Quality patient care not met by blanket screenings, warns UCSF/SFVAMC physician
... rates," Walter said. "We need to give doctors the opportunity to examine if the patient needs the test or not and encourage them to talk with patients about these recommendations." The VA system -- the largest health care system in the United States -- has been considered a U.S. leader in patient care following...St. Jude helps South American community achieve improved survival rates for leukemia
...e to offer parents who come from distant areas the opportunity to earn money by making handcrafts and baked goods so their families can survive while they are unable to work at home. Everyone collaborates for the good of the children and families in need." Ching-Hon Pui, M.D., director of the St. Jude Leukemia/...Oral History Research Office and NYU Child Study Center receive grant for oral history project
...nts, as well as students from a control group, the opportunity to participate in a study testing the efficacy of oral history as an alternative therapy that can have a positive impact on children's resilience and overall mental health. "This program will not only contribute to the history of 9/11, but will als...Diabetics at significantly higher risk for Alzheimer's disease
...ts have agreed to organ donation, we will have the opportunity to examine the pathologic basis of the association of diabetes to cognitive decline." The Rush researchers also expressed their indebtedness to the more than 1,000 nuns, priests, and brothers from across the U.S. participating in the Religious Order...Diabetes linked to increased risk of Alzheimer's in long-term study
...o brain donation at their deaths, we will have the opportunity to examine the pathologic basis of the association of diabetes to cognitive decline." The Rush researchers also expressed their indebtedness to the more than 1,000 nuns, priests, and brothers from across the U.S. participating in the Religious Order...Even health-conscious women going without colonoscopy
... to the list and we think that there's tremendous opportunity for physicians and health systems to use women's other screening appointments to increase their awareness." Carlos is lead author on a presentation at the SGIM meeting, to be given by Steven Bernstein, M.D., that shows the gap between breast, cervix...Women's health research registry aims to improve women's health for future generations
...e immediately and sent it in, as it is a wonderful opportunity to make a significant contribution to the body of knowledge that results from clinical trials," she said. She hopes her enrollment will persuade other women especially African-Americans like herself to participate in clinical trials. Clinical tri...Medical College of Georgia to establish clinical campus at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital
...MCG. "The clinical campus in Albany will create an opportunity for us to help nurture the development of students...his clinical campus will give students an expanded opportunity to see the advantages of practicing in a community hospital that offers tertiary care in a regional ...Vaccine reduces racial disparity in incidence of childhood pneumonia and meningitis
...ococcal disease across all age groups has been the opportunity to immunize many individuals in the age group most at risk for the illness--children younger than 2 years--with this new, effective vaccine. "For the immediate future, pneumococcal prophylaxis for nonelderly high-risk adults can continue to rest prin...Parents' heart attack or stroke raises risk in their middle-aged children
...ars. This provided the investigators with a unique opportunity to examine the true relationship of parental and offspring cardiovascular disease, confirmed by a physician panel of experts, without the potential bias of often-inaccurate self-reporting that has limited similar studies. The researchers studied ...New strategy aims to halve malaria deaths by 2010
...tentially save costs. Such linkages also offer the opportunity to extend other public health benefits, such as improved nutrition and provision of clean water, to hard to reach rural populations, say the authors. Other programmes, based on drug donations, have helped to reduce anaemia and intestinal worms. Such ...Exploring why disease affects people differently
...Income Protection Insurance, will provide a unique opportunity to explore why people respond differently to the same disease and why it renders some people unable to work while others continue. In a 1.6 million research contract signed on Thursday (6 May), the new UnumProvident Centre for Psychosocial and Disab...Preimplant test offers option of having child to serve as stem cell donor to sibling in need
...erlinsky et al has clear benefits. "It offers the opportunity to save the life of an existing child with an otherwise untreatable disorder and allows couples to avoid confronting the difficulties of prenatal diagnosis for HLA typing in mid pregnancy, with selective abortion of fetuses who are poorly matched wit...Center for AIDS Research grant renewed with $8 million NIH award
...ally, the NIH support provides the center with the opportunity to apply for supplemental funding each year for various AIDS-related projects. Michael M. Lederman, M.D., director of the Case CFAR, responded to the receipt of the grant: "This renewal of our Center for AIDS Research is wonderful news. It represent...VELCADE (Bortezomib) receives European marketing authorisation
...nts in the control arm of the trial were given the opportunity to switch to VELCADE as soon as possible based on an interim analysis that found a statistically significant improvement in TTP in patients receiving VELCADE compared to patients receiving dexamethasone. VELCADE has a generally predictable, manageab...Iressa news backgrounder: Testing of smart drug expands at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
...ar biology, jumped at what he recognized as a huge opportunity to change lung cancer treatment. His chairman Waun Ki Hong, M.D., supported him. "I pursued this drug very aggressively," Herbst remembers. "We had lots of enthusiasm for this kind of targeted therapy, long before Gleevec became a household wor...Dental X-rays during pregnancy associated with low birth weight babies
...e reproductive organs or the fetus, it provides an opportunity to test the role of the hypothalamus-pituitary-thyroid axis in the radiation-LBW association," the authors write. Philippe P. Hujoel, Ph.D., and colleagues from the University of Washington, Seattle, analyzed data from Washington Dental Services, a n...New research to address early lung cancer detection
...ancer. 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 effective as possible." Dr. Henschke directs the Lu...First randomized trial of adult stem cell injections in heart failure patients shows benefit
...he native heart will be removed, allowing the rare opportunity to look at the heart in its entirety and to more closely examine the effects of the stem cells. "These results encourage us to aggressively pursue cellular therapies as an option for congestive heart failure. It will revolutionize our approach, whi...Expert calls for standard epinephrine doses when treating children in cardiac arrest
...elines in an emergency situation provides the best opportunity for a wide range of caregivers with highly variabl...mary dysfunction of the heart, they offer a unique opportunity to understand the overall risks and benefits of epinephrine, he said. Dr. J. Julio Prez Fontn of Was...