Clinical trial participants fare no better, no worse than other patients
...iews draw evidence-based conclusions about medical practice after considering both the content and quality of ...o participate in trials may be more up-to-date and practice more in accordance with best evidence." According to a December 2004 survey of 1,000 adults conducte...Annual mammogram, doctor visits are enough for breast cancer follow-up
...s "intensive follow-up is quite common in clinical practice and represents a significant workload for radiothe...iews draw evidence-based conclusions about medical practice after considering both the content and quality of existing medical trials on a topic. The new analys...Antioxidants have no effect on Lou Gehrig's disease
...iews draw evidence-based conclusions about medical practice after considering both the content and quality of existing medical trials on a topic. ALS is a fatal disease that causes deterioration of motor nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. Although researchers are still unsure about the exact causes of ...Counseling encourages exercise; environment changes may help
...iews draw evidence-based conclusions about medical practice after considering both the content and quality of existing medical trials on a topic. Hillsdon and colleagues reviewed 17 studies that included 6,255 healthy adults age 16 and older. All of the studies were randomized controlled trials that compared ...American Academy of Neurology names two Advocates of the Year
...r patients, for research and training, and for the practice of neurology." Wasay is an assistant professor at the Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan. He has led efforts to improve public health through programs to decrease rabies and tetanus and to increase support for stroke and multiple sclerosis. Was...Diet, exercise, stimulating environment helps old dogs learn
...imple and might be easily translated into clinical practice for people."...Quality of in-hospital CPR may fail to meet guidelines
... be performed, but the parameters of CPR in actual practice are not routinely measured, nor has the quality been known. Recent studies have challenged the notion that CPR is uniformly performed according to established international guidelines. This study examined in-hospital cardiac arrests at the Universit...Collaborative care, training boosts adolescent depression treatment in primary care clinics
...rships between primary and specialty care, trained practice clinicians in depression evaluation and treatment, and used nurses and therapists in the clinics to provide depression care. To offer an evidence-based psychotherapy option, clinic therapists were trained in cognitive-behavior therapy, a type of psyc...Innovative WSU graduate program deals with mental health, deafness
...rogram for SOPP in addition to operating a private practice in Middletown. Basil said the eight-month graduate program, currently with a limited enrollment, meets one evening each week and two Saturday mornings each month at the SOPP Ellis Human Development Institute in downtown Dayton. The participants, most...Complementary & alternative medicine use
...6 percent -- or 38 million adults -- in 2002. The practice of yoga increased 40 percent over the same period, growing from 3.7 percent in 1997 to 5.1 percent-- over 10 million adults-- in 2002. Use of CAM therapies such as acupuncture, biofeedback, energy healing, and hypnosis remained essentially unchanged ...Complementary and alternative therapies and conventional medical therapies
...es, techniques such as acupuncture, and schools of practice such as naturopathy. Fewer than 40 percent of CAM users have disclosed their use of such therapies to their physicians. More than half of physicians report that they would encourage patients to talk to them about using CAM and would refer them for ...'Temp doctors' choose career for flexibility, easier lifestyle
...travel (9.5 percent) and to experience a different practice setting (9 percent). About 3 percent said their ma... LT jobs give physicians less autonomy in how they practice medicine. Because of their short-term assignments, LT physicians have to follow practices styles of ...New guidelines conclude all aerosol therapy devices equally effective
... using the device, and preference. "The current practice of device selection for the delivery of aerosolized asthma or COPD medication is largely based on the device's effectiveness in delivering the medication to the patient. Although there are advantages and disadvantages associated with each device and...New guideline: Corticosteroids recommended for duchenne muscular dystrophy
...Neurology and the Child Neurology Society in a new practice guideline published in the January 11 issue of Neurology, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a genetic disorder linked to the X-chromosome. It is the most common form of muscular dystrophy in c...Physician response to conflicts between faith and medicine
...ory neutrality," they conclude, "physicians should practice an ethic of candid, respectful dialogue in which they negotiate accommodations that allow them to respectfully work together with patients, despite their different ways of understanding the world."...Physicians' response to religion-related conflicts in medicine
...as non-religious (either no affiliation with or no practice of any religion), six as Protestant, four as Jewis...triving for illusory neutrality, physicians should practice an ethic of candid, respectful dialogue in which they negotiate accommodations that allow them to re...Shakespeare's writings indicate he may have had syphilis
...ue to an STD. In fact, the alternative Elizabethan practice of using very hot baths to treat syphilitic people "would have been at least somewhat effective and perhaps highly effective," according to Dr. Ross, of Caritas St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Boston, because high, fever-causing temperatures can ki...Study finds that adherence to diet, not type of diet, more important factor for losing weight
...way to improve dietary adherence rates in clinical practice may be to use a broad spectrum of diet options, to better match individual patient food preferences, lifestyles, and cardiovascular risk profiles. Participants in our study were not allowed to choose their dietary assignment; however we suspect adher...Society of Hospital Medicine selects John Wiley & Sons, Inc. to publish The Hospitalist Newsletter
... clinically-oriented physicians with many years of practice ahead." Launched in 1997, The Hospitalist contains the latest in Hospital Medicine research, news and industry issues, along with updates on recent or upcoming Society-sponsored programs, activities and educational opportunities, and the most extensi...Birth simulator helps physicians I.D. least forceful way to manage problem deliveries
...mulate birth complications and allow clinicians to practice resolving them. Using this birthing simulator as a research tool, we may be able to glean new insights into complicated births and develop new ways to resolve them." The device won top prize in a student design competition held in September during t...