May/June Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
... A GUIDE FOR CHANGE IN IMPROVEMENT OF CARE This article presents a framework for physicians on the front lines of care who want to make transformations that will greatly improve care. Organizational leadership with an urgent vision for change is critical to successful quality improvement efforts in medic...Liver cancer patients with high serum levels of hepatitis B virus face poorer outcomes
... which was associated with the worst survival. The article is also available online at Wiley Interscience ( http://www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/hepatology ). HBV is associated with a more than 200-fold increase in risk of liver cancer. In areas where HBV is endemic, like China and the Far East, the g...When HIV and liver disease co-exist
...iation for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) The article is also available online at Wiley Interscience ( http://www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/hepatology ). Because of shared modes of transmission, HIV and viral hepatitis infections often coexist. Since therapies have made HIV a manageable condition...'Energy Up' demonstrates success as obesity intervention program for inner-city girls
...as High Voltage, has recently been evaluated in an article published in the May issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health ( www.adolescenthealth.org/journal.htm ). The health brief titled,"Energy Up" A Novel Approach to the Weight Management of Inner-City Teens," describes the positive results of this school...Second SPORT study shows surgery advantage for spinal stenosis and slipped vertebra
...er the next several months. Co-authors on the DS article were Jon D. Lurie MD MS; Tor Tosteson ScD; Brett Hanscom MS; Anna N.A. Tosteson ScD; Emily A. Blood MS; Nancy J.O. Birkmeyer PhD; Alan S. Hilibrand MD; Harry N. Herkowitz MD; Frank P. Cammisa MD; Todd Albert MD; Sanford E. Emery MD MBA; Lawrence G. L...JRRD releases single-topic issue on pain and pain management
...' recommended changes to healthcare settings. This article is relevant to family members and healthcare profe...r adults with brain-related disease will find this article relevant....Withdrawn MS drug returns to market
...y been re-approved by the FDA, and a comprehensive article published in the latest issue of CNS Drug Reviews provides a timely overview of the drug, its pharmacological properties, clinical efficacy, safety and toxicology. MS is a disorder that affects the central nervous system, with leukocytes (inflamma...New reforms could cut the number of unexplained infant deaths
...nationally applicable conclusions. However, the article does raise concerns about whether there will be adequate staffing to carry out these new protocols. Child protection has become something of a "poisoned chalice" for paediatricians and pathologists, says the writer, as they are increasingly the tar...Panel offers guidelines on skin reactions to new class of cancer drugs
...ally life-prolonging chemotherapy, according to an article in the May issue of "The Oncologist." The special article presents the first recommendations on skin reactions to the new drugs, called Epidermal Growth Facto...Commonly used drug offers promise for premature babies
...an, M.D., Ph.D., and Nanhong Lou, Ph.D. A research article describing the work appeared in the April issue of Nature Medicine, which included a cover photograph taken by the Rochester team showing the brain cells involved in the brain damage seen in some premature infants. The research is based on extensiv...JCI table of contents -- May 17, 2007
...prevarskaya@univ-lille1.fr View the PDF of this article at: https://www.the-jci.org/article.php?id=30168 ... amanda.fosang@mcri.edu.au View the PDF of this article at: https://www.the-jci.org/article.php?id=30765 HEMATOLOGY Keeping red blood cells hydra...Quality versus quantity -- transforming kidney transplant policy
Boston May 17, 2007 -- A new article published in American Journal of Transplantation e...be had from waiting for a more suitable match. The article highlights some of the important points to be considered in any new policy-making, and suggests a ne...US soldiers in Iraq fighting drug-resistant bacteria after injuries
...treating soldiers wounded in Iraq, according to an article to be published electronically on Wednesday, May 1... Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. The article will appear in the June issue of the journal. Investigator Matthew E. Griffith, MD, (Brooke Army...The quest for an effective HIV vaccine presents new possibilities, challenges
...rch Program in the Division of AIDS. In a review article in the May 17 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, Drs. Johnston and Fauci examine the daunting challenges posed by HIV, the evolution of HIV vaccine research, the role T cells may play in HIV vaccine effectiveness, and how the first success...Africa's doctors' access assessed
...rd-based services often failed to deliver the full article text, or in some cases librarians' overzealous password control thwarted or delayed doctors' access. Most researchers at the externally funded MRC had heard of HINARI, PubMed and BMJ, which they accessed via office Internet connection (89%). Power ...Low physical activity can improve fitness levels for sedentary, overweight postmenopausal women
...www.jamamedia.org ) Editors Note: Please see the article for additional information, including other author...www.jamamedia.org ) Editors Note: Please see the article for additional information, including financial disclosures, funding and support, etc....State spending keeps childless seniors out of nursing homes
...d community-based services (HCBS), according to an article published in the latest issue of the Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences (Vol. 62B, No. 3). A team of researchers, headed by Naoko Muramatsu of the University of Illinois at Chicago, sought to determine if variations in state spending had an ef...Coenzyme Q10 does not improve Parkinson's disease symptoms
...rove Parkinson's disease symptoms, according to an article posted online today that will appear in the July 2007 print issue of Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by tremors and difficulty with walking or other movemen...JCI table of contents: May 10, 2007
... bergmeier@cbrinstitute.org View the PDF of this article at: https://www.the-jci.org/article.php?id=30575 ...E-mail: rlee@partners.org . View the PDF of this article at: https://www.the-jci.org/article.php?id=30634 IMMUNOLOGY GILZ mediates the antiinflamm...Probiotics could prevent necrotising enterocolitis in premature babies
...re babies) born before 33 weeks gestation, says an article in this weeks special gastroenterology edition of The Lancet. Necrotising enterocolitis is an infection which attacks and kills the lining of the bowel and affects mainly premature infants. Dr Sanjay Patole, King Edward Memorial Hospital for Wome...