Physicians may not be accurate in their confidence levels of their diagnoses, says Pitt study
...acy of their diagnoses at the time they make them, and in significant numbers of cases they may be overco... use of outside resources in determining diagnoses and making other medical decisions. These resources include colleagues, medical books, journals and comp...Do minorities survive hospitalization better than others?
...who are faced with difficult end-of-life decisions and might have simplified the plight of Terry Schiavo.... a large population of hospital patients. When sex and ethnicity differences in the use of DNR orders were taken into account, the apparent mortality advan...Pitt marks 50th anniversary of its Salk polio vaccine with reunion, scientific symposium
... commemorate the achievements of Jonas Salk, M.D., and his team of Pitt researchers and pay tribute to the people of the Pittsburgh community whose involvement was critical to the success ...Unexpected benefit seen in treating HER-2 breast cancer with new preoperative drug combo
...son Cancer Center. When combined with chemotherapy and used before surgery in early stage breast cancer t...his is a far better result than we had anticipated and seems to suggest that simultaneous use of chemotherapy and Herceptin offers a much more potent treat...Mouse model reveals potential way to reduce cardiac deaths in kidney patients
...identified an important link between kidney damage and cardiac problems, creating new possibilities for t...sed risk of congestive heart failure, heart attack and several other cardiac problems. Mice treated with an experimental medication that alleviates the ske...OHSU scientists test medication to treat involuntary weight loss
... research medication that both stimulates appetite and reduces metabolic rate in preclinical trials. Neur...rom a common, disease-related form of malnutrition and involuntary weight loss called cachexia. The results of the research are published in the current on...Cultural and social factors influence prostate cancer treatment
Researchers say social and cultural factors play a significant role in patien...es, such as marital status, high school education, and race/ethnicity may play a larger role in patients' treatment decisions than previously believed. P...Consumers with disabilities empowered by American Disabilities Act
... were asked to report ontheir awareness of the ADA and to evaluate whether conditions hadimproved over th...ss to the marketplace are more satisfied with life and the more consumers with disabilities interact in the market place, the more satisfied with life they......ccess medical journal PLoS Medicine , John Danesh and colleagues from the University of Cambridge, along...udies on serum uric acid are epidemiologic studies and have come to different conclusions about how useful measurement of uric acid is. This study, alon...Lack of clinical trial participation may contribute to lower survival rates
...study finds poor survival rates among young adults and older adolescents with some cancers may be partial...es among all ages overall as well as among younger and older patients have shown vast improvements over the past 25 years, the same has not been shown for ...Suppressing the cells that trigger cat allergy
...ccess medical journal PLoS Medicine , Mark Larche and colleagues from Imperial College London describe a...ess cells that cause cat allergy. Asthma and allergy have become more frequent in all industrialized countries during recent decades, and there i...A marker for new blood vessel formation in tumors
...bal health journal PLoS Medicine , Roland Haubner and colleagues describe how a compound they have devel...lly. The compound previously developed by Haubner and colleagues is a fluorine-labeled glycopeptide, ([18F]Galacto-RGD), which binds tightly to a receptor...Protecting children from industrial chemicals in the environment
...ikely to face serious health consequences from new and existing industrial chemicals in the environment, ...r children across the placenta or via breast milk, and children are also exposed to chemicals by direct ingestion of house dust, soil, and other dietary so...Primary care office strategies may increase colon cancer screening
...s for colorectal cancer (CRC) reduce its incidence and mortality from the disease, according to backgroun... CRC screening. Esther K. Wei, Sc.D., from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, and colleagues studied the efficacy of an offic...Professionalism and professional ethics in medicine
...orrelated with physicians whowere rude to patients and families, and who did not show respect to the patient and family," writes Philip Greenland, M.D., editor of Archiv...Advertising by academic medical centers may risk eroding public trust, says study
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, VT and HANOVER, NH Most prominent academic medical centers develop and distribute advertisements to attract patients, but none have a formal review process to assess the b...Economist: Cuba's state-run baseball doesn't go to bat for players
...s in ballparks largely free of commercial gimmicks and hype. But an economist now weighs in with researc...economist at the University of Washington, Tacoma, and author of the new study on Cuban baseball. "Cuba's system makes a great case study of how organizing...Raw food vegetarians have low bone mass
...ally low bone mass, usually a sign of osteoporosis and increased fracture risk. But a research team at Wa...structor in medicine in the Division of Geriatrics and Nutritional Science. Fontana and colleagues studied 18 strict raw food vegans ages of 33 to 85. All ...Organizational traits associated with quality patient care are essential to home care nursing
...rses' efforts to provide high quality patient care and enhance their job satisfaction are also essential ...izational Attributes Valued by Hospital, Home Care and District Nurses in the United States and New Zealand," is featured in the first quarter issue of the......rest University Baptist Medical Center researchers and colleagues suggests that inflammation may be the k...ts nearly one-third of adults in the United States and is closely linked with heart disease," said Tongjian You, Ph.D., instructor in geriatric medicine at...