Study reviews discussion of medical errors at hospital conferences
...fairs National Quality scholar and a fellow in the division of geriatrics at SFVAMC at the time of the study. To find out how conference participants discussed errors, Pierluissi trained four internal medicine residents and five surgery residents to assess and rate case presentations at morbidity an...Annual CT detects early-stage lung cancer, saves lives
...ator of the studies and professor of radiology and division chief of chest imaging at New York Hospital/Cornell Medical Center in New York City. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death among men and women, and more people will die of lung cancer than of breast, colon and prostate cancers combined, ac...Female smokers are twice as likely as male smokers to develop lung cancer
... Henschke, M.D., Ph.D., professor of radiology and division chief of chest imaging at New York Hospital/Cornell Medical Center in New York City. "There is as of yet no clear consensus why women are at increased risk." The National Institutes of Health (NIH) partially supported the study of 2,968 men and wome...Hip cartilage is newest achilles heel for golfers
...erek R. Armfield, M.D., assistant professor in the division of musculoskeletal radiology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). "The ability to detect labral injuries using magnetic resonance imaging has increased significantly in the last 10 years. At the same time, arthroscopic intervention...Computer-assisted breast imaging systems help find and characterize cancers
...aboratory team, in the Basic Radiological Sciences division of the Medical School's Department of Radiology, has worked for more than a decade to develop CAD systems for breast imaging. Led by Heang-Ping Chan, Ph.D., they work closely with clinicians in the U-M Breast Imaging Division, led by Mark Helvie, M.D...Study shows combining gene therapy and radiation holds promise
...herapy more effective," says Svend Freytag, Ph.D., division head of Henry Ford's Radiation Oncology Research and lead author of the study. The study is the first of its kind in the world to test the safety and effectiveness of a replication-competent virus in combination with radiation therapy. The replicatio...New test may diagnose heart disease risk better
...terol," said Mohamad Navab, professor of medicine, division of cardiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Researchers also found that statin treatment significantly reduced inflammation caused by dysfunctional HDL, but still not to the level of the normal control group. Ansell noted that although th...Leading the way in novel anti-cancer research
...bitors, which interfere with crucial steps in cell division and inhibit the proliferation of cancer cells ...New investigational vaccine to prevent hepatitis C tested for first time in humans
...rsity's Center for Vaccine Development (led by the division of infectious diseases and immunology) in collabor...Louis University Liver Center (led by the school's division of gastroenterology and hepatology). This research is sponsored by the National Institutes of Health...Northwestern Memorial helping to define best treatment for congestive heart failure
...r, Mihai Gheorghiade, M.D., associate chief of the division of cardiology at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and professor of medicine at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University. "Although we've made significant progress with medical therapies for heart failure, the mortality and hospitalizati...Air pollutants alone may cause asthma attacks
...al investigator and a professor of medicine in the division of clinical immunology and allergy at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine. "However, this new experimental study shows that we need to pay closer attention to the intrinsic abilities of the air pollutant particles to induce asthma." The study, whi...Heart failure care inconsistent
...., associate professor of internal medicine in the division of cardiology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas and a co-author of the study, said, "The American Heart Association's Get With The Guidelines program emphasizes standard of care practices for coronary artery disease pat...University of Pittsburgh receives grant for research on cancer and aging
...Cancer Institute (UPCI), in collaboration with the division of geriatrics and gerontology and the Institute on...research into the cause and course of cancer. The division of geriatric medicine at the University of Pittsburgh is one of the largest and considered one of th...Jeffrey S. Flier, M.D., elected to Institute of Medicine
...of medicine and health." A member of the endocrine division at BIDMC, Flier is one of the country's leading investigators in the areas of obesity and diabetes. Since 2002, Flier has served as Chief Academic Officer of BIDMC, for which he oversees research and academic affairs. The medical center ranks third i...Should the standard guidelines for assessing prostate cancer control be changed?
...son Cancer Center, Houston; Deborah A. Kuban M.D., division of radiation oncology, University of Texas M. D. A...adiology, St. Louis, Mo.; Thomas M. Pisansky M.D., division of radiation oncology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester Minn.; Howard M. Sandler, M.D., department of radiatio...Fox Chase Cancer Center named best place to work in the US for academia researchers
... Golemis, Ph.D., a researcher in the basic science division at Fox Chase. "This is the most cooperative, interactive place." Golemis was interviewed for the article. Non-commercial researchers from around the world were invited to take part in an on-line survey used for the rankings. The questionnaire aske......st step in a pathway that ultimately leads to cell division - the docking of a "growth" protein to a receptor on the surface of a cell. These drugs, called epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor antibody inhibitors, are large molecules that block growth-promoting EGF proteins from linking to the cell, thereby...UCSF & SF Bay Area receive federal funds to expand breast cancer / environmental research
... at UCSF; Lawrence Kushi, ScD, associate director, division of research at Kaiser; and Janice Barlow, RN, executive director of Marin Breast Cancer Watch. Headquartered at UCSF, the new Center will be organized as a "center without walls" with research and community activities performed at several sites. It ...Pfizer's ZYVOX(TM) more effective than vancomycin in treating complicated SSTIs caused by MRSA
...r and vice chairman, department of surgery, chief, division of trauma & critical care, Medical College of Wisconsin, and the lead study investigator. "This study shows that ZYVOX was significantly more effective than vancomycin in patients infected with MRSA, in terms of both curing them and getting them out...