'Mutual Insurance Pool' Could Improve Transplant Organ Shortage
...an old tradition," notes Vining. "Ithas a long and respected lineage, which should help to support the social andpolitical acceptability of this idea." According to the proposal, an individual would receive priority for atransplant upon agreeing that his or her organs will be available to othermembers ...Ablatherm: An Ultrasound Device For Prostate Cancer Therapy
...e and ensures that neighboring healthy tissues are respected (noenergy is delivered to non target tissues). Ablatherm is already being tested in the clinical setting. Preliminary treatmentresults for 50 patients have just been published. The trial, authorized by theLyon Ethics Committee in 1992, involved patie.......Under the direction of Dr. Platt, one of the most respected authorities onultrasonography and president-elect of the American Institute of Ultrasound inMedicine, Cedars-Sinai's center offers the latest in both standard and 3-Dultrasound equipment. In fact, Dr. Platt and his associates work withmanufacturers t...Controversy Over The Effects Of Passive Smoking
...e topassive smoking. So why was Bailar, a respected expert on the analysis of medicalstudies, so sceptical? A back-of-the-envelope calculation explains his concern. People whosmoke 20 cigarettes a day face a 75 to 80 per cent higher risk of developingheart disease than nonsmokers, and studies......y at Cedars-SinaiMedical Center -- one of the most respected heart programs in the nation -- saysthe results provide intriguing observations that, if confirmed by subsequentstudies, may lead to a re-examination of paramedic transport policies.Presently, because emergency intervention needs to be started quickl......rating one of the country'slargest and most highly respected pituitary programs, and Pituitary Centerpatients w...believed that byeffectively integrating two highly respected programs - neuroendocrinology andskull base surgery - both of which already enjoy superior outcomes,...Renowned researcher in prenatal diagnostics joins Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
...trasound in Medicine and is one of theworld's most respected authorities on ultrasound and the development ofthree-dimensional ultrasound imaging. The BUN study screens women for several factors that together appear to indicatewhether a fetus is at high risk for a chromosomal abnormality, particularly Downsynd...Research shows low lead in body can cause spontaneous abortion
... telephone calls during their pregnancies.Mexico's respected National Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery, whichparticipates in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Blood LeadProficiency Testing Program, analyzed the blood samples for lead. AnotherMexican laboratory conducted analyses for si...Iowa project links rural areas cross-state to top-notch medical advice
...amuel was seen by Dr. [David] Wacker [a nationally respected expert on developmental disabilities] at the University, he had many aggressive problems and now he is improving." "Access to specialty care is a major challenge in a rural state like Iowa," notes Michael G. Kienzle, MD, principal investigator. "Thi......y of one of the speediest learners in the study, a respected community hospital performing 1,200 cardiac operations a year. At this hospital, the surgeon who adopted the procedure for the hospital handpicked the team based on their prior experience working together and their demonstrated ability to work as a g...Honing the tools to identify clues to surviving cancer
...y-five years of experience with theinternationally respected Regenstrief Medical Records System. RMRS is adatabase with over 300 million laboratory results, radiology and pathologyreports, diagnostic studies, operative notes and discharge summaries. SPINwill also draw upon expertise gained from Indianapolis ...Buck researcher awarded Brookdale Fellowship
...rookdale Foundation invites applications only from respected institutions with departments devoted to age-related research. This year, nearly 80 organizations, mostly universities and medical schools, were asked to compete. It was the second year the Buck Institute was invited to apply. The aim of the Brookdal......include: five reviews, written by some of the most respected names in neurology; personal views from neurologists around the world; news stories; commissioned commentaries; case reports; forums; grand rounds; book, web, film, and art reviews; and a thought-provoking last page written by John McCrone, a journal...Nation's leading hospitals serving up fast food
...hospitals and the medical profession are to remain respected leaders in health promotion, we should re-visit the idea of serving fast food in the very place that we care for our most seriously ill." The fast food debate echoes another recent issue that faced hospitals, says senior author Sanjay Saint, M.D., a...What is the best way to fund the NHS?
...y the authors. Professional autonomy is more fully respected under a social insurance scheme, while funding health care from general taxes has proved to be an ineffective way of bringing the expectations of patients into balance with the treatment capacity of the system. To demonstrate their point, the authors...Bad role models lead junior doctors to regret choice of career
...are. In these cases the house officers admired and respected their consultants, they were likely to feel happy in their choice of medicine as a career and to believe they would make good doctors. Over 20 per cent of house officers described a consultant behaving badly towards them by making unreasonable deman...Nuclear Cardiac Imaging: Society of Nuclear Medicine publishes new book
...tions as well. Both Crawford and Husain are highly respected among their peers in the field of nuclear medicine and nuclear cardiac imaging. Syed Sajid Husain is the current Director of Nuclear Cardiology for the Buffalo Heart Group, Buffalo, NY. Elpida S. Crawford, MS, CNMT is the Director of the Nuclear Medi...Scientist gets award for sending people to sleep
...fessor Maze comments: "The ASA is the most highly respected body in our clinical discipline in the world and I am greatly honoured to receive their premier research award. I accept this award on behalf of all the exceptional mentors, collaborators and students with whom I have had the pleasure to work. It is ...Acclaimed Carnegie Mellon psychologist honored for groundbreaking research
... one of the architects of Carnegie Mellon's highly respected health psychology program, and has helped turn Pittsburgh into the world's leading center of health psychology research. He is internationally recognized for his trailblazing scientific contributions toward understanding the effects of social and env......reement brings to Bahrain Joslin Diabetes Center's respected disease management programs designed to help prevent complications. The Joslin Diabetes Center Affiliate Bahrain will leverage telemedicine technology that enables Joslin specialists in Boston to assess images of the retina using the Joslin Vision ...