Childhood immunization against pneumonia cuts hospital admissions by almost 40 percent
...can children aged under two years, according to an article published in this week's edition of The Lancet. Dr Carlos G. Grijalva and colleagues at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, and the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, used d...Lung cancer screening regimen provides opportunity for cure
... for lung cancer, Dr. Henschke disagrees. The JAMA article was the first application of a newly developed computer model which predicted expected deaths from lung cancer, and there are numerous concerns about its validity, she said. The main problem with that study is that it focused on too short a time peri...Long-term aspirin use associated with reduced risk of dying in women
...r Digestive Health Research Award. Please see the article for additional information, including other author...ww.jamamedia.org .) Editors Note: Please see the article for additional information, including author contributions and affiliations, financial disclosures, ...Nanoparticles can track cells deep within living organisms
...s from the ingested nanoparticle beacons. In an article that will appear in the June issue of the FASEB Journal, lead author Kathryn C. Partlow, a doctoral student in Wickline's lab, describes using perfluorocarbon nanoparticles to label endothelial progenitor cells taken from human umbilical cord blood. ...Embargoed March/April Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...nter. The accompanying jazz pieces along with the article can be downloaded through commercial links at www.annfammed.org .Jazz and the 'Art' of Medicine: Improvisation in the Medical Encounter By Paul Haidet, M.D., M.P.H....Listen to your heart: Researchers discover a physiological indicator of vulnerability to temptation
...s to be linked to self regulation according to the article published in the March issue of Psychological Science. The authors conducted a two-part study in order to test their hypothesis. In the first, participants were instructed to fast for three hours in order to take part in what they believed was a ...Americans still not eating enough fruits and vegetables, according to 2 recent studies
...ence of heart disease, cancer and stroke. A second article published in the April issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine examined whether the diets of non-Hispanic blacks have improved relative to the diets of whites. Also working with the data from the National Health and Nutrition Examinati...Promoting healthy scepticism of health statistics
...ality of the information provided, according to an article in a Series about health statistics in this weeks issue of The Lancet. Politicians, policymakers, and public-health professionals make complex decisions on the basis of estimates of disease burden from different sources, many of which are "marketed...Aga Khan University team discover which patients keep on taking their medicine
... Public Library of Science. The study on which the article is based is in line with the Universitys ethos: that research at AKU focuses on topics of direct relevance to developing countries. The study was initiated by Dr Philippe M Frossard, Professor and Chair, Department of Biological and Biomedical Scienc...UCSF policy expert presents recommendation for health coverage
...icy Studies, presents his strategy in a commentary article in the March 14, 2007 issue of the "Journal of the American Medical Association." "The United States spends a greater share of its gross domestic product on health care than other nations, yet more than 15.9 percent of its population lacks health i...A new focus for health care reform -- realigning competition around patient value
...al problem is not cost, but value, according to an article in the March 14 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on ac...s., and the Harvard Business School, presented the article today at a JAMA media briefing on access to care at the National Press Club. Dr. Porter and Elizab...Pacifier use may lower risk of SIDS
...red through the use of a pacifier. According to an article in Nursing for Womens Health, neonatal health care practitioners should counsel new parents on the potential benefits of using a pacifier. This advice follows the release of updated recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Tas...Many Americans at high risk of vision loss do not have access to eye care
...w.jamamedia.org .) Editor's Note: Please see the article for additional information, including other authors, author contributions and affiliations, financial disclosures, funding and support, etc. Also in the March issue of Archives of Ophthalmology: Women who develop age-related macular degenera...Nevada scientist authors influential AIDS/HIV paper
...IV/AIDS research publications in the world, Bell's article in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry was ranked a...d have a fairly small readership, but to have this article be one of the top 100 most influential articles published in 2006 in the entire field of HIV/AIDS re...Computed tomography screening may increase lung cancer diagnosis, but not decrease risk of death
...ww.jamamedia.org ) Editor's Note: Please see the article for additional information, including other authors, author contributions and affiliations, financial disclosures, funding and support, etc. Editorial: CT Screening for Lung Cancer - Spiraling Into Confusion In an accompanying editorial, Wil...Opening of specialty cardiac hospitals associated with increase in rate of cardiac procedures
... the National Institutes of Health. Please see the article for additional information, including other authors, author contributions and affiliations, financial disclosures, funding and support, etc. Editorial: Physician-Owned Specialty Hospitals and Coronary Revascularization Utilization - Too Much of...American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine investigates strategies for controlling heart disease
...terventions is thoroughly explored in the headline article of the second issue of the new American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine (AJLM) published by SAGE. The article is co-written by journal Editor-In-Chief James M. Rippe, MD, along with Theodore J. Angelopoulos, Ph...Researchers from the University of Navarra analyze new kinds of cancer-fighting antibodies
...) from the University of Navarra have published an article in Nature Cancer Reviews , one of the leading sci... and chronic viral illnesses. Specifically, the article discusses using monoclonal antibodies in order to stimulate the immune system. In this therapy the a......ntral part of the country, scientists report in an article scheduled for the April 1 issue of ACS Environment...ael, and the scientific life in the Holy Land. The article draws contrasts with science in the West, noting, for instance that young Israeli scientists begin t...