Dealing with conflict in caring for the dying patient
...e course of her illness, her family and physicians conflict about the use of a short-term feeding tube and int...ity of Washington, Seattle sought ways to identify conflict and make recommendations on how to avoid the pitfalls and recognize disputes by employing useful com...'Marital strain' increases women's risk of death, heart disease
ORLANDO, Feb. 17 Married women who avoid conflict with their spouses have an increased risk of dying...lways keeping their feelings to themselves when in conflict with their husbands, known as self-silencing, had more than four times the risk of dying from any ca...Services for children: Training needed to tackle complexity of new labour's joined-up approach
...are information more widely may create anxiety and conflict and affect the way teams work together - setting for instance, medical versus social work; education versus care. Researchers found that during meetings about major decisions, jargon could be used to 'exclude' some team members from contributing full...Treatment for brain tumor does not always follow recommendations
...hylactic antiepileptic drug administration) or may conflict with published literature (e.g., relatively infrequent use of chemotherapy), and still others point out areas for further investigation in this population, including heparin prophylaxis for venous thromboembolism, antidepressant medication, corticost...Brain tumor treatment can vary greatly, according to new JAMA study
...among academic and community centers and can be in conflict with accepted guidelines of care, according to a new study. Findings are reported in the February 3 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in an article titled "Malignant Glioma Patterns of Care." UCSF Medical Center neuro-...Health initiatives can help peace building in the Middle East
... a limited number of collaborators across lines of conflict is important. But making peace is much more than individual relations. Cooperative efforts must show a broader impact, especially when the politics of cooperation are so daunting, as in this case. A focus on the individual, rather than the collective...Multiple therapies curb declining ability to learn with age
...nd the U.S. Department of the Army. The following conflict of interest was declared by the authors with respect to publication of this paper: investigator Steven Zicker is an employee of Hill's Pet Nutrition Inc., which has commercialized the antioxidant fortified food used in the study....Some US soldiers returning from Afghanistan should be screened for malaria
...a study in the January 12 issue of JAMA . War and conflict have had a long historical partnership with malarial outbreaks, according to background information in the article. Disruptions in health care infrastructure, maneuvering of numerous military personnel, and exposure of individuals with nominal or no ...Physician response to conflicts between faith and medicine
...ds of a patient's faith, but that certain types of conflict tend to push doctors over a threshold toward negot... Physicians were more disturbed by cases where the conflict was not between science and religion but rather between "different worldviews," for example patients...Physicians' response to religion-related conflicts in medicine
... situations in which their medical recommendations conflict with a patient's religious beliefs, according to a...ience of illness, and at times, these beliefs will conflict with physicians' recommendations. How physicians should act in response to such discrepancies has be...Health report-card fears make doctors forgo potential life-saving heart treatment
...ician quality, they can in some instances create a conflict for the physician that may actually worsen patient care," he says. For the study, an anonymous, one-page questionnaire was sent to all interventional cardiologists in New York - 186 physicians - who were included in the angioplasty report released in...Novel p53 gene-based therapy boosts immune system and reduces tumor size
...ts are managed in accordance with M. D. Anderson's conflict of interest policies....Examination of possible conflicts of interest to influence look at suspected adverse drug reactions
...llance of medications. "However there is indeed a conflict of interest in asking industry to monitor its own drugs. It is imperative, therefore, that the FDA continue to be bolstered, both in its efforts to monitor drug safety and in its new risk management initatives. In my opinion, there is no need for a...The brain science behind 'A beautiful mind'
... used rhesus monkeys to participate in a strategic conflict game known as the "the inspection game" (the game was first developed by the RAND corporation to evaluate the likelihood of Soviet compliance with arms control agreements). In the human version of the game, there are two players, an "employer" and a...Uppsala scientists behind acclaimed health site
...group followed the treatment via the Internet, for conflict management or stress management, for example. In the latter group a follow-up study showed a clear impact, on the one hand, on sleep and the ability to concentrate and, on the other, on physiological factors, such as sex hormones. "It turned out th...Breast cancer in men increasing
...reatment, and prognosis. Moreover, studies to date conflict on whether the disease presents the same in men as it does in women. To fill in the gaps in clinical knowledge of male breast cancer, researchers analyzed data collected from 1973 to 1998 and included in the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, ...Clerks control healthcare access for uninsured patients, study finds
...d, but also securing payment -- goals that clearly conflict when the patient is indigent." At the three medical institutions, Weiner said, policies were incomplete, inapplicable, or had not been circulated among the frontline staff. For example, at one site, the policy required the clerk to request 50 percent......he Johns Hopkins University in accordance with its conflict of interest policies....Medical residents need training to interact with pharmaceutical representatives
...ers, physicians need to be aware of this potential conflict of interest." Watkins and colleagues conducted surveys about the need for resident training on these issues and developed a six-hour curriculum for internal medicine residents at Wake Forest Baptist. Through a review of published manuscripts in this......medical associations and physicians have their own conflict of interests with the tanning industry," Stepp said. Among these findings are two key indicators: 98% of those surveyed believe that adults should be allowed to decide for themselves whether or not they should be free to tan indoors...