Rockefeller University researchers are changing the face of drug addiction treatment
...eople for doing things that are wrong, so it's not necessarily intuitive to reinforce positive behavior when it does occur in our patients. But once the patients began to respond to the reinforcements, it changed the counselors. The counselors want the patients to get better, and when they saw the patients get b...PSA screening for prostate cancer to be debated at annual meeting forum
...n's lives. For example, elevated PSA levels don't necessarily equate with clinically significant prostate cancer. Some men faced with high test results, however, may have undergone unnecessary treatments, with debilitating side effects such as infertility, incontinence and impotence. For others, a normal PSA h...Cost-effectiveness of drugs may vary across borders
...howed that the results seen in one country are not necessarily applicable in another and that decision makers need to interpret data from other countries very carefully. This research was conducted within and across multiple countries in Western Europe to assess the generalizability of the cost-effectiveness of ...Medical journal editors condemn ghostwriting
...ctions between the private sector and academia are necessarily unethical or biased. By encouraging appropriate management of acute and chronic conditions, pharmaceutical manufacturers can benefit to the degree that use of their products is encouraged by evidence-based guidelines established by independent bodies...Easing the anxiety of pregnancy after miscarriage
...s Cote-Arsenault, "but the care she receives isn't necessarily different. These women are in a very different place. Most are emotionally guarded. Many experience high anxiety and stress. There is a loss of innocence and a sense of skepticism." Studies by other researchers have shown that experiences su...Shape-altering genes linked to ovarian cancer
... cases. But we don't know if changes in cell shape necessarily lead to cancer. We would like to be able to offer a test that could assess risk and allow women to make more informed choices." In addition to Dr. Naora, Ph.D., Wenjun Cheng, M.D., Jinsong Liu, M.D., Ph.D, Hiroyuki Yoshida, M.D., Ph.D., and Daniel Ro...Alternate view for pathology of AD
...presence of NFTs and incidence of disease does not necessarily dictate a causal relationship" said lead author, Hyoung-gon Lee, Ph.D., a research associate in the Department of Pathology at Case. "In fact, since NFTs are produced in response to a variety of disease conditions, there is the distinct possibility t...'Virtual colonoscopy' effective in finding most polyps but may miss small ones
...r the more invasive examination, but this does not necessarily mean they will accept one and not the other," according to the report. Patients might find advantages to each type of test. "CT is faster and noninvasive, but polyps can be diagnosed and removed during a single colonoscopy procedure, and patients may...Rare surgery performed to remove pancreas, prevent diabetes
...e the insulin-producing islets of Langerhans would necessarily be discarded along with the rest of the organ. Patients without functioning islet cells have to take insulin for life. Retrieving and relocating the natural insulin-producing cells from the pancreas saves patients from the complications of severe, po...Substituting nurses for doctors results in high quality care, few savings
... however, shows that nurses' lower salaries do not necessarily equate to lower overall costs. The ANA advocates for removing regulatory and legislative barriers to increased use of nurses as health care providers. The systematic review included 16 studies totaling more than 25,000 patients in the United Kingdom,...Lower vaccination rates put children at risk
...has become over the past few years. Nor do parents necessarily understand the importance of sharing information about their child's alternative therapy, said Dr. Vohra, who is also director of the CARE program (Complementary and Alternative Research and Education) at the Stollery Children's Hospital. "There is a...Watching metals melt, nanometer-scale views inside cells
...ctures butpreparing the specimen to enable viewing necessarily kills thecell. Viewing separate cells at different phases of development canprovide a proper time sequence, but this involves much tediouslabor. A second method, using fluorescent probes coupled with lightmicroscopes, sometimes saves the cell but c...Too many doctors fail to follow guidelines and to prescribe best treatments for heart patients
...uidelines, and even when they do know, they do not necessarily put them into medical practice. Sometimes physicians feel they are flooded by too much information and a plethora of guidelines." He said there might be several reasons why doctors do not follow guidelines: economic constraints, lack of belief in the...All low-fat diets are not equal, Stanford study shows
...hat are good for you." A "plant-based" diet is not necessarily a vegetarian diet. It simply includes a foundation of whole grains, vegetables, beans, nuts, seeds and fruits. The 2000 AHA guidelines recommend at least five daily servings of vegetables and fruits and at least six daily servings of grains with an e...Diabetes and pizza: Slow and steady insulin delivery wins the race
...e the same type of prolonged hyperglycemia and not necessarily those that have only the same composition." Gabbay said future studies will investigate whether the method works with foods of other compositions. In addition to Gabbay, Jones and Quarry, the study team included Molly Caldwell-McMillan, M.D., Divisio...The relationship between clinical depression and chronic pain
...bing a standard antidepressant medication will not necessarily relieve the suffering of a depressed patient whose pain is not only real but also intensely physical....Breast tumor's biological traits guide hormone therapy
... tumor's biology, and that not all patients should necessarily be given the same treatment," explains Burstein. "In so many areas of breast cancer medicine, we are learning that 'one size does not fit all.'" The model revealed that the best treatment for an individual woman depended on whether her tumor was pos...Stanford bioethicists want stronger protections for women donating eggs for stem cell research
...earch" so that donors don't assume their risk will necessarily have a benefit. If the women risk death and receive no benefit, what's the incentive for donation? Magnus argues that the women who donate eggs should be advocates of research without any expectation of a reward. Only in this situation would the egg ...... when we adjusted for age in this study, we didn't necessarily find less cancer. We did find that men with a higher body mass index did indeed have higher-grade, more aggressive-appearing cancer." A study published in February 2004 in Journal of Clinical Oncology also found higher rates of aggressive cancer in o......aise acidity levels. "Foods that are sticky do not necessarily cause tooth decay. It is mainly the added sugar, the sucrose, that contributes to the problem," Wu said....