March/April 2005 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...scopies can be performed safely and competently by properly trained family physicians in the outpatient setting. With the increasing demand for colonoscopy screening outstripping the capacity of gastroenterologists, these findings should encourage more family physicians to seek training in this procedure. Ou...Researchers search for first sign of congestive heart failure
...ls becomes oversized, inflexible and incapable of properly pumping blood to the body. But pumping is not the real, or at least not the first problem, Dr. Kapuku says. Like loosening the belt to eat a big meal, the heart must relax to fill with blood. In fact, the heart is relaxed two-thirds of the time and ...Specific test key to determine whether or not allergy symptoms are really allergy-related
...also requires extensive training and experience to properly interpret the results, which family physicians may not have. "The specific-IgE test requires the time it takes to draw a vial of blood," Szeinbach said. "The results can tell a physician whether or not her patient truly has an allergy. If so, she can...Study shows use of budesonide reduced the risk of asthma related events by 40% in children
... it can be a life-threatening disease if it is not properly managed. According to the American Lung Association, more than 4,200 Americans died from asthma in 2001.2 About AstraZeneca AstraZeneca is a major international healthcare business engaged in the research, development, manufacture and marketing of...Use of inhaled corticosteroid led to fewer hospitalizations for young children with asthma
...gh asthma can be a life-threatening disease if not properly managed, the mild to moderate asthma that most children have can be controlled by treatment at home or in the doctor's office. 4 Common symptoms of childhood asthma include coughing either constant or intermittent; wheezing or a whistling sound audi...Liverpool to lead 20M Department of Health initiative to develop medicines for children
...n have been designed for adults, and have not been properly tested on the young. Health professionals use their skill and judgement when prescribing medicines for children but uncertainty can result in inappropriate dosing or inadequate efficacy. The initiative will take the development of children's medicin...Half-million cosmetic plastic surgery procedures for Hispanics in 2004 - up 49% from 2000
...Why? ASPS Member Surgeons are qualified, trained, properly certified, experienced in your procedure, and only operate in accredited facilities. To ensure plastic surgery procedures are not overstated, the ASPS has refined the methodology for its collection of statistics to offer more accurate, reliable, an...Forensic dentistry key in identifying victims of tsunamis, other disasters
... can be brought to a successful conclusion only if properly planned, involving well-trained key experts and selection of the appropriate forensic diagnostic tools. Today, during the 83rd General Session of the International Association for Dental Research, convening at the Baltimore Convention Center, a sympo...Potential treatment for Fragile X Syndrome demonstrated in fruit fly model
... X syndrome is caused by the FMR1 gene not working properly or at all. This gene encodes the FMRP protein, which controls the availability of select proteins involved in neuron-to-neuron communication. Senior author Thomas A. Jongens, PhD, Associate Professor of Genetics at Penn, and colleagues from Albert E...Fewer false alarms when mammographers have greater experience screening healthy breasts
...owed that the more experienced physicians not only properly identified cancer, they also were 50 percent less likely to falsely characterize a mammogram as abnormal. In addition, the study found dramatic variability in physician accuracy. For example, physicians on average detected 77 percent of cancers, but ...When the brain, not the ears, goes hard of hearing
...h gaps, which are crucial though unconscious for properly hearing consonants and vowels. "To a person with a timing problem, conversation sounds like everything is spoken through a drainpipe," says James Ison, professor of brain and cognitive science. "One sound leads into the next, smearing words together...Lack of specific collagen type leads to osteoarthritis
...ly impacts the ability of the cartilage to respond properly to the mechanical stresses and pressures on the joint." The experiments would not have been possible without the custom-built "microaspirator," which could extract individual, intact chondrons. Other methods of isolating chondrons, which either invol...Immediate access to antibiotics stems spread of sexually transmitted diseases
... do not work well enough, as many patients fail to properly inform their partners, and many partners fail to seek treatment, which leads to re-infection," says lead editorial author and infectious disease specialist Emily Erbelding, M.D., M.P.H., an associate professor at The Johns Hopkins University School o...Guidelines restricting endoscopy referrals put patients at risk
...let, or ulcers. Until the evidence on endoscopy is properly assessed, GPs should continue to refer patients with continued severe indigestion for endoscopy, argue the authors....New protein discovered by Hebrew University researchers
...v, the SP-1 protein serves to assist in creating a properly folded and functioning structure of other proteins within the plants cells. The SP-1 also has the ability to assemble itself into a structure composed of 12 identical units, making it exceptionally resistant to extreme conditions. These qualities are...American Thoracic Society journal news tips for January 2005 (first issue)
...ividual pathophysiologic pathways that ought to be properly identified. Unfortunately, to date, studies on the problem beyond infancy are lacking. The research appears in the first issue for January 2005 of the American Thoracic Society's peer-reviewed American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medic...Mice with depression-like behaviors reveal possible source of human depression
...s, demonstrating an impairment in their ability to properly regulate their stress response. The abnormal regulation of glucocorticoid in the engineered mice indicates that glucocorticoid receptors in the cortex and hippocampus--forebrain regions associated with higher thought, memory and emotion--regulate ad...The human eye cannot spot the offside rule
... a game clearly show that the offside rule was not properly implemented. The relative position of four players and the ball cannot be assessed simultaneously by a referee, and unavoidable errors will be made in the attempt. The use of modern technology during games, such as freeze frame television and frame b...New clue to nerve growth may help regeneration efforts
...y of proteins repels growing nerves and keeps them properly on track during development. The finding, described in the Dec. 16 issue of Neuron , might provide a chance to overcome the proteins' later role in preventing regrowth of injured nerves, the researchers say. The proteins, known as chondroitin sulfat...Scientists align billion-year-old protein with embryonic heart defects
...els. The heart and related vessels did not develop properly in the mice without SRF, the team discovered. In fact, while analyzing the heart cells under a high-powered electron microscope, the lab discovered that normal heart cells (with SRF) contained the expected bundles of healthy fibers. Shaped like ru...