Low-dose aspirin and stomach ulcer medications better for heart patients with GI complications
..., Dr. Byron Cryer, associate professor of internal medicine at UT Southwestern, said current cardiology guidelines suggest patients who cannot take aspirin because of previous bleeding ulcers be given the drug clopidogrel (Plavix), which has been found to be marginally better than low-dose aspirin in preventi...Study of CPR quality reveals frequent deviation from guidelines
... author Lance Becker, M.D., professor of emergency medicine and director of the Emergency Resuscitation Resear...said Benjamin Abella, M.D., assistant professor of medicine and lead author of the study. "A cardiac arrest is an emergency and the response -- even in the hos...Grapefruit juice and medication can be a dangerous mix
...ers remind doctors, nurses, and everyone who takes medicine and enjoys grapefruit juice, in a paper in the American Journal of Nursing, a journal of the American Nurses Association. Amy Karch, R.N., M.S., of the School of Nursing at the University of Rochester Medical Center reported on a man from a northern ...Heart patients treated by non-cardiologists less likely to receive medications
...ncluding chest x-rays, electrocardiograms, nuclear medicine tests, cardiac catheterizations, and stress tests, without significantly increasing a patient's length of stay. Study authors urge patients to take an active role in their treatment and ask about available medications. "Furthermore, patients or thei...USC/Norris oncologists test new front-line therapy for pancreatic cancer
...er. Heinz-Josef Lenz, M.D., associate professor of medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, is principal investigator on the trial, which ultimately aims to add much-needed options to medicine's sparse arsenal against pancreatic cancer. Cancer of the pancreas causes about 27,000 deaths each year in the...Northwestern Memorial chosen to be featured in first-ever mini-med school TV airing on PBS
... Dr. McCarthy. "The more we can do to talk about medicine in an interesting, easy to understand, engrossing fashion, the better," adds Dr. Batjer. "Patients today are more involved in their healthcare than ever before; Mini-Med School TV helps provide them with the basic knowledge they crave and makes them...Complementary & alternative medicine use
...A-In a comparison of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use by adults in 1997 and 2002, researchers ...people who used herbs saw a practitioner of herbal medicine in 2002, compared to 15 percent in 1997. "Such changes are important considering that other researc...Complementary and alternative therapies and conventional medical therapies
...nd approaches within complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), the report also assesses what is known about Americans' reliance on these therapies. Use of CAM is widespread among the U.S. public, with more than one-third of adults reporting that they have pursued some form of these treatments, which incl...Is it all in the mind or is it a medical condition?
...sts and medical authorities in the field of sexual medicine are set to debate the topic: Premature Ejaculation Psychological Therapy is preferable to Medical Therapy. Irwin Goldstein, MD, Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Sexual Medicine and Director of the Institute for Sexual Medicine at Boston University ...New treatment guidelines for pregnant women with asthma
...needs," added William W. Busse, M.D., professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin Medical School, and chair of the NAEPP multidisciplinary expert panel that developed the guidelines. "There are many ways we can help pregnant women control their asthma, and it is imperative that providers and their pa...Mayo Clinic researchers report success in new molecular breast imaging technique
...be embraced and used by breast imagers and nuclear medicine physicians for the benefit of women, for the improved diagnosis of breast cancer, and ultimately for better survival from breast cancer."...Physician response to conflicts between faith and medicine
...director Farr Curlin, M.D., assistant professor of medicine at the University of Chicago. "We explored the wa...hysicians had encountered cases where religion and medicine came into conflict. These conflicts fell into three categories. Physicians were least frustrated b...The UK's top science stories (Newsline update issue 31)
...nano, think micro! Tiny machines for telecoms and medicine Moving Reality Technology that has revolutionised film effects Molecules Under Pressure What happens when you put the squeeze on molecules?...Sleeping less may be related to weight gain
...ding to a cascade of disorders, few in the general medicine profession or in the lay public have yet made the connection." As younger and older Americans alike struggle with an inability to get enough sleep and to control weight, the authors stress the need to investigate whether intervention in sleep disord...Most alcohol-related plane crashes occur at night and in worsening weather conditions
...t Guohua Li, M.D., Dr.P.H., professor of emergency medicine at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine...tudy co-author Susan Baker, M.P.H., a professor of medicine at Hopkins and professor of health policy and management at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, w...Reduced progression of atherosclerosis tied to statin drugs lowering fats, protein
... American Heart Association, Smith is professor of medicine and director of the Center for Cardiovascular Scie... R. Ehrenstein and colleagues in the department of medicine at University College in London wrote an accompanying editorial. The two articles confir...USC researchers find evidence that progesterone signaling influences ovarian cancer risk
...NS allele, says Celeste Leigh Pearce, a preventive medicine researcher from the USC/Norris Comprehensive Cance...the study's principal investigator, USC preventive medicine professor Malcolm Pike-first used biological samples collected by the Hawaii/Los Angeles Multiethnic...Society of Hospital Medicine selects John Wiley & Sons, Inc. to publish The Hospitalist Newsletter
...n, when membership is growing rapidly and hospital medicine is continuing as the fastest growing medical specialty in the country, it is important that we look to outside specialists to help us more expeditiously manage many of the functions that we previously handled internally," said Laurence Wellikson, M.D...BMJ turns missing murder case documents over to FDA
...s, decide whether the benefits of taking a certain medicine outweigh the risks." Lilly has defended their drug saying, "Prozac has helped to significantly improve millions of lives. It is one of the most studied drugs in the history of medicine, and has been prescribed for more than 50 million people worldwid......se physiologist Kerry Stewart, Ed.D., professor of medicine and director of clinical exercise physiology and heart health programs at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and its Heart Institute. "While each component of metabolic syndrome increases disease risk by itself, when combined, they repr...