NPSF makes safe use of pharmaceuticals a national health priority
...ors -- all working together with both patients and professionals to improve pharmaceutical safety. Over five months, during the initial phase of the Pharmaceutical Safety Initiative, interviews, surveys and a workshop were conducted so that participants from all areas of health care could identify problems and o......abridgement of personal freedom, we as health care professionals have a moral duty to protest an embargo which engenders human suffering in Cuba to achieve political objectives." Secretary of State Madeleine Albright wrote a commentary on U.S. embargo policies in the same issue of the publication in response to ...New web site provides access to information on sleep and sleep disorders
...a new Web site to offer the public and health care professionals the most up-to-date science-based information on s...ormation that will help the public and health care professionals recognize the signs of common sleep disorders and the need for professional treatment. It will also...UCSF study finds many areas in California have a dentist shortage
... Service Corp, afederal program that places health professionals in shortage areas, simply doesnot have the resources to place dentist in all shortage areas. The federal andstate governments need to look closely at why shortages persist in these areas.Dentist shortages are of particular concern because they genera...NHLBI funds asthma coalitions to improve care among high risk populations
...minated widely to physicians and other health care professionals to help them improve the way they treat patients with asthma. The contractors and their projects are: Arkansas Asthma Coalition/Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute, Little Rock, AR This project aims to develop a multifaceted asthma ...Scientists: herb known as comfrey can ruin liver, other herbs appear helpful
... and St. John's wort. "It's essential that health professionals know what we know about these products and what's ...sking, and even if people were asking, most health professionals do not feel that they are in a position to give advice. As a result, the train is running wild down ...Expert calls for common sense, science in national response to medicinal herbs
... nation's medicine cabinet attitudes of uninformed professionals need to change, just as nonprofessionals need to s...that period, natural drug products were scorned by professionals and the public alike. Now they are highly valued, and with good reason, by a very large segment of t...... Founded in 1900, the ASCPT consists of over 2200 professionals whose primary interest is to promote and advance the science of human pharmacology and therapeutics. The Society is the largest scientific and professional organization serving the discipline of Clinical Pharmacology. To view full abstracts go to:...Extensive drug information added to MEDLINEplus
...ths old, this site is used by consumers and health professionals some 1.3 million times each month. MEDLINEplus also connects users to medical dictionaries, lists of doctors and hospitals, and "Health Topic" pages that have links to carefully selected resources on subjects such as diseases, fitness, and nutrition.......sts, researchers, nurses, social workers and other professionals at the Institute, and hear presentations about the rewards of working in the sciences. They will also see actual surgical instruments and learn how they work, watch as tissue samples are prepared for laboratory exams, and get a close-up view of the b...Biomedical informatics research group develops teaching/diagnostic software
...o 20 years," says Bender. "It takes the talents of professionals in these key fields to approach the problem with novel solutions." The tool is currently undergoing a formal assessment as the subject of a graduate level instructional technologies course led by Greg Sherman in the Department of Teaching and Learnin.......4 days) rather than olanzapine patients. Medical professionals want the best possible outcomes for patients, but in today's increasingly cost constrained health environment, doctors have to justify their prescribing decisions. The daily savings per patient, derived from the RODOS study, may translate into very l...Analysis of study looks at why quitters return to smoking
...tly issued a definitive guideline advising medical professionals to treat tobacco dependence more like a chronic co...dependence," said Dr. Durcan. "This gives medical professionals more knowledge about how to treat smokers, and shows us that some of the hurdles may be best address...Award-winning book looks at responsibility for sick babies in hospitals
...mes life-and-death matters with a rotating host of professionals whose expertise is direly needed but whose competency and commitment may vary. The researchers are interested in how social control systems could induce parents to take responsibility and to become better organizational players and advocates for the...Society for the Study of Impotence 2000 Fall Research Meeting In Cleveland September 15-17
...easing so rapidly that it is difficult for medical professionals and the general public to stay informed. It's meetings like this that help everyone stay up-to-date." Some of the new findings that will be presented and discussed during the meeting include: Data on the sexual function of men after a ...Newly revised recommendations affirm medicine
...is treatment has received new emphasis from health professionals in recent years. As America ages, Dr. Temple said people need to be aware of osteoarthritis and the many options for managing its symptoms. There is no known cure for the progressive disease. Kenneth D. Brandt, M.D., Professor of Medicine at the I...NIDA clinical toolbox provides the latest information about drug treatment strategies
...e continued. "This new toolbox provides treatment professionals with a wealth of materials on new and effective approaches to help patients with drug-related problems." Dr. Leshner publicly introduced the toolbox today at Yale University, which is the New England node of NIDA's National Drug Abuse Clinical Trials......about 20 percent of the half-million public health professionals in the U.S. have a formal public health education,.... One area of focus will be training public health professionals to be more culturally attuned to the values, attitudes and beliefs held by poor and minority audienc...Study finds doctors often unaware that hospital patients have urinary catheters
...oors of four teaching hospitals. They surveyed the professionals without warning before morning rounds, giving them a list of the patients in their care and asking which ones had catheters the previous day, and why. The authors then checked the patients to see if they actually had catheters the previous day and wh...