New medical school model sets out to create more competent, caring doctors
...ork, interpersonal skills, clinical reasoning, and managing ambiguous clinical situations a necessary real-world skill that traditional schooling doesnt teach. For patients, its not enough to know that their doctor scored well on a multiple-choice test, says principal author Ronald M. Epstein, M.D., a practi...Organizations renew professionalism vows
... scientific knowledge; maintaining trust by managing conflicts of interest, and professional responsibilities, such as regulating members and setting standards. The charter was written by members of the Medical Professionalism Project sponsored by the ABIM Foundation, the ACP-ASIM Foundat...$3 million gift from Purdue Pharma to support MGH Pain Program
...e about the wide range of tools and techniques for managing and treating pain. The grant also will be used to ...xisting therapies and developing new paradigms for managing pain," Ballantyne says. "The integration of research and education is crucial in translating our rap...Quality of health information on the internet has improved
...ks BMJ. In 1997, the quality of web information on managing fever in children at home was assessed and was found to be poor. Four years later, researchers in Italy re-evaluated the quality of these web pages, plus a more recent sample of pages, using the same methods. They found 19 of the 41 (46%) original pa...Screening the controversy continues
... become highly skilled at diagnosing, treating and managing the disease. However, he stressed that it was important to acknowledge that there could be drawbacks to screening. False positive results caused stress and anxiety for many women, particularly if a biopsy had also been required. And mammography was ...New study says people take mental stress to heart
...says. According to the American Heart Association, managing stress makes sense for a persons overall health, but current data do not yet support specific recommendations using stress management as a therapy for cardiovascular disease....ARICEPT significantly improves cognition, daily living over Reminyl in Alzheimers patients
...er phone calls and less frequent office visits for managing problematic side effects." In this study, the most frequent treatment-emergent adverse events for ARICEPT versus Reminyl included: nausea (15.6 percent vs. 23.2 percent); vomiting (0 percent vs. 12.5 percent); anorexia (4.7 percent vs. 8.9 percent);...Enzyme halts muscle waste in mouse models of most-common childhood muscular dystrophy
...he studys senior author. It has the potential for managing the disease, much like we manage diabetes with insulin medication or injections. The disease strikes one in 5,000 children, almost exclusively boys, before they reach the age of 6. DMD frequently leaves its victims wheelchair-bound by age 12 and most...Effectiveness of drugs used to treat Parkinson's disease in early, later stages measured
... later stages of Parkinsons disease is critical to managing symptoms and perhaps the progression of the disease, according to a study presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Neurology. The main pathologic and biochemical characteristic of Parkinsons disease is the selective cell death o...Causes of menstrual migraine explored
...h specialized training in diagnosing, treating and managing disorders of the brain and nervous system....Adult sleepwalking may be genetic disorder
...h specialized training in diagnosing, treating and managing disorders of the brain and nervous system....Bethesda 2001: A revised system for reporting pap test results aims to improve cervical cancer
...esda System does not itself include guidelines for managing these abnormalities. However, it serves as the basis for new management guidelines that appear in a companion article in JAMA. The guidelines were developed under the sponsorship of the American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology (ASCCP)...A small number of homeless people keep the ER busy
...using --including exposure to violence, difficulty managing chronic medical conditions and planning for health care -- may increase ED use. Researchers sampled 2,578 English-speaking homeless and marginally housed adults in San Francisco. At the time of the survey, it was estimated that there were about 5,000...Stroke survivors have brittler bones, more likely to fracture
...eventing osteoporosis also should be a priority in managing patients with stroke, says Poole. "Measures to prevent bone loss have not been a part of stroke management thus far," he says. "Our review makes a good case for a trial of intravenous biphosphonates after stroke."...Heart health should be the front line of diabetes care
...rcumference should be measured and monitored while managing patients with diabetes. Weight management requires a team approach that includes physicians, nurses, dietitians, or other health professionals and pharmacists. Any weight loss is beneficial to the patient, but diets that achieve rapid weight loss ...Mayo Clinic study links gene to heart disease marker
...future be able to take a more complete approach to managing patient care," says Peter Berger, M.D., Mayo Clinic cardiologist and the lead author on the paper. "Factors that influence genetic predisposition to disease may enable doctors to identify patients who are most at risk at an earlier age. Furthermore, ...Baxter introduces Baxject needleless transfer device at International Haemophilia Congress
...to use, helping them to become more independent in managing their own condition. Baxter acquired worldwide licensing rights for the use of the BAXJECT device in haemophilia patients in September 2001, a strategic move to further broaden the companys haemophilia franchise. The BAXJECT device is compatible fo...Some patients with breast cancer face unacceptable delays
...od. This has become achievable at our unit through managing capacity and demand, they conclude....Columbia study finds differences in PSA, PSA density test measurements for Caucasian, Hispanic men
...men in interpreting the PSAD, or some other way of managing the Hispanic PSADs," said Dr. Goluboff, who is Director of Urology at the Allen Pavilion of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. The authors, who also include Drs. John S. Lam, James M. McKiernan, Aristotelis G. Anastasiadis, and Mitchell C. Benson, note...