March/April 2005 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...ary care, many physicians are reluctant to take on expanded care coordination for fear of increased exposure to medical liability. In fact, a representative sample of 1,238 practicing physicians found that 49 percent listed legal liability as one of the two main barriers to care coordination. In a new study t...Alcohol relapse adversely affects 10-year liver transplant survival
...rqus de Valdecilla" in Santander, Spain, the study expanded on a 1977 study involving 44 patients who underwent liver transplants for ALD and 17 controls who were followed up for a mean period of 39.5 months. This group was enlarged for the present study to 54 patients in total, including those analyzed in th...Age shouldn't be a factor in kidney transplantation
... Using kidneys from these donors, which UNOS calls expanded criteria donors (ECDs), permits more patients to b...t with careful patient selection, the kidneys from expanded criteria donors may function for as long as kidneys donated under the standard criteria, about eight...Study finds indoor allergen levels vary, cockroach allergens cause more asthma symptoms
...estern and the study's lead author. "Our study has expanded this finding by demonstrating that cockroach allergen levels vary dramatically across the country and that there are marked geographic differences in both allergen exposure and skin test reactivity in this group of children." Asthma, a chronic lung d...eDocAmerica launches Hispanic Website for members
...,000 when family members are included, we recently expanded the site and made it more navigable for our users," said Robbie Linn, eDocAmerica's president. "Also, in response to the increasing needs of our Hispanic clients, we launched a Spanish version of our online services." eDocAmerica was founded in 1997 ...Columbia researchers receive $3 million to combat genetic killer of infants & toddlers
...hat is already known about SMA scientifically, the expanded research that this funding supports will greatly advance the probability of a treatment in the near term. The funding provided by the Foundation will enable us to provide critical support to rapidly advance our research and clinical care to patients...'Smart' immune cells kill more cancer
...rt of "artificial intelligence" that activated and expanded the T-cells' cancer-killing mode. The marrow T-cells identified not only mature myeloma cells but the primitive cells responsible for the disease. Activated bone marrow T-cells stopped the growth of 86 percent of myeloma stem cell colonies compared ...Mayo Clinic researcher calls for improved newborn screening
...future screening programs are likely to be further expanded to include testing beyond the newborn period for additional diseases such as Wilson's disease, which causes copper to build in vital organs such as the brain and liver, and congenital disorders of glycosylation, a fast growing group of newly discover...Northwestern Memorial Hospital receives $10 million commitment to support preeminent heart program
...e needs of patients," explains Dr. Bonow. "We have expanded our already talented team with cardiologists and cardiac surgeons who bring specialized expertise gained at many other prestigious medical centers. Northwestern Memorial patients will truly benefit from a comprehensive team of physicians caring for ...Leadership gift from Sulpizio Family for new state-of-the-art cardiovascular center at UCSD
...ac care with a full range of treatment options and expanded access to clinical trials." "Heart disease and stroke are leading killers in the United States," said Edward W. Holmes, UCSD's vice chancellor for Health Sciences. "The Sulpizio Family Cardiovascular Center will meet our community's growing demand f...Boosting HIV screening can increase survival and is cost effective
...part of a two-paper series in NEJM on the value of expanded HIV screening in the United States. The Yale/Harva...ur colleagues, firmly establish the great value of expanded screening." Paltiel and his team developed a mathematical model of HIV screening and treatment to p...Routine HIV screening should be expanded, study finds
...uired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), should be expanded well beyond current guidelines to include health c...emed low-risk for HIV. The researchers recommended expanded testing because of the success over the past decade of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) ...Early HIV screening prolongs life and is affordable, Stanford study shows
... the deal with regard to establishing the value of expanded HIV counseling, testing and referral in the United States." Experts have long known the importance of the timely identification of HIV. Delays in a patient's treatment can lead to irreversible immunologic damage and complications, as well as transmis...Health initiatives can help peace building in the Middle East
...stinian newborns for hearing loss. CISEPO has now expanded from its initial focus on congenital hearing loss to include activities on health of mothers and children, promotion of health in young people, nutrition and infectious diseases. Overlapping components of these projects include co-authorship of prese...The American Academy of Nurse Practitioners and Blackwell Publishing announce partnership
...ion for NPs of all specialties. AANP has steadily expanded services to meet its mission to: promote excellence in NP practice, education and research; advance health policy for access to high quality, cost effective healthcare for all; serve as a resource for NPs, the healthcare community and consumers; be a...Vioxx went mostly to patients who didn't need it, Stanford researcher says
...ns. "There are a number of instances where use has expanded beyond the narrow clinical situations in which the drugs are most effective and cost-effective." The medical profession has a term for expanding the use of a drug beyond its intended target population: "therapeutic creep." In the case of COX-2s, not ...A much-needed shot in the arm for HIV vaccine development
...ollaboration." "These new opportunities include an expanded HIV vaccine candidate pipeline, improvements in animal models, a growing database from clinical trials, and the availability of new quantitative laboratory tools that make comparisons among vaccine studies feasible." What is needed, they argue, is a...Jump-starting T cells in skin cancer
...characteristics of the T cell populations that are expanded after vaccination may help in the development of more effective anti-tumor vaccines. Tumor-specific T cells can be detected in the blood and the tumors of many melanoma patients, and yet these cells are unable to kill the tumor. What causes the imp...RelayHealth selected by Columbia University to link doctors and patients online
... "This technology will enable our patients to have expanded access to the quality medical care provided by CPPN providers." CPPN provides a "single-voice" for its members in managed care negotiations. As a self-governing organization of physicians, dentists, nurse practitioners and other healthcare providers...'Signal' identified that enables malarial parasites to target blood cells
... These proteins represent a vastly expanded pool of major candidate targets to block blood stage infection as well as complex disease pathologies associated with acute and severe malaria. ...