Professionalism and professional ethics in medicine
...dures. Nearly half of the respondents had heard of this type of financial incentive and nearly all, 94.8 p...a small part in clinical decision making. Bridging this gap could be an important step in fostering fair allocation of resources in difficult cases." (Arch ...Economist: Cuba's state-run baseball doesn't go to bat for players
...l leagues that are keen to hire Cuban talent. "In this sense," she said, "many Cuban players can be thought of as exploited by their government." The clampdown on foreign contracts led, of course, to a new round of defections, most recently that of outfielder Kendry Morales, whose six-year deal with the...Raw food vegetarians have low bone mass
... legumes, dressed with olive oil. They had been on this diet for an average of 3.6 years. The researchers ... clinical measurements would indicate that many in this group have osteoporosis or less severe bone loss called osteopenia. But with low levels of inflammat...Organizational traits associated with quality patient care are essential to home care nursing
...48 states and 320 New Zealand district nurses. For this study, respondents were not asked to indicate the ...urses. "Further research is needed to determine if this set of organizational attributes are not only important to home care and district nurses, but also ...Fat may promote inflammation, new study suggests
...ese and had waists larger than 35 inches. Women in this age group are at increased risk for metabolic synd...ctivity can reduce inflammation, but don't know if this happens because the production of inflammatory proteins by fat tissue is reduced. "We need to unders...Acupuncture found to lower elevations in blood pressure
...ific basis for using acupuncture, and we hope that this research ultimately will lead to the integration o... sites on the wrist, inside of the forearm or leg, this triggers the release of opioid chemicals in the brain that reduce excitatory responses in the cardio...Bullying among sixth graders a daily occurrence, UCLA study finds
...of education, and Juvonen are in the fifth year of this research. "Now we have evidence that the school environment, psychological health, physical health and school achievement are all interrelated," Juvonen said. Many children are reluctant to discuss bullying incidents, and may visit the school nurse ......symptomatic elevation of aminotransferases, though this occurs in fewer than three percent of statin users. Notably, this outcome has also occurred with similar frequency in placebo-treated patients in clinical trials. Thi...Novel therapy tested in mice could chase away cat allergies
..., these results provide proof-of-concept for using this approach to develop therapies to prevent deadly fo... used in humans. He also is interested in applying this approach to develop a preventive treatment for serious food allergies. NIAID is a component of the N...Hepatitis C and health-related quality of life
...e (HRQOL), although treatment success can mitigate this negative effect. These are among the findings of a systematic review of relevant literature published in the April 2005 issue of Hepatology, the official journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD). Published by John W...Optical technique identifies vulnerable plaques in cardiac patients
...hnology developed in their laboratory was used for this first study to examine the structure of plaques in patients with cardiac disease. The study enrolled patients scheduled to undergo cardiac catheterization for whom angiograms or other imaging techniques had identified the arterial lesion responsible...Some brain cells 'change channels' to fine-tune the message
...n Lou Gehrig's disease. "We don't know yet whether this happens in muscle-controlling nerve cells, but we'..., but calcium is kept out. To learn more about how this takes place, the Hopkins researchers studied brain cells from genetically engineered mice. Through t...Researchers search for first sign of congestive heart failure
...l with blood, researchers says. If they are right, this may be one of the earliest changes that eventually...g we will be able to identify factors that trigger this diastolic dysfunction." Systolic function is the heart contracting and pumping blood to the body; di...Hopkins begins human trials with donor adult stem cells to repair muscle damaged from heart attack
...em cell, was separated from other kinds for use in this study. While their precise biological action is n...bryonic stem cells, the use of adult stem cells in this study shows their tremendous potential in developing effective therapies for heart disease, and avoi...Hospital acquired infections present major problem for infants in developing countries
...n in industrialised countries, reveals a review in this week's issue of THE LANCET. Neonatal deaths accoun...y recommended by the World Health Organisation for this purpose. The high proportion of the meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains in man...Vaccine against childhood pneumonia shows promise
...veloping countries, concludes a trial published in this week's issue of THE LANCET. The authors believe th...e b vaccine as a control (8719), or three doses of this tetravalent vaccine mixed with a nine-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (8718), with intervals o...Benefits of lung cancer screening with CT questioned
...nce when comparing mortality rates demonstrated by this study to those of the Mayo Lung Project, a lung cancer screening trial conducted in the 1970s using chest radiography, lending support to their suggestion that while CT helps radiologists find more early-stage cancers, many of these are slow-growing ...New estimates for the causes of child deaths worldwide
...f the causes of child deaths to date, published in this week's issue of THE LANCET, reveal that worldwide more than 70% of the 10.6 million child deaths that occur annually are attributable to six causes: pneumonia (19%), diarrhoea (18%), malaria (8%), neonatal sepsis or pneumonia (10%), preterm delivery ...US attempting to flout ethical practice for patient trials abroad
... for studies conducted abroad, states a comment in this week's issue of THE LANCET. The 2000 Declaration o...nd the (land) Mine Ban Treaty. For the first time, this attitude would now apply to research ethics. Dr Lurie concludes: "The Declaration of Helsinki is the...... quality of patient care, warns a senior doctor in this week's BMJ. Craig Gannon, a consultant in palliati... they tell us?" asks Fiona Godlee, BMJ Editor. "If this is, as Gannon implies, a result of recent reforms, what can we expect from the next phase of the gov...