Little difference between human insulin and faster-acting drugs
...roke, don't fix it' philosophy, so if a patient is doing well on any insulin regimen, they are unlikely to change. On the other hand, I haven't seen an endocrinologist start a newly diagnosed patient -- or new to start on insulin --on a conventional insulin regimen. All of the new prescriptions I see are f...Rare form of Alzheimer's disease found in Camelford resident
...eated headaches, difficulties in finding words and doing simple sums, and hallucinations, symptoms she had had for several months. Her condition progressively worsened and she died in April 2004. A post-mortem examination revealed little out of the ordinary. But her brain revealed a rare form of Alzheimer'...OHSU joins the NIH in obtaining a 'two-of-a-kind' MRI magnet
...merge from such an outstanding team of researchers doing experiments with this very unique 12T MR system," said Michael Garwood, Ph.D.Who serves as the associate director of the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research at the University of Minnesota, a national leader in imaging technology and expertise. "Th...Training on virtual 'patient' improves carotid angiography skills
...ment and make mistakes on a virtual patient versus doing it on a real patient," said Christopher U. Cates, ...first live patients. The researchers are currently doing studies to see if the patients of practitioners trained on this simulator have better clinical outco...Technology to improve learning for visually-impaired children
...h their peers and construct their own knowledge by doing tasks together with others." Field study results from Austria, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Lithuania, Sweden and the UK showed major differences in the education of visually-impaired children, however, they revealed many similarities regarding ...School-based quality initiative improves childhood asthma outcomes
... to access to let them know how their children are doing with their asthma and to get information about asthma resources. Interventions also included a standardized process for identifying children with asthma, standardized forms for data collection during student visits to the school health centers, and i...Verbal medical order errors reduced to zero, according to new Cincinnati Children's study
...low down the process of physician rounding. "We're doing a follow-up study to determine if the results are sustainable and the process is reliable," says Dr. Vossmeyer, "but they appear to be very generalizable. That's particularly important for tertiary patients, such as children with organ transplants, w...Maternal difficulties may increase risk of behavior problems in children
...pear open to empathic inquiries about how they are doing and that mothers also understand that their own well-being is related to that of their children," they write. "Our study suggests that, by 3 years of age, there is already evidence of the effect of adverse childhood experiences, occurring in this stu...30-year study of type 1 diabetes finds no improvement in heart disease rates
... pressure, and at an earlier age than we have been doing previously. This childhood-onset group is at a higher risk for cardiovascular disease even at early middle age. Waiting until they are adults to treat their lipids is too late." Ms. Pambianco added that "many of the guidelines currently used for mana...MDCT shows potential for detecting bladder cancer without surgery or contrast
...e the ureters and kidneys for further disease. In doing so, we found that we saw most of the bladder cancers identified by cystoscopy on our MDCT, so we wondered if MDCT could be used to investigate the bladder on its own. Based on our study, it looks like this is a possibility," said Jonathan Willatt, M...New research reveals Australians too busy for lunch
... skip lunch; with almost half those surveyed (46%) doing so at least once in the past week. Too busy is the catch-cry of lunch-skippers 43% said they didn't have time to go out or make themselves something to eat. A further 20% said they weren't hungry at lunchtime while another one in ten (11%) said they...Researcher wins award from American Diabetes Association
...tists like Dr. Jin, whose cutting-edge research is doing so much to improve the quality of life for people who suffer from this disease."...Patients have high expectations about screening mammography
...r. "After working with patients for many years and doing their biopsies, their beliefs about mammography are revealed in conversations and these now are shown in a more objective way in the survey." The full results of this study will be presented on Thursday, May 4, 2006 during the American Roentgen Ray S...Delta Dental donates $5M to Tufts Dental School to expand care to underserved populations
...sident and CEO of Dental Service of Massachusetts, doing business as Delta Dental of Massachusetts. "Tufts Dental Facilities for Persons with Special Needs is unique in this country and the endowment will enable that program to expand its leadership and care to people in great need. Additionally, data will...U. Iowa research improves health care delivery for children
... health care needs of our own patients, but we are doing the research that will improve health care worldwide, which is also part of our mission," Dexter said....JCI table of contents, May 11, 2006
... and rid our bodies of excess salt or water and in doing so play a central role in the maintenance of normal blood pressure. In a study appearing online on May 11 in advance of print publication in the June issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Jorge Capdevila and colleagues from Vanderbilt Unive...Depression in MS patients clue to better treatment
...about following up and seeing how the patients are doing in terms of their depressed mood, according to the Penn State researcher. "Suicide is a big risk in MS patients. You certainly wouldn't want to prescribe somebody a drug that might increase that risk without monitoring that person very carefully," he...Women with COPD can fare worse than men
... poorly treatable and minimally reversible. But by doing a comprehensive assessment, looking at a patient's...nd that there are tools to assess how patients are doing on many levels, Dr. Cote said. "Physicians will start treating COPD more aggressively, because they ...Early treatment favored for multiple sclerosis
...rse of the disease. Even if a person appears to be doing well, with few clinical relapses, there may be evidence on MRI of tissue damage and loss that is associated with eventual disability. The approved agents decrease the number and severity of relapses, the number and size of new lesions (areas of dam......--no way for ophthalmologists to see what they are doing to the lens being cut. But a tool developed at the University of Michigan allows for a potentially noninvasive, painless fix to presbyopia using tiny bubbles that help ophthalmologists reshape the eye's lens and restore its flexibility and focusing ...