The Health Consequences Of Nuclear Arms Trade In The Subcontinent Should Not Be Overlooked
...g of the nuclear arms race in the subcontinent and writes that "...the enormous costs of nuclear weapons must be weighed against the abysmal state of human development and health in south Asia." He notes that the region boasts over half of all the malnourished children in the world and with high infant mor...Education Linked To Good Health Habits, Even In Old Age
...where theseeffects are evident even in late life," writes Laura D. Kubzansky, PhD, and hercolleagues in the September-October issue of Psychosomatic Medicine. "Theseimportant findings link education, which is generally defined in youngadulthood, to a series of experiences in late adulthood linked more proxi...Dobson Must Quit Denial Of Rationing
...word from ministerial vocabulary. Professor Klein writes that once the inevitability of rationing is finally accepted "we can get down to the serious business of discussing how to devise the appropriate mechanisms... involved". The author proposes that a National Council for Health Care Priorities would ...Now Is Time To Design Brain-Saving Drugs Specifically For Children, UCSF Neurologist Says
...e that children got their own treatments, Ferriero writes in aneditorial in the December 1998 issue of Current Opinion in Pediatrics. She saysthat scientists now have enough information about young children's developingbrains to start looking for appropriate therapies specifically targeted atchildhood neur...Public And Private Healthcare Must Pool Resources To Beat Cancer
...ol their resources to establish a UK Cancer Centre writes Professor Karol Sikora in this week's BMJ. The author, who heads up the WHO Cancer Programme, suggests that by setting up such a centre in London, such an initiative could pull together the efforts of the Institute of Cancer Research, the Royal Mars...Nicotine Patches Are Cheaper Than Smoking!
...erapies are prohibitively expensive are unfounded, writes Dr Robert Bunney in this week's BMJ. A general practitioner from Barnstaple in Devon, Dr Bunney calculates that a typical eight week course of patches, purchased from a pharmacy would cost 17 per week, saving smokers of 20 cigarettes a day around 2...Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitors May Be Another Piece In Alzheimer's Jigsaw
...r from the University of Wales College of Medicine writes that the research by Rsler et al provides another piece in the Alzheimer's jigsaw, but also reports some of the shortcomings of their study. Bayer says that the patients who participated in the trial were not typical of those generally seen by psych...Analyze This: New Book Examines Shrinks On Screen
... have had to invent it -- and ina sense they did," writes Irving Schneider, M.D. in the book's foreword."Psychiatry and the Cinema tells the story of how the movie industry took theprofession of psychiatry and transformed it into a hybrid that joined thefantasies of the public with its own quest for profit....USC Historian Sifts World's Oldest Printed Medical Books For Clues To Riddle Of Gender
...llow Emperor's body has no sex, onlygender." Furth writes that "rather than labeling a gender which is defined on othergrounds, yin and yang are the foundation on which the language of gender rests." That foundation, Furth argues, was based on cosmology that linked humanreproduction and the creative powers ...New Book Looks At Those Who Examine Our Sex Lives
...reveal it have both great power and great limits," writes Ericksen, an associateprofessor of sociology at Temple University. "By revealing the private behaviorof others, they provide a way for people to evaluate their own behavior and eventhe meaning of information the surveys produce. And they provide ex......Conor from the Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield, writes that the proposed approach to restricting access to electronic patient records may be overly restrictive. He argues that it may deny clinicians the ability to share data, which he says is a missed opportunity, especially when it is perfectly feasibl...GPs Of The Future Will Be Information Specialists
...ntial doctors at the whole of healthcare practice" writes Dr Toby Lipman in this week's BMJ. Commenting on ...ner in the future will become redundant, Dr Lipman writes that "...the exponential growth of information and technical capability will need expert management"...E-mail Is A Powerful Tool In Doctor-Patient Relationship
...o patients and healthcare professionals via email, writes Dr Badal Pal in a personal view in this week's BMJ. Dr Pal says that with email, doctors can provide followup and continuity of care which is unavailable through other means. "They can clarify advice previously given and point patients to patient i......shitz who, in addition to running a busy practice, writes and reports fornumerous Spanish-language media, including print, radio and television."Especially for Hispanic women -- who have a high incidence of diabetes -- heartdisease prevention, early detection and control are very, very important." In the se...... their patients---notjust themselves---in mind. So writes a medical ethicist from the University of Michigan Health System in anew paper that coincidentally parallels the current debate over collectivebargaining for doctors and the American Medical Association's June 23 vote toform a union. "Doctors already...Cholesterol lowering margarine may not benefit those already eating a healthy diet
...rations in those already following a healthy diet, writes Dr Charles van Heyningen in a letter in this week's BMJ. Dr van Heyningen from University Hospital Aintree in Liverpool argues that the evidence of Benecol's cholesterol lowering properties is based on trials with people who consume an average fat c...Magnet therapy: what's the attraction?
... can attract blood. "You can test this yourself," writes Park. "An excess of blood shows up as a flushing or reddening of the skin. But you will discover that placing a magnet of any strength against your skin produces no reddening at all." Other proponents suggest that the magnets cause water molecules...New links found between an 'iron' gene mutation and increased risk for heart attack and stroke
...essor at the University of Florida in Gainesville, writes thatthese authors "present landmark studies" on the link between iron and coronaryheart disease. Still, he emphasizes that "many important unresolved questions" remain. Sullivan, who proposed a link between iron and coronary disease nearly 20 yearsag...Cautious evidence of third generation pill link to increase in thromboembolism
... requires stronger evidence. However, O'Brien also writes that four previous well designed studies found tha...bn world contraceptive market the stakes are high" writes O'Brien. O'Brien believes that clinical evidence indicates that second generation contraceptives sho...