UNC study: Most N.C. family practitioners engage in unrecognized community service
...belief in its value in medical education, few data exist on U.S. physicians' service involvement in community activities outside of charity medical care," Goldstein said. "We were impressed with what we found in part because it was over and beyond the care physicians give in their practices, as well as cha...New study in 'Nature' demonstrates protection against cell death during heart attack
...ow during a heart attack. Moreover, drugs already exist that block this protein cyclophilin D but they h...actual patient care, partially because data didn't exist until now to prove they would work, according to Jeff Molkentin, Ph.D., a researcher at Cincinnati C...Public policy should address the social factors behind ill health
...we, and 90.2% in Lesotho. Health inequalities also exist within countries there is a 20-year gap in life expectancy between Australian Aborigines and Torres Strait Islander people than in other Australians. Michael Marmot (University College London, UK) writes that health status should be a concern to al...Medically supervised drug injection facilities safer for users
...d addictions counselling. Although such facilities exist in several European settings and in Sydney, Australia, few statistical analyses of their effects syringe sharing have been done. Thomas Kerr (British Colombia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Vancouver, Canada) and colleagues examined the behaviour...Cardiologists underestimate racial and ethnic disparities in care
... disparities in access to care and quality of care exist independent of insurance," Lurie said. Interestingly, Lurie said, more than 60 percent of the providers surveyed rated the evidence documenting racial and ethnic disparities in cardiovascular care as "strong" or "very strong." But researchers couldn...Study examines lessons learned at Africa's first public antiretroviral treatment clinic
...ink said. "In other places, the experts just don't exist in the numbers needed." Botswana has a peculiar combination of the two problems in that there are lots of nursing schools, but no medical schools. Many nurses are often forced to look for work outside Botswana due to a lack of positions that pay well...Many children are undervaccinated or have delayed vaccinations in their first 2 years of life
...rmine reasons for delay. Evidence-based solutions exist for many of these needs, such as reminder-recall systems, extended office hours, expanding availability of pediatric care, and education regarding the importance and safety of vaccinations. Minimizing the time spent incompletely protected from vaccin...... great lengths to engage herself in the needs that exist in these fields. An honorary doctorate in medicine has been awarded to Professor Reijo Vihko, former Director General of the Academy of Finland (the Finnish Research Council organisation), for proving a powerful research policy voice in the Nordic ...Potential treatment for Fragile X Syndrome demonstrated in fruit fly model
...males and 1 in 8,000 females. Not many medications exist to help Fragile X patients. Now, in a fruit fly model of the disease, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and their colleagues have shown that it is possible to reverse some of the symptoms of the disorder using drugs t...Plant derivative attacks the roots of leukemia
... tumors although the idea that cancer stems cells exist has been around for at least 40 years. In the current study, the UR group began investigating Feverfew after other scientists showed that it prevented some skin cancers in animal models. Intrigued by the plant's anti-tumor activities, the UR team an...Physician roles at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo
... Ghraib and Guantanamo? What guidelines currently exist to guide health care professionals when they are in situations of dual loyalty? What makes it difficult for individual physicians and other health care providers to abide by such guidelines? What should the profession of medicine do to ensure that ...Many postmenopausal women with cardiovascular disease don't use lifesaving aspirin therapy
...ccessible therapy, as well as the disparities that exist between different groups of women," said lead author Jeffrey S. Berger, M.D., chief resident at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York. Berger and colleagues examined data from the Women's Health Initiative Observational Study, which tracked nearly 1...Gene signature can predict breast cancer spread
...HE LANCET. Currently, no reliable diagnostic tools exist to predict which breast cancer patients are most likely to relapse. Around 60-70% of women with lymph-node negative breast cancer are cured by local surgery and radiotherapy but guidelines recommend that 85-90% of these patients receive additional ch...An implanted nerve stimulator helps drop foot sufferers walk faster and better
...his type of work. The necessary expertise does not exist in one single country, so European partnership was needed," says Hermens....New highly active agents against sandfly fever
... fatal if no treatment is given. Although drugs do exist for treating these diseases, they are not always effective, owing to the appearance of resistant parasites and to the toxicity of the products. Moreover, administration of the available treatments against leishmaniases is mainly by injection, which m...Parents have complex opinions about notification laws for minors' access to contraception
...pants were also asked if they thought a law should exist that requires parental notification when a teen requests birth control from a clinic. The majority of those surveyed were white (88.5 percent), female (67.8 percent), and aged 40 to 49 years (65.8 percent). The researchers found that more than half ...Auditory test to help identify learning impaired
...strate that brainstem-level neural timing deficits exist in roughly 30 percent of children with language-based learning problems such as dyslexia and in children whose speech perception is extraordinarily disrupted by environmental noise," said Nina Kraus, Hugh Knowles Professor and director of the Auditor...HIV/AIDS conspiracy theories may hamper efforts to halt the disease
...ess the very real discrimination that continues to exist within the US health-care system. It is also of paramount importance that black community leaders and black media outlets make challenging these conspiracy theories a priority."...Cholesterol under-treated in high-risk women in managed care study
...ttacks. We wanted to determine what opportunities exist to apply the 2004 American Heart Association guidelines for cardiovascular disease prevention in women, especially in a managed care environment," says lead author Lori Mosca, M.D., Ph.D., director of preventive cardiology, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospi......ve raised the possibility that a causal link might exist between nicotine and atrial flutter in patients with myocardial infarction. Atrial flutter is a type of rapid heart rate caused by the upper chambers of the heart (the right and left atria).The resulting rhythm is so rapid (about 400 beats/min) tha...