JCI Table of Contents, April 3, 2006
EDITOR'S PICK... ... ...... Weekend athletes who overexert themselves running or playing basketball may one day reap the benefits of research that shows adult stem cells can make new tendon tissue. Researchers Dan Gazit and colleagues at Hadassah Medical Center in Israel engineered mouse mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), which reside in the bone marrow and fat tissue, to express a protein called Sm...Tip sheet Annals of Internal Medicine, April 4, 2006
3 Annals of Internal Medicine Articles and an Editorial Look at How Well Americans and Their Doctors Are Controlling Chronic Diseases...... ...... According to a new study, diabetes care in the past 10 years has improved, but, still, two in five people with diabetes have poor control of cholesterol, one in three have poor blood pressure control and one in five has poor control of blood sugar leve...Tip sheet Annals of Internal Medicine, April 17, 2007
... ... ... ... ... In an accompanying editori...Neurosurgery robot unveiled April 17
... ... The unveiling will include a formal program wi...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- April 4, 2007
... ...Weekly PressPac ALL CONTENT IS FOR IMMEDIATE USE EXCEPT ARTICLE #5 (EMBARGOED FOR 9 A.M., EASTERN TIME, April 9, 2007) ...... ......... <p...Embargoed March/April Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
... This essay offers lessons learned by a primary care health care network in Fort Worth, Texas, after caring for a surge of evacuees from Hurricane Katrina. The network, made up mostly of family physicians and administrators, took responsibility for 3,700 evacuees. They provided medical care for nearly half (1,664) of the evacuees in a two-week period. Notably, the network prevented its eme...Tip sheet, Annals of Internal Medicine, April 20, 2006
...... In a randomized trial involving 652 patients with active chronic rheumatoid arthritis (RA) despite treatment, the drug abatacept reduced disease activity, improved physical function and slowed joint damage when compared with placebo (Article, p. 865)....... Those receiving abatacept also had more serious infections (2.5 percent vs. 0.9 percent) and infusion reactions. ...... During the tr...Heart Rhythm Society releases draft recommendations on pacemakers, ICDs on April 26
The Heart Rhythm Society will release draft policy recommendations for pacemaker and implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) performance during a telebriefing on Wednesday, April 26 at 10:00 AM ET.... ...The draft offers specific recommendations to industry, FDA, Congress and physicians for the surveillance, analysis and performance reporting of cardiac devices. The recommendations provide p...JCI table of contents, April 20, 2006
EDITOR'S PICK...... ...... Researchers have now carefully crafted a combination therapy that reverses recent-onset type 1 diabetes in 2 animal models of disease. By combining an oral with an intranasal therapy for type 1 diabetes that have individually shown beneficial, but limited, effects in previous studies, Matthias von Herrath and colleagues at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunolo...MetOp satellite shipped to Baikonur on 18 April
The first MetOp meteorological satellite arrived yesterday at its launch site, the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, following shipment from the industrial prime contractor, EADS Astrium in Toulouse, on board an Antonov-124 transport plane....... MetOp-A is the first in a series of three EUMETSAT Polar System (EPS) satellites developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) for EUMETSAT, the Europea...Newsbriefs from the journal Chest, April 2006
...A new study finds that habitual snoring in women is strongly tied to body mass index (BMI) and age, with snoring prevalence reaching its peak in women ages 50 to 59. Swedish researchers surveyed 6,817 women regarding snoring habits and potential risk factors for snoring, including BMI, smoking habits, physical activity, alcohol and medication use, and menopausal and hormonal status. The total...JCI table of contents, April 6, 2006
EDITOR'S PICK...... ...... Huntington disease (HD) is a degenerative brain disease in which brain cells called neurons die as a result of aggregations of the polyQ-huntingtin protein. Symptoms include involuntary movements, personality changes, and dementia, and unfortunately, there is no effective treatment to delay or prevent HD. In a study appearing April 6 in advance of print publication in...March/April 2006 Annals of Family Medicine Tip Sheet
...... ... A study in this issue finds that childbirth-related symptoms, particularly among women whose infants were delivered by cesarean section or who breastfeed, are present at five weeks postpartum. Telephone interviews were conducted five weeks postpartum with 716 women and found on average, women reported six postpartum symptoms, most frequently fatigue (64 percent), and never or rarely...Annals of Internal Medicine, tip sheet, April 19, 2005
Vaccination Plus Antibiotics Best Strategy After Anthrax Attack, Study Finds... ...A new study to determine the best strategy to handle a large-scale anthrax attack on a mid-sized U.S. city suggests that post-attack vaccination plus antibiotic therapy is the most effective and least expensive strategy (Article, p. 601). An editorialist finds the analysis limited because it fails to consider fact...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for April 2005 (second issue)
...... A study in 4 intensive care units (ICUs) aimed at family conferences to discuss the withholding or withdrawing of life-sustaining therapy in critically ill patients showed that in 15 of 51 conferences physicians missed opportunities to provide either support or information to the family. All 51 family conferences were audio-taped with permission from the family. Along with family member...Institute of Medicine advisory: April 19 public briefing on HIV/AIDS crisis abroad
Nearly 40 million people worldwide are infected with HIV, and 95 percent of them live in resource-poor countries. Preventing and treating HIV/AIDS in these nations will require unprecedented health systems and human resources to deliver medication and oversee patients long term. HEALERS ABROAD: AMERICANS RESPONDING TO THE HUMAN RESOURCE CRISIS IN HIV/AIDS, new from the Institute of Medicine of...7th Annual AIDS Science Day at Yale April 22
The Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) will host the 7th Annual AIDS Science Day on Friday, April 22 at the Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale, 155 Temple St....... CIRAaffiliated scientists from Yale, the Hispanic Health Council and The Institute for Community Research, will present their findings to scientific and community members. The event is free and open to the public, but regi...News briefs from the journal CHEST, April 2005
... ...In a new study, researchers found that patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), who are unable to walk when admitted to the hospital, have a greater risk of death while in the hospital. In a study of 3,043 patients with CAP admitted to six hospitals in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, researchers from the University of Alberta found that patients in a wheelchair at time of hospital ad...Tip sheet Annals of Internal Medicine, April 5, 2005
...... New American College of Physicians' guidelines for obesity management recommend diet and exercise for everyone and drugs and surgery only for obese patients who are not able to achieve weight-loss goals with diet and exercise alone (Clinical Guidelines, p. 525). ACP guidelines apply to patients with body mass indices (BMIs) over 30. ...... Patients with BMIs over 30 might consider drug th...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for April 2005 (first issue)
... ...Based on a study of 752 French patients who underwent either lung or heart-lung transplantation, investigators revealed a close relationship between graft ischemic time and long-term survival after single or double lung transplantation. (Graft ischemic time was defined as the interval between the application of the aortic cross clamp during donor organ removal and the reperfusion (restora...