Teaching a less obvious medical skill -- Ethical decision-making
When medical students at the University of Iowa Roy J. and Luci...ents. Ethical decision-making can be unsettling to medical students, who are accustomed to seeking out the single correct answer to any question. And while ma...New study finds link between self-mutilation and risky sexual behavior
...sicians since they are often the first ones in the medical community to determine if patients have been harming themselves. "When adolescents come in to seek clinicians, they'll know if a patient self-cuts, but very seldom do clinicians think that he or she is taking sexual risks too," says Brown. In additio...Boosting HIV screening can increase survival and is cost effective
... to other commonly accepted screening programs and medical treatments. Referring to the Yale/Harvard findings, Owens said, "It's exciting that a completely independent analysis had the same findings as we did. Both of these studies show that screening is life-prolonging and affordable." The Yale/Harvard stud...Routine HIV screening should be expanded, study finds
...grams," said lead author Gillian Sanders, Ph.D., a medical decision analyst at the Duke Clinical Research Ins...ders said. "Our study's results should provide the medical community, health care administrators and policy-makers with the data they need to expand screening....Early HIV screening prolongs life and is affordable, Stanford study shows
...mmended making voluntary testing a routine part of medical care, yet Owens said screening is still not widesp... to other commonly accepted screening programs and medical treatments," Sanders noted. "This finding suggests that in many health-care settings, HIV screening ...Mount Sinai stroke prevention trial published in JAMA
...inai Medical Center. "Clinicians see a major unmet medical need among patients with atrial fibrillation, who ... benefit from access to new treatment options. The medical community will continue to work to safely bring to market new therapies that protect those at risk o...Certain gun storage practices can reduce risk of youth firearm injuries, suicide
...n the home. The researchers examined records from medical examiner and coroner offices and hospitals from 37 counties in Washington, Oregon, and Missouri, and 5 trauma centers in Seattle, Spokane, and Tacoma, Wash., and Kansas City, Mo. They included data that involved an incident in which a child or adoles...New stroke-prevention drug unlikely to be cost-effective except in patients at high risk of bleeding
...adjusted survival." Gage and Washington University medical student Cara O'Brien compiled data from patients with atrial fibrillation and from the doctors that treated them, adjusting their ranking of each drug based on quality of life measures. They quantified the risk for adverse health conditions such as m...AACR recognizes women in cancer research
...ncer Research (WICR), full-time graduate students, medical students, residents, clinical fellows or the equivalent, or postdoctoral fellows. Awards are made possible by grants from AstraZeneca and Novartis Oncology. Dr. Brigid Grey Leventhal, the award's namesake, was a pioneer among women seeking a caree...Gender bias in child growth evaluations may miss disease in girls
Twice as many boys as girls are referred to medical specialists for evaluation of short stature or poo...oys are more likely to be subjected to unnecessary medical evaluations. "Growth failure is a very sensitive indicator of a child's overall health, and should ...New evidence of retroviral involvement in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
...n their blood, reports the February 8 issue of the medical journal Neurology. The study was led by Dr. Jere...ch aware that in virology, as in other branches of medical science, finding an association is not the same as proving a cause," said Dr. Garson. Reverse tra...UCI study uncovers how plaque in neck artery leads to stroke-inducing blood clots
...he UCI Medical Center, which is the first academic medical center in the nation to be certified by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations for stroke care....A Family's Guide to Living with HIV
...l for Children have written a book containing both medical and practical everyday advice for families who hav... at Riley Hospital. Dr. Cox and Shalkowski detail medical information about the disease, clinic visits, psychological concerns, how medications work and their...UCLA brain scientists crack mystery of how alcohol causes intoxication
...s Richard Olsen, Ph.D., professor of molecular and medical pharmacology; Thomas Otis, Ph.D., associate professor of neurobiology; and Martin Wallner, Ph.D., pharmacology researcher, are available for interviews. JOURNAL: The Feb. 6 online edition of Nature Neuroscience reports the findings. FUNDING: The N...Services for children: Training needed to tackle complexity of new labour's joined-up approach
...he way teams work together - setting for instance, medical versus social work; education versus care. Researc...gh status specialist knowledge, for example within medical teams, or acronyms used by educational or social services groups. There can be confusion, says the r...Effects of autism reach beyond language, new research suggests
...battery of simple cognitive tests to 19 first-year medical students one to two days before a regular classroo...ow how the immune and endocrine systems of healthy medical students react to stress, along with how students respond behaviorally to this kind of stress," Beve...New surgical procedure could save millions
...re that could save millions of dollars annually in medical costs and result in much better patient outcomes ...ng used for the first time on a human patient. The medical community has waited for a flexible fiber to deliver CO2 laser energy for many years, and we are del...Non-lethal weapons focus of research study
... in each case based on the use of force report and medical records generated by each use. "This injury epidemiology study will document the injuries sustained by 750 to 900 patients around the country," said Bozeman. "This is the first independent study of its kind to rate the safety of less-lethal weapons."...Children's Hospital Oakland opens new $5.6 million infectious disease lab
... translate our scientific research into meaningful medical treatments. Our goal is to reduce the long lag tim...est safety and security standards for this type of medical research. "The CIVD's BL-3 status means that when we constructed this laboratory we had to meet som...Dedicated hospital stroke centers improve quality of acute care
...erienced staff, which undergoes regular continuing medical education. The BAC is a group of professional, voluntary and government organizations including the American Stroke Association. In 2000, the coalition published guidelines on establishing primary stroke centers to improve care of stroke patients...