Advertising by academic medical centers may risk eroding public trust, says study
...erlying motivation may be to attract patients, not necessarily to promote the health of the public," said Larson. While the authors stress that they are not against advertising by academic medical centers and acknowledge public advertising may help to address financial challenges in what is becoming an increasin...Hepatitis C and health-related quality of life
..., including liver histology and ALT levels, do not necessarily correspond with HRQOL differences. A panel of experts convened to consider all the data focused on patient-reported vitality as most relevant to HCV-related quality-of-life effects. They established a minimally clinically important HRQOL difference (...The European Society of Cardiology launches Women at Heart
... and disease progression patterns, as these do not necessarily follow the more widely-known trends of men's. Women tend to get heart disease later than men due to the cardioprotective effects of oestrogen that plays an important role up until the menopause. However, after the menopause, the risks increase signi...Openness is key to winning the war over MMR
...efused MMR vaccination for their children were not necessarily irrational, writes Professor Paul Bellaby. The high level of coverage achieved before that point had so far reduced the risk of contracting the diseases that parents began to see the vaccine itself as more of a threat to their children. He believes t...Gender gap for lung cancer rates narrowing
...s a disease of older male smokers, but that is not necessarily the case," said the study's author, Gregory P. Kalemkerian, MD, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI. "This data supports the fact that lung cancer is becoming a bigger problem in women every year. If these current trends continue, ...Orthodontists must brace against back pain
... professions are prevalent, but because they don't necessarily do heavy lifting or tasks that put an instant load on the back, these disorders have not been investigated," said Dr. Shrawan Kumar, a professor of physical therapy at the University of Alberta. "Although the tasks appear to be light and harmless, b...Disease testing for immigrants: Discrimination disguised as public health policy
...under the Conservative policy, but visas would not necessarily be withheld. This plan, says Howard, is a strategy to minimise the public-health threats posed by immigrants. But the intense debate these proposals have generated-mainly because of their similarity to current government policies-has unfortunately ob...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for February 2005 (second issue)
...nt asthma, the investigators said that they do not necessarily advocate year-round regular treatment with the compound. They noted that since exacerbations tended to be seasonal, therapy should begin before the viral season when the exacerbation rate is high....Falling in love in three minutes or less
... The researchers caution that speed dating is not necessarily typical of how people usually interact. Their findings might or might not characterize long-term dating relationships. Their findings will be presented in an upcoming issue of the journal Evolution and Human Behavior . Hurry Brands LLC, the pa...Dedicated hospital stroke centers improve quality of acute care
...s are solely those of the study authors and do not necessarily reflect association policy or position. The American Heart Association makes no representation or warranty as to their accuracy or reliability....Phobic anxiety increases heart disease death risk among women
...s are solely those of the study authors and do not necessarily reflect association policy or position. The American Heart Association makes no representation or warranty as to their accuracy or reliability....Wisconsin scientists grow critical nerve cells
...s Zhang, demonstrates that human stem cells do not necessarily differentiate in linear fashion, as scientists always believed. Rather, a series of complex overlapping changes may well be the developmental norm in higher vertebrates such as humans. "We cannot simply translate studies from animal to humans," says ...Need better social research but it doesn't come cheap
...make people better off in the longer term will not necessarily be a recipe for electoral success in the shorter term, he argues. "These are not reasons for researchers to abandon trying for a more accurate view of how comfortable people really feel about things and for a better understanding of how they evaluate...Vaginal hysterectomy leads to better outcomes than abdominal surgery
... unit." Lower rates of vaginal hysterectomy do not necessarily mean that the technique is being avoided, but rather underutilized, Johnson says, "perhaps because some gynecologists have had insufficient training in the vaginal approach to hysterectomy." Amanda Hall, a spokesperson for the American College of Gyn...Invasive procedures do not necessarily improve survival for heart patients
...al with a life-threatening heart condition, do not necessarily improve survival, finds a study published on bmj.com today. The researchers recommend more selective use of procedures, and argue against early routine transfer of patients to hospitals with specialist facilities. The study involved over 28,000 patie...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
...tal junction. It seems that out of the body is not necessarily out of the brain....Authors warn of inaccuracies concerning use of race in health & social science research
...ts to crimes can be highly inaccurate and will not necessarily lead to an increase in public safety....New insight into link between homocysteine and stroke
...homocysteine or variations in the MTHFR gene would necessarily be helpful in risk prediction". (Quote by e-mail; does not appear in published paper) In an accompanying commentary (p,194) Graeme Hankey and John Eikelboom (Royal Perth Hospital, Australia) write that the results do not provide conclusive evidence ...Complementary and alternative therapies and conventional medical therapies
...ability to meet any one of the criteria should not necessarily exclude a therapy from consideration, the report says. To foster more research on the effectiveness and safety of CAM -- as well as on how these therapies compare with one another or with conventional treatments -- practitioners need to be trained i...Breast MRI moderately useful for detecting breast cancer, but does not eliminate need for biopsy
...cificity for detecting breast cancer, but does not necessarily eliminate the need for tissue sampling, according to a study in the December 8 issue of JAMA . Mammography is the primary imaging modality used to detect clinically occult breast cancer, according to background information in the article. However, m...