Smaller hospitals OK for heart bypass surgery - if your risk is small
...tant and should influence further study and policy debate over the proposed "regionalization" of non-emergency bypass surgery that would limit complex surgeries to hospitals that perform a high number of the procedures. Such a move, says lead author and U-M cardiology fellow Brahmajee Nallamothu, M.D., M.P.......take womens issues and concerns into account as we debate the nations economic conditions and its preparedness for defense against bio-terrorist attacks. -Strength and Knowledge of American Women-Eighty-seven percent of women say that they are still following terrorist-related news very or somewhat closely,...Mammography screening-the debate continues
...ebruary 2002. Another twist in the controversial debate surrounding the value of mammography screening for...t this view. A new perspective on the mammography debate is detailed by Claudia Henschke and colleagues from CornellMedical Center, New York, USA. They revie......olumbia since 1998. There has been a great deal of debate surrounding the safety of home delivery with a midwife versus hospital delivery. Patricia Janssen and colleagues compared perinatal outcomes for planned home births attended by midwives (862 births) and for planned hospital births attended by either ...Early breast and ovarian cancers detected in high-risk women
... test became available, the discoveries provoked a debate as to whether there was an advantage to learning ones risk. The value has been demonstrated in the first study of women who have been followed after being identified as carriers of a BRCA genetic mutation. Researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Canc...Swedish trials suggest modest benefit for screening mammography
...aphy for women aged 55 years or over. Considerable debate surrounds the issue of screening mammography and its possible benefits. A research letter by Ole Olsen and Peter Gotzsche (Lancet 2001; 358: 1340-42) concluded that there was no reliable evidence from randomised trials to support the benefit of scree...Breast cancer under threat from the new ethics say top cancer specialists
... topic will be the subject of the final conference debate tomorrow. To set the scene for the delegates, Professor Baum has turned to George Orwells famous novel 1984 for inspiration for a short satirical drama entitled 2084, which will performed by the panellists. He envisages the hero of Orwells novel as a......e professionals need to face up to the problem and debate a strategy to deal with it-which is the aim of this series....Mammography: Does it save lives?
...hether early detection saves lives. This sparked a debate that continues throughout the medical establishment and causes understandable concern among women at risk and their families. The MayoClinic.com roundtable approaches key concerns and questions from the unique perspectives of a medical oncologist, a ...What is and what is not a disease?
... to identify non-diseases. The aim was to prompt a debate on what is and what is not a disease and draw attention to the increasing tendency to classify peoples problems as diseases. A top 20 list includes ageing, baldness, jet lag, cellulite, and anxiety about penis size. Some of these non-diseases already...Does direct to consumer drug advertising medicalise normal human conditions?
...New Zealand, medicalise normal human conditions? A debate in this weeks BMJ puts the case for and against. Direct to consumer advertising encourages healthy people to believe they need medical attention, writes Barbara Mintzes at the University of British Columbia. Relatively healthy people are targeted bec...Classroom management linked to lesser teen alienation from school
..." Blum noted, "this finding may be relevant to the debate on zero-tolerance policies, which are intended to make schools safer. We found that students in schools with those types of discipline policies actually report feeling less safe at school than do students in schools with more moderate policies." Acco...Effectiveness of drugs used to treat Parkinson's disease in early, later stages measured
...tudy author Kenneth Marek, MD. While there remains debate about treatment for early Parkinsons disease -- and all treatment should be individualized to meet the needs of the patient this study adds important new information to the growing body of knowledge on the early treatment of Parkinsons disease. Ul...Dartmouth hosts International Ewing's Sarcoma Symposium
... also report on the status of clinical studies and debate the issue of irradiation versus surgery for local treatment and control of the disease. For more details about the symposium and the schedule of presentations, call 603-650-6300....Yale study reinforces theory that babies count
...logy, said their study was intended to address the debate about whether infants are counting when they look at objects, or whether they are simply responding to color, size and other variables. "We report here a study showing that 5-month-olds can determine the number of collective entities, moving groups o...Matching for liver transplants could prevent disease recurrence, says Pitt study
...ngle institution could help settle the score in a debate about the role of matching for liver transplantation, which has had tissue typers and surgeons on opposite sides of the issue for nearly two decades. According to the retrospective study of 3,261 patients who received liver transplants at the Univer...Heart health should be the front line of diabetes care
...type 2 diabetes need to lose weight, there is much debate over the most desirable diet to accomplish that goal with the pendulum swinging back and forth between low-fat and low-carbohydrate diets. Most investigators agree that diet for people with diabetes should be low in saturated fatty acids and choles...One-off lesson improves teenagers' knowledge of emergency contraception
...ontraception. This is important, given the ongoing debate on the effects of sex education and the argument that promoting the use of contraception encourages sexual activity, say the authors. The change in the pupils knowledge may not translate to a change in behaviour, as so many other factors undoubtedly ......ial policy agenda. In America today, there is much debate on the extent of the problem of elder abuse. The d...abuse are even in question. Additionally, there is debate about the place and centrality of various types of psychological and financial abuse against older p...