Similar outcomes for atrrial fibrillationi patients with congestive heart failure
...ials that could settle the rhythm vs. rate control debate in patients with CHF, an ongoing clinical trial could provide the definitive answer. The Atrial Fibrillation and Congestive Heart Failure (AF-CHF) trial plans to enroll 1,450 patients at more than 100 centers in the U.S., Canada, South American and E...Debate on payments to potential kidney donors: Yes or no?
...ease the stagnant donor pool is prompting a lively debate on the medical and ethical issues surrounding paym...nday, November 16 in San Diego, California. "This debate is timely, due to the increase in patients waiting for kidneys, the success of kidney transplantatio...Nov/Dec 2003 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...ngs from our study will help enlighten the current debate over the frequency and timing of Pap tests based upon risk of cervical cancer," said Smith. "As this study makes clear, health-care providers face significant barriers to putting risk-based screening recommendations into practice." The researchers ...Caesarean delivery could increase risk of future stillbirth
...ncy has the potential to redefinethe nature of the debate about the place of caesarean delivery in maternitycare. She concludes: "Smith and colleagues' paper also reminds us that whenwe wonder why preterm birth and unexplained antepartum stillbirths remainsuch a constant feature of perinatal outcomes in dev...Call for outright smoking ban in UK
...is week's Lancet editorial comments on the current debate about smoking in public places, and goes further by calling for a total UK ban on cigarettes in order to tackle the impacts of tobacco-related illness and mortality. The editorial comments: 'Most people-smokers and non-smokers-support restrictions on...Low-dose interferon fails to improve survival in high-risk melanoma patients
...ood disturbance as the primary side effects. "The debate on adjuvant interferon in high-risk melanoma conti...anying editorials appearing in the JCO discuss the debate over adjuvant-interferon trials for patients with resected high-risk melanoma. The authors note tha......anised by Warwick's Institute of Health, is set to debate to what extent health inequalities have been reduced and to identify ways forward in terms of policy and practice. Chaired by Sir Donald Acheson the conference is designed to provide a platform to capture state of the art thinking on tackling inequa...Third International Conference on Cancer and the Adolescent
...e and psychological effects. They will discuss and debate some of the controversial areas that impact on young patients such as body image, future fertility, the effect on families, careers Speakers will also include patients like paralympic gold medallist Marc Woods, who will explain what it is like to hav...Don't worry. You're not old just ill
...in life seems to a large extent arbitrary." In the debate article, the authors present a model in which diseases are caused by several factors acting cumulatively. People get ill when, in effect, they have completed the set of risk factors that cause a particular disease. As we accumulate more of these caus...Urgent action required to prevent 500k deaths/yr worldwide from pregnancy-related causes
... abortion. Duff Gillespie concludes: "The abortion debate must continue if women are to have access to safe abortion, but should not prevent women from getting the family planning information and services they need to prevent abortion in the first place. If we empower women worldwide to avoid unwanted pregn...Pediatricians and parents key to improving quality of children's health care
...r children, they've been less active in the policy debate over quality of care. Their voices need be stronger at both the state and national levels," said Dr. Simpson, a USF professor of pediatrics and chief of the Division of Child Health Outcomes. "At the same time, parents need to be given clearly under...Home-based therapy beneficial for stroke patients
...conomic benefits. What does seem clear is that the debate should move from whether such services are effective to how to make the most of their benefits."...Most men over 40 take steps to try to prevent prostate cancer, Jefferson survey shows
...versial. Prostate cancer tends to grow slowly, and debate centers on whether or not early detection and treatment do more harm than good. It is also unclear if so-called preventive methods such as diet, exercise and supplements such as selenium actually help prevent prostate cancer. The researchers wanted t...Keeping ideology and bureaucracy out of science
The current debate surrounding the ethics and accountability of scientific research is discussed in this week's editorial, with concern that well-meaning monitoring processes implemented in the wake of scandals like alderhay in the UK may have "the potential to delay, ...Update: Third International Conference on Cancer and the Adolescent
...e and psychological effects. They will discuss and debate some of the controversial areas that impact on young patients such as access to clinical trials, body image, future fertility, the effect on families, careers 10.30am Monday 1 March news briefing Speakers: Mrs Myrna Whiteson MBE, Chairman Teenage C...Majority of authors retract 1998 Lancet paper-Lancet editor points to implications
...98; 351: 637-41. 2 Murch S. MMR and autism: the debate continues. Lancet 2004; 363: 568-69. 3 Horvath K, Perman JA. Autistic disorder and gastrointestinal disease. Curr Opin Pediatr 2002; 14: 583-87. 4 Zhang L, Lopez P, He T, Yu W, Ho DD. Retraction of an interpretation. Science 2004; 303: 467. ...Implanted defibrillators not covered for half of patients who could benefit, study finds
... the ACC meeting may add even more evidence to the debate over whether Medicare should alter its coverage cr...ation. Hopefully, the addition of more data to the debate will help guide coverage decisions for Medicare and others, Otten notes. "As clinicians, we're in th...Bite-marks giving false impression
...justice like Krone's case are all too common. Now debate is being further stirred up by a study from two California dentists with experience in forensic cases, which they say validates the technique. George Gould of Rancho Murieta and Anthony Cardoza of El Cajon admit their research is preliminary, but th...Top medical and scientific societies commit to providing free access to research
... needed "middle ground" in the increasingly heated debate between those who advocate immediate unfettered online access to medical and scientific research findings and advocates of the current journal publishing system. The document was drafted in response to recent claims that these publishers' practices ...Blood-forming stem cells fail to repair heart muscle in Stanford study
..., Calif. - A new study adds a twist to the ongoing debate over using blood-forming stem cells to repair heart muscle. In the March 21 online issue of Nature, researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine report that the cells are unable to replace heart muscle after a heart attack, which refutes...