Institute of Medicine news: Review of HIVNET 012 study
...al levels of bilirubin, a subsequent safety report issued by DAIDS initially stated that there were 63 cases of elevated bilirubin. DAIDS later retracted the safety report as incorrect. The IOM committee, based on its own analysis, determined that the DAIDS safety report initially used an incorrect upper ...APA applauds new California regulations for inpatient psychological services
...h full hospital privileges. New state regulations issued by the state's Department of Health Services (DHS), recognizes California psychologists' expertise in diagnosing and treating mental disorders which allows them to serve their patients in acute care hospitals as attending practitioners. The Californi...NMDP welcomes IOM recommendation for fully integrated cord blood system
...s outcomes data directly. The IOM recommendations, issued today in a report, "Cord Blood: Establishing a National Hematopoietic Stem Cell Bank Program," come in response to a 2004 request by Congress, which asked the IOM to provide an assessment of existing cord blood programs and inventories and to make re...Adolescents not receiving health counseling, Stanford study shows
...an a decade after the American Medical Association issued clear recommendations for yearly health counseling... crisis intervention to problem prevention, and it issued specific guidelines for clinical practice. It recommended, for example, that teens receive yearly gu...Too many doctors fail to follow guidelines and to prescribe best treatments for heart patients
... the patients' treatment adhered to the guidelines issued by the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) for th...of Bassand and his co-authors said that guidelines issued by professional organisations such as the ESC should be regarded as pivotal educational tools that a...Latest research and emerging treatments for osteoporosis focus of NYAS conference
Recently, the U.S. Surgeon General issued a report emphasizing the need to recognize osteoporosis as a public health hazard. It is fortuitous that, in recent years, the use of advanced molecular technologies, including transgenesis, gene knockout, and gene array have greatly expanded our un...Heart scan surprises: CT reveals many non-heart problems, too
...roach. The American College of Radiology has just issued a Clinical Statement on Noninvasive Cardiac Imaging online that will be published in the June issue of the journal Radiology. It calls for specialized training, education and levels of experience for both radiologists who read CTCA images and the tec...ESC releases new chronic heart failure guidelines
... the last Guidelines on Chronic Heart Failure were issued in 2001, there have been substantial developments in the area of Heart Failure overall. The whole approach has also become more multidisciplinary. We are increasingly seeing a trend towards hospital-based Heart Failure Management Programmes and rec...Stanford bioethicists want stronger protections for women donating eggs for stem cell research
...cell research, and a recent set of recommendations issued by the National Academies of Science both require that women receive no compensation so they aren't coerced into donation. What's more, both organizations require that women sign consent forms indicating that they understand the risks of the procedur...Children need better cancer drugs, says expert panel
...ing the Time Line for New Cancer Treatments, which issued the report on April 18. As Chair of the Developmental Therapeutics program of the Children's Oncology Group, a nationwide consortium of pediatric oncology centers, Dr. Adamson took a leadership role in drafting the report. The Institute of Medicine i...International committee of medical journal editors updates requirements for clinical trials registry
...Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) today issued a follow-up joint editorial regarding its goal to foster a comprehensive, publicly available database of clinical trials. The joint editorial by 11 ICMJE member journals is published online simultaneously today and is posted on the JAMA website, ww...Study recommends new guidelines for air bag safety in children
...the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued its recommendations, they were based on the best information (about air bag safety) available at the time," said Craig Newgard, M.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of emergency medicine in the OHSU School of Medicine's Center for Policy and Research in...Johns Hopkins AIDS expert says global strategy needed to combat 'feminization' of HIV/AIDS
...major efforts to combat HIV and AIDS worldwide has issued an urgent call for global strategies and resources to confront the rapid "feminization" of the AIDS pandemic. In an article appearing in the journal Science online June 10, Thomas C. Quinn, M.D., professor of infectious diseases at Hopkins and a se...Ossur v. Bledsoe Brace Systems
...al district court judge in Seattle, Washington has issued an order following post trial motions in a lawsuit between Generation II and Bledsoe Brace Systems. On April 8, 2005, a jury found that two products manufactured and sold by Medical Technologies Inc., dba Bledsoe Brace Systems, infringed two patent...Changes advocated in license renewals for elderly drivers
...ome form of visual testing when a license is first issued to a driver, many states don't require drivers to undergo vision testing as part of the renewal process. Furthermore, no state now requires a mental or competency test as a prerequisite for obtaining a license renewal once a person reaches a certain...Dartmouth study reveals flaws in screening for TB; Cases in 3rd world HIV patients may go undetected
..." In the wake of the study, Mdecins Sans Frontires issued an advisory from its South Africa office, urging patients to insist on the sputum culture test if traditional TB skin and X-ray tests come back negative....Only 51 per cent of hospital staff followed hand washing guidelines before hygiene campaign
...land and Wales, but the same guidance has not been issued in southern Ireland. "Healthcare staff from all disciplines also need greater education on infection control."...Patients receiving radioisotope scans could trigger false security alarms at airports
... UK) and colleagues are calling for patients to be issued with an information card after diagnostic or therapeutic procedures involving radioisotopes as standard practice. Over 18 million diagnostic and therapeutic procedures involving radioisotopes are carried out each year. Radioisotopes in scans such as ...Inhaling large amounts of salt can cause hypertension
...dwide. The European Food Safety Authority recently issued an opinion stating that current salt intakes in Europe far exceed nutritional requirements and may cause adverse health effects. The present study, conducted by Kripa Haldiya and colleagues from the Desert Medicine Research Centre in Jodhpur, India, ...High blood pressure not well controlled among older men and women
... 80 were being treated with a diuretic. Guidelines issued by NHLBI's NHBPEP state that most high blood pressure patients will require two or more medications to get blood pressure down to target levels, and that a diuretic should be one of the medications used. Diuretics have been shown to be more benefici...