Fogarty International Center establishes Sheldon M. Wolff, MD Fellowship On International Health
...e subsequently became NIAID's clinical director, a post he held until 1977 when he left NIH to become professor and chairman of the Department of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine and Physician-in-Chief at the New England Medical Center Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. "Shelly Wolff was a...Landmark school-based 'social influences' smoking-prevention program found not to work
... 94 percent of the study participants to two years post high school is truly remarkable. This new standard of rigor will be invaluable in providing a blueprint for future prevention research," Clayton says. Peterson and colleagues conclude that it may be time to take a totally new approach to smoking prev...Sustained use of anti-depressants increases cell growth and protects cells in the brain
...es demonstrate that in patients with depression or post traumatic stress syndrome there is a decrease in volume of the hippocampus that is thought to be related to the neuronal atrophy and loss," Duman said. "The results of our study demonstrate that anti-depressants can reverse or block further loss of n...GPs prescribe significant numbers of "off label" drugs to children
...tice PLEASE NOTE: Unfortunately we are unable to post the PDF link to this paper. If you require the full research paper, we can fax it to you. Please telephone or e-mail Emma Wilkinson on +44-20-7383-6529, or Email: ewilkinson@bmj.com General practitioners are prescribing significant numbers of dru...Imperial College wins Queen's Anniversary Prize
...ing requirements for trainee surgeons, surgeons in post and other professionals. Their innovative work in the use of simulations and virtual reality is internationally recognised as offering a way forward for surgical education. Lord Oxburgh, Rector, Imperial College, said: "I am delighted that Profes...Heart attack help: Program helps boost use of key therapies in hospitals
...ng with those important treatments up to 18 months post discharge, and provided its faculty, nurses and doctors-in-training with an annual "report card" that emphasizes opportunities to improve further.......on Ziagen/Combivir were 1 neutropenia; 1 anemia; 1 post traumatic pleural effusion; 1 retinal detachment; 1 alcoholic pancreatitis; 1 acute confusional psychosis. SAEs for patients on nelfinavir/Combivir included: 1 person with depression, diarrhea, hepatic cytolysis, viral respiratory infection; 1 pers......ccording to Dr. Frederick Carrick, a distinguished post graduate professor of clinical neurology at Logan College of Chiropractic and president of the ACA Council on Neurology. "While neurology has always been the basis of chiropractic, advanced training in the discipline allows the practitioner to serve...AAPS workshop to examine changes in analytical methods and packaging
...ll have the opportunity to give FDA their views on post approval changes to analytical methodology and con...ized by the FDA in the development of guidances on post approval changes in these areas. Speakers at the meeting include: Vinod P. Shah, Ph.D., FDA; Dhiren ...Heart failure deaths reduced by 30 percent with new drug regimen
...l of the information caused the editorial staff to post the findings onits Internet site, www.nejm.org, in July. The NEJM posts an early release of a manuscript on its web site only two orthree times a year in accordance with its Ingelfinger Rule, which allows theearly release of findings determined to ha...Heart failure deaths reduced by 30 percent
...al of the informationcaused the editorial staff to post the findings on its Internet site, www.nejm.org . The NEJM posts an early release of a manuscript on its Web site only two orthree times a year in accordance with its Ingelfinger Rule, which allows theearly release of findings determined to have imm...Dental students help close care gap at Indian reservation
...ning"improve enormously" for those who apply for a post in an underserved area, Tommasone said. In addition to CWRU, dental students from Indiana University and the Universities of Maryland, Pennsylvania, andMissouri are participating in the externships. Four hygienists from the University of Michigan are...Idaho attorney, Pennsylvania physician to lead American Heart Association in 1999-2000
...nd more than 1,000 employees. He relinquished that post after beingnamed president-elect of the American Heart Association. Smaha has served the association at all levels, beginning with the thePennsylvania Affiliate for which he was president in 1989-90. He has served onthe American Heart Associa......% which compares favorably with survival at 1 year post transplant. We don't know yet if TMR will help these patients live longer, but TMR patients are spared the mortality associated with waiting for a transplant."...