acting assistant professor in the University of Wa...SAM on the favorable recommendation by FDA Advisory Committee for Boostrix
BLUE SPRINGS, MO March 15, 2005 The Society for Adolescent Medicine supports the unanimous favorable recommendation of the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding the development of a vaccine to prevent the occurrence of pertussis in adolescents. We believe that the development of this vaccine will further the health...Non-invasive and invasive breast cancers share the same genetic mutations
Women diagnosed with early stage, noninvasive breast cancer who carry the same mutations in two inherited breast/ovarian cancer genes as women diagnosed with invasive breast cancer, may benefit from high risk treatment, Yale researchers report in the February 23 issue of Journal of the American Medical Association....... The inherited breast/ovarian cancer genes are BRCA1 and BRCA2, which are ass...Keyhole surgery for colorectal cancer offers same prognosis as conventional surgery
Laparoscopy ('keyhole surgery') for colorectal cancer could be the future treatment of choice after results of a study from Hong Kong in this week's issue of THE LANCET show how it is associated with a similar 5-year survival outcome and more favourable recovery time than conventional surgery. ...... Colorectal cancer is one of the commonest forms of cancer worldwide. Laparoscopic surgery for col...Women with PCOS and their siblings with hormone problems have same gene defect
CHICAGO --- Siblings of women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) have metabolic and hormonal abnormalities that are linked to the same gene defect that causes PCOS, a disorder associated with irregular periods, infertility, excessive body hair and increased risk for diabetes....... These new findings came from the $6 million National Institutes of Health-funded National Centers Program for In...Minorities who experience pain don't receive the same care as Caucasians
The first issue of Pain Medicine in 2005 will focus on the inequalities and differences in how pain is assessed and treated amongst various racial and ethnic minority groups. Data from the articles in this themed edition provide evidence that African Americans, Hispanics, American Indians and other racial and ethnic minorities do not receive optimal care in treatment for pain. ......"Each articl...Marijuana associated with same respiratory symptoms as tobacco
New Haven, Conn.--Smoking marijuana is associated with increased risk of many of the same symptoms as smoking cigarettes--chronic bronchitis, coughing on most days, phlegm production, shortness of breath, and wheezing, according to a Yale study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine....... In addition, marijuana smoking may increase risk of respiratory exposure by infectious organi...Small study shows SAMe may improve treatment of depression
Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers have found that adding the nutritional supplement SAMe to a standard antidepressant may be helpful to patients who have not responded to single-drug treatment for clinical depression. The pilot study, appearing in the December Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology, found that treatment with both SAMe and an antidepressant improved symptoms in hal...New sampling method to track HIV-risk behavior
ITHACA, N.Y. -- What's the best way to get a statistically reliable sample of people who are hard to identify, such as illegal-drug users in large cities, itinerant jazz musicians, aging Manhattan artists and semi-professional storytellers? ...... drug users (IDUs) and measure their HIV-risk behavior in the 25 U.S. cities with the largest number of AIDS cases. ... The sampling method, called res...Rikke set to present the Geron Corporation - Samuel Goldstein Distinguished Publication Lecture
The University of Colorado at Boulder's Brad A. Rikke has been chosen by The Gerontological Society of America to receive its 2004 Geron Corporation - Samuel Goldstein Distinguished Publication Award. He is accepting the honor for the selected paper, "Quantitative Trait Loci Specifying the Response of Body Temperature to Dietary Restriction."... ...The co-authors of this study are John E. Yerg II...Smoking affects same 'feel good' brain chemical system as heroin
SAN DIEGO -- Smokers often say that lighting up a cigarette can calm their nerves, satisfy their craving and help them relax. ...... Now, a team of University of Michigan scientists is reporting new evidence of why that might be: Smoking produces major changes in the flow of "feel good" chemicals between brain cells, both temporarily and long-term. And those changes in flow match up with changes...Seeing the same physician regularly leads to better preventive care
According to a new study, adults who regularly visit the same doctor for health care are most likely to receive better preventive treatment, like vaccines for influenza or breast cancer screening. The results support the conclusion that provider continuity is related to improved health care outcomes for patients.... ...A study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine analyzed the ass...Lower risk of death for patients who see the same doctor after hospital treatment
Hospital readmission or relative risk of death decreases for patients who see a doctor who actually treated them during hospitalization, rather than another physician, after being released from their stay.... ...According to a study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, "Patients were significantly less likely to die or be readmitted if they were seen in follow-up by a hospital p...Regardless of race, pain feels pretty much the same
A new study that measures pain sensitivities among Whites and African-Americans suggests assessment procedures may be to blame for reported racial differences in the amount of pain experienced. ... ...Previous research and anecdotal clinical evidence have suggested that African-Americans tend to be more sensitive to pain than Whites, but the latest research study shows the two groups si...Study reports improved method to identify fetal DNA in maternal blood samples
A new method to increase the recovery of DNA from unborn babies in a blood sample from their mothers may be helpful for future development of non-invasive prenatal genetic tests to identify fetal abnormalities, according to an article in the March 3 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). ...... "Prenatal diagnosis is useful in managing a pregnancy with an identified fe...US women endure twice the surgical biopsies as British for same cancer detection rate
Although the rate of breast cancer detection is similar in the two countries, US doctors perform two to three times more open surgical biopsies than British doctors. In addition, American women are recalled, or referred for further testing, twice as often as British women, according to a study by UCSF radiologist Rebecca Smith-Bindman, MD.... ...Women in both countries who are recalled undergo ad...Study shows younger women dont die a sudden cardiac death for the same reasons as men
