Medical research may be damaged by court ruling on anonymised patient data
...nts may be seriously handicapped by a recent court ruling which intimates that the use of anonymised patient data may constitute a breach of confidentiality, write several leading epidemiologists in a joint letter in this week's BMJ. Led by Lord Walton of Detchant, the authors write that research using pa...Public schools may face shortage of speech-language pathologists
...red prior to 1981 acquire a masters by 2005. "This ruling could potentially have a large impact on the services speech-language pathologists provide to the growing number of students with speech and language disorders in the schools," Fraher said. "In the past 10 years, the number of students with autism ha...Strong relationship between peasant farmers and city-dwellers in Zimbabwe
...ith each other. The sociologist suspects that the ruling party is making an issue of the inequalities in land ownership in order to draw attention away from the economic crisis that the country has fallen into. The government has failed, by means of industrialisation, to bring a halt to the rising unemploy...Researchers seek genetic clues to identify addicts and patients who will benefit from treatment
...ot have prompted a change in the medical examiners ruling on cause of death. Nevertheless, the authors say that their study is an important first step in the effort to link genotyping with individuals responses to treatment therapies such as methadone, and that establishing this relationship will have a gre...New device finds silent clots, may help prevent strokes
...iying 100 percent of solid and gaseous objects and ruling out 99.3 percent (596 of 600) of artificially generated clots in a laboratory study. In patients, the device identified 98.6 percent (546 of 554) of the gas and solid objects, and it correctly ruled out 98.9 percent (791 of 800) of artificially gene...Bridge Medical white paper examines evidence of barcoding success in medical error prevention
...dingstandard, and the announcement of a future FDA ruling mandatingmanufacturer-applied barcodes testify to BPOC systems' coming of age.Its effective use can save lives and dollars while increasing overallstaff efficiency." In addition to describing how BPOC systems can be used to preventmedication administ...Evidence supports two types of heart failure
... For the research study, the diagnosis was made by ruling out the other medical conditions that could cause its symptoms. The research was supported by the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health. Investigators at the Department of Health and Exercise Sciences at Wake Forest ...Screening for depression at primary level could be next trend in healthcare
...g measure, Meagher notes, is extremely accurate in ruling out the presence of major depression or panic disorder for those that screen negative. Because psychologically distressed patients do not typically report their psychological problems, Meagher says it is necessary for a physician to take the initiati...HIV treatment as a human right - learning from Thailand's experience
...red by them and can challenge their legality. This ruling had great international implications for health and human rights, confirming that patients-whose health and lives can depend on being able to afford a medicine-can be considered as damaged parties and therefore have legal standing to sue. Nathan For...C-reactive proteins do not predict early osteoarthritis
...erse sample of patients with osteoarthritis. After ruling out patients with other disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis, Kraus had a sample of 670 patients. The sample was 49 percent African-American, 41.5 percent male, with an average age of 62. Unlike previous studies, Kraus included BMI as one of the pa...Study: Height loss screen ultimately could reduce hip fractures
...lationship between height loss and osteoporosis by ruling out other factors that might affect this relationship," Kantor said. "The clear relationship we found implies that a simple evaluation of height can help physicians in an outpatient setting decide whether a patient should undergo a bone density scan....MRI 'highly useful' in the evaluation of patients with uterine fibroids
...n evaluating patients with uterine fibroids, often ruling out as a treatment option uterine artery embolization (UAE), which blocks the flow of blood to the tumors, says a new study by researchers from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, IL. In the study, 100 women referred f...ESC highlights need for screening and global risk management as statins move over the counter in UK
...this can be achieved. The ESC acknowledges the UK ruling as placing cardiovascular disease prevention high on the healthcare agenda. This should be coupled with increased emphases on lifestyle factor improvements, healthy living campaigns and specific targets for individuals to strive for". Professor Bass...GMC is right to appeal over life prolonging treatment
...r doctors, is right to appeal against a high court ruling that its current guidance on withholding and withd...ted them in advance. "If it is not overturned, the ruling will delight vitalists, he says. "The rest of us patients, doctors, and society in general should ...Magnetic resonance imaging helps detect breast cancer but does not eliminate need for biopsy
...s good at finding cancer, it was less effective in ruling out malignancies, Bluemke says. "People who have an abnormal mammogram need to have biopsies of suspicious lesions," he says. "While MRI aids in determining the extent of the cancer, it is not a substitute for breast biopsy. Importantly, however, th...January/February Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
... symptoms of depression and arrive at a diagnosis ruling out, opening the door and recognizing the person. The authors explain that how these processes are used and the speed with which clinicians sort through the symptoms are influenced by three factors their familiarity with the patient, their clinical ...New stroke-prevention drug unlikely to be cost-effective except in patients at high risk of bleeding
...eve AstraZeneca may soon appeal the FDA's original ruling and again seek approval for the drug in the U.S....