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...tes of the current journal publishing system. The document was drafted in response to recent claims that thes...t the 48 organizations that created and signed the document are committed to carrying out. These practices include: A commitment to maintaining and enhancing...Experience is more effective than classroom learning in changing age bias in dental students
...ducting a longitudinal study of dental students to document attitude change over the four years of dental school....Heart attack patients face 25% lower death risk if hospitals follow national care standards
...tion," she says. "Their efforts have allowed us to document the lessons learned to apply to all quality improvement projects." The idea for the project originally grew out of a U-M Health System initiative aimed at improving adherence to ACC heart attack guidelines. A pilot group of 10 hospitals joined the pr...Statement from Barbara Alving of NHLBI on guidelines for cardiovascular disease prevention in women
...rt these efforts by giving health care providers a document that assembles in one place the evidence-based rec...es and new recommendations where appropriate. The document thus provides guidance on the best cardiovascular disease preventive care for women with a broad ran...Improving informed consent for children in cancer treatment studies
...erstanding). Parents who read the informed consent document thoroughly were more likely to understand randomization. With these important revelations, the researchers are now conducting a new study to explore the impact of various interventions: Does understanding improve if a nurse meets with pa...Physicians can help family members caring for dying loved ones
...possessions. Advance care planning is not a static document or set of instructions, but rather an ongoing process and an opportunity to engage with families and patients, he said. 3) Be part of the interdisciplinary home care team that provides caregivers with orientation, information, training and support. H...Multiple sclerosis not as progressive or disabling as once thought
...d scientifically rigorous natural history of MS to document how the disease changes over 10 years' time. It is...em. They administered the same battery of tests to document change over time of increasingly severe MS symptoms. These ranged from moderate gait impairment, to ...Funding and distribution of inappropriate drugs add to rising global childhood malaria deaths
...airs and colleagues from Africa, Asia, and Europe, document numerous cases where WHO is violating its own policy. The article states: 'Most African countries reluctantly cling to chloroquine, sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, or the insignificantly better combination of chloroquine and sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, bec...Joslin announces first international affiliate in Bahrain
...ith diabetes in the world. (See sidebar: separate document for additional background on diabetes in Bahrain.) "The Middle East is facing a health crisis as a substantial percentage of its population either has diabetes or is at risk of developing diabetes," said C. Ronald Kahn, M.D., President and Director, ...WHO accused of huge HIV blunder
...t according to Peter Ghys of UNAIDS in Geneva, the document was a preliminary draft that has since been incorporated into a much larger summary of the evidence. That study, due to be published early next year, will support the WHO estimate of about 2.5 per cent. George Schmid, a senior researcher on HIV at th...Variations in state laws affect elder abuse documentation
...ators that there is high variability in how states document elder abuse," Jogerst said. Elder abuse investigat... addition, variations are widespread in how states document cases. For example, some states, including Iowa, used the term "report" in summaries when referring ...Re-examining alcohol problems among American Indian communities
...on, and religious/spiritual traditions in order to document possible cultural differences in alcohol dependence." "A lot of what was 'known' in the past about alcohol use among American Indians was anecdotal, stereotypical and fueled by bias," added Fred Beauvais, senior research scientist at the Tri-Ethnic C...Better brain imaging helps surgeons avoid damage to language functions
...pened. In previous studies, McDermott used fMRI to document which areas of the brain are involved in the creation of false memories; eventually, it became clear that fMRI images of false memory processing also offered very robust and detailed representations of language centers, and that these results could b...New drug reduces chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting
...aprepitant or a placebo. Patients kept diaries to document any nausea or vomiting that occurred on the day that chemotherapy was given and on the four days that followed, noting whether they needed additional medication to control these symptoms. Researchers found that 26 percent of patients on the aprepita...Study: Doctor's communication style may sway cancer patients
...t decisions. She selected two contrasting cases to document extreme differences in the doctors' approaches. "Doctors walk a fine line when they speak to patients because they can't promise results even though, in my data, they tend to encourage treatment," Roberts said. One doctor identified the clinical tria...NIMH funds $1.98 million study of advance directives for patients with mental illnesses
...extremely helpful to the emergency provider." This document could include information on previous psychiatric diagnoses, the number of relapses the patient has experienced, the names of the hospitals or clinics that have treated them for the problem, the medications that do and do not work for them, and infor...UGA, MCG study impact of long-term use of schizophrenia drugs
...es of shorter duration - for 45 and 90 days - that document the deleterious effects of haloperidol on cell structure and signaling. Pathological changes in the postmortem brain of schizophrenics also have been reported in the medical literature. "The key question relates to how much of the change is a result...UNC study shows Internet offers youths easy way to buy cigarettes
...The study is the first scientific investigation to document Internet cigarette sales to minors, researchers say. Reported in the Sept. 10 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, the project involved having four youths, aged 11 to 15 and under adult supervision, try to buy cigarettes from 55 ...Study calls for major reforms in marketing of ephedra
...in-advertising standards. "In our study we clearly document the need to change the way ephedra products are advertised," says Bimal Ashar, M.D., assistant professor of medicine at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and senior author of the study. "Since this article was written, there have been n......ore than 24 hours before that time. Warning: This document and the Journal of Clinical Investigation papers t...securities using information contained within this document or within advance copies of the JCI, may be guilty of insider trading under the US Securities Exchan...