Study questions safety of heart procedures at hospitals without cardiac surgery programs
HANOVER, NH Rekindling a debate on the safety of performing an increasingly popula...y found. "Most of the current clinical and policy debate about where PCIs should be performed surrounds treatment of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) so we ...Improving child survival in Kenya: Strengthening of district hospitals essential
...t all levels to regain it. We need to do more than debate the problem; we need to act, and act soon, or it will become increasingly difficult to turn the situation around."...Leading tobacco manufacturer conceals links to tobacco research facility
...tor Richard Horton comments: "Given the continuing debate about the way governments should respond to calls for a ban on smoking in public places, we have published this work early online to inform that discussion as a matter of urgency. Pascal Diethelm and his colleagues reveal attempts by one company--Phi...Very low-carbohydrate diets work for men and upper body fat
...t first followed by a low fat diet. There is much debate about the health implications of long-term use of low carbohydrate diets. Volek's lab, whose work is the first-ever to be funded in part by the Robert C. Atkins Foundation, has previously shown that low carbohydrate diets improve cardiovascular risk ...Important priorities for prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS
...itted HIV. Against a background of twenty years of debate over the value of different behaviour-change approaches, authors Daniel Halperin (University of California San Francisco, USA) and colleagues outline evidence-based objectives for the various populations at risk: an emphasis on abstinence for young p...Alliance congratulates Congress and NIH
...i have listened respectfully to all voices in this debate on how to expand access to the published results of NIH-funded science. They agree with us that NIH's primary responsibility is to serve science and to improve human health. We are proud partners with both to ensure that the conduct, scientific revie...Using celebrities to market drugs and diseases: whats the problem?
...o with them, is "fundamentally shifting the public debate about major health problems," argues the investigative reporter Ray Moynihan in the latest issue of PLoS Medicine . Pfizer hired Bob Dole to promote awareness of erectile dysfunction just as Viagra was hitting the market, Wyeth hired supermodel Lau...Is the '3 by 5' initiative the best approach to tackling the HIV pandemic?
...worst infectious disease pandemic? A provocative debate in this month's PLoS Medicine pitches Dr Jim Yong Kim, director of the WHO's Department of HIV/AIDS, against Dr Arthur Ammann, President of Global Strategies for HIV Prevention. "The intentions are good, the approach is wrong," says Amman, who ...Researchers debate recreational use of PDE-5 inhibitors
...ders in the field of sexual medicine will actively debate the use of oral pills for erectile dysfunction (ED) at the 7th Congress of the European Society for Sexual Medicine in London, UK. Moderated by Irwin Goldstein, MD, editor of the Journal of Sexual Medicine, the exchange is scheduled to ta...Stem cell research: The new medicine of the future
...n. Close regulation and a climate of open public debate have helped the United Kingdom stay at the forefro...ncing the benefits against the risk. The stem-cell debate has started there and is now left to run its course. Once we've answered the questions, perhaps we'l...Researchers describe how human blood stem cells transform themselves to repair injured animal hearts
...h human cells. These findings should help resolve debate within the field as to whether stem cell transfer actually creates new types of cells that last within a heart, says the study's lead author Edward T. H. Yeh, M.D., professor and chair of The University of Texas M. D. Anderson's Department of Cardiol...Safety of childbirth after C-section examined
... in addressing an issue that continuously receives debate in obstetrics," said Mark Landon, vice chairman of obstetrics and gynecology at The Ohio State University Medical Center and principal investigator for the four-year study. "Until now, the information comparing a trial of labor and an elective repeat...Patients with cancer detected on screening mammography undergo less toxic treatment
...on, Dr. Barth said. While there continues to be debate on whether screening mammography increases survival of women ages 40-49 and 70 and older, there is no doubt that mammography detects cancer earlier, Dr. Barth said. This study emphasizes that screening mammography allows patients who are unfortunate ...Is it ethical to use enhancement technologies to make us better than well?
...raises important ethical issues. In a provocative debate in this month's PLoS Medicine, the premier open-access medical journal, two of America's foremost medical ethicists, Arthur Caplan and Carl Elliott, lay out the pros and cons respectively of these new enhancement technologies. Caplan, who chairs th...OHSU researcher says FDA could broaden access to results of clinical drug trials
...al trials results are published," said Turner. The debate intensified, he said, with a summer 2004 lawsuit against GlaxoSmithKline alleging that company hid data regarding the safety and efficacy of serotonin reuptake inhibitors given to pediatric patients with depression. The two most frequently suggested ...Children at risk from unexploded military material
...be less attractive and visible to children and the debate on landmines should be widened to include threats posed by other military material....Is it all in the mind or is it a medical condition?
...orities in the field of sexual medicine are set to debate the topic: Premature Ejaculation Psychological Th...hool of Medicine, will moderate this controversial debate at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in New Orleans, LA during a champagne breakfast on January 15, 2005. The...Post election 2004: What's in store for health policy
... scholars, business leaders, and commentators will debate and discuss major health policy concerns, including Medicare coverage decisions, malpractice reform and child health policy issues such as SCHIP reauthorization and the child obesity epidemic. Speakers include: Governor Kathleen Sebelius (D-Kan.) D...Clinical trial participants fare no better, no worse than other patients
...1 The finding was published against a backdrop of debate about drug trials for popular pain-relievers and about whether trial results can be safely applied to an entire population. "These results challenge the assertion that the results of RCTs (randomized controlled trials) are not applicable to usual cli...Hands-on or hands-free, using a cell phone while driving is not safe, researchers find
...e they don't discourage hands-free phone use. The debate surrounding new technologies in vehicles has indicated a substantial need for a better technical basis to support public policy. This, coupled with a recent surge of research in this area, motivated the special section of Human Factors (Volume 46, Nu...