Physicians may not be accurate in their confidence levels of their diagnoses, says Pitt study
...computer-generated alert or reminder, they must be open to the advice," Dr. Friedman said. "The whole decision support process presupposes that clinicians know when to seek help or pay attention to help that is offered," he said, noting that this study is not about how often physicians are correct, but r...Pitt marks 50th anniversary of its Salk polio vaccine with reunion, scientific symposium
...r honoring the Salk team. Both events are free and open to the public. To best accommodate guests, the University is requesting those wishing to attend the community celebration to RSVP by calling 1-800-258-7488. Advance online registration for the symposium is encouraged. More information about both even...In this month's premier open access medical journal PLoS Medicine , John Danesh and colleagues from the University of Cambridge, along with investigators from the Icelandic Heart Association, report the single largest prospective study addressing the role of uric acid in heart ...NIH state-of-the-science panel calls for 'demedicalization' of menopause
...rning, following two days of expert presentations, open public discussions, and panel deliberations. The archived webcast of the conference sessions will be available shortly at http://consensus.nih.gov/ . The full text of the panel's draft statement will be available late Wednesday at http://consensus...Treatment of cardiac lesions without anaesthesic
...after the baby is born but, on occasions, it stays open and, subsequently, clots can pass from the right a...icular or ventricular level traditionally requires open surgery, for a number of years now POF and interauricular communication has been able to be treated ...Stanford patient is first to test new treatment for peripheral arterial disease
...t an angioplasty or a stent may be required to pop open a blocked artery. When uncoated stents are used to open blocked arteries in the legs, about 20 to 30 percent of patients' vessels become blocked again withi...Massive weight loss conference Dallas April 1-2
...nce, Body Contouring After Massive Weight Loss, is open to physicians and the media. The ASPS/ASAPS meeting will address the status of obesity in the United States, advances in bariatric medicine, innovations in plastic surgery procedures after massive weight loss, the psychological impact of major weight...Protecting human subjects focus of national FDA conference at UH
...UH System and president of UH, who will officially open the conference at 9 a.m., April 21. To kick off day one, OHRP Director Bernard A. Schwetz, D.V.M, will deliver the first keynote address "Aspects of the Human Subjects Enterprise." Following, will be David A. Lepay, M.D., senior adviser for clinic...Half-million cosmetic plastic surgery procedures for Hispanics in 2004 - up 49% from 2000
... "These generations tend to be more accepting and open about cosmetic surgery." Reality TV shows are also creating a greater public awareness for cosmetic surgery in the Hispanic community. "Hispanics are getting more exposure to cosmetic surgery through TV programming shown in South America, Central A...Euroscience Open Forum 2006 launches call for proposals
...o the Forum's programme. The call for proposals is open from March 15th until June 15th 2005. Proposals fo...g staged to provide an interdisciplinary forum for open dialogue, debate and discussion as well as showcase European achievements right across the scientifi...New ways to design safer & more effective topical (transdermal) drug delivery announced in the PNAS
...bi-layers to disorganize them. Some can also break open the dead cells in the SC and interact with the protein in those cells. CPEs that cause skin irritation are typically associated with the unfolding of proteins in skin cells. By studying the molecular properties of a CPE, its propensity to penetrate ...Ethical discussion should come before research
...at combine genetic material from two species could open the door to unanticipated harmful consequences as easily as beneficial outcomes. Scientists have already created pigs with human blood flowing through their bodies. And according to news reports, scientists at Stanford University are considering crea...2005 Pulp Biology Research Award
...man odontoblasts (KCa and TREK-1). These channels, open by stretch of the cell membrane, could be involved in the transfer of information between odontoblasts (through the dentin fluid) and the surrounding pulp tissue. Recently, he showed the expression of sodium ion channels of the neural form (Nav1.2) i...Awards & fellowships at the International & American Association for Dental Research General Session
...ts of a cash prize and a plaque. The Gies Award is open to anyone who publishes in the Journal of Dental Research, the official publication of the IADR/AADR. The award in the Biological category is presented to J.Q. Feng, H. Huang, Y. Lu, L. Ye, Y. Xie, T.W. Tsutsui, et al. (University of Missouri-Kansas ...Breakthrough in medical research: New chemotherapy gives hope to brain tumour patients
...nt and outcome for many of these patients and will open the door to further trials to expand this treatment combination. The key to the new therapy's effectiveness is that temozolomide causes very few side effects and is well tolerated by patients. This means patients can take the drug every day during th...Student identifies electrical changes preceding heart failure
...gram provides one of these research opportunities, open to students in each of the university's four schools with full-time undergraduates: the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, the Whiting School of Engineering, the Peabody Conservatory and the School of Nursing....Northwestern Memorial physicians encourage screenings during colon cancer awareness month
...berg School of Medicine. The Super Colon will be open to the public on March 9 and 10 from 9 a.m. 5 p.m. on the third floor of Northwestern Memorial Hospital, 250 E. Huron. "Colon cancer is one of the most treatable cancers if caught in its early stages," says Amy Halverson, MD, a colorectal cancer sur...Study: Two brain systems regulate how we call for help
... UW Medical School. "The findings suggest that how open an individual is willing to be in asking for help may depend more than we thought on how secure that individual feels at any given time in a supportive relationship." The brain systems found to be involved were the amygdala, which is important in det...Study finds drug eluting stents as effective as vascular brachytherapy in preventing restenosis
...whether SES is superior to VB long-term remains an open question, according 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-...Study says rare allergic reactions to drug-eluting stents may raise risk for heart attack
...re mesh tubes, are routinely used to prop arteries open after angioplasty clears them of potentially heart attack causing plaque. In the past, stented arteries often eventually closed up again with fatty deposits, a process called restenosis. However, since their FDA approval in 2003, stents coated with ...