Researchers hot on the trail of brain cell degeneration
...s caused by calcium entry. Finding new targets for medicine development is also significant in terms of the economy, owing to the costly treatment of these diseases, both in Finland and globally. Cooperation between biocentres gets research going The teams' study is a perfect example of the cooperation...World first in medical robotics
... promising avenue that could enable interventional medicine to target sites that so far have remained inaccessible using modern medical instruments such as catheters," Professor Martel explained. "In collaboration with our scientific partners, Polytechnique researchers have begun developing several types of m...New cigarette designs don't offer lower predicted cancer risks
...tion," he said. Grover Bagby, M.D., professor of medicine (hematology and medical oncology) and director of the OHSU Cancer Institute, said "the tobacco industry would have us believe that the health risks of tobacco use can be reduced by using new tobacco products. Dr. Pankow and his colleagues have challe...ACP: Residency match results for internal medicine underscore need to redesign primary care
...t the number of medical students choosing internal medicine residencies stayed about the same compared to 2006...can medical students entering categorical internal medicine training programs was similar to the 2,668 figure from last year. The American College of Physicians...Aga Khan University team discover which patients keep on taking their medicine
...paradigm shift in what constitutes the practice of medicine and its implications on our societies ways of life...to move straight into the practice of 21st century medicine within a very short time. One powerful angle to address the issue of the individuals putative readi...A new focus for health care reform -- realigning competition around patient value
...ans to lead this change and return the practice of medicine to its appropriate focus: enabling health and effective care. The authors' proposal highlights three principles that will put competition on the right track: 1) the goal is value for patients, (2) medical practice should be organized around medical...Anxiety disorders surprisingly common yet often untreated
... Dr. Kroenke, I.U. School of Medicine professor of medicine and Regenstrief Institute, Inc. research scientist. Dr. Kroenke, an internist, is an internationally recognized researcher who studies physical symptoms, especially pain, and their links to mental disorders including anxiety and depression. Dr. K...Patients should be alert for obesity surgery complication
...h, M.D., lead author and an instructor in internal medicine at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Wernicke encephalopathy is caused by a deficiency of thiamine and is often associated with severe alcoholism or chronic malnutrition. In obesity surgery patients, it can develop when patients stop taki...High BMI linked to lower chance of being discharged directly home after hospitalization for stroke
...nsfer to inpatient rehabilitation setting, general medicine service or skilled nursing facility) than those in the lowest BMI category (26 percent vs. 45 percent). The highest two BMI categories showed a statistically nonsignificant trend toward extended length of hospital stay when compared with the lowest B...UW launches study testing adult stem cells for heart damage repair
...intervention. This type of therapy - regenerative medicine - treats diseases by using growth factors, genes o...s Amish Raval, head of cardiovascular regenerative medicine at UW Health. The goal with this approach, he says, is to promote either angiogenesis, which is the...Empathy skills must be given a high priority in medical education, says Jefferson author
...icult to convince medical students that the art of medicine can be as important as the science." Many medical schools are incorporating new classes and methods into the curriculum to improve empathy skills among students and residents, hoping to help them better understand what patients experience. Some are...85th General Session, International Association for Dental Research
...tition, to the impact of Hurricane Katrina on oral medicine and pathology in New Orleans. (For a complete listing, please see the green section of this Press Kit.) Featured during Meeting Week will be the IADR/Unilever Hatton Awards Competition (45 competitors from 22 countries) for student investigators. Th...Should NICE evaluate complementary medicine?
Demand for complementary and alternative medicine is high despite limited evidence. In this week's B... and colleagues. Some people within conventional medicine remain deeply convinced that alternative medicine cannot have any possible benefit, but this is all ...Undergrad: Mothers in African study undereducated on diarrhea
...radley Sack, professor of international health and medicine at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, credits his student with designing an "important" study that could have meaningful repercussions for Ethiopian child health. "Rishi has done a remarkable job in designing and carrying out a st...Probe to detect spread of breast cancer co-developed by UH scientist
...tes to work and eliminates the need for a nuclear medicine practitioner to inject the radioactive material. A patient thus may not have to be hospitalized while waiting, and the technology eliminates unnecessary patient and surgeon exposure to radioactivity. "We introduce a paradigm-shifting new technol...$15M Northwestern grant funds heart research
...urvival. Jeffrey Goldberger, M.D., professor of medicine at Feinberg and director of Cardiac Electrophysiology at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, is the national principal investigator of the multicenter, randomized clinical research study. The five-year study will enroll 1,124 participants from around the...Do specialty heart hospitals drive up heart care use? Study suggests the answer is yes
....D., MPH, an assistant professor of cardiovascular medicine at the U-M Medical School and interventional cardiologist at the U-M Cardiovascular Center. He is also a member of the Health Services Research & Development Center at the Ann Arbor VA. The authors emphasize that the specialty heart hospitals in t...Erectile dysfunction drugs may trump nitroglycerin for heart protection
...inically. Rakesh C. Kukreja, Ph.D., professor of medicine and Eric Lipman Chair of Cardiology at VCU, and colleagues compared nitroglycerin with two erectile dysfunction drugs -- Viagra, generically known as sildenafil, and Levitra, generically known as vardenafil -- to determine the effectiveness of each f...Reactions to 'false-positive' prostate cancer screenings assessed
... David Katz, M.D., associate professor of internal medicine in the UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, and of epidemiology in the UI College of Public Health. "Because screening affects a large number of men relative to those who are expected to benefit from treatment, even a small adverse ...Residents in disaster areas face medication adherence dilemmas
...hen they evacuated; 32 percent didnt bring enough medicine and ran out; 15 percent reported trouble getting ...ikely to report failing to completely follow their medicine regimen, researchers said. Krousel-Woods group was uniquely positioned to conduct the study because ...