Cedars-Sinai Medical Tipsheet (B) For March 29
...ster Healing ByReducing Pain A new housewide pain management initiative at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center isdesign...n painmanagement, as well as a recently-hired pain management pharmacist whospecializes in helping to identify the best pain medications for each patient....Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Nursing Administrator Receives Nursing Excellence Award
...assionate individual. She is resident consultantto management and administrative personnel relative to clinical practice,quality improvement, employee competency and clinical research issues." The nomination was submitted by Joyce Spalding, R.N., and Marilyn Shirk, R.N., onbehalf of members of the recruitment a...Disabilities Don't Raise Insurance Costs
...ported that: their companies now have disability management programs and that suchprograms really help the com...ies is through visible commitment to change by top management andthrough training; it isn't difficult to adapt training and working materials toaccommodate emplo...ENBREL (Etanercept) Patient And Physician Support Web Site Launched
...ic response modifiers (BRMs), a new approach to RA management andthe first breakthrough treatment in many years for people with rheumatoidarthritis. In medical studies, just over one third of people treated with ENBREL (etanercept) reported redness, itching, pain, and/or swelling where theinjection was given. ...IOM Report Offers New Look At U.S. Vaccine Priorities
...on and programsand professor of healthy policy and management at The Johns Hopkins School ofHygiene and Public Health in Baltimore, chaired the 14-member IOM committee. NIAID drafted the project proposal with input from other institutes at theNational Institutes of Health (NIH), which funded the project. VACCI......rld's largest referral centerfor the diagnosis and management of skeletal dysplasias, which affect one in5,000 to 10,000 people. "Information gathered through the registry is allowing us to determine thecauses of the condition and to develop methods of prevention and treatment,"explained David L. Rimoin, M.D.,...Heart Experts Call For Action Against Missed Opportunities To Prevent Heart Disease In Women
... There are alarming trends in the prevalence and management of riskfactors in women. The prevalence of obesity in American women is increasing. About 25 percent of woman report no regular sustained physical activity. Also,smoking rates are declining less for woman than for men. "The problem may res...Newest Depression Medications Widely Prescribed For Children
...rch support,adequate training and comfort with the management of depression, SSRIs aregaining physician acceptan...t reported having received adequatetraining in the management of childhood depression, and 16 percent "reportedfeeling comfortable" with the care of depressed chi...Relaxation And Music Significantly Reduce Patients' Postoperative Pain
...ricia A. Grady, directorof the NINR. "Better pain management can reduce hospital stays and speedrecovery, ultimately improving patients' quality of life." Dr. Good and her research team studied three groups of patientsundergoing abdominal surgery. In addition to the usual pain medication, onegroup use......ue to both improved medicalcare and more effective management of risk factors in members of the generalpopulation before they have their first heart attacks, says Fuster. He addedthat the study known as the MONICA project appears to support the latter. These questions will be more fully addressed in the future...Margin Width The Key To Control Of Ductal Carcinoma In Situ Of The Breast
...three groups by margin width (determined by direct management or ocularmicrometry): close or involved (less than 1 mm); intermediate (1 to less than 10mm) and wide (10 mm or more). "The fact that there were only three recurrences among 133 patients with 10 mmor greater margins makes it unlikely that radiation t...Intestine Transplant Results Reported At American Society Of Transplantation Meeting
...to improved one-yearsurvival, including: improved management of rejection with a three-drugcocktail of tacrolimus, steroids and daclizumab; refined donor and recipientselection criteria; and modification of the surgical procedure, including donorbone marrow augmentation. Twenty-seven of the patients received ...American Psychiatric Association Plans First Comprehensive Guidelines For HIV/AIDS Treatment
...y and GeorgetownUniversity in the area of clinical management of neuropsychiatric, psychiatricand psychosocial treatment of persons with HIV/AIDS. Stephen McDaniel, M.D., Emory University associate professor of psychiatry andbehavioral sciences, chairs the workgroup. Dr. McDaniel is founder and directorof men...Evidence Shows Drug-Psychotherapy Combo Effective For Chronic Depression
... appropriatetreatment guidelines for initial management of chronic depression," Keller said. "The data that willemerge from the continuation and maintenance phases will be extremely helpful in developing long-termtreatment guidelines for managing patients with chronic depression." The e...'Super' aspirin and clot buster drug may help heart attack victims avoid surgery
...vestigators have "made a major contribution to the management of acutemyocardial infarctions (heart attacks)" -- and identified a therapy, which willlikely prove to be equivalent or superior to opening blood vessels with medicalprocedures such as angioplasty. The study included 888 individuals who had suffered ......ionin the brain. It is currently approved for the management of selected memorydisorders but not for Tourette syndrome. In contrast to Tacrine, drugs that blockacetylcholine transmission can aggravate tic and need to be used cautiously inTourette syndrome, Dr. Juncos says. Current treatments for ...Study suggests a drug treatment for abdominal aortic aneurysms
...t of abdominal aorticaneurysms, we could shift the management of this condition to screening andaggressive treatment early on," says Robert W. Thompson, M.D., associateprofessor of surgery, radiology and cell biology and physiology at WashingtonUniversity School of Medicine in St. Louis. Thompson and postdocto...Early stroke treatment with t-PA has long-lasting benefit, according to NEJM report
...n. In addition, we used a strict algorithmfor the management of blood pressure after beginning treatment with t-PA." In the current study, neither survival rates nor recurrent stroke ratesdiffered significantly between the t-PA and placebo groups 12 months afterstroke. Stroke or brain at...Bioterrorism topic of first new nationally broadcast public health grand rounds session
...e health departments, hospitals, clinics,emergency management services, and managed care organizations will participate through liveinteractive satellite broadcasts to be beamed across North Carolina and the nation. Faculty at theUNC-CH School of Public Health and representatives from the public health research...AAPS Symposium to present latest developments in Cheminformatics
...s applied to drugdiscovery. Cheminformatics is the management of information about small molecule chemicals. It ...es and review all aspects of chemistry information management including: 61623: Advanced computing architectures in cheminformatics 61623: New database develop...