Medicare shortchanges initial doctor visit, SFVAMC study says
... from Medicare for cleaning out earwax or removing harmless skin growths than you can for spending 40 minutes evaluating the patient and figuring out how to keep them healthy," Landsverk said. Future studies should address whether time spent on certain non-covered services actually translates into healthier ...With cues from nature, scientists develop new method to purify drugs
...prove the mirror image or "enantiomer" molecule is harmless or find a way to remove it. In the Science paper, Martin and colleagues, including two UF graduate students in chemistry and two researchers at VTT Biotechnology in Espoo, Finland, prove the concept for a membrane that would separate a drug molecule...Infection with toxoplasmososis increases the risk of being involved in a road traffic accident
...s reveals that people with latent toxoplasmosis (a harmless form of the disease) are more likely to be involve...chers conclude that latent toxoplasmosis is not as harmless as previously thought. With between 30-60% of the world population affected it represents a serious ...Promising vaccine may provide long-lasting protection against malaria
...Although the parasite itself lives, it is rendered harmless by the destruction of its deadly toxin, he said. One or two shots of the vaccine are expected to provide lasting protection against the disease. If necessary, its effectiveness could be enhanced by using it in combination with other vaccines that tar...Researchers find trigger for devastating digestive disease, propose treatment
...endopeptidase, can break the chain into apparently harmless components. "The technology used to isolate and identify the peptide trigger for celiac sprue, and the enzymology used to neutralize the disease, are marvelous examples of how research into the fundamental understanding of life processes can directl...Placebo study indicates lower doses may effectively treat ADHD
...ficit-hyperactivity disorder did just as well when harmless placebos, pills without any specific effect, replaced some of their medications, a study led by two N.C researchers shows. The findings raise the possibility that some children with these common problems may be effectively treated on lower doses of m...Cervical cancer A single vaccine could benefit most women
...mitted infection. In many cases the infections are harmless and go away without the need for treatment. But persistent infection with certain types of HPV increases the risk of cervical cancer. These types can be detected in 90-100% of cases of cervical cancer, as opposed to 5-20% of controls. These types are...Surgery without radiation inadequate for DCIS, study reveals
... that DCIS (a common type of breast lesion that is harmless as long as it is confined to the milk ducts) can be treated by removing it along with a wide margin of healthy tissue on all sides. If surgery alone proved to be effective, women with DCIS could be spared the inconvenience of daily radiation treatmen...Researchers use crippled poliovirus to attack brain cancer
...r-killing properties of poliovirus together with a harmless genetic coding element from the common cold. The resulting modified virus created a remarkably strong anti-cancer agent that rapidly killed cancer cells in laboratory cell cultures and in animals -- and without causing po...Many children with autism may receive complementary or alternative treatments
...nto four categories. First, there are unproven but harmless biological treatments that have no basis in medica...ungal agents). Another group includes unproven but harmless treatments with some theoretical basis (like Vitamin C, gluten-free diets or hormones). A third cate...Ecstasy affects memory, new international study shows
...think that ecstasy is fun and that it feels fairly harmless at the time. However, our results show slight but measurable impairments to memory as a result of use, which is worrying. "It's equally concerning that we don't really know what the long-term effects of ecstasy use will be, as it is still a poorly...Leading AIDS experts criticize US-sponsored HIV vaccine trial in Thailand
...in combination with ALVAC, a vaccine composed of a harmless canarypox virus that carries several genes from HIV. The Thailand trial is a Phase III trial which is designed to see if the combination of vaccines will prevent HIV infection or decrease the severity of the disease. The cost of the trial in Thaila...One dose of 'designer' gene therapy may target specific body area
...ng the treatment genes into a virus that is either harmless to humans or has had its disease-causing component removed. The virus is then injected or inserted into the body where it "infects" an area with gene therapy. Baker's team redesigned a virus called adeno-associated virus (AAV) so that it is not qu...Brain scans show how placebo eases pain
...ns of volunteers. The volunteers were subjected to harmless but occasionally painful electric shocks or heat. When they believed an anti-pain cream had been applied to their arm, they rated the pain as less intense--and the pain circuits in their brain showed less activity. Doctors have long recognized the p...Harmless virus associated with longer life for some HIV-positive men
Scientists have shown that an apparently harmless virus is associated with longer life for HIV-positive men, but only when it infects them for many years. Men infected with both HIV and GB virus type C (GBV-C), previously known as hepatitis G, for at least five years were three times less likely to...Evidence suggests that the brain can switch to 'automatic pilot' during learning
...onal magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) -- in which harmless magnetic fields and radio signals are used to detect regions of brain activity as subjects are performing tasks. The most popular theory about neural priming holds that this reduction in cortical activity is due to "tuning" by the cortex of its infor...Going low tech, low cost to ease the terrors of dementia
...pped with snacks for residents, booklets, or other harmless items. "There are some therapies out there, like music or massage therapy, but they're not utilized to the fullest," says Watson. "Other than medications, there aren't a lot of well established approaches to helping people with behavioral problems i...Genetic mutation linked to infant lung disease
...ty in order to narrow down which gene variants are harmless and which variants lead to disease. The study's findings are the latest fruits from a long-standing research collaboration, funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health and the Johns Hopkins Eudowood Foundation. The team has investigat...Novel MRI technique provides clear images of blood flow
... new conceptualization of the technology. MRI uses harmless magnetic fields and radio-frequency signals to image tissues in the body. Basically, the magnetic fields cause hydrogen nuclei, or protons, that are part of water molecules in tissue to align. Pulses of radio frequency waves perturb this alignment, a...Time-reversal acoustics research promises medical breakthroughs
...nt or chamber within the heart. To make this work, harmless tiny capsules (ultrasound contract agents) would be introduced in the blood stream. They would react differently during the heart's different pressure conditions and their reactions would be measured by sound waves aimed from different angles and re...