Prying eyes? Researchers can keep it confidential
...courts have affirmed that confidentiality, and the frank and open discussion it creates, can be protected," said Dr. David Bruns, professor of pathology at the University of Virginia Health System and co-author of the paper. "Peer review is what leads to the reports that we all rely on." Confidentiality i...Undisclosed payments to doctors recruiting trial patients is unethical
...reat patients as equal partners by making full and frank disclosure of payments that trial sponsors make to doctors for recruiting their patients," they conclude....More than 70 percent of adults with cancer use alternative therapies
...native medicine if they want patients to engage in frank and honest discussion of these choices." Knowledge regarding patient use of alternative medicine also is important, she said, because such use may signal difficulties in coping with the cancer or its treatments and may indicate the need for referral ...NIH to host symposium: Medicine in the media
...t journalists and scientists. Newsroom Issues: A frank and opendiscussion: what gets in your way ofpresenting the best story, and what can youdo about it? Invited Speakers: Barnett Kramer, MD, MPH National Institutes of Health Robert Park, PhD University of Maryland Melinda Voss Association ofH...Surgeon General, columnist George F. Will, and McLaughlin Group Take on nations health care issues
...ent Director. "And this year we're excited to hear frank opinions from such prestigious voices on some of the most important and hotly contested issues on the nation's health care agenda." WHAT: Keynote speeches by US Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona, Pulitizer-Prize-winning Columnist George F. Will, ...Rensselaer awarded NY state funding for alcohol/substance abuse education
...E) orientation program, freshmen get involved in a frank discussion about the dangers of underage and high-risk drinking. Ongoing campus efforts include alcohol awareness training for Resident Assistants, and on-demand educational programs, which are popular with fraternities and sororities. Area high sch...Graphic images of violence alter children's attitudes toward aggression
...lence shown on television can be countered by more frank and open discussions and displays of what violence really does to the body," says David C. Chang, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., a coauthor of the study and a graduate fellow in the Department of Health Policy and Management in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Sc...New rights to access, but for most transparency is still as clear as mud
... of All Souls, University of Oxford, is a full and frank examination of transparency and its consequences. According to Alasdair Roberts, there are ways of dealing with the worst effects of governments developing procedures to handle sensitive inquiries. The first is to force officials to commit their pro...Bevacizumab combined with chemotherapy prolongs survival for some patients with advanced lung cancer
...cizumab therapy. Patients with a prior history of frank hemoptysis (coughing up blood) were also not enrolled on the trial. The most significant adverse event observed in this study was life-threatening or fatal bleeding, primarily from the lungs. This occurred infrequently, but was more common in the ...