NIAID seeks applicants to lead clinical trials units for revamped HIV/AIDS networks
...iversities, colleges, hospitals, private and group medical practices, units of state and local government, eligible agencies of the U.S. federal government and non-governmental agencies. Four pre-application meetings devoted to a comprehensive overview of application submission requirements for the Clinica...Alcohol's damaging effects on adolescent brain function
...ter M. Monti, symposium organizer and professor of medical sciences and director of the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies at Brown University. "It is often referred to as 'plastic' because it is built to acquire information, adapt, and learn. Alcohol, however, can disrupt the adolescent brain's abil...Older doctors less likely to follow current standards of care
...e and also included the time since the physician's medical school graduation or the physician's age. The researchers found that 73 percent of these studies (45 of 62) showed that a doctor's performance declines with time. More than half of these studies (32 of 62, or 52 percent) showed that performance decli...Hypothyroidism associated with reduced breast cancer risk
...cted matched control group. The study compared the medical records of 1,136 women treated at M. D. Anderson for breast cancer to those of 1,088 healthy women who came to the institution for breast cancer screening. "Thyroid hormone and estrogen both share similar pathways in regulating proliferation and grow...A new method for early detection of disease outbreaks
...ecords. In an article published in the open-access medical journal PLoS Medicine , they now report a new and very flexible approach for early disease outbreak detection. The method, called the "space time permutation scan statistic," is an extension of a previous method of detecting outbreaks called sca...Feb. 15, 2005, Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet
...tter Doctors, Study Finds Researchers examined 59 medical research articles that measured quality of care or medical knowledge (Improving Patient Care, p. 260). The majority of the studies found that older or more exp...Women with thyroid problem have lower risk of breast cancer
... D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston compared the medical records from 1136 women with breast cancer and 1088 healthy women attending their breast screening clinic. The researchers found women with primary hypothyroidism had a 61 percent lower risk of developing invasive breast cancer. In addition, women w...Flu vaccination benefits people of any age with high-risk medical conditions
CHICAGO Persons younger than 65 with high-risk medical conditions such as chronic lung and heart disease can substantially benefit from annual influenza vaccination during an epidemic, according to a study in the February 14 issue of The Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. I...UCLA study: Nearly a third of drug ads in medical journals contain no references for medical claims
...estigators reviewed pharmaceutical ads in American medical journals and found that nearly one-third contained no references for medical claims; while the majority of references to published material were available, only a minority of co......estigators reviewed pharmaceutical ads in American medical journals and found that nearly one-third contained no references for medical claims; while the majority of references to published material were available, only a minority of co...Cardiology losing out as women 'turned off' by family unfriendly specialty
...n in cardiology, despite growing numbers of female medical students, will bring down standards of practice an...ore worrying, given that women now comprise 59% of medical school applicants and that the quality of female applicants to all specialist registrar posts appear...Promising treatments for Huntington's disease identified in UCI study
...ntually results in death. It has been described in medical literature under a host of different names since the Middle Ages. In previous studies on Huntington's disease, Marsh and Thompson, together with Joan Steffan of UCI, found that a small protein called SUMO-1 modifies the mutated Huntingtin protein (Ht...Northwestern Memorial Hospital receives $10 million commitment to support preeminent heart program
...ialized expertise gained at many other prestigious medical centers. Northwestern Memorial patients will trul...s study, directed by cardiologist Alan Kadish, MD, medical director of the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute's Clinical Trials Unit, was published in the New Engl...Striking a chord with concertgoers to reduce hearing loss
...as provided for free at the concerts," says U of T medical student Isaac Bogoch, who initiated the research d...onse rate. Bogoch, who is now in his final year of medical studies, notes the study's recommendations allow concert attendees to have a great time while being ...Morbidly obese pay nearly twice as much for health care
... Cincinnati (UC) researchers. The study found that medical expenditures for morbidly obese adults in the year 2000 were 81 percent more than for normal-weight adults, 65 percent more than overweight adults, and 47 percent more than obese adults. The excess costs among morbidly obese adults resulted from grea...Induction at 32 weeks possible action for expectant moms with premature membrane rupture
... that it is important that such induction occur at medical center equipped to care for the premature infant. ...ed to be replicated in a large study with multiple medical centers. Currently the practice at Mayo Clinic, says Dr. Brost, is to talk to women in this situatio...Gladstone Institutes rank high in the scientist survey of best places for postdocs
...d Gladstone Institutes, a group of UCSF-affiliated medical research institutes, is among the top 15 institutional work environments for life sciences postdoctoral fellows, according to The Scientist's annual "Best Places to Work for Postdocs" survey, set to be published in the February 14 issue. The Gladston...Overseas junior doctors warned to expect unemployment in the UK
...rvey by the College working group on international medical graduates showing that junior doctors from outside...ts. The NHS is totally dependent on international medical graduates, who make up a third of the junior workforce. Yet, remarkably, it has no system for matchi...Study finds happiness persists, despite illness
... whole may be just as happy as those without major medical conditions. The finding adds to the growing body of evidence that ill and disabled people adapt to their condition and show a resilience of spirit that many healthy people can't imagine. It's published in the new issue of the Journal of Experimental ......-based clinical guidelines to patient's electronic medical data helps flag potentially serious clinical error...significant improvement on the cost and quality of medical care. This 12-month randomized, prospective study of 39,462 members of QualChoice, a University Hos...