Resident work hour restrictions may be costly for teaching hospitals
...if 20 hours of care per week are provided by nurse practitioners instead of residents). In scenario two, residen...000; if residents work 60 hours per week and nurse practitioners are hired, costs increase to more than $2.9 million. Scenario three involves the same resident work...Traditional Chinese medical beliefs still relevant in Beijing
...e oral health programs and assist oral health-care practitioners in serving their patients better....IOF World Congress on Osteoporosis to be held for first time in Asia
...ent." Congress highlights Research scientists, practitioners and other clinical health professionals can benefit from the numerous Meet the Expert Sessions as well as twelve plenary lectures by global experts, special nutrition session, Asian Osteoporosis Audit, oral presentation of selected abstracts, poster ...Pacifier use may lower risk of SIDS
...in Nursing for Womens Health, neonatal health care practitioners should counsel new parents on the potential benefits of using a pacifier. This advice follows the release of updated recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Task Force on SIDS, suggesting that pacifier use be encouraged for c...Should NICE evaluate complementary medicine?
...hould be used in the NHS. Around half of general practitioners provide access to complementary medicine, and two thirds of Scottish general practitioners prescribe herbal or homoeopathic medicines, so a thorough review by NICE would benefit the NHS and p...Steroid use fails to boost pregnancy rates in infertility treatments
...ng hint of benefit may nevertheless encourage some practitioners to continue routine use of glucocorticoids for their IVF patients, said Randall Hines, M.D., director of the division of reproductive endocrinology and infertility at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. When you have a therapy that doesn...Pregnant women in the dark on prenatal screening
...QUT's Applied Ethics Program, said when talking to practitioners it emerged that no-one was charged with ensuring p...ion is clear education for mothers and support for practitioners to provide this education. It needs to be picked up by the Queensland Government and Queensland Heal...Male circumcision reduces HIV risk, study stopped early
...umcised," he said. "The danger is that unqualified practitioners will fill a niche by providing circumcision, but with much higher complication rates." An estimated 30 million people in Africa are infected with HIV/AIDS and more than 90 percent of HIV infections in adults result from heterosexual intercourse. In...HIV burden in India may be much lower than official estimates
...IV due to referral of patients with HIV by private practitioners and because they are used disproportionately more by patients with a lower socioeconomic status, who in this study had a higher prevalence of HIV. Therefore, the current official method is leading to substantial over-estimations of the burden of HIV...High risk of chronic health conditions plagues those with schizophrenia
...arney Doebbeling. "Both physical and mental health practitioners should have a heightened awareness of the significant medical morbidity faced by persons with chronic mental illness."...Functional brain imaging insights from UC San Diego grad student
... week. "With this work, functional brain imaging practitioners should be better able to assess the relative strengths and weaknesses of competing Bayesian approaches for source localization," said David Wipf, who performed the research and wrote the paper while at UCSD. "NIPS is a premier conference and this ...November/December 2006 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...atment, finds this qualitative study of 19 general practitioners in Scotland. What Do General Practioners Find Satisfying in Their Work: Implications for Health Care System Reform By Karen Fairhurst, Ph.D., et al HEADACHES AND ABDOMINAL PAIN CLUSTER IN FAMILIES Ailments, such as headaches and abdominal pain, ...Doctors working overseas face having licenses removed
...rseas are being removed from the lists of approved practitioners in the UK because they are unable to attend face to face appraisal, warns a GP in this week's BMJ. This means that they cannot work as soon as they return to the UK. Overseas working gives doctors valuable experience that benefits the NHS when th...The AGA Institute releases report on the future of gastroenterology
The field of gastroenterology is changing and practitioners must embrace the advances and new technology to en...in larger groups and academic medical centers all practitioners face similar challenges in the future: the forces of increasing demands for services, the pressure t...Penn researchers find psoriasis patients at increased risk for heart attack
... collected from 1988-2002 by more than 500 general practitioners in the United Kingdom who were unaware of the hypothesis being tested. The data was collected as part of the patient's electronic medial record and maintained in the General Practice Research Database. The study population consisted of psoriasis ...Ear infection expert from Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh leads interactive demo on diagnosis
...as helped to train students, medical residents and practitioners across the country in the diagnosis of AOM. Dr. Hoberman also will discuss various prevention and management clinical trials conducted at Children's in children with AOM, and present a recently funded National Institutes of Health study that will ...Study calls for 39 percent more family physicians
...roviders, such as physician's assistants and nurse practitioners limiting their practice to subspecialty areas. "We know that a health care system based on primary care leads to better overall quality of care for patients, as well as more affordable health care services," said Perry Pugno, M.D., M.P.H., C.P.E., ...Feinstein Institute's top scientist weighs in on mind-body medicine at conference with Dalai Lama
... brought together leading scientists, scholars and practitioners to discuss how recent advances in the Western science of aging may reveal how the Indo-Tibetan traditions of meditation, diet and yoga extend life. The XIVth Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, is the guest of honor and will deliver a summary response integra...Exercise improves quality of life for patients with severe chronic pulmonary hypertension
...centers for PH, rehabilitation clinics and general practitioners is necessary," Grnig said....'Wait-and-see' approach for treating ear infections substantially reduces use of antibiotics
...parents expect a prescription; a small minority of practitioners who care for children routinely use watchful waiting. "The WASP approach may interrupt the cycle of antibiotic prescription, the expectation of parents to immediately treat AOM with an antibiotic, and subsequent medical visits for this illness. The ...