ACP and ACP Foundation launch 3-year effort to improve diabetes care
... high-quality diabetes care and of the gap between current practice and acceptable standards of diabetes care. Provide proven educational interventions to improve diabetes care. Recognize physicians and physician practices that demonstrably improve care of their patients with diabetes. At the ACP Annual S...Stanford gut check shows diversity of intestinal ecosystem
...kburg and Relman said they plan to complement this current approach with the use of microarray technology. The latter will allow them to analyze samples much more quickly. They have been working with biochemistry professor Patrick Brown, MD, PhD, and graduate student Chana Palmer to develop a gene chip that ...Adolescent health ill-catered for in the NHS
... towards health are maintained into adulthood. Yet current strategies do not target young people appropriately, and do not engage them with their own healthcare. Existing policies also ignore health inequalities - which have a considerable influence on adolescent health, he argues. Young people must be recog...Cancer research could lead to improved detection methods
... of developing cancer at a much earlier stage than current screening processes allow. Dr Lakis Liloglou, Head...early lesions that are virtually undetectable with current clinical methods carry molecular changes or mistakes that may commit cells to develop into a tumour....Researcher sheds light on ghostwriting in medical journals
...ntermediaries with researchers. She says that the current voluntary standards for declaring conflicts of interest to readers of medical journals and audiences at medical conferences are inadequate, and that a public database detailing physicians and researchers conflicts of interest is needed. The full comm...Execution by lethal injection is not humane or painless suggests study
...istent with awareness. The study suggests that the current practice of lethal injection for execution fails to even meet veterinary standards for putting down animals. Dr Koniaris states: "Our data suggest that anaesthesia methods in lethal injection in the US are flawed. Failures in protocol design, impleme...Prostate cancer therapy - study suggests new molecular screening theory
...ial oncogene known as TGF beta. As a result of the current study, Smad7 is now thought to play a crucial role connecting the mechanisms of cell growth, governed by TGF beta, and those of cell death, governed by another oncogene, p38 MAPK. Dr. Carl-Henrik Heldin, Director of both the Uppsala Branch and LICR'...Golfers' yips may be movement disorder
...ips who had co-contractions were older, had higher current and best previous handicaps, and had yips for fewer years than the other five with yips who did not have the co-contractions. There was also a trend for those five golfers with the yips to make fewer putts and have a greater degree of error in missin...Easing the anxiety of pregnancy after miscarriage
...lost fetus; the amount of anxiety experienced in a current pregnancy; the impact of fetal loss on the woman's...en in the loss group were past that point in their current pregnancy," said Ct-Arsenault. "But, the loss group still had higher anxiety. "This contradicts the...Researchers find that chocolate compound stops cancer cell cycle in lab experiments
...e will either reduce their cancer risks or treat a current case. Although the study was conducted in breast cancer cell cultures, the finding could potentially apply to other cancers, Dickson said. (The studies are being funded by MARS Incorporated.) Chocolate is made from the beans of cacao trees, and, li...MR spectroscopy may be superior for determining prostate cancer prognosis
...nts without destroying its cellular structure. The current study was designed to evaluate the technique's potential for providing information useful for clinical decision-making in prostate cancer. The researchers used MR spectroscopy to analyze tissue samples from 82 patients in whom prostate cancer had be...Gene expression pattern predicts multiple drug resistance, treatment failure in pediatric leukemia
...ign more effective treatments for the children our current treatment strategies fail to cure." Evans is senior author of the Cancer Cell report. The ALL cells used in the study were isolated from the bone marrow or the blood of patients with newly diagnosed disease who were being treated at St. Jude, the Du...Alternate view for pathology of AD
... for tau phosphorylation goes against the grain of current dogma, Lee noted, "A protective role of tau phosph...Lee. "If proven correct, this will not only change current dogma but, more importantly, reveal key insights to accelerate the development of new therapeutic in...The Neurosciences and Music in Leipzig: Registration boom and over 140 posters
...urpose of providing an introductory profile of the current hypotheses, the enquiry tools helping to understan...ng scientists of their laboratories to present the current state of work in progress, therefore also encouraging the researchers' formation. An ample session ...Newborn's first week may be critical period for developing obesity in adulthood
...oming an overweight adult by about 10 percent. The current research builds on several previous studies by Dr.... weight rapidly during the first four months. The current study also revealed an association between rapid weight gain in the first four months (112 days) and...Patients' lives at risk from substandard drugs say heart specialists
...rketing, or on reports by the manufacturers. Also, current post-marketing control to curb the making and trading of substandard or counterfeit medicines was insufficient. "The WHO estimates that up to a tenth of the world's drug trade and a quarter in developing countries consists of fakes. Controlling this ...Virtual colonoscopy: Virtually promising
...ectal cancer, screening rates would be higher than current rates, which are under 50 percent. We need better screening tests, and virtual colonoscopy has the potential to fill that need."...Annals of Internal Medicine, tip sheet, April 19, 2005
...ure, evacuation and decontamination costs, and the current federal decision to stockpile only 75 million doses of anthrax vaccine nationwide (Editorial, p. 667). Metformin and Lifestyle Changes Slow Metabolic Syndrome An analysis of data from a large randomized, controlled trial in which participants were...Institute of Medicine news: Human resource crisis in HIV/AIDS
...million annually, or roughly 3 percent of PEPFAR's current budget. About $35 million of this would be for the service corps, the report says. Another component of the GHS would be a fellowship program, which should offer competitive awards of $35,000 annually for skilled professionals who want to make a ...... and vomiting, according to a systematic review of current evidence. NSAIDs include analgesics such as ibuprofen (Motrin) and naproxen (Aleve). Although these drugs are proven painkillers they also interfere with blood clotting, so there has been concern about excessive bleeding during or after surgery. Suc...