Who Cares For You When You're Ill
...having seen the patientthemselves. "Our interviews indicated that the level of physician acceptance was a criticalfactor in determining how extensive the NPs' and PAs' practice could be,"Jacobson said. Alternative policies are currently under consideration by managed careorganizations to increase the number of...Antibiotics Reduce Inflammation In Heart Disease But Effect On Heart Attacks Remains Unproven
...eart disease. Several smallearlier investigations indicated a much more dramatic cause-and-effect scenario,but those results may have been "overstated," Anderson says. "There is a strong reason to believe that inflammation in the bloodvessels plays a much larger role in coronary heart disease than was...Patients May Not Be Receiving The Highest Quality Of Care
...r. The percentage of physicians who recommended an indicated test or referralvaried with the patient scenario. ...lopincentives designed to promote the provision of indicated services, saidPantilat. "We need to establish a system that is more responsive to the needs of thepa...UI Study Finds Many Physicians Withhold Pain Medication
...iagnoses. Sixty-sevenpercent of survey respondents indicated that drugs hindered their ability tomake accurate diagnoses. Graber disagrees with this majority opinion, pointingout that studies suggest diagnostic accuracy increases with the use of painmedication because it increases sensitivity and specificity o...Cordis Cardiology Introduces The MINI Crown Stent
...stent-to-artery ratio when deployed. The MINI is indicated for treatment of abrupt or threatened closure in patients with failed interventional therapy in native coronary lesions (less than or equal to 25 mm) with reference diameters in the range of 3.25 mm to 2.25 mm. *Non-compliant: Term used to describe ......okepatients, 34 and 45 years old, as they read and indicated their comprehension ofnormal English sentences. Very soon after stroke, the cortical areas on theright sides of their brains, the right-hand homologues of Broca's area or ofWernick's area, showed increasing activation during the sentence comprehensio...Statement from Claude Lenfant, M.D., NHLBI Director, on Trends in Hypertension
...ormation tophysicians regarding when medication is indicated and stipulates whichmedications should be considered for patients who fit particular profiles. Thenew Framingham study clearly illustrates the positive impact of effectivehypertension control. The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Framingh...Study Confirms Girls' Belief: More Fat Means Fewer Dates
...owed the same group of girlsover time, and results indicated that dating and sexual activity did not appearto worsen weight concerns and dieting. This possibility had been suggested byearlier studies using measures collected at a single time.......pplication for regulatory approval. LEUKINEis not indicated for use in HIV, however, the company has been workingaggressively since 1996 to evaluate the product's mechanism of action and rolein HIV treatment. Full prescribing information for LEUKINE can be obtained bycalling 1-800-IMMUNEX or at www.immunex.c......ion (FDA) on November 2, 1998. ENBREL is currently indicated for the reduction in signs and symptoms ofmoderately to severely active rheumatoid arthritis in patients who have aninadequate response to one or more disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs(DMARDs). Immunex has filed a sBLA with the FDA, seeking app......Similarly, the dressing item on the FIM instrument indicated there was nosignificant decline for the treatment group, but the control group declined morethan one point." A one-point decline on the FIM scale, in this case from 5.29 to 4.09,represents a change in the amount of care required, Mann said. ...Biological Markers Found That Correlate To Esophageal Cancer Treatment Success
...hat studies of other cancers, such as coloncancer, indicated had roles in either resistance or sensitivity to chemotherapyor radiation. After biopsy, the patients underwent chemotherapy and radiation therapy,followed by surgery to remove any remaining tumor tissue. The 34 patients whoresponded completely to t...Progress In Cancer-Vaccine Studies: Simpler, Safer Approach Producing Encouraging Results
...aximum tolerateddose of a new drug, but this trial indicated that the best dose was about onetenth of the maximum dose -- suggesting that dosing trials of biologic therapiesrequire a radically different design. At moderate doses, IL-12's most seriousside effects were tenderness at the injection site, tiredness......arts of the sevenchildren who received bone marrow indicated their immune systems were notsounding the usual alarms, as measured by the number of activated recipient Tcells infiltrating the organs. In addition, three of the seven patients hadsome evidence of donor-specific hyporeactivity, whereas only one of ...UI Study Yields Encouraging Results For New Breast Cancer Treatment
...-dosechemotherapy. A fifth, relatively small study indicated that the high-dosechemotherapy/bone marrow transplant approach might work better. Each of thestudies involved different drugs and doses. In the two studies presented at the meeting that involved patients withchemotherapy-responsive stage IV breast ca...Women, men view and judge childhood sexual abuses cases differently
... topic of repressed memory.Questionnaire responses indicated that the more women were familiar with thesetopics the more likely they were to favor the plaintiff. Men's decisions,however, were not influenced by their knowledge of such cases. "If you were an attorney going to try such a case it would ...False recall in older adults and Alzheimer's linked to attention, not memory, breakdown
...ails about human memory function. Balota's studies indicated that young adults recalled the presented words about70 percent of the time, but mistakenly recalled the non-presented word in about30 percent of the trials. Whereas, healthy older adults recalled the presentedwords about 55 percent of the time, and t...Major study finds effects of child care quality linger into the second grade
...hestudy in 1995. That work, which cost $1 million, indicated that one ineight U.S. day care centers puts children's health and safety at riskand more than seven in 10 fail to maximize youngsters' learningpotential.. Others involved in the research include Drs. Margaret Burchinal andNoreen Yazejian also...Can a terminally ill person want to hasten death and be mentally competent?
...on to suicide per se. One third of the respondents indicated that performing such evaluations wasoutside of their practice area. Of the remaining 275 psychologists, 60 percentsaid that they would perform a competency evaluation if asked to do so by anattending physician. Seven percent said they would refuse ...