Consortium aims to improve protection of human research subjects
...ocus on the paper trail,' such as informed consent documents and IRB minutes and approvals," Sugarman said. "Just as clinical practice is moving toward more evidence-based outcomes, which is using the best available clinical evidence from research to make patient-care decisions, CECRE believes oversight of cli...Study: Children with more hours of child care act more aggressively
...ell into the 57 percentile, on average. "This work documents more strongly than ever before that better educated and trained teachers are providing more language stimulation so that that the children they take care of do better on tests regardless of family background," Cox said. "Quality indeed makes a differ......he first study within the healthcare industry that documents how implementation of a three-tier prescription co-pay plan affects pharmaceutical and medical utilization and expenditures, continuation with chronic medications and the percent of enrollees affected. She told conference participants that the ...Millennium, Aventis Pharma form novel alliance
... regarding risks and uncertainties is set forth in documents of Aventis on file with the Securities and Exchang...enc, S.A. (the previous name of Aventis) and other documents of Rhône-Poulenc, S.A. and Hoechst AG on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Thi...Ritalin and Prozac: Study finds more kids using both drug types together
... at the University of Michigan. The new study also documents the rise of a newer phenomenon: kids who are prescribed both kinds of drugs at the same time. The trend toward giving two behavioral drugs to the same child raises questions, the authors say, about how physicians diagnose and treat children's men...Harvard Med. School report warns of world health threat
...lanthropist George Soros's Open Society Institute, documents drug-resistant TB in more than 100 countries. "The rapid rise of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis is a public-health catastrophe of the first order," says the report's lead author Dr. Paul Farmer, an associate professor of social medicine at Harvar...Cigarette smoking cost Medicare program $20.5 billion in 1997, according to UCSF researchers
...0.5 billion in 1997. "This is the first study that documents the smoking-attributable costs toMedicare that are now part of the Federal lawsuit against the tobaccoindustry," said Xiulan Zhang, PhD, lead author and research analyst in the UCSFInstitute for Health & Aging. Zhang and co-researchers reported the f...One in seven adolescents still doesn't have health insurance
... member in more than 40,000 households. The study documents a shift in the payors for adolescent health insurance. In1984, more than three-quarters (75.9 percent) of adolescents were covered byprivate insurance; 11.9 percent had public coverage and about two percent had acombination of both. By 1995, public i...Wanted: Holistic approach to cancer treatment
...the NIH's OCAM, contributed the last chapter. Hess documents a movement of social scientists, engineers, actors, legislators,and journalists who, in conjunction with highly-credentialed biomedicalclinicians and researchers are birthing a "new science"-one which offers lesstoxic and potentially more humane futu...Is handwriting truly individual? UB computer scientists are finding out
... JonBenetRamsey murder case, and other handwritten documents that provide clues tocriminal cases may soon be ea...riting in an effort toidentify writers of specific documents -- who also may be suspects in criminalcases. "Our first focus in this project will be to es......ildering and often overwhelming disease. As Risse documents it, the spirit of the ward was extremely positive anduniquely supportive. One patient is quoted as saying, "`I know how the pioneersmust have felt fearing what was ahead of them. My bed is like a covered wagonand we are all on a wagon train helping e...USC Historian Sifts World's Oldest Printed Medical Books For Clues To Riddle Of Gender
...t," shesaid. Her thoughts about her mother lode of documents were stimulated by the landmarkwork of fellow historian Thomas Laqueur on the pre-Enlightenment Europeanmedical tradition, notably in his book "Making Sex: Body and Gender from theGreeks to Freud." Where Laqueur showed how Renaissance intellectual an...New Research Identifies Outcomes And Future Trends Based On Past Behaviors, Experience
...rmalBaseline Cognition," [Geerlings, p.531, #6829] documents the predictive value ofmemory complaints for later cognitive decline among unaffected elderly people. AYale Medical School study "Psychological and Behavioral Functioning inAdolescent Psychiatric Inpatients Who Report Histories of Childhood Abuse,"[...Women With Cancer Want More Control
...ly breast cancer.) "These interviews are political documents in the struggle for women's increasedcontrol over their bodies and the availability of diagnostic and therapeuticoptions," says Hess. Many cancer survivors attribute their success in overcoming the disease todesigning their own course of treatment by...UNC Researchers Find Drug-Resistant HIV In Semen
... "This paper is important because it clearly documents that sexual fluidsor genital secretions do contain resistant virus, so the fear that there is somespread of resistant HIV is founded on logical scientific evidence," he says. The mutated HIV strains include those less susceptible to s...Organ Rejection Drug Also Shows Promise For The Treatment Of Kidney Disease
... the National Kidney Foundation. "This report documents a novel application of this drug to treat kidneydiseasescomplicated by fluid retention and early loss of kidney function," says WilliamA. Briggs, M.D.,lead author of the study and an associate professor of medicine. "MMF showsconsiderablepromise, es...