May/June Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...hors suggest that in primary care practices, where competing demands exist within the brief patient encounter, ...lexity of the primary care encounter; it is really competing demands (patient concerns) that can cause physicians not to act. As the number of patient concerns ...Acrux completes enrollment in key phase 2 trial
...granted, the patent will provide protectionagainst competing products until at least 2026 in all major markets. TestosteroneMD-Lotion is already covered until 2017 by Acrux's granted patents....UN engages banks to light up rural India; Solar loans, energy access transform life for poor
... included in the initial partnership have launched competing solar loan products and competition is heating up. "Lack of access to affordable energy produces one of poverty's most powerful grips," he says. "This project empowers people to invest and helps free them from reliance on government interventio...Statins linked to lower risk of infection
...orized, secretes a statin as a way to starve other competing microorganisms that require cholesterol to survive. The study included patients from 81 dialysis clinics across 19 states. Only those enrollees who were admitted to the hospital with sepsis were counted, in order to rule out any subjects who became...Opening of specialty cardiac hospitals associated with increase in rate of cardiac procedures
... and provide less uncompensated care, which places competing general hospitals at significant financial risk. "However, specialty hospitals raise an additional concern beyond their potential to simply redistribute cases within a health care market. Specialty hospitals are typically smaller than general hospi...Taking the wraps off drug safety data from clinical trials
... efficacy information should be protected, so that competing manufacturers can't use those data to develop generic alternatives or competing drugs. Consumer groups have brought lawsuits against the FDA under the Freedom of Information Act ...Functional brain imaging insights from UC San Diego grad student
...to assess the relative strengths and weaknesses of competing Bayesian approaches for source localization," said David Wipf, who performed the research and wrote the paper while at UCSD. "NIPS is a premier conference and this is quite an achievement," said Bhaskar Rao, an ECE professor at UCSDs Jacobs School...Chemists make tiny molecular rings with big potential
... a "bad" reaction. "A bad chemical reaction is a competing reaction," he said. "So if I'm trying to grow polymer chains, and for some reason a side reaction occurs that chops up my chains, or grows some rings instead, that's a bad reaction. And I thought, if we could control the bad reaction to be selective,...How much influence do medical publications have on your doctor? A great deal, says new SLU research
...thesized that doctors would increasingly prescribe competing drugs to treat heart failure. In fact, the use of most drugs for the condition did not increase. However, among patients prescribed intravenous drugs to treat heart failure (aside from diuretics), use of inotropes increased, which Hauptman says is no...Julio Frenk should be the front-runner in elections for Director-General of the WHO
...tive skills for the job before they evaluate their competing visions. The next Director-General of WHO should be selected on merit - and merit alone, says Horton. On these grounds, Horton believes that only five candidates have the technical expertise for the role Frenk (Mexico), Karam Karam (Lebanon), Pasc...$83.5 million NIH grant to Pitt establishes Clinical and Translational Research Institute
...reaching the people who need them." Institutions competing for the awards were required to "build academic homes for clinical and translational science" through an infrastructure that would consolidate their existing resources with new initiatives; foster new research, training and community-focused programs...Pre-clinical study suggests how steroid can reverse post-traumatic stress
...ve scenario, a process called extinction creates a competing memory." "We're not erasing memories," said Dr. Robert Greene, professor of psychiatry at UT Southwestern and another author of the study. "What the steroid does is attenuate the fear memory by helping the mice to learn that these contexts should no...Study finds safety test results on children's drugs not always reaching physicians
...rights for a drug -- thereby delaying the entry of competing generic drugs -- if the manufacturer conducts FDA-requested trials on its use in children. The researchers looked at how often the results of such studies were published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, often cited as among the most effective w...HIV Science and Responsible Journalism Satellite Meeting
Complex science, controversial politics, competing claims and life-or-death stakes make HIV/AIDS one of the toughest beats for a journalist to cover. From San Francisco to South Africa, scientific facts and fringe theories compete for reporters'--and the public's--attention. Reporters strive for bala...For-profit research ethics committees: How are they performing?
...awyer and an 'ethicist,' can set up shop and start competing for business." ......used by marketers to differentiate themselves from competing products. As a product approaches its "best if used by" date, there may be more for a manufacturer to lose than to gain by having decided to use "freshness dating" in the first place....New World Cup soccer ball will unsettle goalkeepers, predicts scientist
...ght path." The ball, which has been used by teams competing in the World Cup in practice sessions, has already been criticised by England goalkeeper Paul Robinson and Germany goalkeeper Jens Lehmann for its light-weight and unpredictable behaviour....March/April 2006 Annals of Family Medicine Tip Sheet
... disciplines' efforts and futures because they are competing with each other for patients, trainees and resources. Interspecialty collaboration, they suggest, is likely to lead to a greater focus on the critical role of primary care in the changing health care system to meet patient and population needs, rath...Plant sterol pills significantly lower LDL cholesterol
...reduce the absorption of cholesterol in the gut by competing with cholesterol to get absorbed and transported into the body. When consumed in the diet, sterols are known to lower cholesterol levels, but sterols are not readily absorbed in the intestine unless they have been dissolved in something that the inte...Acute stress boosts flu shot response in women, small study finds
...ities for 45 minutes: riding a stationary bicycle, competing in a mental arithmetic contest or reading quietly. Afterward, each person received a flu shot donated by GlaxoSmithKline, U.K. When antibody levels were measured four weeks and again 20 weeks later, women in the physical and mental stress groups had ...