Annals of Internal Medicine, tip sheet, September 7, 2004
... by the other. An editorial writer identifies four questions raised by the evolving technology of virtual colonoscopy (Editorial, p. 401). Until these are resolved, he says, virtual colonoscopy is not ready for "widespread use as a screening test or as a test to monitor polyp growth." West Nile Fever Causes ...Cancer burden seen even many years after diagnosis
...iew Survey, an annual survey that asks respondents questions about their lives and health. The researchers analyzed responses from more than 1,800 cancer survivors and nearly 5,500 control subjects who were matched for age, sex, and level of education. Cancer survivors had a lower quality of life, more lost p...Minorities worry public health system won't respond fairly in a bioterrorist event
...ample of 1,041 participants answered 12 additional questions about terrorism. According to the paper, public health officials can alleviate this perceived unfairness to minority groups by including their representatives in bioterrorism-response planning, and urging community participation during the response. ...Drug to fight virus in transplant patients moves forward in trials
...outside their discipline to find new approaches to questions bigger than any one way of answering them....UW to lead most comprehensive study of air pollution and cardiovascular disease
...iovascular disease. "We're going to be looking at questions vital to our understanding of thehealth effects of...tion for cleaner air. But some people have raised questions about whether the existing studies really form a strong enough scientific basis to be regulating aga...Getting relief from pain can be shocking
...tment Center and Advanced Bionics Corporation. For questions and interviews, please e-mail Dr. Oakley at JoShir@aol.com or call 406-238-6650....Childbirth and disasters discussed in July/Aug issue of Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health
...ave since been retracted, numerous First Amendment questions remain, which prompted the presentation of the WAME principles in March 2004. (Learn more online at http://wame.org/wamestmt.htm .)] (Citation: McCool, W. "Publication of Science, Terror and the First Amendment." [Editorial] JMWH 2004; 49:281.) O...Register early for the AIUM regional course, Sonography: A Broad Sweep, and Save
...ch will provide answers to the most commonly asked questions about the accreditation process, allows attendees the opportunity to earn 3 CME credits. ...Will the insured sacrifice to help cover the uninsured? New study suggests yes
ANN ARBOR, Mich. One of the biggest questions facing Americans as the 2004 elections approach involves a tradeoff: Will those who currently have health insurance be willing to sacrifice in order to insure the 44 million people who don't? The answer may turn out to be yes, according to the result...AIDS toll in African heartland isn't always what people think
..., Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda and Zambia to include questions about which, if any, family members have died, their age, their gender, and their place in the household. "We're finding that counter to conventional wisdom, there aren't as many households completely disappearing," Weber said. "The number of orphans...Status syndrome: How your social standing directly affects your health and life expectancy
...lower down the hierarchy they go. Some of the key questions raised within "Status Syndrome" include: Why are...e level of happiness. Michael Marmot answers these questions and more in an agenda-setting book with huge implications for social and health-care policy and the ...Researchers find strong familial tendency in rare form of lymphoma
...disease. It has also raised some very interesting questions from our patients who now want to know about the appropriateness of testing their family members for Waldenstrom's."...More than one-third of US adults use complementary and alternative medicine
... for Health Statistics (NCHS), the survey included questions on 27 types of CAM therapies commonly used in the United States. These included 10 types of provider-based therapies, such as acupuncture and chiropractic, and 17 other therapies that do not require a provider, such as natural products (herbs or bot...Faith in child protection system must be restored
... are now recognised. Yet recent events have raised questions about the diagnosis of the syndrome and have prompted some soul searching about the ways professionals respond to the unexpected death of an infant. A non-adversarial approach needs to be introduced to deal with sudden infant deaths, say the authors....Guideline evaluates treatment of infantile spasms
...id. "More research is needed to answer many of our questions about the treatment of this disorder." The guideline determined that adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) is probably effective for the short-term treatment of infantile spasms. However, the guideline states that there is not enough evidence available ...Older patients less likely to receive care in the ICU
...seriously ill and to think hard about these tough questions themselves. Otherwise, you'll be making your family members and physicians guess what you would want, and they may guess wrong."...Delay in transfer to the ICU increases risk of death
...e bedside to re-evaluate patients." Other related questions need further study, Dr. Young noted, such as, "Do treatments and outcomes differ for hospitalized patients who becomes sicker at night and on weekends versus during the day Monday through Friday? What is optimal frequency of vital signs? And does the...New research shows reasons for smoking vary
...trated primarily on physical dependence, including questions about number of cigarettes smoked, smoking upon wa...complete picture of smokers by rating responses to questions in 13 areas, including emotional attachment to smoking (cigarettes are my best friends), response to...Parent, guardian job loss may boost smoking among adolescent family members
...ted psychosocial and cultural variables, including questions about lifetime smoking (Did the student ever try s...ntire 12-month period. Additionally, the job loss questions asked about "any adult in your family" rather than "parents" to accommodate students whose primary c...Diabetes drug improves metabolic changes associated with HIV combination therapy
...," says Hadigan. "However there are still a lot of questions to be answered about safety before these results can be widely applied. For example, those taking rosiglitazone had increases in both total and LDL cholesterol, but there were changes in other metabolic markers which might protect against cardiovasc...