The Visible Humans: Coming Of Age
... receive IV therapy. Both procedures can result in undue patient harm if performed with a lack of skill, yet there has been no satisfactory alternative to practice on people. "The simulator brings the Visible Human back to life--he breathes, his heart beats, he even coughs," said Greg Merril, HT Medical Pr...UW-Madison Center One Of Two Sites Nationwide Selected For Clinical Trial Of Cancer Drug
...ver the maximum dose patients can tolerate without undue toxicity.Initially, three to six patients will receive small doses of the drug and willbe carefully monitored for toxic effects. Additional patients will then receivegraduated doses of the drug. All patients will be carefully monitored through avarie...Hypnosis helps patients control stress and anxiety, UF researchers say
...r them to absorb or comprehend. This can result in undue apprehension that can create complications or prolonged recovery." A common technique to teach people to enter hypnosis is visual imagery, where hypnotic suggestion helps patients to imagine they are someplace else, Schauble said. For example, a pat...Mayo Clinic discovers cause of a frequently fatal myasthenic syndrome affecting children
...breathe or swallow. Episodes are often preceded by undue exertion, fever or excitement but also can occur spontaneously or during the night. As children grow older, the episodes become less frequent and milder, and are rarely fatal after age 15. The condition is hereditary and more than one child in a fami......sed to anthrax, and it will more quickly alleviate undue anxiety for people who havent been exposed," says Dr. Cockerill. The Mayo Clinic team led by Dr. Cockerill developed the test using Roche's LightCycler instrument for polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based assays. To make the test widely available, R...New breast cancer therapy trials show dramatic results
...cer cells without poisoning the patient or causing undue side effects. The current study, and subsequent trials utilizing the new "melting" liposome, is designed to circumvent these problems, Dewhirst said. So far, patients generally have experienced less nausea, fatigue and cardiac toxicity than with tr...Research presentations at scientific meetings often receive unwarranted media coverage
...ccepted. As a consequence, patients may experience undue hope or anxiety or may seek unproved, useless, or even dangerous tests and treatments," they add. "In the 3 to 3.5 years after the meetings, 50 percent of the 147 abstracts were published in the high-impact journals, while 25 percent were published i...Lung cancer screening trial compares CT and standard x-ray
...not harmful. These tests have been known to cause undue anxiety for patients and may sometimes lead to biopsies or surgeries. "Still, in some screening cases, true cancers have been detected, many of which are in an early stage," Dr. Vydareny says. "If there are positive findings, we will contact parti...Review of preliminary observations concludes the Mayo Clinic Natl Conf on Medicine and the Media
...ports and formal guidelines for conduct may lessen undue influence. Public health officials have a responsibility to be accessible and to provide information that is both truthful and accurate. Good medical reporting includes an explanation of why one study has more validity than others. Reporting the fai...Cancer survival rates higher than previously assumed
...help to prevent clinicians and their patients from undue discouragement or depression by outdated and often overly pessimistic survival expectations. Timely detection of improvements in long-term survival rates also adds to the value of cancer surveillance as a basis for appropriate public-health decisions...Outpatient setting very safe for skin cancer surgery
...rgery on an outpatient basis does not represent an undue risk. Mohs surgery, also known as microscopically controlled surgery, was developed by Frederic Mohs, M.D. for the treatment of certain skin cancers. Performed under local anesthesia, the technique combines surgical removal of the skin cancer with im...Physician organizations urge Secretary Thompson to defend NIH review process
...tigations. "Both IDSA and HIVMA are concerned that undue ideological influence might jeopardize the scientific review process and, in fact, might result in public policy that runs counter to scientific evidence and the best available medical practices," said Joseph Dalovisio, MD, IDSA President. IDSA and H...One in four patients at risk if surgery delayed after failed angioplasty
...ve ready access to heart surgery place patients at undue risk, should something go wrong during the artery-opening procedure. Current guidelines of the AHA and American College of Cardiology state that institutions without surgical capability need to have a system in place to get patients to an operating r...Injury from epileptic seizures relatively rare, Mayo Clinic study find
...an worsen seizure recurrence (e.g., lack of sleep, undue stress and fatigue, excessive alcohol consumption, use of recreational drugs), 5) try to stay physically fit and conditioned and 6) have an appropriate companion or supervision for activities that may pose high risk of serious injury if a seizure occ...Study reports women don't experience undue pain, anxiety during mammography screening
...eason being that none of the three groups reported undue distress, according to Domar. "Virtually none of the participants experienced pain or anxiety," she says. "We were quite surprised at the outcome." Based on these results, the investigators plan to design a similar study to be tested on a more distre...