UNC study: Most N.C. family practitioners engage in unrecognized community service
...essional careers," he said. "For most, this was an ongoing activity, suggesting it is a core aspect of their professional lives and of the discipline." A report on the study appeared recently in the Journal of American Board of Family Practice. Besides Goldstein, UNC authors are Drs. Diane Calleson, Peter Cu...March/April 2005 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...umption that interpersonal continuity of care the ongoing relationship between an individual doctor and patient is important, individual studies measuring its impact on health care outcomes and cost have yielded conflicting results. In a critical review that synthesizes the findings of 41 research studies,...Acupuncture found to lower elevations in blood pressure
...ing this electroacupuncture treatment method in an ongoing human study....Hepatitis C and health-related quality of life
... of 4.2 points over time, then it implies that the ongoing care has failed to perceptively improve the patient's HRQOL. In clinical trials, the MCID can be used as a yardstick to determine whether patients have benefited from the study intervention." Since the analysis was limited by estimations of MCID base...New estimates for the causes of child deaths worldwide
...HO), analysed available data from publications and ongoing studies in 2000 to 2003 to obtain new estimates for mortality by cause in children younger than age 5 years. They found the four communicable disease categories account more than half (54%) of all child deaths. Infection of the blood or pneumonia in ...Study provides new estimates of the causes of child mortality worldwide
... statistical models from previous publications and ongoing studies. The estimates cover a period from 2000 to 2003. "In all regions of the world, deaths in the neonatal period, primarily due to preterm delivery, sepsis or pneumonia and birth asphyxia, should also be addressed. The new estimates of the causes...New studies suggest airborne SARS transmission is possible
...tion of hospital air or surfaces could explain the ongoing risk of SARS coronavirus transmission to health care workers. To answer this question, they collected patient information and environmental samples from the SARS units of four Toronto hospitals. SARS coronavirus was detected in the air in one of the ...Mailman School of Public Health receives Manhattan Tobacco Cessation Center grant
...d to effective treatment, the program: Provides ongoing technical assistance to partnering sites; Provid...ship Community Voices Anti-Tobacco Program. CAPH's ongoing tobacco initiatives include tobacco control in Central Harlem and determinants of smoking initiation...Patient with drug-resistant form of HIV identified
...orm of HIV. However, studies looking into this are ongoing and currently incomplete. The authors note that the public health ramifications of this case are great since the patient reported having unprotected sex with multiple partners. Dr Markowitz states: "Only additional investigations will reveal whether ...The European Society of Cardiology launches Women at Heart
...ed to the medical professional in their initial or ongoing training. There is thus much to be done to increase the understanding of women's CVD and improve the quality of treatment of women with CVD across Europe. Women at Heart Women at Heart will act as the springboard for a number of ESC-driven events ...Prostate cancer screening practices examined
...t. Louis, Mar. 15, 2005 -- Initial results from an ongoing study evaluating the benefit of prostate cancer screening practices demonstrate that the combined use of both standard tests--the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood test and the digital rectal exam (DRE)--is optimal for detecting cancer. The init...Simple blood test may help to predict cardiovascular risk in older women
... assessment in asymptomatic patients is an area of ongoing intense interest. Improvement of the precision of "inflammation testing" by exploring even newer biomarkers or using combinations of tests is a ripe area for investigation. The latter will probably require pooled data from multiple studies to achieve...Study examines lessons learned at Africa's first public antiretroviral treatment clinic
...ic staff members involved in patient care received ongoing training to get the most up-to-date information on...staff in HIV treatment, it could help to ensure an ongoing source of expert care providers "so that it's an accepted specialty, as it were, for young nurses an...Study finds drug eluting stents as effective as vascular brachytherapy in preventing restenosis
...ding to Dr. Alameddine. "That will be addressed by ongoing prospective randomized controlled multi-center studies. We should have those results in about six months," he notes. Dr. Block disclosed a commercial relationship with Cordis-Johnson & Johnson....Depression predicts heart rhythm abnormalities in heart attack patients
... analysis of a subgroup of patients enrolled in an ongoing investigation led by Watkins that could provide insights into the effects of depression and stress on heart rate variability. Patients whose hearts are unable to appropriately regulate their beating action in response to outside stimuli such as stre...HIV testing should no longer be accorded any special status
...hose at high risk, resulting in late diagnosis and ongoing spread of infection. Unless further initiatives ar...ial by patients has resulted in late diagnoses and ongoing spread of infection, they say. They propose that if a patient freely consents to be investigated, a ...Inflammation elevates risk of cardiac death in rheumatoid arthritis patients
...y decrease. This hypothesis is also the subject of ongoing research. The study was conducted using the resources of the Rochester Epidemiology Project ( http://mayoresearch.mayo.edu/mayo/research/rep ). The Mayo Clinic researchers followed a group of 603 Rochester residents diagnosed with rheumatoid arthriti...Study examines racial differences among children to environmental tobacco smoke exposure
...ta from the Cincinnati Asthma Prevention study, an ongoing study of the Cincinnati Children's Center for Environmental Health. Dr. Wilson and his colleagues measured cotinine in the blood and hair of 222 children with asthma. Cotinine is considered the best marker of environmental tobacco smoke exposure. T...Society of Hospital Medicine to launch new medical journal
...e Society on the launch of the new journal and the ongoing publication of their Hospitalist member newsletter," said Shawn Morton, vice president and publishing director, Medicine, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Currently the SHM produces only the member newsletter, The Hospitalist, which contains the latest in Ho...... (tensing of the ligament); always when this is an ongoing process. These ligaments contain a lot of water and collagen fibres which shrink and tense on applying heat to them at a certain radio-frequency. The technique is carried out by arthroscopy, with specialised terminals, applying between 40 and 50 degr...