Experts call for balance in addressing under treated pain and drug abuse
... drugs are not suffering patients who legitimately deserve relief." Freedom to Care for Pain Patients Critical Reluctance to prescribe powerful pain medicine among the medical community for fear of retribution has led to the needless suffering of countless people in pain. The Department of Justice must "s...JCI Table of Contents, April 3, 2006
...ol of Medicine in Atlanta states that "the authors deserve praise for these elegant studies, since the study design settles the question of whether anti-CCP antibodies are merely a part of chronic immune stimulation or participate in tissue damage." TITLE: Antibodies against citrullinated proteins enhance t...University of Utah to help build bionic arm
... decide which approach or approaches work best and deserve another two years of funding. The Utah team is focusing on implanting electrode arrays in nerves in the residual limb. "The nerve is potentially an excellent site for communicating with the nervous system," Clark says. "It's like a private hotline ...Sleeping less linked to weight gain
...weight gain, but there are some possibilities that deserve further study," Dr. Patel said. "Sleeping less may affect changes in a person's basal metabolic rate (the number of calories you burn when you rest). Another contributor to weight regulation that has recently been discovered is called non-exercise as...Increase in counterfeit antimalarial drugs prompts call for crackdown, better detection
... malaria rely heavily on these drugs, these issues deserve overdue, urgent action to prevent a public health disaster in the malarious world." In related research, several of the authors, led by Fernandez, are studying new, high-throughput screening techniques to detect and quantify the contents of counter...Radio wand may help detect sponges left in surgery patients
...ntification wand device described in this article, deserve further study to assess if they should be added to manual counting (rather than replace it). However, related human and system factors need to be addressed as well because it is likely that technology alone will not be foolproof in solving the reta...Prescription pain killers involved in more drug overdose deaths than cocaine or heroin in the US
... drugs are not suffering patients who legitimately deserve relief," he says. ...Ninety-eight percent of Gaza's children experience or witness war trauma -- Queen's study
...ting them, that somehow Palestinian children don't deserve the protections guaranteed under the Geneva Convention and humanitarian law. We must remember that where we drop our bombs, plant our landmines, and aim our guns, is where children are born, play, and go to school." Mr. Pringle is also a member of ...Studies examine physician disclosure of medical errors
... three main goals of quality health care: patients deserve to know when things do not go the way they were ex...r the situation. "A key theme is that physicians deserve support. Even the best doctors may make mistakes for reasons that are hard to understand -- we all h...Watching wrestling associated with date fighting and other violence
...o use violence to resolve conflicts and that women deserve abusive treatment." In this study, researchers asked a random sample of 2,228 North Carolina high school students, how many times they had watched wrestling on TV in the past two weeks. Among males, 63 percent had watched wrestling and 24.6 perc...Smoking out the links between nutrition and oral cancer
...ips between smoking and nutrient distribution that deserve further exploration." ...Civil society movement calls for transparency in the WHO director-general elections
...ons of people with the least access to health care deserve a Director-General capable of providing decisive intellectual leadership and withstanding political pressure," state the authors. At the same time, they argue that the governing body of WHO, consisting of governments, must ensure that WHO is proper...Oral contraceptives increase risk for breast cancer in some women, meta-analysis finds
...he authors of our meta-analysis believe that women deserve to be fully informed."...The pain from fibromyalgia is real, researchers say
...d be defined and whether people with the condition deserve compensation. But none of those disagreements should detract from the acceptance of it as a condition causing real pain, they say....Smoking worsens knee osteoarthritis
... Dr. Amin says these findings are provocative and deserve further study, especially given the number of potential ways in which cigarette smoking could have a negative effect on knee joint cartilage. Osteoarthritis, sometimes called degenerative joint disease or osteoarthrosis, is the most common form of ...Commodity promotion programs -- What's the beef?
...lines for Americans and in the checkoff promotions deserve renewed attention."...Do we need a world health insurance to realize the right to health?
...rm funding perspective. Other health interventions deserve a similar approach." Ooms and colleagues' framework for a world health insurance involves rich states paying a fair contribution and poor states having the right to assistance according to the health-care needs that they are unable to finance thems...Racial differences seen in steatosis in patients with hepatitis C
...esistance and glucose control. These possibilities deserve prospective evaluation," they conclude....... to 600 nm. The little disks used in this process deserve special consideration: Kim and his colleagues chose to use curcurbiturils. These disk-shaped molecules have a cavity at their center. As their shape resembles a hollowed-out pumpkin, this class of compounds was named after the plant genus of pumpkins......ion of the National Inventors Hall of Fame. "They deserve our gratitude and our respect for all that they've accomplished." This year's inductees are an accomplished group: Paul Baran (1926- ) Digital packet switching Baran developed one of the fundamental concepts behind today's advanced computer ne...