Pediatricians must confront community-based threats to health
...ng efforts at URMC. Building on an already strong institutional commitment to community health, in 1996, the Pediatric Links to the Community (PLC) program was created at URMC to further the study of the unique health challenges for economically disadvantaged children and adolescents in the Rochester area and dev...Institute of Medicine news: Human resource crisis in HIV/AIDS
... arrangements, known as "twinning," can strengthen institutional work forces in host countries by providing staff to fill vacancies and to offer specialized training and development opportunities. Partners could include hospitals, universities, nongovernmental organizations, and public health agencies. Educatio...Patients with pituitary gland tumors are often misdiagnosed
...ns, to ear, nose and throat specialists and bridge institutional alliances. The next meeting will take place at 6:30 pm on Tuesday, May 3 at The Neurologic & Orthopedic Institute of Chicago, 4501 N. Winchester, ground level. Many patients are concerned about treatments and surgery because of the location and fun...Nation's leading researchers, scientists reveal findings at occupational therapy conference
...s Disease can help occupational therapists improve institutional and family caregiving practices to the benefit of persons with Alzheimer's and those who directly provide their care each day. Low Vision Rehabilitation in Older Adults When compared to those without vision loss, older adults with vision loss repo...Study shows non-children's hospitals serve majority of US children
...is set of issues, providing a picture of different institutional burdens," said Wasserman, the study's lead investigator. "While our results do not assess quality of care, we hypothesize that non-children's hospitals may be under-resourced in pediatric expertise while providing an excess of care for the poor and f...New breast shield reduces radiation to female breast during chest CT by up to 73%
...valent phantoms. Our study is currently before the institutional review board at our institution to begin a trial on female patients. Based on the phantom studies, we are not anticipating significant image degradation. We hope to have the shield available for commercial use in the next several months," said Dr. Pa...Procedure setting, technique and cost are key for effective colorectal cancer screening
...in the missed colorectal cancers. Using Canadian institutional data records, the team identified all individuals over the age of 20 years with a new diagnosis of right-sided CRC, transverse (arch of the colon) CRC and rectal/sigmoid (the junction between the colon and rectum) CRC, in Ontario from 1997 to 2002. ...Smoking increases risk for liver, pancreatic and colorectal cancers
... with HCC between 1996 and 2004 from an electronic institutional database. Information was also pulled on 196 patients with chronic liver disease without HCC. Researchers investigated patient smoking history, alcohol consumption, diabetes, history of hepatitis and demographic data of patients with HCC and compar...Stanford bioethicists want stronger protections for women donating eggs for stem cell research
...to be research on human subjects. Because of that, institutional review boards - the entities responsible for approving research involving human subjects - aren't obligated to review the consent forms signed by egg donors for stem cell research. Magnus and Cho want to create a new category they call "research dono...Computed tomography has potential to offer accurate, safer method for detecting artery disease
...jamamedia.org ) Editor's Note: Dr. Garcia receives institutional research funding from Philips Medical Systems....Queen's poll - Ontarians don't want to close institutions for those with intellectual disabilities
...iod, two months after the government announced its institutional closure policy in 2004. There were a total of 680 respondents, which represents 1 in 284 households, 1 in 626 adults across southeastern Ontario. Most results were either within +/-3 or 4 % 19 times out of 20, although the disagreement with the closu......fied percentage of outdoor air into commercial and institutional buildings. Compared to conventional air-conditioning hardware packages, the Revolution is more compact, cost-effective and energy-efficient. The Revolution's flexibility allows operators to easily comply with building ventilation codes and maintain s...Health professionals believe gender bias limits women's progression in NHS
The NHS suffers from an institutional gender bias that favours the progression of men over women according to health professionals. New research at the University of Liverpool found that men occupy the most authoritative and influential positions in the NHS, with women believing they mus...Creating and supporting family therapists of color
...nd academic institutions, provision of a long-term institutional commitment and biracial collaborations. Intensive interaction between students and senior faculty also helped incorporate the students, prevent marginalization, and gave the faculty the opportunity to learn, as well, from the different voices and ex...New support for disabled research students
...nce. The research also showed that supervisors and institutional staff could readily help remove or lessen the barriers, by putting more thought into tailoring the research environment and their working practices to meet the requirements of these students. These findings led to the development of a world-first web...Proteome Systems raises $10m through a private placement to institutional and professional investors
...t has completed a conditional private placement to institutional and professional investors raising approx $10 mill... of up to 33,333,333 fully paid ordinary shares to institutional and professional investors in the UK, US and Australia at a price of $0.30c per share. The placeme...New programs restore interest in physician-scientist research careers
...mpt to define the effects that these budgetary and institutional initiatives have had on the physician-scientist career path. The authors determined trends using data obtained from the NIH, the American Medical Association, the Association of American Medical Colleges, and other sources. The researchers found that...What the news and the movies leave out: Behind the scenes of disaster aid
...building household economies as well as policy and institutional change in the region. If you don't understand what makes a local community tick, and you don't involve them in the rebuilding, you are just asking for failure." A specific example, Walker points out, is Sri Lanka: "there was a perception of vast ineq...Elsevier announces a publishing partnership with the Ambulatory Pediatric Association
...iatrics will also be accessible through Elsevier's institutional subscription service, ScienceDirect ( http://www.sciencedirect.com ). Another key upgrade will be the ability for contributors to submit manuscripts electronically via the Elsevier Editorial System ( http://authors.elsevier.com ), streamlining the p...... specimen pairs contained an error. Differences in institutional error rates are most likely related to bias in error reporting, although underlying quality improvement methods may have resulted in lower error frequencies at some institutions. The majority of errors were a result of sub-optimal specimen collection...