UC Davis Children's Hospital launches unique program to develop community pediatricians
...ealth-tips column for a community newsletter and a clinic for homeless children in Oak Park. "One of the goals of this program is to help our new doctors understand that what we, as physicians, think may be the most important problems to address for a child's well-being may not be what a neighborhood sees ......h threats they face. The charts could be posted in clinic offices or distributed to patients for easy reference when decisions are made. Because the charts give people a sense of how much smoking adds to their chance of dying at every age, they may also be useful in smoking prevention and cessation efforts....New, non-invasive surgical procedure to eliminate epileptic seizures
..."More than 500 patients have been evaluated in the clinic and, of those, 300 have qualified for surgery. As many as 90 percent of these patients became seizure free or had rare seizures, with significant improvement in their quality of life. Preliminary data indicate that the Gamma Knife radiosurgery also m...Some patients with breast cancer face unacceptable delays
... all general practitioners referrals to the breast clinic between April 1999 and December 2000. Altogether 3,597 referrals were made, 665 were marked as urgent and 2,932 as non-urgent. Sixty-two urgent patients and 49 non-urgent patients were subsequently found to have breast cancer. It is evident that the ...Proposals to regulate cosmetic surgery will not protect the public
...y is not fundamentally medical. Self referral to a clinic is an easier option. The public would be better protected if they consulted their general practitioner first, but it is likely that the number of self referrals will increase rather than decrease, says the author. Public education through the profes...Cancer patients enrolled in clinical trials do better when they receive palliative care
...o patients, and also accompanied patients to their clinic appointments. At these visits, the nurse and social worker emphasized symptom management, emotional support and discussion of end-of-life issues. At the end of the seven-month study, patients in the treatment-only group scored lower on quality-of-lif...Columbia dental school receives grant to expand oral health services for underserved children
...DOS projects that the Family Academys school-based clinic will be fully self-sustaining and supporting following the programs pilot phase. We are extremely pleased to have been selected to participate in the Caring for Kids program, said Dr. Stephen E. Marshall, associate dean...Researchers identify new signs of depression and anxiety in patients
...edicine Center, a university-based family practice clinic that has approximately 50,000 patient visits each year. Eligible patients completed the Duke Health Profile (DUKE), a 17-item questionnaire that measures health status and health-related quality of life during a one-week period. Patients also complet...Cancer drug proves effective in treating sickle cell disease
...al Center at Chicago, which houses the area's only clinic specializing in sickle cell disease. Results of the study will appear in the June 1 issue of the scientific journal Blood. Sickle cell disease is caused by a single mutation in a gene that manufactures hemoglobin, the molecule in red blood cells that...Surprising findings on Medicaid kids and the ER
...of Medicaid kids who have a primary care doctor or clinic to go to, or for their parents to consult about illnesses, they don't always have to rely on the ER as the first and only option. Their patterns of care are getting closer to what we see among children with private insurance." The first study, led by...Insulin pump effective for infants, children
...e patients. The mean value at the time of the last clinic visit was 7.9 percent," Freemark said. "Importantly, the decrease in HbA1c was achieved with a fivefold decline in the number of episodes of severe hypoglycemia. While on insulin injections, the children averaged 0.52 episodes per month of severe hyp...Annals of Internal Medicine, tip sheet
...separate clinics for prevention; schedule specific clinic visits just for prevention, and use staff other than doctors to provide preventive services. Financial incentives for patients, such as reducing or eliminating copayments, also helped increase use of immunization and cancer screenings. Teaching pati...Low-grade cervical lesions likely to regress spontaneously in adoloscent women
...atment and health advice during three-times-a-year clinic visits. Moscicki and her colleagues use a variety of medical and laboratory-based methods to confirm diagnoses and to study changes in the cells of the cervix that lead to LSILs and in some cases to HSILs high grade squamous intraepithelial lesions....First large doctor-patient e-mail study finds positive attitudes on both sides
... address where they could be sorted and triaged by clinic staff and nurses, then sent to the patients physic...atients many more services, and is much easier for clinic staff to use. This is why we are moving quickly beyond regular e-mail, and into evaluating web-based...UNC Center for AIDS Research database collaboration with SAS also helping patient care
...ase already is improving the care of people in our clinic because clinical providers now have their informat...rough the on-line database, doctors at the UNC HIV clinic receive reminders on basic health maintenance issues that help update their patients' immunizations,...Emory researchers study low testosterone and Parkinson's disease in men
...of five male Parkinsons patients who came to their clinic with unexplained loss of energy and vitality. These patients were not responsive to anti-parkinsonian and anti-depressant medications and had no evidence of other conditions such as hypothyroidism. Researchers screened for testosterone deficiency ...Duke Cancer Center, ABC2 join to test brain cancer drugs
...ially life-saving drugs from the laboratory to the clinic in an effort to save brain tumor patients, who hav...test new drugs in the lab, then move them into the clinic more quickly than traditional approaches within 18 to 24 months after testing to potentially save ...Chip design has potential as artificial retina
...ing of the heart for real-time 3-D heart images. A clinic in Bonn, Germany is already trying out the CNN chip to analyze electroencephalogram (EEG) data, allowing researchers to predict the occurrence of epileptic seizures and, perhaps, even prevent seizures from beginning. Researchers are already developin...Community initiatives can lower adolescent pregnancy rates
... Examples of community change included increasing clinic hours to provide greater access to health services and the adoption of human sexuality educational materials for 7th and 8th grade classes. Eighty-three interventions had been instituted in Target Area A, as opposed to 20 in Target Area B. Interventi...Surgeon warns that hospitals need to face the resource implications of breast reconstruction surgery
...s to be more time allocated to see patients at the clinic after surgery. Mr Dace, who is now a consultant surgeon in Altnagelvin Hospital, Northern Ireland, looked at three groups of ten women who had had mastectomy alone, mastectomy plus expander reconstruction1 or mastectomy plus TRAM2 reconstruction. He...