The number of women in their 30s and 40s who experience sudden cardiac death is increasing much faster than the number of men of the same age who experience sudden cardiac death. But a study led by an Oregon Health & Sciences University cardiac researcher has found men and women are not dying from the same causes. Sudden cardiac death in men is usually caused by coronary heart disease or other sp...Ikeno set to present the Geron Corporation - Samuel Goldstein Distinguished Publication Lecture
The University of Texas at San Antonio's Dr. Yuji Ikeno has been chosen by The Gerontological Society of America to receive its 2003 Geron Corporation - Samuel Goldstein Distinguished Publication Award. He is accepting the honor for the selected paper, "Delayed Occurrence of Fatal Neoplastic Disease in Ames Dwarf Mice: Correlation to Extended Longevity."...... The co-authors of this study are Rod...Call for entries: The AAAAI presents the 4th Annual Samter Journalism Award
Allergic disorders including asthma, allergies, sinusitis and allergic skin disorders affect 20% of the U.S. population, and the prevalence continues to increase. As a result, the need for accurate, helpful and up-to-date information on these topics is in great demand. The Samter Journalism Award is given to those journalists who have made a positive impact on the general understanding of allergi...Many children in Medicaid managed care do not receive same quality of care
New York City, September 16, 2003--Children enrolled in Medicaid managed care plans had lower rates than those in commercial plans for quality indicators such as immunization rates and well-child visits, according to a study in the September 17th issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), conducted with support from The Commonwealth Fund. ......The findings of the study, "Qu...Childhood leukemia survivors not receiving radiation have same life expectancy as general population
(MEMPHIS, TENN.--August 13) A new study from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital indicates that survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) who have not received radiation treatment as part of their therapy have virtually the same long-term life experiences as the general population. ... The findings, which appear in the August 14 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, resu...Study finds more satisfaction in same-race doctor-patient relationships
A recent study from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that patients who are of the same race as their doctor report more satisfaction with their physician. When given the opportunity to choose their own physician, patients were also more likely to pick doctors of their same race. In addition, white respondents were more likely to be race concordant with their physician whe...NIDA and SAMHSA agreement expedites transfer of research findings to clinical practice
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) today announced a unique intra-agency agreement to expedite the application of findings from treatment research into clinical application. ...... The $1.5 million agreement between NIDA and SAMHSA's Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) will help ensure that findings from...Married couples at risk of same disease
Researchers from the University of Nottingham set out to determine whether people whose marital partners suffered with a certain condition such as depression, high blood pressure or asthma were at increased risk of suffering from the same disease....... Over 8,000 married couples aged between 30 and 74 years of age took part in the study. After adjustments were made for age, obesity and smoking s...Sleep and sedation controlled in same brain centre, say scientists
Undergoing anaesthesia may be more like falling asleep than we once thought, ...according to new research from Imperial College London and Harvard Medical ...School, USA. ... ...Researchers report today in the journal Nature Neuroscience how two of the ...most widely used anaesthetics, pentobarbital and propofol induce sleep by mimicking the natural process of falling into a deep sleep. ......Us...Mayo Clinic study finds radioactive drug samarium hopeful new treatment for osteosarcoma
......ROCHESTER, MINN. -- A Mayo Clinic study indicates the radioactive drug samarium may expand treatment options for osteosarcoma, offering patients with bone cancer further hope of a treatment that specifically targets and kills tumors in the bone. ......In the study, 24 of the 30 patients enrolled experienced a good to excellent response to the samarium treatment. Two of the patients have be...Newest version of 'the pill' confers same stroke risk as old pill
SAN ANTONIO, Feb. 7 The first major study of ischemic stroke in women taking the latest form of low-estrogen birth control pills finds that they still have about double the stroke risk of women not taking the pill. These findings were reported today at the American Stroke Associations 27th International Stroke Conference. The American Stroke Association is a division of the American Heart Asso...Drug that curbs nicotine craving may do same for cocaine
. DENVER - A drug that Duke University Medical Center researchers have successfully used to help some people quit smoking may also help curb cocaine cravings, according to studies conducted in rats. . The drug mecamylamine, used in combination with nicotine to help reduce the urge to smoke cigarettes, has now been shown in animal studies to reduce their self-administration of cocaine...Elderly should receive the same cancer care as young people
. ... Ageism in healthcare staff, lack of awareness of treatments available and beliefs or fears of patients and their families about cancer and its treatment, may all contribute to the fact that older patients do not receive the same cancer care as younger people. So say Dr Nicola Turner and colleagues from St James's University Hospital, Leeds in this week's BMJ. . Although more than a third...Adolescents And Risk-Taking: A 'Very Likely' Danger May Not Mean The Same To A Teen As To An Adult
.In a finding that will surprise few parents, UC San Francisco researchers have.shown that what adults say about the probability of harm from a risky behavior.can have different - even opposite - meanings to teenagers. . ."Those differing interpretations can have serious effects if a teen makes the.wrong choice about a behavior, whether it's neglecting to take a needed medicine.or experimenting...Nitrosamines Play Important Role In Cancer Linked To Smoking
. .The following major review article will appear June 2 in the Web edition of.Chemical Research in Toxicology, a peer-reviewed journal published by the.American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. .First comprehensive review in a decade provides new insights on mechanisms of.cancer induction by nitrosamines in tobacco products .A series of chemical compounds--known as nit...