Teaching a less obvious medical skill -- Ethical decision-making
... an easier time discussing medical details and are less familiar with articulating ethical values. Our approach helps them with this second task, especially when there are ethical disagreements," Kaldjian said. "At the very least, we have to let each other know the basis of our disagreements, otherwise d...Study casts doubt on increased mobility among US population
...0 years, whereas long-distance moves have declined less sharply or have even remained relatively unchanged....Campus can be effective site for anti-smoking efforts
... 28 percent of men and 30 percent of women smoking less after smoke-free policies were implemented at a German university, and 91 percent of nonsmokers and 68 percent of smokers approved of the new restrictions. Among adults in the United States, young people age 18 to 24 have the highest prevalence of ci...Simpler blood thinning medication effective for preventing blood clots and stroke
...apy," the authors write. "For ximelagatran to cost less than $50,000 per QALY it would have to cost less than $1,100 per year or be prescribed to patients who have an elevated risk of intracranial hemorrha...Elderly people cared for by spouse are at greater risk for abuse, Pitt researchers find
... day." He also pointed out that adult children are less likely to have cognitive deficits, physical problems, or depression than elderly caregivers. The findings from this study could provide useful tools to doctors, who can help identify caregivers at risk for providing poor-quality care. They may parti...Certain gun storage practices can reduce risk of youth firearm injuries, suicide
...und that guns from case households were 70 percent less likely to be stored unloaded than control guns. Similarly, case guns were 73 percent less likely to be stored locked, stored separately from ammunition (55 percent less likely), or to have a...Carrot component reduces cancer risk
... to that contained in the carrots - were one third less likely to develop full-scale tumours than the rats in the control group. Dr Kirsten Brandt, a senior lecturer with Newcastle University's School of Agriculture, Food and Rural Development, carried out the research with the University of Southern Denm...New stroke-prevention drug unlikely to be cost-effective except in patients at high risk of bleeding
...gned to be an improvement over prior treatments is less cost-effective for most patients than warfarin, th... as warfarin but doesn't require monitoring and is less likely to cause bleeding," Gage says. "That's why there was so much interest in Exanta--it reduces t...NIH awards USC $8.7 million to study tobacco use in China
...ted to soar as women, who traditionally smoked far less than men, take up the habit and as Chinese youth begin to experiment with tobacco at increasingly earlier ages. So the need for tobacco use research along the Pacific Rim is greater than ever." The new center's studies will build upon earlier researc...Milk, fruits and vegetables may help reduce disability risk
...nts consuming the lowest amounts of the foods were less than half a serving of dairy and one or less serving of fruits and vegetables. Current dietary recommendations call for three cups a day of low-...Bone density returns when teens stop using Depo Provera, Group Health study finds
...n stop taking the contraceptive. The findings come less than three months after a decision by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to issue a black box warning on Depo-Provera. The warning states that the drug is associated with bone loss that "may not be completely reversible." While Scholes and her col...Gender bias in child growth evaluations may miss disease in girls
... pronounced starting at age 9. Although girls were less likely to be referred than boys, the girls' height deficits were greater than those for the boys in the study. In other words, although all the children in the study were short, the girls were significantly shorter than the boys when compared to both...Parents have complex opinions about notification laws for minors' access to contraception
...w parents (15.4 percent) felt teenagers would have less sex if PNLs existed, with even fewer parents (3.6 percent) believing the laws would cause teenagers to stop having sex altogether. "Although parents may intellectually recognize the need for adolescents to have access to confidential care, support f...Bone density appears to recover after adolescents discontinue injected contraceptive
...nintended pregnancy that could result from using a less effective method." On November 17, 2004, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a "black box warning" for DMPA, stating that prolonged use of the drug may result in significant loss of bone density, that the loss is greater the longer the drug ...Emergency department study supports giving dehydrated children fluids by mouth
...se oral therapy can be started more quickly and is less painful for the child than IV treatment, the resea...four hours. The time required to start therapy was less in the ORT group, at just under 20 minutes compared to 41 minutes in the IVF group. Physicians also ...A Family's Guide to Living with HIV
...ercent were among adult or adolescent females; and less than 1 percent was among children under 13....Why North America is not a rhythm nation
...said. "We showed that young infants, who have much less experience listening to music, lack these perceptual biases and thus respond to rhythmic structures that are both familiar and foreign. Although we know that young infants perceive speech in a manner that is language-general, our findings are unique ...Effects of autism reach beyond language, new research suggests
...y of tests a week after the exam, when things were less hectic. While pre-exam stress helped students accu...ately recall a list of memorized numbers, they did less well on the tests that required them to consider many possibilities in order to come up with a reaso...New surgical procedure could save millions
... easier, it's cheaper, we do a better job, there's less risk, and we do it here in the office. "It's the future of surgery."......e nanowire should not be too thick, in order to be less sensitive to magnetic fields; but it also should not be too thin, in order to be fully superconducting. A correct balance should be achieved."...