Brookhaven lab scientist wins Glenn T. Seaborg Award for Nuclear Chemistry
...ue to investigate these major medical problems. To document changes in the brain, a PET research subject is injected with a short-lived radiotracer that is attached to one of a number of compounds that bind to specific brain sites. In 1976, Fowler and her colleagues developed FDG, which is the most widely use...Breast cancer under threat from the new ethics say top cancer specialists
... asked to agree a policy which will culminate in a document the Barcelona Declaration - to be presented to European Union health commissioners. "These threats to research come from multiple directions EU regulations on clinical trials, the revised Declaration of Helsinki, which is branding some legitimate c...'Telephone Medicine,' guide for physicians published
...iagnostic points and flowcharts, advice on what to document in medical records, and what to tell the patient. A chapter on difficult patients is also included. Telephone Medicine also gives guidance on incorporating telephone medicine into the workplace, including office management of calls during and after ...Study: many poor children live in pain because barriers to dental care too great
...he study, the first peer-reviewed investigation to document perceived discrimination against young Medicaid dental patients and related problems, appears in the January issue of the American Journal of Public Health. Authors are Drs. Mahyar Mofidi, a dentist and doctoral student in health behavior and health...Fluids, electrolytes key to good health for firefighters
...hematological and blood chemistry variables and to document the extent to which these variables recover following 90 minutes of recovery, the researchers write in the report. They also documented firefighters perceptual responses to repeated trials of the same firefighting activities. Besides recommending th...Training for doctors improves screening for risk-taking in teens
... offers formal methods to remind clinicians and to document that preventive services have been provided, plus additional staff resources. Pediatrician Chuck Wibbelsman, MD, the Kaiser Permanente investigator for the study, said the workshops have been enthusiastically received by the HMO's pediatric providers...New program shown to help heart attack patients get the best care
...hecklist for a perfect landing. They refer to that document every time to make sure nothing is forgotten, because they're dealing with life and death. This is the same way - a heart attack is life and death, and we're all making sure that the patient's experience on each 'flight' is maximized." Eagle also att......something only 43 percent do now.* "The consensus document developed under the leadership of Dean Martin is a thoughtful addition to the ongoing dialogue regarding conflict of interest policies in medical research. The proposals put forth will provide an excellent starting point as the AAMC's task force on c...FDA, drug industry and scholars find success in effort to tackle regulatory issues
...FDA has agreed to release a revised draft guidance document on blend uniformity after receiving PQRIs recommendation. PQRI will collaborate with the International Pharmaceutical Aerosol Consortium (IPAC) to address several issues associated with the chemistry, manufacturing and control requirements for oral ...Genetics likely to be a major factor in osteoarthritis of the hip
...e hip: sibling study Click below to download PDF document You will require Acrobat Reader to view file Click here for PDF document Siblings have a five fold increased risk of developing osteoarthritis of the hip compared with unre...Unique collaborative service established for childhood allergy-related anaphylaxis
...c reaction. "This is the first Australian study to document the prevalence of anaphylaxis in school children". First aid treatment of anaphylaxis is very important and may prevent the severe complications of this reaction. For some children this may involve parents or other carers, including school staff, gi...Findings of Griffiths review into allegations of research misconduct fundamentally flawed
...all the nurses concerned." They say that a consent document existed among the research records for every child in the study. Assertions made by a small number of parents about events up to 10 years ago went unchecked, say the authors, yet now form the basis for recommending major changes to the governance of...AAPS workshop to explore regulatory approaches to bioavailability, bioequivalence
... scientific technical approaches to measure BA and document BE for orally administered immediate release drug products. Identify and explore drug development and scientific issues for orally administered extended release drug products. Review and discuss clinical and other scientific issues and futu......xpressions of newborns during traumatic procedures document that they do indeed respond to pain. Today, pain from traumatic surgeries in newborns is carefully managed with anesthesia and analgesics. Scientists have learned that by 24 weeks gestation, very immature pain transmission pathways are already...Anger-prone people are more likely to have heart attacks
...ave an impact on health. Now, were better able to document the association with the use of follow-up studies like this one." During the six-year study, 256 individuals had heart attacks. Individuals who were the most prone to anger were 2.69 times more likely to have a heart attack or sudden death than thos...UCSF study finds many areas in California have a dentist shortage
...orhood. "The study had two goals. The first was to document the geographic distributionof dentists and show, b...moneyto help," Mertz said. "The second goal was to document what the shortagecommunities were and what characteristics they had." The regions identified in the ......ember 1999 pp1600-02 Click below to download PDF document You will require Acrobat Reader to view file. Click here for PDF document James Bond's good health may, at least in part, be due to his favourite tipple (Martini that issha...Sharon and Tracey make way for Kelly and Louise in the easy virtue stakes
...December 1999 pp1615 Click below to download PDF document You will require Acrobat Reader to view file. Click here for PDF document The much maligned "Sharon", "Tracey" and "Sandra", who have been the butt of so many Essexgirl jo...Elderly population may drain resources from paediatrics
...in an ageing society Click below to download PDF document You will require Acrobat Reader to view file. Click here for PDF document The needs of an ageing population may drain resources from paediatric care, writes Professor David...American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists tapped to manage PQRI
...ation to be included in a regulatory submission to document product quality attributes," said Roger Williams, Deputy Director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) at the FDA. "It provides a 'Win-Win-Win' opportunity for the industry, FDA/CDER and most importantly, the public." Founding ...