New treatments needed for irritable bowel syndrome
...r, because the disorder is poorly understood, many doctors find patients with IBS difficult to treat. "Alt...ity of this treatment is a major drawback. Most doctors and most (but not all) patients prefer to use drug therapy, ranging from antispasmodics to treat pai...DALYs system for 'measuring' disability
... the problems that can stem from the views of some doctors that disability is a disorder to be cured rather than a functional status that needs to be accommodated. Dr Mont says: "The main difficulty with DALYs is that they do not value interventions that enhance the lives of people with disabilities. To d...Procedural changes may reduce cardiac arrests outside pediatric ICUs
... Medical Center Dallas dropped by 63 percent after doctors and nurses changed procedures to call the cardiac emergency team or Code Blue Team, whenever warning signs indicated a patient's lungs or heart might stop working. Previously, staff summoned the team only after starting cardiopulmonary resuscitation...Study evaluates why blacks do not successfully donate kidneys
...e medical community, financial inability to get to doctors appointments for tests, concerns with work and child care, or perhaps some other issue?" The researchers also examined reasons for non-donation between men and women. They found that more women than men did not donate because of reduced renal funct...Stanford researchers identify immune dysfunction in melanoma patients
...ins why a common melanoma treatment, in which some doctors have treated patients with prolonged exposure to i...rferon. If Lee's suspicion turns out to be true, doctors may be able to screen melanoma patients for interferon response and provide prolonged interferon tre...Literature review shows spinal manipulation beneficial for neck pain
...e review confirm the common clinical experience of doctors of chiropractic: neck manipulation is beneficial f...nt, is the main therapeutic procedure performed by doctors of chiropractic. The purpose of manipulation is to restore joint mobility by manually applying a con...Jefferson pharmacologist says biomarker discovery bodes well for better cancer diagnostics
...between biomarker discovery and application in the doctors office." Validating such biomarkers require "well designed, prospective, multicenter clinical trials that need to show not only what the biomarkers are supposed to show, but also that they affect patient outcome."...Who receives a kidney transplant first?
... while patients, to a large extent, rely on their doctors to make appropriate decisions for them regarding candidacy and allocation. Patients have an expectation that the system will be fundamentally fair, and any modification to the system that may be perceived as unfair runs the risk of undermining pat...Young Australian scientist honored at international meeting
...istance in leukaemia patients. With thisknowledge, doctors will be able to devise more effective treatment strategies forpatients." Ms Bachmann will be completing her PhD in early 2008 and hopes to continue inchildhood cancer research....Good news on heart attack and chest pain
... Meanwhile, Eagle says, patients should ask their doctors and nurses questions about what drugs they should be receiving both in the hospital and after they go home. Aspirin, statins, beta blockers and ACE inhibitors should be on the medicine cabinet shelves of nearly every patient who has ever been hospita...Simple screening can help decrease teen risk behaviors
...rs can be overcome and allow pediatricians, family doctors and mental health professionals to make referrals based on the information they get from the teen," explains Lescano. The analyses also provided intriguing data on the relationship between sex risk, psychopathology, and behavior in that abuse or self...Mice with a migraine show signs of brain damage
...e headaches and by using medications prescribed by doctors to prevent them. Normally, the focus of migraine treatment is to reduce the pain. Were saying that migraines may be causing brain damage, and that the focus should be on prevention, which will stop not only the pain but also minimize potential dama...New blood test can diagnose and monitor treatment of Parkinson's disease
...rrently there is no specific PD diagnostic test so doctors rely on their observations to make a diagnosis, which means some patients may not be prescribed the most suitable medication and around 15% of those diagnosed may actually be suffering from something else," Prof Horne said. "Further studies are req...A revolution in the monitoring of unborn babies
...gnancies each year are high risk. The monitor lets doctors read signals produced naturally by the unborn baby... years of collaborative work between engineers and doctors at the University. The original research was carried out by Dr John Crowe and Dr Barrie Hayes-Gill i...Did drug reps encourage doctors to prescribe gabapentin for nonapproved uses?
...edicine suggests that so-called "detail" visits to doctors made by drug company representatives can involve p...rnia, San Francisco based their study on visits to doctors made by representatives of the company Parke-Davis between 1995 and 1998 to promote the drug gabapen...Drug company sales visits influenced doctors, study finds
...s advocating the use of the drug gabapentin led to doctors stating that they intended to increase their presc...ording to an analysis of a survey completed by the doctors shortly after the visits. Nearly 40 percent of the visits involved discussion of so-called "off-la...Are higher doses of cholesterol drugs worth the extra money? Only sometimes, study says
... drugs, more is better. At least, thats what heart doctors and heart patients have been hearing in recent yea...ents. For those with a recent heart attack or what doctors call acute coronary syndrome, the answer is yes, the researchers say. But the picture is less cle...Drug reps use friendship to influence doctors
... to influence by drug reps, say the authors. Many doctors don't even realize that data on their prescribing .... Another technique that drug reps use is to give doctors "free" drug samples, which the doctors can give to patients as a gift. Studies consistently show th...Change in neuroticism tied to mortality rates, researcher says
...nd the Life Course, said he sees a future in which doctors and other health practitioners include some form of personality assessments with routine medical screenings. Learning to deal with some of the potentially negative aspects of human personalities in a positive way could become part of a balanced and h...... in families, Klein says because of the difficulty doctors have diagnosing it before it has already spread. Survival rates are extremely low. To test the models effectiveness for predicting cancer, Klein and her colleagues fed the software family history information given by more than 6,000 individuals i...