HIV and ID doctors oppose ideologically driven STI prevention policies
...ciety of America (IDSA). "Most teenagers have sex before they graduate from high school. Millions of young people, as well as adults, are sexually active outside of monogamous relationships. We need to supply them with the tools to make wise choices." "When spending taxpayer dollars, the federal governme...Yale authors raise concerns regarding regionalized heart attack care
...s in the United States whether such a system works before we adopt it." Saif Rathore, the study's first author and a second-year medical student at the Yale School of Medicine, is also concerned about the feasibility of regionalization. "Proponents often compare regionalization of acute coronary syndrome c...Benign separation process being advanced for pharmaceutical industry
...al companies perform many separations of molecules before they begin to synthesize the most ideal safe, pure, effective compound or sub-compound into a drug. Despite the concern for safe processes, one of the most chemically benign separation processes has not been available to the drug industry. Now Virgin...Mountaineering doctors hike medicine to new heights with Xtreme Everest
... expedition plans to set off in the spring of 2007 before the monsoon season, with a 'window in the weather' of only a few days when conditions are good enough to attempt the summit. Along with the usual climbing dangers of rockfalls and avalanches, the group will be risking medical complications such as hi...Explosion of child obesity predicted to shorten us life expectancy
...ment, to make clear that public health has to come before private profit," he says. "This means a fundamental shift in the social environment that will support healthful eating and an active lifestyle. While the campaign must be led by government, it will require the active participation of primary care phy...Brain imaging study may hold clues to onset of schizophrenia in people at high risk
...hat individuals who experience symptoms that occur before the disease becomes full-blown demonstrate impaire...n between: It looks like these deficits begin even before they are diagnosed and treated. It suggests that this area of the brain that's important for executi...Cardiologists underestimate racial and ethnic disparities in care
...nt were white, 72 percent graduated medical school before 1985 and 58 percent practiced in a setting in which less than a quarter of the patients were racial or ethnic minorities. Results indicated that physicians who were female, or black, or who treated a large number of minority patients in their practic...Minorities, poor, uneducated bear the burden
...hites, as measured by years of potential life lost before age 75. In 2001, overall U.S. life expectancy was 77.2 years. Life expectancy was higher in women than men by 5.4 years and higher in whites than blacks by 5.5 years. Men lost 1708.3 years of potential life per 100,000 persons due to "diseases o...Health care report cards may increase racial/ethnic disparities in bypass operations
...Hispanics, and whites to return to where they were before the first report card's release," Werner said.Studies have indicated that report cards are generally beneficial. But there is still concern that some physicians might select lower risk patients to improve their public ratings. "The finding that repo...Vitamin E may not prevent cancer or cardiovascular events, but may increase risk for heart failure
...mentary medicines in appropriately designed trials before they are widely used for presumed health benefits."...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
...urons that appear in the human telencephalon, well before the formation of the cortical plate or the onset of synaptogenesis. They identified the cells as neurons based on microtubule associated protein 2 (MAP2) immunoreactivity in tissue available from embryonic forebrain 1 - 2 months after conception. The...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for March 2005 (second issue)
...and admission to the hospital for more than 2 days before ICU admission were also found to significantly increase the death rate. This assemblage of patients represented the largest group ever studied to assess the association between mortality and ICU-associated bloodstream infection. The researchers sai...Community care tops medical care at preventing heart disease in black Americans
...ps in the United States, at 14.7 percent of deaths before age 65, while blacks have among the highest, at 31.5 percent. According to the latest statistics from the American Heart Association, in 2002, 50,000 blacks died from coronary heart disease, which affects 7.4 percent of black men and 7.5 percent of ...Prostate cancer screening practices examined
...bability that one of those factors may cause death before prostate cancer." Of the men screened by PLCO, abo... which is needed to confirm the presence of cancer before treatment. About a third of men with abnormal tests had a prostatic biopsy within a year of the ini...Ethical discussion should come before research
...ON-SALEM, N.C. The time for ethical reflection is before experimentation begins, especially in the case of ...embryonic humanity, because these entities lay now before us in the Petri dish," write the authors. Jones and Cheshire, director of biotechnology ethics for ...Government wasting your taxpayer money on ineffective drug cure
...this compound. More and better studies are needed before this agent is used on a wide scale basis." In January of 2003, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) initiated the national coverage determination for use of L-carnitine in qualified patients, however the criteria established for use o...Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet for March 15, 2005
... CHD events in men and one-tenth in women occurred before age 55. Editorial writers say that the results do not support a strategy to give all adults over age 55 a "polypill," containing low doses of several drugs that modify some CHD risk factors (Editorial, p. 467). 3. C-Reactive Protein Probably Does ...Malt liquor beers, and the people who drink them, are different
...and movie scripts encourage 'chugging' the bottles before they get warm. The combined effects of higher alcohol content, larger serving size, and faster consumption can result in higher blood alcohol levels, an increased risk of aggressive behavior, and other alcohol-related problems." Jones-Webb added tha...Medicaid enrollment at late stages may partly explain poor outcomes for cancer
... median survival was 18 months for those diagnosed before enrollment compared to 38 months for those diagnosed after enrollment. Only 27 percent of these late enrollers had early stage cancers compared to 54 percent and 40 percent in the non-Medicaid insured and the patients already enrolled in Medicaid, re...Depression may explain higher risk of heart attack associated with antidepressants
... was gleaned from looking at the prescription data before and after the heart attack (known as self controlled analysis). The authors also failed to find any link with specific antidepressants or with the class of drug, leading them to conclude that any increase in heart attack risk is more likely to be li...