Why is Ian Kennedy's healthcare commission damaging NHS care?
...etter from THE LANCET to Ian Kennedy, Chair of the newly established UK healthcare commission). On July 21, 2004, the UK's Healthcare Commission--a new independent inspectorate chaired by the lawyer and ethicist, Ian Kennedy--published its annual performance ratings of National Health Service (NHS) Trusts ...Pediatricians are plentiful, but not in poorer states
...he care of children from birth to adolescence. The newly published study is the latest in a series of papers stemming from that research. It's based on data from the American Medical Association that includes both AMA and non-AMA member physicians, the U.S. Census and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. ...National Center for Children Exposed to Violence begins annual conference today
...iminishing the effects of violence exposure. The newly designated NCCEV Southeast Regional Training Center in Charlotte, North Carolina has been instrumental in coordinating the activities for the conference. For more information on NCCEV or the conference, please contact Colleen Vadala at 203-785-7047 ...News briefs from the journal Chest, June 2004
...similar trend. In addition, age-adjusted rates of newly diagnosed asthmatics showed an initial increase in...ective disease control, as well as milder forms of newly diagnosed asthma. The study appears in the June issue of CHEST, the peer-reviewed journal of the Am...Cells from fat tissue turned into functional nerve cells
...experiments, the researchers demonstrated that the newly transformed adipose cells expressed many similar c...ese cells is similar to nerves. They exposed these newly formed cells to N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA), an agent which blocks the activity of the neurotransmit...Unexpected similarities between raindrops and proteins
...o grow, but it falls to pieces immediately. Using newly developed theory, Linda Hedberg and Mikael Oliveberg have shown that the inscrutable building blocks of the body, proteins, adopt their proper shape in a similar manner. Unlike water, proteins are made up of long chains, and these chains have to ins...Long Island Breast Cancer Study data: Aspirin helps protect some women against breast cancer
...stmenopausal women make up about 75 percent of all newly diagnosed breast cancer cases in the United States," she said. "In contrast, ER-positive breast cancer is not prevalent among postmenopausal women in Japan, for example, where breast cancer rates are much lower than they are in the U.S. "If we can re...Carbon monoxide from smoking helps keep arteries open following angioplasty
...ning." Although smoking had a protective effect on newly opened arteries, the smokers in the patient group were being treated for PAD at a younger age and had higher rates of heart attacks and strokes compared to non-smokers....Patient safety study provides first national estimate of adverse events in Canadian hospitals
...olve the challenges identified today," says CIHI's newly appointed board chair, Graham Scott. "The key here is to take this information, learn from it and use those lessons to ultimately make our health care safer." "This study has been designed as a first step to help Canada's health care system better un...Laser surgery offers advantages for voice disorders
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. The newly developed pulsed-dye laser surgery for voice disorders has been found to be faster, cheaper, better tolerated, and less complicated than standard surgery that requires general anesthesia, more time and a longer recovery, surgeons reported here today ...Study raises concerns about tablet splitting
...pposing mandated tablet splitting by patients. The newly published "Tablet Splitting: Evaluating Appropriateness for Patients Tool for pharmacists from the 2003-2004 APhA Strategic Directions Committee" appears in the May-June Journal of the American Pharmacists Association. About the Study Dr. Cook, a ...American Academy of Neurology guidelines for treating of epilepsy
... are actually two sets of guidelines, one to treat newly diagnosed epilepsy and one to treat epilepsy that has already proved difficult to manage with the older drugs. "The FDA drug approval process, which requires placebo (or near-placebo)-controlled trials, makes it very difficult to gather some of the k...Special incubators allow high-quality imaging of critically ill newborns
OAK BROOK, Ill. - A newly developed, magnetic resonance (MR)-compatible incubator allows radiologists to safely and efficiently obtain quality diagnostic images of sick infants, according to a study appearing in the May issue of the journal Radiology. "MR imaging is the mos...The future of nursing; overcoming obstacles today for a better tomorrow
...the profession of oncology nursing." At Fox Chase, newly hired CNAs are required to complete a three-day oncology course with curriculum designed by clinical nurse specialists. Topics covered include patients' rights, communication, end-of-life and restorative care, reporting of signs and symptoms, and be...American Academy of Neurology and American Epilepsy Society guidelines for treating of epilepsy
... are actually two sets of guidelines, one to treat newly diagnosed epilepsy and one to treat epilepsy that has already proved difficult to manage with the older drugs. "The FDA drug approval process, which requires placebo (or near-placebo) -controlled trials, makes it very difficult to gather some of the ...New research to address early lung cancer detection
...tive tool for early diagnosis of lung cancer. This newly funded study represents a unique opportunity to understand how to best increase smoking cessation in the context of CT screening. At the same time, we will be incorporating and developing advanced image processing software to make screening as effect...Imaging test could be used to diagnose schizophrenia
...us not useful for diagnosis. "Therefore, this newly reported functional brain change results in almost total separation of patients and healthy controls in two independent samples, and thus has possible diagnostic utility," Pearlson said. Data were collected from two locations. One group consi...CellCept's cardioprotective profile reinforced
...icity, Zenapax prevents the acute rejection of the newly transplanted organ, and Valcyte developed for the prevention of cytomegalovirus, a dangerous viral infection associated with transplantation. In addition, Roche supports basic research in transplantation with its funding of the independent Roche Orga...Non-drug treatment device delivers sustained blood pressure reductions within 3-4 weeks in the home
...at many more will do so by taking advantage of our newly created professional sampling program."...Botox injections restore voices, confidence to voice disorder patients
...e diagnosed and started on treatment. All patients newly diagnosed with spasmodic dysphonia at the U-M during the three-year study period are included in the study. There was significant improvement in scores on the 100-point scale with each successive treatment, although the size of the jump was not as b...