CT helps find cause of puzzling cough in WTC rescue workers
...y complaints could not be clearly characterized by routine pulmonary function tests were evaluated with standard CT and end-expiratory CT. The end-expiratory CT revealed abnormalities not detected on the standard CT. These patients had been referred by the WTC Health Effects Treatment Program, a dedicated...ESA at the world's largest medical exhibition
...tions with the ultimate objective of making this a routine medical procedure. At MEDICA 2004, ESA will inform companies about achievements and perspectives in the fields of eHealth and telemedicine. ESA at MEDICA 2004 The 36 International Exhibition MEDICA 2004 will take place in Me...Study examines nature and prevalence of errors in patient care
...allenging. Procedural errors, such as omitting a routine task or making charting and transcription errors often arise from garbled communication within the immediate work area. While it might be impossible to avoid all distractions, the use of technology such as bar code medication administration systems ...Computerized orders effective in increasing administration of influenza and pneumococcal vaccines
... to physicians that included vaccine orders during routine order entry sessions. During the approximately 6 months of the influenza season, 50 percent of all hospitalized patients were identified as eligible for influenza vaccination. Twenty-two percent of patients hospitalized during the entire 14 months of...Pediatricians wary about recommending complementary therapies
...rescription and nonprescription medications during routine office visits, but substantially fewer reported re...ere seeking information about CAM therapies during routine visits, Kemper said. The survey showed that 87 percent of patients had asked their pediatrician abou...Chemoprevention backgrounder: Working for a future of cancer chemoprevention
...goal to be reached in the future. By all accounts, routine use of such agents won't be here for a long time because much more needs to be understood about the changes that push a cell to become cancerous before that process can be stalled or reversed. Still, more and more of the research effort at The Univer...New study shows patients experience asthma variability, despite strict adherence to guidelines
...more "sick visits," measured by unscheduled routine follow-up visits to primary care physicians, asthma clinics or urgent care facilities than those in the low variability group.(1) Hospitalization, emergency room visits and clinic visit costs for treating asthma of high va...Morphine for chest pain increases death risk
...sis raise serious concerns about the safety of the routine use of morphine in this group of heart patients," said Duke cardiologist Trip Meine, M.D., who presented the results of the Duke analysis Nov. 10, 2004, at the American Heart Association's (AHA) annual scientific sessions in New Orleans. "Since rando...Rare heart problem decreases in clot-busting era
...are at increased risk for tamponade should undergo routine cardiac ultrasound to detect any signs of fluid accumulation in the pericardium. To help physicians, Patel is developing a "nomogram," or health care flow chart, in which physicians taking care of heart attack patients can enter different patient cha...'Outgrown' a peanut allergy? Eat more peanuts!
...reactions can be reversed with prompt treatment of routine medications, such as short-acting antihistamines. Therefore, researchers say the risk of a reaction is warranted as long as the challenge is performed under the supervision of an experienced clinician. They also report that no foods were more or less...Regular family meals promote healthy eating habits
...OLIS / ST. PAUL (Nov. 9, 2004)-- It's not only the routine of sitting down to dinner as a family, but the importance, structure, and atmosphere of family meals that may help steer adolescent girls from eating disorders. University of Minnesota researchers found that girls who ate regular family meals in a s...No justification for colposcopy in screening of young women for cervical cancer
...y no role for colposcopy in adolescents as part of routine management."...Pediatricians often underestimate substance abuse problems in adolescents
... with substance use often aren't identified during routine pediatric visits, according to a study to be relea... than 500 14- to 18-year-old patients arriving for routine health care at Children's Adolescent/Young Adult Medical Clinic and more than 100 of their medical c...'Weekend' use matches daily drops for 'lazy eye'
...and community-based practitioners as part of their routine practice....Improved acute lymphoblastic leukemia treatment offers hope for eliminating irradiation
...permit physicians to omit irradiation as a part of routine treatment. These findings emerged from a clinical trial conducted by investigators at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. For intrathecal chemotherapy the drugs are injected into the cerebrospinal fluid-filled spaces between the thin membranes cov...Breast cancer risk, prognosis and weight gain reduced with physical activity
..., efforts to encourage physical activity are not a routine part of the cancer treatment or rehabilitation process," said principal investigator Melinda L. Irwin, assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale School of Medicine. Irwin added that only 32 percent of breast canc...Screening for virus RNA could increase safety of organ & tissue transplantation
...dy in this week's issue of THE LANCET suggest that routine screening of blood samples to detect viral RNA amo... seronegative HCV RNA-positive donor, suggest that routine NAT screening of organ and tissue donors might increase viral safety in the transplantation setting....Will email consultations improve patient care?
Making email communication part of routine medical practice may have unforseen consequences for the NHS, warns a doctor in a letter to this week's BMJ. Responding to data drawn largely from the United States, showing demand to be mainly patient led, Geoff Wong argues that what Americans want ...'Going through the motions' to better treat dementia
... Even though our movements are so simple and routine that we hardly notice them actions that are numbingly routine are referred to as simply "going through the motions" our everyday movements offer a wealth of info...Combination therapy, not medication alone, most effective for treating children with OCD
...TS treatments are both acceptable and practical in routine clinical practice," the authors write. ...