Unchaperoned examinations risk misconduct allegations
...ection of both parties," say the authors. "Perhaps further guidance will arise for other healthcare professionals, who until now may see patients unaccompanied."...ACP releases 5th Edition of its respected ethics manual
...ved by the ACP Board of Regents in July 2004. For further information about the ACP Ethics Manual, call Lois Snyder, JD, director of the ACP Center for Ethics and Professionalism (215-351-2835). The ACP Ethics Manual is available on the ACP Website at www.annals.org/cgi/content/full/142/7/560 . Reprints of...OHSU scientist helping explain basis of psychotic behavior
...y added. The study also further confirms the importance of the dopamine system in understanding and treating psychosis. "The bottom-line, take-home message is that there are a lot of different things that all seem to converge on this system," Grandy said. "It's like all roads lead ...About 70 percent of older adults use alternative medicine
...medicine is not known from this research and needs further study, Hong said. The fact that those who were less satisfied with their health care were more likely to use alternative medicine does suggest some people have issues with the current state of conventional health care. Hong said the medical establish...Painless test using teardrops may speed diagnosis of Sjgren's syndrome
...ult to diagnose. Diagnosis of the disease has been further complicated by the lack of biomarkers specific for the disease as well as its slow progress, the researchers say. According to study leader Naohisa Tomosugi, M.D., of Kanazawa Medical University in Japan, the new painless technique would require tha...Controversy in dyslipidemia guidelines
...nt and treatment of dyslipidemia were revised but further revisions are in order, argue Manuel and colleagues in a commentary in this issue of CMAJ. The authors argue that the current guidelines may lead to more people who are at low risk of coronary artery disease being screened and prescribed statin ther...Restless legs syndrome has complex genetic involvement
...viduals from the unlinked families. "These results further support the involvement of an RLS-susceptibility l...x, this finding may offer a new starting point for further dissecting the genetic cause of RLS."...Exercise may not be good enough to reduce mild hypertension in older people, Hopkins experts say
...lthough a comparison of exercise to drugs requires further study. "Our next research will continue to examine demonstrable benefits from exercise, in people at risk for heart disease," adds Stewart. "Further examination of the role of decreasing abdominal fat, which dropped nearly 20 percent in this study, a...Grandmothers' smoking linked to grandchildren's asthma decades later
...s' children and grandchildren. They also note that further studies are needed to confirm their results and investigate the issue more deeply. "These findings indicate that there is much more we need to know about the harmful effects of in utero exposure to tobacco products and demonstrate how important smoki...Early stage breast-cancer rates are rising as incidence of invasive cases are leveling
...lined during the last five years. "This suggests a further downshifting of severity within in situ cancers themselves," Li said. The researchers also found that rates of a less common precancerous condition called lobular carcinoma in situ, or LCIS, has increased nearly fourfold in postmenopausal women since...Obesity and insomnia linked by excitability of brain cells
...tacts by almost 10 fold. Stressors such as fasting further excite these neurons. "This unique wiring and acute stress-induced plasticity of the hypocretin neurons correlates well with its involvement in the control of arousal and alertness, which are vital to survival," said Horvath. "But it may also be ...Combination vaccine produces lower immune response than vaccines administered separately
...nd pneumococcus. The inclusion of MenC would add a further 3 to 4 doses to the U.S. regimen. The development of combination vaccines has become a priority. The combining of pneumococcal and meningococcal conjugate vaccines has the potential to spare U.S. infants up to 4 extra injections by age 18 months and ...Adverse outcomes from blood clot therapy may be due to patient characteristics, not dosing errors
...ere not the cause of the worse outcomes. This was further supported by the finding that the higher rates of adverse outcomes with incorrect dosing were largely accounted for by adjusting for baseline characteristics. "Medical errors due to incorrect dosing of fibrinolytic therapy have been shown to be assoc...Study shows statin use before or after stroke improves recovery
...vorable outcome. This preliminary finding requires further research to confirm the results, according to the study authors....2005 Wistar Institute Science Journalism award winner announced
...of the people conducting that science. His article further captured the kinds of debate on which science thrives, and illuminated some of the cultural and political issues bearing on this line of research. The judges also noted the inviting presentation and informative illustrations supporting the article in...Heart valve ring reverses damage from congestive heart failure, easing symptoms
...ondition, known as mitral valve regurgitation, can further lead to even greater mitral valve regurgitation and an increased likelihood of heart failure, according to a 1998 study published by Bolling and his colleagues in the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery . The introduction of Edwards' new...Study challenges current treatment for mild asthma
...ermanent, debilitating airway scarring which would further aggravate breathing. But only about 30 percent of patients who are prescribed inhaled steroids refill their prescriptions. "The steroids do not provide immediate relief; that's the job of the beta agonists such as albuterol," Boushey explained. "Eith...Jefferson researchers find timing of post-epilepsy surgery seizures predicts outcome
...t physicians to do additional testing and consider further surgery. "Having seizures after surgery is not the end of the game," Mr. Parish adds. They plan to further analyze the results, and break down the various types of seizures they found grand mal or general t...Anxious and pessimistic personalities linked to Parkinson's disease later in life
...eason for these links; this will be the subject of further study by the investigators. "What we have shown in this study is that there's a link between an anxious or pessimistic personality and the future development of Parkinson's," says Dr. Bower. "What we didn't find is the explanation for that link. It ......r." What they learned got them interested in doing further research with Fra-1. For example, the protein is able to regulate a set of different genes. Fra-1 is what is known as a transcription factor. It is one of many proteins that "reads" the genetic material in cells. If effect, transcription factors hel...