ISHLT updates guidelines for heart and lung transplants
...ssfully bridge patients to transplant. Highlights from the discussions will be presented on Saturday duri...it, a greater number of patients who would benefit from a transplant. "There are now a lot of patients who are viable transplant candidates who probably wou...Scientists to study actions of botanical oils
...hool of Medicine has received a $7.5 million grant from the National Center for Complementary and Alternat...pplications of polyunsaturated fatty acids derived from plants such as flaxseed, echium, also known as blueweed, and borage, an herb. The studies will focus...OHSU researchers demonstrate how Alzheimer's disease impacts important brain cell function
...zheimer's patients when compared to healthy brains from people in the same age range. "More importantly, ...eddy and his colleagues studied 36 brain specimens from both deceased Alzheimer's patients and deceased non-Alzheimer's adults. The scientists specifically ...Study: Level I trauma centers boost head injury survival
...ercent among patients with head injury transferred from rural trauma centers in Oregon and Washington to level I trauma centers in both states. Researchers from the Center for Policy and Research in Emergency Medicine and the Department of Surgery, OHSU School ...'Promiscuous' area of brain could explain role of antidepressants
...ork would come as welcome news to those who suffer from depressive disorders, a leading cause of disability worldwide. Over 14 million adults experience depression each year in the United States alone. "Instead of taking serotonin up as they normally would into serotonin neurons, it is taken up into the t...Exposed: Tobacco companies efforts to influence industry privatisation
...s poorest country. In October 2000, after pressure from the International Monetary Fund the Moldovan gover...he Moldovans. Dr Gilmore comments: "It is evident from the tactics revealed here that countries undertaking tobacco industry privatisation and the organisa...People with peanut allergy at risk of allergic reaction to lupin flour
...s not included on this list despite recommendation from the UK based Institute of Food Science and Technology. Author Dr Michael Radcliffe (Royal Free Hospital, London, UK) states: "Further work will be required to establish the prevalence and significance of lupin allergy. Meanwhile those with peanut all...Belgium doctors treating critically ill infants favour legalising euthanasia
... killing to a minimum, we need far better evidence from various practice settings about the impact of end-of-life-care policies on actual clinical practice."...Post-traumatic stress disorder common among refugees in western countries
... They found 20 eligible surveys that included data from 6743 adult refugees from seven countries (Australia, Canada, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, the UK and the USA). The combined an...Unchaperoned examinations risk misconduct allegations
...ificantly more female patients accepted chaperones from male doctors than from female doctors. "Chaperones are there for the protection of both parties," say the authors. "Perhaps...The right to live gives us a right to die
...es the right to be "as free as reasonably possible from distress and pain." If an individual feels that their life is being lived below that minimum quality, they also have the right to end their life - and by extension to have medical assistance to achieve this painlessly, he argues. In most countries ...Lupus and the role of Epstein-Barr virus
...uman viruses. Symptoms of initial infection range from a typically mild childhood illness with a fever an... the prevalence of EBV antibodies in blood samples from lupus patients with those from healthy controls. Published in the April 2005 issue of Arthritis & R...Lack of vigorous activity linked to functional decline in older adults with arthritis
...sufferers, arthritis makes simple, everyday tasks, from walking up a flight of stairs to bathing and dress...with having arthritis or rheumatism and were drawn from a large national study of health among people of traditional retirement age. 64 percent of the pati...Competition in health care may not result in better quality
...ences; and John Shevock, Penn State, analyzed data from 341 HMO plans operating across various markets in the United States. They examined HMO enrollment and the most widely used measures of HMO performance: the Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set (HEDIS) and the Consumer Assessment of Health P...Institute of Medicine news: Review of HIVNET 012 study
... effective and safe in preventing HIV transmission from mother to unborn child during birth were well-supp...in record keeping and procedural issues. "The data from the HIVNET 012 study, which showed that nevirapine effectively prevents many infants from contractin...ACP releases 5th Edition of its respected ethics manual
... include sections on chaperones and privacy, gifts from patients, selling products out of the office, heal...pears in Annals of Internal Medicine are available from the Center for Ethics and Professionalism. A printed, pocket-sized book version is available from AC...OHSU develops instant, computerized notification system to communicate patients' end-of-life wishes
... service is valuable for healthy adults who suffer from sudden illness or traumatic injury -- in these cas...e a patient's previously documented medical wishes from any workstation in the hospital," explained Barbara Glidewell, director of the Department of Patient...UPenn receives 2005 Templeton Research Lectures Grant
...ty in Tennessee. Made possible by a generous grant from the John Templeton Foundation, the Templeton Resea... originally incorporated with four faculty members from the University of Pennsylvania. "Precisely because of this intimate history, Metanexus is particula......ss are cordially invited to meet with the speakers from AACR's Annual Meeting opening plenary session, taking place 8 a.m. PDT, Sunday, April 17, 2005 at the Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, Calif. WHEN: This media availability will follow the plenary session, which ends at 11:30 a.m. PDT WHERE: A......the Journal of Clinical Investigation, researchers from Wake Forest University School of Medicine and coll...od," said John S. Parks, Ph.D., senior researcher, from the school of medicine, which is part of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. "Understandi...