More senior doctors needed to improve UK emergency care
...e cost must be acknowledged, write the authors. An excellent service is not achievable when an emergency department is staffed mainly by senior house officers, they add.......eting in San Francisco. The drug is not only an excellent blood pressure drug for patients with diabetes and hypertension, but more importantly it protects their kidneys from damage independent of its effect on blood pressure, said Dr. Lewis. For physicians, we now have a drug that slows the progression of...Double-drug therapy may benefit some multiple sclerosis patients
...ent," said Jeffery. "The combination therapy shows excellent promise for patients who aren't successfully controlled on monotherapy. It was safe and showed no toxicity." MS is a disease of the central nervous system that affects the brain and spinal cord. It strikes an estimated 250,000 people in the Unit...Chronic periodontal disease could lead to diabetes
...ory disease, the best advice is for people to take excellent care of their oral health to help ensure they keep their teeth as well as maintain overall health, said Michael McGuire, D.D.S., president of the AAP....Science for global health - World Health Day 2001
...tember. World Health Day 2001 provides us with an excellent opportunity to remember that the pursuit of health through international scientific cooperation is an inherently global enterprise. Individuals and nations share an inherited and acquired sense of social altruism - an understanding of our common fat...Brain's efforts to save itself during Alzheimer's may backfire
...lled earlier on other mice. Normally, mice have an excellent memory of scents. But mice with excess galanin were unable to recall whether they had sniffed cinnamon or cocoa on other mice. Olfactory memory and spatial memory rely on different brain mechanisms. So the scientists conclude that these mice have wid...... research. The proposals put forth will provide an excellent starting point as the AAMC's task force on conflicts of interest begins its own deliberations in the near future, " said AAMC President Jordan J. Cohen, M.D. The AAMC task force is being chaired by William Danforth, M.D., chancellor emeritus of Washi...Cotton clothes carry fungal spores into hospitals
...e is so high for some patients that the cost is an excellent trade in comparison to the cost and risks of exposure." The researchers also found that laundering is highly effective in removing the spores. Thus, simply having staff and visitors cover their clothing with hospital--laundered garments and shoe co...More evidence that soy may reduce breast cancer risk
... in trace amounts in other plants. This makes them excellent biomarkers for measuring soy consumption. Women with the highest isoflavone levels "experienced a 50 percent decrease in risk to develop breast cancer" compared to those with the lowest levels, according to Adrian Franke, Ph.D., a professor at th...FDA, drug industry and scholars find success in effort to tackle regulatory issues
...harmaceutical Sciences, FDA. "FDA sees PQRI as an excellent means for leveraging intellectual and laboratory resources and promoting regulatory research programs to enhance our science base."......entation shows multilineage blood cell growth with excellent safety in chemotherapy patients Maret Pharma...he studys results suggest that MARstem exhibits an excellent safety profile. There were no dose-limiting toxicities in the patients treated with MARstem. Speci...Study of school 'connectedness' identifies adolescents at risk
...tcomes," says Dr. Bonny. "School nurses may be an excellent resource for identifying disconnected youth, and school health providers could use these variables as markers of adolescents in need of assistance." The study was conducted in conjunction with the evaluation of the Children First plan, a project of t...Many uninsured adults do not receive needed medical care
...sured for 1 year or longer than those who reported excellent or very good health. "Long-term and short-term uninsured adults were more likely than insured adults to report that they could not see a physician when needed due to cost," the authors write. 26.8 percent of long-term uninsured and 21.7 percent of...Duke eye researchers describe cascade of events that may lead to retinal degeneration
...on and found the same results. The pig is an excellent model for studying degenerative retinal diseases, Wong said, because it has many rods and cones. Just as importantly, the structure of the pig eye is very similar to the human eye. Wong's team focused on the so-called rod bipolar cells, specia...Lawrence Livermore Lab pioneers advanced radiation treatment for cancer
...rtment of Energy national laboratory. This is an excellent example of turning swords into plowshares." Peregrine has been under development at Lawrence Livermore since 1994, in collaboration with researchers at the University of California, San Francisco and other academic institutions. More Radiation ...NIH awards grant to MetaPhore Pharmaceuticals to study novel pain treatments
...nd in vivo research indicates that SOD mimics hold excellent potential for development in these areas." Pain is a growing health problem that affects a third of all Americans. Approximately 10 percent of the American population have pain that does not respond well to current therapies. These patients include...Hypnosis helps patients control stress and anxiety, UF researchers say
...sthesia in dental surgery, he said. Children make excellent subjects because they spend more time using their imaginations, but with practice most adults can learn how to enter into a therapeutic hypnotic state quite easily, he said. Schauble's first study involved adolescents getting prenatal care at a publ......tablets) shows significant reductions in LDL-C and excellent increases in HDL-C, according to study results presented today at the 12th International Symposium on Atherosclerosis in Stockholm. The Phase III study data demonstrated a median decrease of 38 percent in LDL-C (low density lipoprotein cholesterol) a...