Post election 2004: What's in store for health policy
...the journal "Health Affairs", provides an in-depth look at the health policy issues facing the country and the challenges to finding solutions. Federal and state officials, health care scholars, business leaders, and commentators will debate and discuss major health policy concerns, including Medicare cov...Spinal repair pioneer to speak in NY on 20th Jan
...r the day when the first trials will begin. We all look forward to seeing this promising research translated into successful clinical trials at the earliest possible stage. We are launching our Campaign for UCL in New York this week to showcase and gain support for the groundbreaking research talking plac...Rice student wins award for revolutionary MRI research
...ecognition by the Nanotech Foundation of Texas and look forward to the benefit of our research to diagnostic medicine," said Sitharaman.Sitharaman and University of Texas at Austin student Aaron Saunders were named as this year's Kozmetsky Award recipients on Jan. 12. The prestigious award includes a $5,0...Florida Department of Citrus responds to URMC's release on grapefruit-drug interactions
...t the web site, www.druginteractioncenter.org to look up their prescription drug and see if it interacts with grapefruit. In addition, we encourage patients to consult with their pharmacist or doctor about their prescription medication(s). After all, food and drug interactions are not uncommon and int...Authors warn of inaccuracies concerning use of race in health & social science research
...ehavior. "This special issue takes a comprehensive look at the concept of race and its usefulness in the genome age," says Norman B. Anderson, PhD, editor of the American Psychologist and CEO of the APA. "It reports on the potential research opportunities afforded by new genetic technologies, while also a...More efficient ways of managing patient flow may benefit Los Angeles County/USC hospital
...e looking at process issues that we don't normally look at. There's a lot that the industrial world has been figuring out that we don't know much about in health care, but it could be applied to us and be tremendously beneficial." They used information from more than 100 hospital administrators and clini...Researchers develop way to track quality of home health care
... which is taking the same idea around the world to look at nursing homes and home health care. Fries is a ... collection. The newly developed set of indicators look at processes, such as administering flu vaccine and reviewing patient medication, and outcomes, like...RelayHealth selected by Columbia University to link doctors and patients online
...nt and Chief Executive Officer of RelayHealth. "We look forward to bringing CPPN providers and patients closer together through the coming years." To date, dozens of major medical groups and integrated delivery networks representing more than 10,000 affiliated physicians in fifteen U.S. cities have select...Health report-card fears make doctors forgo potential life-saving heart treatment
...nt at the risk of making their own statistics will look worse." If the patient receives necessary angioplasty, but ultimately dies from their illness, that death still shows up on the cardiologist's record and counts against them as well as their medical institution when the state Department of Health rel...2005 NIH Director's Pioneer Award program opens
...ch," saidNIH Director Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D. "We look forward to adding a newcohort of visionary thinkers to the outstanding group of scientists chosenin the first year of this program." Unlike other NIH grants, which support research projects, the PioneerAward supports individual scientists. The awar...Workers with carpal tunnel find relief with night-time splinting
...r a long day on the job, tired minds and sore feet look forward to a long night of rejuvenating rest. A new study finds that nocturnal rest can do a world of good for your hands and wrists too, especially if you are one of the millions of American workers who are just beginning to feel the common pain and...Scientists uncover new mechanism for the amygdala in fear recognition
A look of fear on another person's face is instantly reco...aces, and one reason for that is that she fails to look at the eyes in faces in the first place. The researchers found that they could restore the pati...Environmental tobacco smoke linked to reading, math, logic and reasoning declines in children
... and adolescents. The study is the largest ever to look at the effects of environmental tobacco smoke on children's health. It is published in the January issue of Environmental Health Perspectives. "This study provides further incentive for states to set public health standards to protect children from ...USC researchers find evidence that progesterone signaling influences ovarian cancer risk
...ute , was initially supposed to be a more in-depth look at one particular version-or allele-of the progesterone receptor gene (PGR). The PROGINS allele, says Celeste Leigh Pearce, a preventive medicine researcher from the USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and the paper's first author, had previously ...Society of Hospital Medicine selects John Wiley & Sons, Inc. to publish The Hospitalist Newsletter
... specialty in the country, it is important that we look to outside specialists to help us more expeditiously manage many of the functions that we previously handled internally," said Laurence Wellikson, M.D., chief executive officer of SHM. "Both Wiley and PMI have the breadth of capability and the level ...Women need less morphine after hysterectomies with new treatment
...erative pain. Our study provides a trial design to look at these."...Residual tumor cells are a barrier to targeted cancer therapeutics
... into full-blown tumors very quickly. "Any way you look at it, when physicians apply a selective pressure to a tumor by blocking an oncogenic pathway, cells escape," says Chodosh. "They find a back door and progress to a more aggressive state that becomes independent of that pathway." Chodosh concludes th...Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt ranked 8th in nation by 'Child' magazine
...ake parents aware of whatservices and qualities to look for in their local hospitals." The survey include...ic. This is a great way for families to get aclose look at how good we are and how we rate when compared with the tophospitals in the country. We are honore...Stanford study shows hypnosis helps kids undergoing difficult procedure
..., is one of only a handful of randomized trials to look at whether hypnosis reduces pain and stress during medical procedures in children. Four or five patients undergo the stressful VCUG catheterization on any given day at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford. Many doctors wish that they could ...Specialist available to discuss the polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and patient quality of life
...nd in the Department of Medicine at UAB. "When you look at a large population of women with the polycystic ovary syndrome, there is a clear reduction in quality of life, driven primarily by hirsutism and excess weight. The good news is that quality of life perception does improve with therapy," says Dr. A...