ACP supports improved access to information on relative strengths and weaknesses
...nited States. ACP members include 123,000 internal medicine physicians (internists), related subspecialists, and medical students. Internists specialize in the prevention, detection and treatment of illness in adults....Children with sleep disorder symptoms are more likely to have trouble academically
...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 dont 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. Parents who suspect that their chil...Sleep Slide-Rule improves children's understanding of the importance of sleep
...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 dont 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. Parents who suspect that their child...CAM-oriented primary care providers result in cost savings, high patient satisfaction
...iropractic and other complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) providers can positivelyimpact patient quality of care while limiting overall costs. This approach to patient care has great potentialto improve the U.S. healthcare system. Led by Richard Sarnat, MD, researchers directly compared cost and cli...High-Need Physician Workforce Incentives Act endorsed by American College of Physicians
...amily. 2) Decision-making guided by evidence-based medicine and clinical decision support tools. 3) Physician accountability for continuous quality improvement through voluntary participation in performance measurement. 4) Active patient participation in decision-making, patient personal responsibility for di...DFG approves 11 new Collaborative Research Centers
...hnologies and methods of treatment in regenerative medicine using nano and laser technology. The centre will b...ans continue to pose challenges to transplantation medicine as a whole. This is the motivation for SFB 738 Optimising Conventional and Innovative Transplantatio...Extra pay does not improve hospital performance
... laudable, said Kevin Schulman, M.D., professor of medicine and business administration at Duke and study co-author. However, we really need a robust research base to inform the design of the program and clearly we need to continuously monitor performance to ensure that we are achieving our clinical goals thr...USC researchers show that molecular markers predict tumor recurrence
...relapse, says Heinz-Josef Lenz, M.D., professor of medicine at the Keck School and the principal investigator on the study. These molecular markers not only help us to identify patients who are at high risk, but they may be critical to selecting the most efficient therapy. Angiogenesis refers to the blood v...New drug shows promise in treatment of advanced thyroid cancer
...senter Ezra Cohen, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Chicago. "Until now we really didn't have anything to offer thyroid cancer patients with advanced disease that was refractory to standard measures." Although this drug did not produce complete responses, it appears to have caus...Trial shows circulating tumor cells predict how prostate cancer patients do with chemotherapy
...s. The first immediate application is personalized medicine in advanced metastatic prostate cancer. In addition, certain tests can be performed on CTCs, he notes. One future goal is to better characterize the tumor cells virulence. Yet, one limitation is that we didnt find as many circulating cells as w...U-M study finds lymphoma drug effective over long term
...," says Mark Kaminski, M.D., professor of internal medicine at the U-M Medical School. Kaminski will present these results June 4 at the American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting in Chicago. "These results compare quite favorably with those achieved with state-of-the-art chemotherapy regimens tha...Gender impacts colorectal cancer progression
... investigator Heinz-Josef Lenz, M.D., professor of medicine at USCs Keck School of Medicine. Findings from the study were displayed on Monday, June 4 at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) held at McCormick Place in Chicago. The study focused specifically on patients wh...Antipsychotic drugs increase risk of death in older people with dementia
...n dementia, said Sudeep Gill, MD, MSc, a geriatric medicine specialist and the studys lead author. The FDA and Health Canada both issued warnings in 2005 that use of newer atypical antipsychotics to treat elderly patients with dementia was associated with an increased risk of death. But Dr. Gill said, Prev...Hot flashes may be welcome sign in women with breast cancer, study says
...tor of the Moores Cancer Center and professor of medicine with the UCSD School of Medicine. "About two-thirds of women with breast cancer say hot flashes compromise their quality of life. The most common request for additional treatment we get is for relief from these symptoms." The study was based upon d...Female teen steroid use not limited to athletes
...hives journal. Diane Elliot, M.D., professor of medicine (health promotion and sports medicine), OHSU School of Medicine, and colleagues analyzed findings from the Center for Disease Controls Youth Risk Behavior Survey of 7,544 ninth- through 12th-grade girls from around the country. The questionnaire aske...Medicalizing the human condition
...onsidered medical conditions. For better or worse, medicine increasingly permeates daily life. Building on more than three decades of research in a new book, Brandeis University sociologist Peter Conrad explores the changing forces driving the medicalization of society through case studies of short stature,...Aussie research goes global through new grants
...ity of Melbourne: Will examine levers to influence medicine and outcomes for patients in Australia will travel London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; Professor John Wakerman and Professor John Humphreys, Flinders University: Will compare health concerns in remote Australia issues with a Canadian res...Protein may be linked to melanoma recurrence
... principal investigator of the study, professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and director of the Melanoma Center at UPCI. We know that only 30 percent of these patients benefit from treatment long-term. The goal of our study was to identify better predictors of who will benef...Herb shows potential to reduce cancer-related fatigue
... fear of disease recurrence. Traditional Chinese medicine and current understanding of ginsengs function both point to its characteristics as an adaptogen -- a substance that helps the body overcome the effects of environmental stress. Since cancer patients have stressors ranging from the psychological stre...Adding medication improves recovery for elderly with depression, says Pitt School of Medicine study
...story. Thirty-six participants either declined new medicine or did not receive augmentation because of accompanying medical conditions. Half of the patients who did not respond to the initial treatment responded to the augmentation therapy. It took a median 28 weeks for the participants to achieve recovery....