Older doctors less likely to follow current standards of care
...antial environmental changes that have occurred in medicine over the past several decades. Evidence-based medicine has been widely adopted and quality assurance techniques, such as disease management and performance...Feb. 15, 2005, Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet
... performance. Editorial writers from two internal medicine organizations said the "striking" findings mean that medical practice "must be accompanied by ongoing active effort to maintain competence and quality of care." (Editorial, p. 302.) The writers point to new methods of ongoing performance measurement...Study finds new designer drug is potent treatment for chronic myelogenous leukemia
...rent, explains Griffin, who is also a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. In experiments with laboratory samples of CML cells, AMN107 killed the cells more effectively than Gleevec. In follow-up studies with mice with a human form of CML, AMN107 produced lengthier remissions than Gleevec and tri...Clot-busting drugs may help detect potentially deadly leg clots
...rolina in Columbia; Dr. Ali K. Salah, MCG internal medicine resident; Dr. Walter L. Pipkin, former MCG general surgery and vascular surgery fellow who is now a pediatric vascular surgery fellow at the University of Alabama; James H. Corley, nuclear pharmacist and associate professor of radiology at MCG; Mary ...Northwestern Memorial Hospital receives $10 million commitment to support preeminent heart program
...r Institute. Dr. O'Connell, currently chairman of medicine at Wayne State University, has years of experience in treating patients with heart failure and in leading patient care and research teams. Additionally, Joseph Cytron, MD, and Robert Silverberg, MD, joined the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute to work ...Herb used to treat diabetes works like modern-day prescription drugs, study suggests
COLUMBUS, Ohio An herb used in traditional Indian medicine to treat diabetes seems to lower blood sugar and insulin levels in a manner similar to prescription drugs, a new study reports. Researchers gave extracts of the herb Salacia oblonga to 39 healthy adults, and the results were promising. The largest do...Striking a chord with concertgoers to reduce hearing loss
...n House, a professor of public health sciences and medicine at U of T and staff physician in the department of occupational and environmental health at St. Michael's Hospital. "This would be a significant improvement considering only three percent of respondents always wore ear protection at rock concerts,"...Morbidly obese pay nearly twice as much for health care
...vid Arterburn, MD, assistant professor of internal medicine and researcher at the Institute for the Study of H...ington, and Joel Tsevat, MD, professor of internal medicine and researcher at UC's Institute for the Study of Health....Transport system smuggles medicines into brain
... lift' and pass unnoticed though the BBB. How much medicine reaches the brain depends on the size of the molecule attached to the transferrin. Much of the BBB is made up of capillary endothelial cells, the cells which line the walls of blood vessels. In the brain, unlike other parts of the body, these cells a...Study finds happiness persists, despite illness
...thor Peter Ubel, M.D., a U-M professor of internal medicine and psychology, and a staff physician at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System. "People who haven't experienced such adversity assume that it would destroy their happiness when in truth it probably would not." In fact, the researchers found that the hea...Electronic medical records reduce hours, cut cost
...res this patient data to the latest evidence-based medicine and standards of care, to identify treatment opportunities for those most at risk. These opportunities or suggestions - called Care Considerations - are then communicated to the treating physician with the goal of improving the patient's health. "Th...Teaching a less obvious medical skill -- Ethical decision-making
...n, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor of internal medicine who teaches second-year medical ethics at the UI C..., and Thomas P. Duffy, M.D., professor of internal medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine. Titled "A Clinician's Approach to Clinical Ethical Reason...Boosting HIV screening can increase survival and is cost effective
...ission." Rochelle Walensky, assistant professor of medicine at Harvard and a co-author of the study, added, "The HIV epidemic is no longer confined to a handful of easily identifiable risk groups, yet current approaches to HIV testing are still focused on these sub-populations. The result is that 280,000 Amer...Early HIV screening prolongs life and is affordable, Stanford study shows
...tor at the VA Palo Alto and associate professor of medicine at the School of Medicine's Center for Primary Car...tanford; Mark Holodniy, MD, associate professor of medicine with the VA Palo Alto; and Ahmed Bayoumi, MD, MSc, at St. Michaels Hospital and the University of To...NIH awards USC $8.7 million to study tobacco use in China
...n Johnson, Sidney Garfield Professor of Preventive medicine of the Keck School of Medicine of USC. "Smoking-re... Jennifer Unger, associate professor of preventive medicine at USC, and Gary Swan, director of the Center for Health Sciences at SRI International. PR TTURC is ...Over-the-counter supplement appears effective in treatment of midlife-onset depression
...ement in the U.S. Complementary and alternative medicine is a multimillion dollar industry, reflecting a growing number of people who avoid traditional medication, including anti-depressants, according to information provided in the article. Alternative therapies may have potential as second- or third-line...Emergency department study supports giving dehydrated children fluids by mouth
...flammations, according to a new study by emergency medicine physicians. Because oral therapy can be started more quickly and is less painful for the child than IV treatment, the researchers say it should be the preferred treatment for children with moderate dehydration. The research, performed in the emergenc...Association publishes blueprint to strengthen stroke care from prevention through recovery
...treated and discharged according to evidence-based medicine by providing tools that shows how well the staff is meeting stroke treatment goals. A stroke system could magnify such quality improvement measures by expanding them to the regional level, Schwamm said. "This is the first time that anyone has undert...Third of European cancer patients use complementary and alternative therapies
...n Europe make use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), according to one of the largest surveys und...on, broadening our understanding of the concept of medicine and working towards integrating into mainstream healthcare services those CAM therapies for which th...New treatment rivals chemotherapy for lymphoma, U-M study finds
...ient's body processes the tagged antibody. Nuclear medicine scans are used to assess how quickly Bexxar reache...s disease," says Kaminski, a professor of internal medicine at the U-M Medical School. "New studies can now be designed to begin to test this possibility," he a...