Child health improvement through computer automation
...ociate professor of pediatrics and director of the division of children's health services research of the depa...l are with the children's health services research division of the department of pediatrics at the IU School of Medicine. With the exception of Ms. Anand all ar...Antipsychotic drug prescriptions nearly double for kids with ADHD
...ive Medicine and Wayne Ray, Ph.D., director of the division of Pharmacologic Epidemiology, were assisted by the state's TennCare program in gathering data for the study....July/August 2004 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...e, have been ordered or have been completed; and a division of responsibilities among office staff. In a randomized controlled trial involving eight primary care clinics, the intervention more than doubled the odds of fecal occult blood test screening, increased the odds of mammograms more than 60 percent an...Northwestern Memorial named one of nation's top 12 hospital-affiliated infertility clinics
The division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at Northwestern Memorial Hospital has been named one of the top 12 hospital-affiliated infertility clinics in the country and one of the Midwest's top three, according to a list published in the July, 200...VELCADE(TM) data confirms long-term survival
... in Europe by Ortho Biotech, the biopharmaceutical division of Janssen-Cilag, was recently approved by the European Commission (26 April) to treat multiple myeloma patients who have received at least two prior therapies and demonstrated disease progression on their last therapy. "These data show that not on...Two landmark studies show Taxotere (R) significantly improves survival in men with prostate cancer
...s of chemotherapeutic agents, inhibits cancer cell division by essentially "freezing" the cell's internal skeleton, which is comprised of microtubules. Microtubules assemble and disassemble during a cell cycle. Taxotere® promotes their assembly and blocks their disassembly, thereby preventing many cance...Global study shows new breast cancer drug extends patients' overall survival
...r and first author Dr. Kathy S. Albain, professor, division of hematology/oncology, Department of Medicine, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, Ill. Albain designed and chaired this international trial that directly resulted in the FDA's very recent approval of gemcitabine fo...Hormone therapy may still offer important health benefits to postmenopausal women
...ated," said co-author Phyllis M. Wise, dean of the division of biological sciences and distinguished professor of neurobiology, physiology and behavior at UC Davis. "More targeted therapies may yield important health benefits." Estrogens affect many tissues in the body. During natural menopause, which occurs ...NIH awards Baylor, Texas Children's No. 1 spot in pediatric-research funding
...rom the National Institutes of Health. The NIH, a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has granted Baylor College of Medicine Department of Pediatrics faculty members working at Texas Children's more than $31 million for fiscal year 2003. More than 79 pediatric awards were received....Quality patient care not met by blanket screenings, warns UCSF/SFVAMC physician
... assistant professor of medicine in the geriatrics division at the SFVAMC, acknowledges the importance of measuring the quality of medical care, but suggests that the current methodology for such measurement needs to be reexamined. Walter based her comments on results of a study she and three UCSF/VAMC collea...St. Jude helps South American community achieve improved survival rates for leukemia
..., M.D., director of the St. Jude Leukemia/Lymphoma division and the F.M. Kirby Clinical Research Professor for the American Cancer Society, said the research may have far-reaching implications. "The most important lesson from this experience is that given the right support and training, even resource-poor com...Blood pressure control poor in elderly, says Northwestern researcher
...tive medicine and assistant professor of medicine, division of cardiology, at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Lloyd-Jones said that among hypertensive individuals in the 1990s, the overall prevalence of blood pressure control (lower than 140 systolic/90 diastolic) was around 34 percent....University of Pittsburgh finds that people would trade longevity for quality end-of-life care
...h; Randy S. Wax, M.D., lecturer, interdepartmental division of critical care medicine, University of Toronto; and Derek C. Angus, M.D., M.P.H., professor of critical care medicine, medicine, and health policy and management and vice chair for research, department of critical care medicine, University of Pitts...Ganciclovir (Valcyte/Cymevene) reduces risk of cancer in kidney transplant patients
...essor, Vice Chair for Research and Director of the division of Transplant Surgery in the Department of Surgery, Indiana University, USA. Valcyte delivers the same active drug ingredients as oral ganciclovir, with up to 10 times greater bioavailability and simple once-daily dosing, offering patients an effecti...Licensed alcohol establishments continue to sell to intoxicated patrons
..." said Traci L. Toomey, assistant professor in the division of epidemiology at the University of Minnesota and first author of the study. "Additionally, this study also shows that these types of illegal alcohol sales may be even more likely at off-premise establishments." Trained actors posing as intoxicated...Three Harvard Medical School endowed chairs named simultaneously in sleep medicine
...ine. " We at Cephalon are committed to helping the division continue its work in revolutionizing the field of ...treat sleep disorders. We are proud to support the division by serving on its Executive Council and by taking the lead in establishing endowed professorships in...Parents' heart attack or stroke raises risk in their middle-aged children
...tive medicine and assistant professor of medicine, division of cardiology, at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. The parent group in the Framingham study has been followed up for over 50 years, and their children for more than 30 years. This provided the investigators with a unique opportuni...Study shows new patient care process can decrease risk to children on mechanical ventilation
...heir safety," said Steven E. Lucking, M.D., chief, division of pediatric critical care, Penn State Children's Hospital. "Unplanned dislodging, or extubations, of breathing tubes, can cause serious injury including damage to the airway." A 10-year study, recently published in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, ...Disruption of a gene may prevent type 1 diabetes, UVa researchers find
...stant professor of research at the Health System's division of endocrinology and metabolism. "However, down th.... Jerry Nadler, a study co-author and chief of the division of endocrinology and metabolism at U.Va. "The results could form the basis for new ways to prevent t...Pap smears, mammography should be targeted at healthy elders, study says
... assistant professor of medicine in the geriatrics division at SFVAMC. "The problem is that there is still a population of very healthy older women who are not being screened who should be. And there's a population of very sick elderly women who are getting screened when they shouldn't be." Walter and her col...