2004's top 10 hot topics in plastic surgery
...orthopedic procedures? 9. Taboo of plastic surgery eroding for ethnic groups More and more African American, Hispanic, and Asian people embrace plastic surgery. Plastic surgeons continue to hone techniques to maintain a patient's ethnicity while enhancing features. 10. Stem cells from fat? Doctors can har...Leading AIDS experts criticize US-sponsored HIV vaccine trial in Thailand
...of development," said Lederman, "otherwise we risk eroding public confidence in the research." The authors of the paper are from many of the leading medical schools and research institutions in the nation, including Case, Harvard, Cornell, University of Pennsylvania, Northwestern, and UCLA....High cost of life-saving childrens vaccine may be keeping some doctors from giving it
... underinsured patients. But the cost of Prevnar is eroding physicians' efforts to provide it in their clinics. And in general, vaccines are becoming more like other medications on the market -- ones that are expensive but have profound benefits." Prevnar's effectiveness is not in question, says Davis: It pre...Medicare+Choice enrollees face continued cost increases in 2003, costs have doubled since 1999
Providing evidence of eroding benefits in the Medicare+Choice managed care progr...re of the Medicare program, it should consider the eroding financial protection experienced under Medicare+Choice," said Gold. Sicker Medicare+Choice enrollees...Androgen therapy boosts muscle strength for older men
... up stairs. That, in turn, can lead to immobility, eroding independence and depression. "Our findings are encouraging because a short course of treatment appears to increase muscle mass, strength and power, which can be augmented or maintained with subsequent resistance exercise," Schroeder says. "We are i...... Ewend likens the wafer to a bar of soap slowly eroding in the shower. "Thedrug within the wafer reaches the surface and is released into the brain. Butthe drug that's inside the 'bar of soap' is protected; the water can't get inand deactivate it." The polymer package for the chemotherapy wafer was ...