Diabetics with mental disorders at increased risk for diabetic complications
...M.D., M.Sc., associate professor of psychiatry and medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine and a research scientist at the Regenstrief Institute, Inc. Dr. Carney is the senior author of the study which looked at insurance claims data from more than 26,000 diabetic adults between the ages of 18 ...New marrow transplant method developed at Stanford may eliminate fatal side effects
...eloped in mice by Samuel Strober, MD, professor of medicine (immunology and rheumatology), who has been studyi...5 years. Robert Lowsky, MD, assistant professor of medicine (bone marrow transplantation), has adapted this strategy for humans along with Strober, and will pre...Study shows haploidentical natural killer cells may provide hope for some patients with AML
...ogy physician-researcher, Miller is a professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School and leader of The Cancer Center's Blood and Marrow Transplant Program. According to Miller, the goal of the study was to try to stimulate the immune system of patients with advanced AML to f...Novel drugs help solve Gleevec resistance
...estigator with Charles Sawyers, M.D., professor of medicine at UCLA, of a study that tested 29 patients with e...ant ALL and CML Francis Giles, M.D., professor of medicine in the Department of Leukemia, presented results of the second study, which found that the novel ora...Nursing homes register 41 percent drop in residents' pain
...cer at Quality Partners and associate professor of medicine at Brown Medical School. "What we've shown is that... Joan Teno, professor of community health and medicine at Brown Medical School and associate director of the University's Center for Gerontology and Health...Report finds new model of care can improve quality, lower costs and increase physician efficiency
...rovide on-going consultation and support to family medicine practices across the country looking to transform ...o pilot test the New Model of care in 10-20 family medicine practices of varying sizes across the country. Based on the concept of a relationship-centered pers...November/December 2004 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...rt would enhance the financial viability of family medicine practices, many of whose survival is endangered by...roject to pilot test the New Model in 10-20 family medicine practices across the country. This November, the American Academy of Family Physicians approved fund...Stem cells of limited use for cardiac muscle repair
...abeth McNally, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of medicine at the University of Chicago. "We set out to conf... "The whole idea of regenerative cellular medicine is very attractive," said McNally. "Many of the diseases that most concern us involve degeneration ...Researchers debate recreational use of PDE-5 inhibitors
Leaders in the field of sexual medicine will actively debate the use of oral pills for erectile dysfunction (ED) at the 7th Congress of the European Society for Sexual Medicine in London, UK. Moderated by Irwin Goldstein, MD, editor of the Journal of Sexual Medicine, the exchan...Simple intervention nearly eliminates catheter-related bloodstream infections
...tant professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine and of surgery at Johns Hopkins and lead author of the study published in the October issue of Critical Care Medicine. The simple interventions, which include a system for educating nurses and doctors about infection control, streamlining the cath...'Sobering' disparity: African-Americans receive less compensation for job-related back injuries
... "The diagnosis of lower back pain is a bugaboo in medicine today," Tait said. "It is not an exact science. There is no well-recognized paradigm for diagnosing and treating back pain. Consequently treatment decisions often are based on clinical judgment. "Those judgments may be affected by negative stereotyp...Testosterone deficiency found in one-third of diabetic men
... Sandeep Dhindsa, M.D., UB assistant professor of medicine and first author on the study, said the findings are important because hypogonadism has not been recognized as a complication of type 2 diabetes, and the high prevalence of 30 percent was unexpected. "The surprisingly high prevalence of low te...New treatments for infertility are unjustified
...tments are not appropriate for use in reproductive medicine without shown benefit as they are associated with known risks to mother and fetus. Recent guidelines from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, plus two randomised studies, have also concluded that there is no evidence to show the...ESA at the world's largest medical exhibition
...will introduce highly progressive methods in space medicine and their application on Earth. Over 4000 exhibit... space research offers to the health sector. Space medicine is not limited to monitoring the health of astronauts, indeed; it is meant to help people on Earth t...Federal funds given for regenerative medicine center
... of Cleveland." Stanton Gerson, M.D., professor of medicine at Case, director of the Case Comprehensive Cancer... will direct the new national center. Regenerative medicine is a new approach to medical therapy that uses non-embryonic stem cells to regenerate new tissue in ...Chronic back pain shrinks 'thinking parts' of the brain, study finds
...D., neurosurgery; R. Norman Harden, M.D., physical medicine and rehabilitation; Todd B. Parrish, radiology; and Darren R. Gitelman, M.D., neurology, radiology and the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center, at Feinberg....Patients who are intubated prior to hospital arrival fare worse find Pitt researchers
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 17 Emergency medicine researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School...ings present important challenges to the emergency medicine profession and EMS communities," stated Donald M. Yealy, M.D., professor and vice chairman of the de...Computerized orders effective in increasing administration of influenza and pneumococcal vaccines
...tem as a control. The trial included 3,777 general medicine patients discharged from 1 of 6 study wards during a 14-month period (November 1, 1998, through December 31, 1999) composed of 2 overlapping influenza seasons at an urban public teaching hospital. The hospital's computerized physician order entry s...Annals of Internal Medicine, tip sheet, Nov. 16, 2004
...of Physicians, an organization of 116,000 internal medicine physicians and medical students. These highlights are not intended to substitute for articles as sources of information.......y," said John DeWitt, M.D., assistant professor of medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine and first author of the study. "We have shown that a state-of-the-art CT scan can do as accurate a job at letting us know which patients have tumors which can be successfully surgically removed as the mor...