Largest study to date reveals baseline findings for flexible sigmoidoscopy
...moidoscopy (FSG), a doctor uses a lighted scope to examine the inside of the large intestine from the rectum through the descending colon, where most colon polyps develop. The study enrolled 154,942 men and women 55 to 74 years of age who had no prior history of prostate, lung, colorectal or ovarian cancers ...Pediatricians' opinions vary on reporting threshold for suspected child abuse
...ory, this is the first systematic investigation to examine how mandated reporters in this study, pediatricians actually interpret and apply the threshold for mandated reporting. "We found that physicians have different interpretations and different thresholds for when 'reasonable suspicion' exists," said ...Swamped city: New Orleans and nature
...ted a hazard in terms of flooding, and I wanted to examine how society dealt with that and organized itself to begin building a barrier a barrier that needed to be extended far beyond the city of New Orleans," he said. "How do you orchestrate that?" Colten said that, in the early years, the construction c...Fear of lawsuits affects emergency physicians' heart care decisions
...sample. He also said the study was not designed to examine whether there is an "upside" -- in terms of patient outcome -- to the behavior of physicians with malpractice concerns. "The so-called high-fear physicians were more likely to order tests and admit patients who would normally not be recommended for a...Creating a new questionnaire to assess alcohol problems among college students
...istical technique called "Rasch model analysis" to examine responses to a new 48-item measure, the Young Adult Alcohol Consequences Questionnaire, which was designed for each item to be scored as either present or absent, easing administration and scoring of the instrument. "We used the Rasch model to identi...Animal disease reports to be released at July 18 news conference at AVMA convention
... the National Academies' National Research Council examine how a shortage of veterinarians in public-health and research positions, along with a fragmented animal-health system, are hampering the country's ability to counter new and emerging animal diseases such as mad cow disease and avian influenza, as wel...Other highlights in the July 20 JNCI
...vels and breast cancer risk has been uncertain. To examine the association between urinary melatonin levels and breast cancer risk, Eva S. Schernhammer, M.D., Dr.P.H., and Susan E. Hankinson, Sc.D., of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, conducted a prospective casecontrol stud...Halt NSAIDs use before gum surgery, Case researchers say
...ished their finding on one of the first studies to examine the use prior to oral surgery and its effects on rates of bleeding during and after periodontal surgery for gum disease. The findings were reported in the article, "The Effect of NSAIDs on Bleeding during Periodontal Surgery" in the July issue of the...Secretin should not be used to treat autism, researchers say
...pig secretin as part of an endoscopic procedure to examine their digestive functioning. Horvath and colleagues reported, to their surprise, that some autism symptoms seemed to improve in children who received the hormone. "Since then, the use of secretin has become widespread and it is currently being dispen...Insulin resistance associated with increased risk for congestive heart failure
...rsity, Sweden, and colleagues conducted a study to examine whether insulin resistance is a predictor of CHF and is a link between obesity and CHF. The study, conducted in Uppsala, Sweden, included 1,187 elderly (70 years of age or older) men free from CHF and valvular disease at baseline between 1990 and 199...Golfers with low-back pain may be helped by University of Pittsburgh research
...Dr. Tsai explained. So, Dr. Tsai's team set out to examine the kinematics of the trunk and spinal loads in golfers with and without low-back pain (LBP) and their trunk and hip physical characteristics. Sixteen male golfers with a history of LBP were matched by age and handicap to 16 male golfers with no hist...Missing eyeglasses make life a blur for a third of nursing home patients with Alzheimer's disease
...s University. The research is some of the first to examine the effect of visual impairment on Alzheimer's disease patients in nursing homes, said George T. Grossberg, M.D., director of the division of geriatric psychiatry at Saint Louis University School of Medicine and a co-author of the study. Koch intervi...The Cochrane Library newsletter, 2005, issue 3
...eview Authors therefore searched the literature to examine the evidence regarding the use of inhaled magnesium sulphate as an additional therapeutic option. They concluded that there was good evidence that nebulised magnesium sulphate was safe and effective and that it should be considered as an additional t...Scientists studying ways to help community college employees lose weight and keep it off
... might make them more conducive to good health and examine the effects such programs have on social and physical environments at all participating campuses. Dr. Laura Linnan, associate professor of health behavior and health education at the UNC School of Public Health, is principal investigator of the "WAY ...Special issue of Yale journal analyzes environmental impact of consumption
... life spans and the quality of life. Articles also examine consumption at the household, city and national levels. "This special issue demonstrates the power of industrial ecology," says Reid Lifset, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Industrial Ecology. "Techniques that lie at the core of this field, such as...Study aims to help elderly recover after surgery
...f older people respond to training, and we want to examine this process. Researchers need 20 volunteers aged 75 and older and a control group aged 18 to 30, for the comparative study. Results will be available in a year's time. Anyone interested in taking part in the study should contact Joanna Lynch, Geriat...Fathers more involved when paternity is established in the hospital
...ir children's long-term well-being, and we plan to examine these relationships in future work," the authors conclude....Opiates better than sedatives for treating newborns in withdrawal
...eded using a higher initial dose of opiate, and to examine the effects of phenobarbitone on infant development. In the 1999 U.S. National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, 3.4 percent of pregnant women reported illicit drug use in the past month, which according to authors represents some 3,000 current pregna...Knee pain often linked to pain elsewhere in the body
...of life. A team of researchers recently set out to examine how often knee pain is accompanied by pain elsewhere in the body and whether the presence of multiple joint pain affects older patients' general health and psychological status. Their findings, published in the August 2005 issue of Arthritis & Rheuma...Experts on global nursing shortage provide recommendations to stem crisis
...Foundation Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy to examine the causes and consequences of the global nurse shortage and to consider strategies to mitigate its negative impact on the health of people around the world. The recommendations and presentations from the expert meeting can be found at http://www.ac...