Method shows promise for early detection of pancreatic cancer
...pancreatic cancer and is an associate professor of medicine at Northwesterns Feinberg School of Medicine. They...erologist Hemant Roy, M.D., associate professor of medicine at the Feinberg School, who is overseeing clinical trials at Evanston Hospital. (Roy also is a colla...AASM to school-bound: Sleep is the right ingredient for academic success
...cognition. Ralph Downey III, PhD, chief of sleep medicine at the Sleep Disorders Center at Loma Linda Univer...ds or drinks that contain caffeine, as well as any medicine that has a stimulant, prior to bedtime. Do not stay up all hours of the night to cram for an e...Medical residents score poorly in diagnosing and managing tuberculosis
...tion control, infectious diseases, or in pulmonary medicine to assist in diagnosis, isolation and treatment. According to Karakousis, an assistant professor at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and its Tuberculosis Research Center, Our results demonstrate that improved training is needed about...Science steps in to discover wonders of Toe-tankhamun
...unctional then we will have pushed back prosthetic medicine by as much as 700 years, said Jacky. The Cairo toe is the most likely of the two to be functional as it is articulated and shows signs of wear. It is still attached to the foot of the mummy of a female between 50 and 60 years of age. The amputation...RAND presents first Victor Fuchs Research Award to economists at Carnegie Mellon University
...demonstrate that encouraging people to take their medicine prevents long-term complications, and ultimately can save a substantial amount of money. The paper examined the effects of increased drug co-payments on drug spending and on spending for other medical care. Results showed that increases in drug c...Asia Pacific Family Medicine moves to BioMed Central's open access platform
... research aimed to enhance the standards of family medicine by focusing on best practices. Family medicine is one of the fastest growing medical fields in the Asia Pacific region. By moving to BioMed Centra...Support for Children's Health and Medicare Protection Act given to House leaders by ACP
...f 2007 (H.R. 3162). Representing 124,000 internal medicine physicians and medical student members, ACP is the largest medical specialty society in the United States. David C. Dale, MD, FACP, president of ACP, sent letters to Representatives Charles Rangel, chair, and Fortney H. Pete Stark, chair of the He...Medical students respond positively to simulated patient experience
...look like when I started, said Fitch, an emergency medicine specialist who developed the teaching scenario and...ent physicians to help him implement the emergency medicine scenario. The clinical simulation containing basic science concepts was presented four times to larg...Study finds HIV protease inhibitor drugs may adversely affect the scaffolding of the cell nucleus
... Ph.D., study author and an associate professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. ...Dr. Stephen Young, study author and a professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. The UCLA team was assisted by the laboratory of Ch...Speeding up CT scans with cellphone technology, ultrasound warning signal for breast cancer
...ientific papers on subjects at the intersection of medicine and physics. Many of these topics deal with the development of state-of-the-art imaging and therapeutic devices for cancer, and the new techniques that go along with them. The scientific program will begin on Sunday, July 22 at 9:30 AM and conclu...ACP commends proposed changes to payments for physician work at nursing facilities
...with them on this issue. Internists and internal medicine subspecialists provide a great amount of care in the nursing facility setting, added Dr. Dale. Because patients are moved from more intense settings much more quickly than in the past, patients in nursing facilities are often in very serious conditi...New research spares children the pain of the needle
...ssary and could be replaced with oral doses of the medicine in the majority of cases. The study has been published online in the medical journal Thorax. The research involved 243 children in hospitals throughout the UK. It was led by Terence Stephenson, Professor of Child Health, and Dr Maria Atkinson, both...Emergency department guidelines enhance quality patient care
...onthly, evidence-based meeting in the UC emergency medicine department for input from faculty, residents and nurses. The committee then finalized the physician and nursing guidelines, developed an order set and discharge sheets and put them on the Web at www.cpqe.com. Since the first one was developed, guid...Intensive-care patients with alcohol problems are more likely to require mechanical ventilation
...nts, said Marjolein de Wit, assistant professor of medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University, and corresponding author for the study. She added that the majority of medical patients with a critical illness have multiple comorbidities such as diabetes, renal failure, heart failure, cirrhosis of the liver,...Personal comments by physicians distract from patient needs
...e article and a professor of psychiatry and family medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine ...-author of the article and a clinical professor of medicine and family medicine at the School of Medicine and Dentistry. Instead we found these disclosures to b...Poor sleep hygiene in children associated with behavioral problems
...ds or drinks that contain caffeine, as well as any medicine that has a stimulant, prior to bedtime. Do not go to bed hungry, but don't eat a big meal before bedtime either. The bedroom should be quiet, dark and a little bit cool. Get up at the same time every morning. ...Future therapies for stroke may block cell death
...d. "The use of histone deacetylase inhibitors in medicine would thus appear to hold tremendous promise," Kozikowski said. But to be clinically useful, he said, drugs must be designed that are able to discriminate between various forms of histone deacetylase. Kozikowski said the new findings, performed in...Children's brain responses predict impact of sleep loss on attention
...ds or drinks that contain caffeine, as well as any medicine that has a stimulant, prior to bedtime. Do not go to bed hungry, but don't eat a big meal before bedtime either. The bedroom should be quiet, dark and a little bit cool. Get up at the same time every morning. ...Sleep restriction affects children's speech
...ds or drinks that contain caffeine, as well as any medicine that has a stimulant, prior to bedtime. Do not go to bed hungry, but don't eat a big meal before bedtime either. The bedroom should be quiet, dark and a little bit cool. Get up at the same time every morning. ......rina, despite an overall decrease in initial sleep medicine evaluations. This increase might be a result of existential concerns raised by the evacuee situation," said Sharon. "The task of debris cleaning in a polluted environment might have contributed to the increase in male patients." Sharon noted that...