Emory Doctors Discuss "Killing Heat" In This Week's NEJM
...idates for the shelter are actively sought out by visiting nurses, 'Meals-on-Wheels' and other service providers. Letter carriers play an important role by hand-delivering the mail to elderly customers on their route." Dr. Kellermann is director of the Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Sur...Dermatologists Recommend Raising Age for Insurance Coverage for Acne Drugs to Age 40 -- or Beyond
...the ages of people who received prescriptionsafter visiting the doctor because of wrinkles or other sun-induced skin damage. "We found that even among people age 33, 75 percent of tretinoinprescriptions were for acne," Feldman said. "And at age 40, 63 percent of theprescriptions still were for acne. P...... MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences; visiting MITscientist Dr. Ismail H. Ulus, professor of pharmacology at the University ofUludag in Bursa, Turkey; and Dr. Richard J. Wurtman, C. H. Green DistinguishedProfessor at MIT in Cambridge, Mass., and director of MIT's Clinical ResearchCenter. ...A Trip To The Dentist Could Cause Symptoms In Asthmatic Kids
...ma developed some symptoms within 30 minutes after visiting their dentists. And about 15 percent of the kids had a clinically significant decrease in lung function. “Dental treatment is not a benign experience for some children with asthma,” said Paul Casamassimo, co-author of the ...MIT Microchip Releases Chemicals On Demand
..., Cima,Langer, and Achim M. Göpferich, an MIT visiting scientist during the earlystages of the project now at the Lehrstuhl Für Pharmazeutische TechnologieUniversität Erlangen-Nürnberg, were granted a broad United States patentcovering the microchip technology on August 25, 1998.) There ar...Campaign Targets Oral Complications Of Cancer Treatment
Most cancer patients don't know that visiting a dentist can make a difference in their cancer treatment. A new health awareness campaign from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) explains how proper oral care can prevent or minimize painful complications in the mou....... Certification informationmay also be obtained by visiting their website at www.certifieddoctor.org, or bylooking up the "Directory of Medical Specialists," at your local library. Thisreference has professional and biographic information on nearly 400,000practicing physicians. The American Medical Associati...Management Academy To Boost Training For Local, State Public Health Departments
...the contaminated food product. A low-income mother visiting a public health clinic in Georgia could ensurethat her 2-year-old son receives his scheduled vaccinations and developmentalscreening services in one visit through improved office procedures. The mothermisses less work, avoids transportation costs for...Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Nursing Administrator Receives Nursing Excellence Award
...istrative role, Dr. Burnes Bolton makes a point of visiting patients daily to obtain feedback from patients and nurses on the quality ofcare provided in the organization. We work to assure that staff have what theyneed to provide quality care. It is the bedside nurse in collaboration withother members of the...New Three Year Follow-up Data Of Novantrone In Multiple Sclerosis
...ANTRONE can be obtained bycalling 1-800-IMMUNEX or visiting www.immunex.com. Immunex holds the marketing rights for NOVANTRONE in the United States. Wyeth-Ayerst International, which is a division of American Home Products,markets NOVANTRONE outside the United States....USC Historian Sifts World's Oldest Printed Medical Books For Clues To Riddle Of Gender
...arned about this huge body of material in1982 as a visiting Fulbright professor at Beijing University. Following the 1949revolution, the Chinese government had made an energetic effort to find,preserve and catalog early writings on medicine, regarding the tradition as anational treasure. But the Cold War had ...UCSF-Harvard Team Reports Encouraging Results In Drug Study Of Mice With Cancer
...eadauthor of the study, Gabriele Bergers, Ph.D., a visiting postdoctoral fellow inthe Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, and the Hormone ResearchInstitute at UC San Francisco, "the strategy will be to determine whichanti-angiogenesis compounds are most effective at which stage of cancer in mousemodels...Major Causes Of Early Childhood Death From Injury Identified
...gies as theuse of car safety seats for infants and visiting home nurse programs for young,unmarried mothers. She pointed out, however, that there is also a need todevelop specific intervention strategies for children at particularly high riskof death. "Our study identified groups of infants at increa...Heart Drug Finds New Use In Patients With Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome
...t Case Western Reserve University;Yanfei Yang, MD, visiting scientist from Beijing, China; Nancy Chiesa, RN, UCSFpediatric EP nurse; George Van Hare, MD, director of the pediatric arrhythmiacenters at Lucile Packard Children's Health Services at UCSF Stanford HealthCare; and Edmund Keung, MD, director of the ...Study Suggests Inflammation Signs Can Show Who Will Develop Diabetes
... Sul in Brazil, whoparticipated in the study while visiting professors at UNC-CH, Dr. StevenOffenbacher of the UNC-CH School of Dentistry and Dr. Gerardo Heiss of theUNC-CH School of Public Health. "Inflammation's role in the development of heart disease has beeninvestigated extensively," Schmidt said...NOVANTRONE application for multiple sclerosis granted priority review by FDA
...ANTRONE can be obtained bycalling 1-800-IMMUNEX or visiting www.immunex.com ....Many Virginians would increase taxes for K-12 education, study finds
...imary care physician before seeing a specialist or visiting ahospital. Of that number, one-third are "satisfie...hysician in the last year, with more women thanmen visiting a doctor, as is also true nationally. 86 percent are satisfied with the quality of their present me...Mitral valve repair at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center gets Los Angeles dentist on the road to recovery
...Dr. Bredberg experienced an alarming episode while visiting in Santa Fe that determined the need for more aggressive treatment. "I could tell that my heart was beating irregularly, and I called the paramedics," he remembered. " I was experiencing atrial fibrillation, and a defibrillator was used. I was then p...Doctors are not good at going to see their own doctor!
...igh levels of psychosocial problems among doctors, visiting their GP or local occupational health service may not be perceived by doctor patients as the appropriate confidential setting for consultation. Forsythe et al conclude that there is a need for the provision of a dedicated general practitioner servi......arov and Elena Komarova of UIC; Roman Kondratov, a visiting scholar at UIC;Konstantin Christov-Tselkov, a research assistant professor in surgical oncologyat UIC; John Coon, a pathology professor at Rush-Presbyterian St. Luke's MedicalCenter; and Mikhail Chernov of the Cleveland Clinic. Funding was provided b...