Male surgeons report highest rate of mistakes in patient care
...ity improvement. We have to change the culture of medicine so early discussion is seen as the right and responsible thing to do."...AHA urges earlier diagnoses, referrals for PCI in women
...pital/Columbia and associate professor of clinical medicine at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City. "One reason for the imbalance in referrals for PCI is that earlier studies suggested that women had high death and complication rates with these procedures. But this review finds that these pro...Cholesterol under-treated in high-risk women in managed care study
...k-Presbyterian Hospital and associate professor of medicine at Columbia University in New York City. Mosca and colleagues studied a 1.1 million-member managed care database and identified 8,353 women who had established cardiovascular disease at the start of the study or were otherwise at high risk because of...Women's heart risk underestimated by doctors, resulting in less preventive care than in men
...k-Presbyterian Hospital and associate professor of medicine at Columbia University in New York City, and colleagues conducted a national online survey to investigate whether physicians treat women differently than men with respect to cardiovascular disease preventive therapy. Specifically, the researchers ...No magic pill for treating dementia symptoms
...ed," said Sink, an assistant professor of internal medicine geriatrics. The authors said that additional studies of drug therapy are also needed and that a large multi-center center study now under way to compare four atypical antipsychotic drugs will be particularly valuable....Brain tumor treatment can vary greatly, according to new JAMA study
...e than two times as many patients take alternative medicine than participate in clinical trials," Chang says. "Alternative medicines are chemicals and they can have interactions with other medications. Patients and their physicians need to keep that in mind when assessing symptoms and side effects of medicati...Background 'DWI' checks effective
...Guohua Li, M.D., Dr.P.H., a professor of emergency medicine at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine...thor Susan Baker, M.P.H., a professor of emergency medicine at Hopkins and a professor of health policy and management at the Bloomberg School of Public Health,...Medical meeting to feature research findings and disease prevention and health promotion sessions
...e will address a wide variety of timely preventive medicine issues, including smoking cessation, terrorism and... Founder of The Cooper Aerobics Center, discussing medicine in the 21st Century; U.S. Senator Tom Harkin and House Representative Ralph Regula (Chair of the Ho...First US kidney cancer vaccine trial underway at Columbia
...nt, ambulatory and preventive care in all areas of medicine at five major centers: New York-Presbyterian hospital/Columbia University Medical Center, New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, Children's Hospital of New York-Presbyterian, the Allen Pavilion, and the Westchester Division. I...National Academies News: William H. Foege to receive Public Welfare Medal, Academy's highest honor
... "Dr. Foege has spent his career using science and medicine to help patients -- not just a handful of patients, but millions of people around the world," said NAS President Bruce Alberts. "His leadership and commitment to the public's health have been inspiring." After retiring from CDC in 1983, Foege helped ...Calcium boost to youths' bones could reduce osteoporosis risk
...time," said Matkovic, also a professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation and nutrition. Matkovic pioneered research on the concept of calcium's relationship to peak bone mass in the 1970s, when he documented differing fracture rates among populations that consumed contrasting levels of dairy products ov...Communication between primary-care physicians and patients can reduce medication-related problems
..." notes Weingart, who is an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. The vast majority of ADEs that occurred during the study were not dangerous, he continues, "but 12 percent of them were considered serious; that is, they could have caused significant problems such as organ damage or bleedi...Older people with the 'Alzheimer's gene' find it harder to 'remember to remember' even if healthy
...ct important behaviors such as remembering to take medicine at a certain time or getting to a doctor's appointment. The research appears in the January issue of Neuropsychology, which is published by the American Psychological Association. People with this genotype have a certain variety, or allele, of a gen...Steroids increase death risk from traumatic head injury
...c performance. Corticosteroids are "widely used in medicine to treat inflammation," Alderson explains. "It is thought that some of the damage after a brain injury results from inflammation following the initial injury and that reducing inflammation might reduce this secondary injury." In the case of severe he...Vioxx went mostly to patients who didn't need it, Stanford researcher says
... Randall Stafford, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine, and University of Chicago researchers G. Caleb Alexander, MD, and Carolanne Dai. Their findings reveal that 63 percent of the growth in COX-2 use from 1999 through 2002 occurred in patients with minimal ...Study shows drugs such as Vioxx and Celebrex were widely over-used long before recent problems
...thor G. Caleb Alexander, M.D., M.S., instructor of medicine and a member of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago. "We pursued our analysis because of concerns that this was an example of overuse of a newer, more expensive class of medications," said co-author Randall S...Rebuilding wounded veterans: Annual review of limb loss & prosthetics research
...ng research journal in the field of rehabilitation medicine and technology for 40 years. JRRD, a peer-reviewed, scientifically indexed journal, publishes original research papers, review articles, as well as clinical and technical commentary from U.S. and international researchers on all rehabilitation resear...Common antidepressants lower effects of tamoxifen in many women
...y David Flockhart, M.D., Ph.D., an IU professor of medicine and director of the Division of Clinical Pharmacology, the researchers examined the effects of SSRIs in women who were prescribed tamoxifen to treat the common side effects of breast cancer therapy which include depression and hot flashes. More than...Insulin resistance intervention after stroke focus of $33 million grant
...tor Walter N. Kernan, M.D., associate professor of medicine at Yale School of Medicine. The IRIS trial includes over 60 research centers in the United States and Canada that will recruit 3,136 participants in the next three years. Eligible participants are men and women age 45 or over without diabetes who hav...... R. Russell, M.D., assistant professor of internal medicine in the section of cardiology at Yale School of Med...culty member who is making significant advances in medicine or health care management. Of particular interest are the areas of obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular...