Adults with dyslexia can improve with phonics-based instruction
...ould also involve multiple senses, including how a letter looks, sounds and feels. Flowers' co-authors were Guinevere Eden, D. Phil., Karen Jones, Katherine Cappell, Lynn Gareau, Thomas Zeffiro, M.D., Ph.D., Nichole Dietz, Ph.D, and John Agnew, Ph.D., from Georgetown, and Frank B. Wood, Ph.D., from...Swallowing multiple magnets poses danger to children
...(CCHMC). Dr. Oestreich expressed his concern in a letter to the editor published in the November issue of t...requiring surgery. Dr. Oestreich wrote the letter to Radiology after a 12-year-old autistic boy was admitted to CCHMC with abdominal pain. Abdominal x...Changing prescribing behaviour through the mail
...th and colleagues determined that, while no single letter made a statistically significant difference, the o...probability of prescribing a drug recommended in a letter rather than another drug in the same class increased by 30% in the 3 months after that letter was ma...Early reports of thrombosis after insertion of drug-eluting stents
...ew=LancetTdE">German. Authors of a research letter in this week's issue of THE LANCET highlight how the use of drug-eluting stents (DES) may carry a risk of subsequent thrombosis if stenting is accompanied by a withdrawal of antiplatelet therapy. More than 1.5 million people a year have stents impla......e after the horse has bolted, argues a doctor in a letter to this week's BMJ. Nicholas Akerman's experience of working in Australia was that people are unable to work with patients without being screened and cleared. Yet, having worked in England in medicine for over 12 years, he has never once been screene...Dutch study highlights crying as risk factor for child abuse
...parental behaviour, conclude authors of a research letter in this week's issue of The Lancet . Child abuse and neglect are important causes of child illness and death. An estimated 6 young infants per 100,000 die from the effects of child abuse each year; non-fatal infant morbidity could be up to 2000 time...Study findings question claims of significant savings from pharmacy dose consolidation programs
... Doctors and a group of their patients were sent a letter detailing the benefits of changing from twice-daily to once-daily dosing. This is called dose consolidation. Although the twice-daily dosages had a lower strength, they each cost the same per tablet, capsule or caplet as the higher strength single...Knight Center seminar on 'The Human Brain'
...ons for applying A supervisor's strong nominating letter that also agrees to pay partial travel costs to an... and salary during the seminar (freelancers send a letter of recommendation from an editor) Three published articles (Editors may send edited work, broadcast...Why is Ian Kennedy's healthcare commission damaging NHS care?
(below is the full text of an open letter from THE LANCET to Ian Kennedy, Chair of the newly...ealth service". Here, The Lancet publishes an open letter to Kennedy. Dear Ian, The star ratings that you published and defended last week are having a damagi...Darifenacin substantially improves quality of life for people with overactive bladder symptoms
...3 October 2003, the company received an approvable letter from the US Food and Drug Administration. Novartis expects approval of Enablex/Emselex globally in 2004.......ile archive, providing minimum compliance with the letter of the Minnesota agreement while disregarding its intent.'...New darifenacin data released at the American Urological Association (AUA)
...ctive bladder. The company received an approvable letter from the FDA in October 2003, and expects to launch the drug in 2004. Khullar et al conducted a multi-center, double blind study (Abstract #5167) in 439 patients (21-88 years; 85% female) with OAB symptoms for more than six months. In this study, pa...Are NICE guidelines too passive?
...lth Service is questioned by authors of a research letter in this week's issue of THE LANCET. NICE issued its first guidance on procedures and technologies to the National Health Service In march 2000. James Ryan and colleagues assessed the effect of NICE guidance on NHS practice for two surgical procedure...DNA test shows promise for identifying patients with colorectal cancer
...orectal cancer, conclude the authors of a research letter in this week's issue of THE LANCET. Colorectal cancer is one of the most common cancers in the industrialised world, and early detection might help to reduce the risk of death from the disease. However, although several methods of detection are avail...Study reveals high suicide rates among young people in India
Authors of a research letter in this week's issue of THE LANCET highlight how suicide among young people in India--especially among young women--is a major public-health problem requiring urgent intervention. The average suicide rate worldwide is around 14.5 per 100000 populati...Cognitive behavior therapy effective for treating people with hypochondria
...esented. The CBT was accompanied by a consultation letter sent to the patient's primary care physician. Participants were recruited from primary care practices and from volunteers responding to public announcements. The study, conducted between September 1997 and November 2001, included 102 individuals who...Mount Sinai warns of fake HIV/AIDS notification letter
(New York) -- A cruel hoax letter purporting to be a warning from The Mount Sinai Ho...uals over the past few weeks. The phony, unsigned letter cryptically advises recipients that someone with whom they have had sexual contact has tested positi...Worrying rise in use of antidepressants in children
...reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) argue researchers in a letter to this week's BMJ. They analysed drug prescriptions written during 2002 to over 500,000 Italian patients under 18. A total of 1600 young people (2.8 per 1000) received at least one antidepressant, 1200 of them an SSRI. Two thirds of prescriptions we...The hidden health trauma of child soldiers
A research letter and editorial in this week's issue report the horror facing an estimated 300,000 children worldwide forced to become child soldiers. Ilse Derluyn from Ghent University, Belgium, and colleagues interviewed around 300 former child soldiers who had been...Doctor's statement in Mayo Clinic Proceedings reveals dark side of low-carb diets
...issue, the Mayo Clinic Proceedings has published a letter explaining that the reason low-carb dieters often ...e for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), explains in his letter that low-carb diets can throw people into a metabolic state called ketosis that also occurs during s...