Extra pay does not improve hospital performance
...mprove the way they treat heart attack patients or how well those patients do. But giving hospitals the i...what the incentive is. The researchers looked at how all hospitals performed in six measurements of quality: the use of aspirin and beta blockers both at...What's the fat content? Whether or not you notice depends on how you think
...ifang Mao (University of Central Florida) examines how consumers in individualistic- and collectivistic-oriented societies compare products. For example, do consumers in western societies generally thought of as more individualistic categorize low-fat cookies or sports cars differently than consumers i...Explaining a link between strokes and Alzheimer's
University of Leeds scientists have shown how stroke victims could be more vulnerable to Alzheim...ions were linked, but now the Leeds team has shown how an incident of reduced oxygen to the brain caused by the stroke can leave the patient vulnerable t...MU researchers find mechanisms that may unlock answers to Alzheimer's disease
...is has some effect on brain function, we dont know how toxic it is or at what stage the toxicity begins. ...the past five years, we have started to understand how this disease works. With the new grant, we will be able to go forward and see if there are treatment...Trial shows circulating tumor cells predict how prostate cancer patients do with chemotherapy
...ic, hormone-resistant, prostate cancer can predict how they will do with chemotherapy, according to results of an international trial. The findings, if backed by larger studies, could have important implications for designing personalized treatments for this very dangerous type of prostate cancer, the re...Old memory traces in brain may trigger chronic pain
... explained. I can predict with 90 percent accuracy how many years they have been living in that pain without even asking them the question....The Burroughs Wellcome Fund awards $8 million to infectious disease investigators
...said. "Understanding the underlying principles of how the microbial world interacts with the human host is of paramount importance. We are pleased to play a role in the expansion of knowledge in this important scientific field. Following are the 2007 award recipients, along with their institutions and...Benefits of school-based fitness programs fade after summer
...nformation that policymakers and educators lack is how to achieve the greatest reduction in obesity for t... fixed budget they have available; in other words, how they can achieve the greatest bang for the buck, Dr. Cawley writes. Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA...Dating violence and sexual assault associated with suicide attempts among urban teens
...rs and physical activity. Students were also asked how many times they had attempted suicide, if they had experienced dating violence and if they had been sexually assaulted in the past 12 months. Females made up 51 percent of the students and those who responded were primarily not white (40.1 percent...Hot flashes may be welcome sign in women with breast cancer, study says
... outcome than age, hormone receptor status or even how advanced the breast cancer was at diagnosis. The study results were presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting in Chicago today. "Hot flashes are a very common and disruptive problem in breast cancer survivors,"...Bias in statin trials, failure to control malaria, and more
...me, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso) and colleagues show how this lack of coordination is preventing health professionals in Burkina Faso from getting life-saving treatments to children with malaria. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that the best treatment for malaria in sub-Saharan Africa is a...Tony Hunter receives Robert. J. and Claire Pasarow Award for Cancer Research
... of the 20 amino acids found in proteins, governed how cells multiply. The special proteins that attach phosphate to tyrosine are called tyrosine kinases. The human genome encodes 90 different tyrosine kinases, more than half of which have been implicated in cancer. Tyrosine kinase research continues t...AMPAKINE compounds a new potential treatment for respiratory depression
...ics, and a potentially significant breakthrough in how medication for pain, analgesia, and sedation are used. "Ampakines may allow for improved safety and a more effective use of opiate analgesics and barbiturate sedatives," Dr. Stoll of Cortex observes, "two important classes of central nervous system d...New study could bring relief to sweltering city slickers
... change forecasts to produce a detailed picture of how urban heat islands push up the temperature during the hottest months. One of the aims of the three-year study is to produce a series of tools, that will help planners, designers and engineers decide the best way of adapting the urban landscape to b...New Orleans levee report finished by panel including University of Texas at Austin engineer
...e very significant decisions need to be made about how New Orleans is going to be redeveloped and functio... risk of flooding should influence everything from how people are evacuated to where and how houses are re-built and land is re-developed. Building houses ...Medicalizing the human condition
...voking study offers valuable insight into not only how medicalization got to this point but also how it may continue to evolve....Revlimid data presented at ASCO stands to change the way physicians treat multiple myeloma
...s first-line treatment would be a major advance in how we care for myeloma patients." About ECOG 4A03 Trial Top line findings from the ECOG study were reported last month, when the trial closed early based on one-year data which showed a greater survival advantage for patients receiving low dose dex...May/June Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
... LEADERSHIP In this essay, the author reflects on how a sense of importance can be detrimental in leadership, leading to failure to perform or impotence.The Impotence of Being Important Reflections on LeadershipBy Ian Douglas Couper, B.A., M.B.B.Ch., MFamMed...Brain-boosting pill alleviates post-chemotherapy fogginess
...leting the trial, many of the women wanted to know how they could continue to get modafinil. Kohli presents the research -- which is believed to be the first to examine the drugs use in breast cancer patients -- on June 3 at the American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting in Chicago. ASCO is honoring...Nonhormonal drug reduces hot flashes in men treated for prostate cancer
...enopause, he says. "But we dont understand exactly how any of these drugs work to reduce hot flashes," says Dr. Loprinzi. Gabapentin (trade name Neurontin) was approved by the Food and Drug Administration ( http://www.fda.gov/ ) to treat epileptic seizures in 1994, and pain from shingles in 2002. Th...