Painless test using teardrops may speed diagnosis of Sjgren's syndrome
...ittle as a single teardrop, collected in a doctors office using special filter papers. The teardrop would then be analyzed in the laboratory for newly discovered protein biomarkers and results can be obtained in as little as one hour, Tomosugi says. The test, which is being refined, could be available to co...ACP and ACP Foundation launch 3-year effort to improve diabetes care
...tandards of care, measurable goals for practice in office settings, and research can dramatically improve diabetes care." "To tackle diabetes, we are looking beyond our 116,000 member internists to the health care team as a whole," said Dr. Francis. "ACP is dedicated to promoting evidence-based medicine ...Direct-to-consumer advertising may influence physicians' prescribing decisions
...l condition). The patients made appointments for office visits with 152 primary care physicians in Sacramento, Calif., San Francisco, and Rochester, N.Y., between May 2003 and May 2004. The scenarios included patients telling their doctor that they had seen an advertisement for Paxil on TV and asked for...Costs of medical institutional review boards' greater than previously estimated
...nt on various IRB-related activities, the costs of office space, equipment, supplies and travel, and the use of outside services to facilitate and complement the work of the IRB. Low-volume institutions (fewer than 350 new research protocols reviewed by an IRB per year) had on average six IRB staff members...Simple questions may determine children's exposure to smoke
... develop a simple screening tool to be used in the office setting to define children at highest risk for ETS exposure," the authors write. "Although in clinical practice, mothers frequently report smoking few cigarettes per day and smoking outside, these factors did not prove to be significant determinants ...All low-fat diets are not equal, Stanford study shows
...ation Guidelines," said Gardner, who decorates his office with splashy posters of squashes and peas. "Include more whole grains and vegetables and beans and colors - not iceberg lettuce, but red bell peppers and carrots and broccoli and red cabbage and the really colorful foods. Those are all really low in ...GMC needs to get its head out of the sand over revalidation
...review is now being conducted by the chief medical office for England. The GMC's revised plans for revalidation will not detect poorly performing doctors, writes Professor Aneez Esmail, medical adviser to the Shipman inquiry. Revalidation is supposed to weed out doctors that are not fit to practise, yet app...Richard A. Meyer, MD, receives the 2005 AIUM William J. Fry Memorial Lecture Award
...sign efforts were carried over to the current AIUM office in Laurel, Maryland. In addition, he was a founding member of the American Society of Echocardiography and president and founding member of the Society of Pediatric Echocardiography. Dr. Meyer has presented more than 30 lectures for various societies...Mayo Clinic creates 'Office of the Future'
...we also take a walk." This scientifically designed office environment is the practical realization of a deca...patient care, Dr. Levine created his NEAT-oriented office floor within six months of his scientific publication. "We became more excited as we heard more abou...Protecting Europe from epidemics: official inauguration of ECDC on 27 May
...oard in December 2004 (see IP/04/1472) and took up office on March 1st. Recruitment of the Centre's key scientific and administrative staff is now underway (see MEX/05/0329) For further information about the ECDC see: http://europa.eu.int/comm/health/ph_overview/strategy/ecdc/ecdc_en.htm...Medical privacy vs. health care quality?
...A-compliant way rose. Computing time, staff hours, office supplies and postage would cost $8,704.50 in the f...e it. While we've been able to work with our legal office to make sure we're protecting privacy, other institutions may interpret the same law so strictly as ...Psychosocial aspects of genetic testing for hereditary cancers meeting at Jefferson June 9-10
...om sitting in a waiting room to being in a doctors office and feeling like a diagnosis of breast or ovarian cancer is imminent. Henry Lynch, M.D., chairman of preventive medicine and public health and director of Creighton University School of Medicines Hereditary Cancer Institute in Omaha, Neb., and one ...Despite alternatives, addictive drugs most often prescribed for sleep problems
..., Ohio Nearly one out of two visits to a doctor's office for help with a sleep disorder result in the presc...the journal Sleep, includes data from 94.6 million office visits in the United States over a six-year period. Patients included in the data set sought help fo...NIH convenes panel to assess evidence on chronic insomnia
...Centers. The Office of the Director is the central office at NIH and is responsible for setting policy for NIH and for planning, managing, and coordinating the programs and activities of all the NIH components. The NIH, the Nation's medical research agency, is a component of the U.S. Department of Health an...Newly published summer camp health guideline advises parents, camp directors
...camper or counselor has to run to the camp nurse's office to grab an inhaler for a child who is having an asthma attack or an EpiPen for a child who has been stung by a bee can have real health consequences," says Walton. The new guideline does not give detailed recommendations for camps that serve only chi...Study confirms intensive treatment of diabetic patients significantly reduces heart disease
... receive 1-2 shots of insulin a day and occasional office visits and standard dietary reminders. In intensive treatment, patients are given 3-4 shots of insulin a day, frequent dietary reminders, monthly doctor's appointments, and psychological support. In results announced last Sunday, the ADA says among ...Restoring flow to all blocked areas of the heart improves 5-year survival rate, study says
... different outcomes. "When I have a patient in my office and we say, 'You're going to need surgery,' they hear nothing else," he said. "To the patient, the big decision is surgery or no surgery. Once that decision is made, they assume one operation is the same as another. But we're saying there's more to i...Adolescent binge drinking issues
...ate, ask, advise, assist, arrange) method at every office visit, clinicians can build trust and assess an adolescents risk profile....Parkinson's medication appears to trigger excessive gambling
... A clergyman sheepishly confided by phone after an office visit that he had an obsession with gambling, which started after beginning a dopamine agonist medication. Another patient lost over $100,000 as well as her first marriage due to her compulsive gambling. She could never drive by a casino without goin......nalogous to the pattern of lights on and off in an office building can tell us about the experience of the cells. In the alcohol abuser, blood cells are bathed in alcohol and we can see this. The problem is one of complexity: every cell has about 30,000 genes and a complete picture of activity requires m...