SNMTS provides $58,000 in 2006 scholarships, grants for nuclear medicine technologists
...ssion by supporting both the development of future practitioners and research," said SNMTS President Valerie R. Cronin, CNMT, FSNMTS. "SNMTS remains committed to encouraging individuals to pursue careers in molecular and nuclear imaging," she added. Gregory G. Passmore, Ph.D., CNMT, associate professor of biomed...Concern over institutional care for children in Europe
...l for education and training for policy makers and practitioners on the appropriate care and placement of young children facing adversity. Child protection legislation and interventions to deal with abusive and neglectful parents should also be developed in parallel with community services and alternative family b...Medical research must put public interests before commercial decisions, warns pharmaceutical faculty
... excuse for withholding negative results. "Medical practitioners working in pharmaceutical medicine are bound by the same ethical standards which apply to all doctors, regardless of whether they are working for a company, regulatory body or academic institution" he adds. "Our guidance clearly places the doctor's r...JRRD special issue on hearing and hearing loss
...mean for audiologists and other hearing healthcare practitioners are discussed. Sensory hair cells of the inner ear are susceptible to damage from a variety of sources, including aging, genetic defects, and environmental stresses such as loud noises and/or chemotherapeutic drugs. The consequence of this hair cell ...UNC nutrition researchers dispute claims that obesity problem is exaggerated
...s to obesity. The vast majority of researchers and practitioners champion this move, not because it will increase their personal fortune but because it offers the opportunity to make important improvements in human health." Popkin and Dr. Soowon Kim, a fellow in the University of California at San Francisco's fami...AANP and UpToDate partner to improve patient care
...are and recognizes the growing importance of nurse practitioners as first line healthcare providers. The purpose ...ce the relevance of the UpToDate program for nurse practitioners and increase its use by NPs to help provide the best care to patients. AANP will be providing syste...Online ear and hearing diagnosis to break sound barrier
...pport system' is being developed to enable general practitioners to speed up the diagnosis of ear and hearing condi...tremely valuable tool for particularly for general practitioners and health workers located anywhere, as well as trainee ear and hearing specialists," Professor Atla...Does household income affect access to medical care in developed countries?
...h equity research group examined access to general practitioners and medical specialists in 21 OECD countries. After taking into account the age, sex and reported level of health of respondents to national surveys, the authors found that although in many countries general practitioner care is distributed fairly ...Hospital volume doesn't explain racial disparity in cardiovascular procedure deaths
...ients tend to fare better when they are treated by practitioners and institutions that perform a certain number of specific procedures per year. Since black and Hispanic patients are more likely to be treated at hospitals that perform fewer cardiovascular procedures, the volume-quality link was considered to be on...Predicting the future of primary care in England
...ntral government and targets for access to general practitioners abandoned. Meanwhile, patients have embraced healt...health, but will continue to rely on their general practitioners to help them make decisions about health. Medical professionalism will ensure high levels of public ......metimes resemble and sometimes differ from adults, practitioners may be able to better refine emergency cardiovascular care and develop treatment procedures that improve outcomes for all patients....Largest study of in-hospital cardiac arrest suggests how to improve outcomes for children and adults
...metimes resemble and sometimes differ from adults, practitioners may be able to better refine emergency cardiovascular care and develop treatment procedures that improve outcomes for all patients, Dr. Nadkarni said. "This national registry defines the current landscape of in-hospital cardiac arrests in North Ameri...Initial results help clinicians identify patients with treatment-resistant depression
...standard depression scale, so the time is ripe for practitioners to begin using them as part of systematic assessments to guide routine treatment. Our results also suggest that to achieve remission, some patients may need to stay in treatment longer and take somewhat higher antidepressant dosages, as warranted by ...Penn study reveals prevalence of night eating syndrome among people with psychiatric conditions
...nditions, our findings indicate that mental health practitioners will need to screen for and incorporate appropriate treatment options into their practice," said John P. O'Reardon, MD, a co-author of the study, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Penn, and Director of Penn's Treatment Resistant Depression Clinic....Adherence to pneumonia treatment guidelines results in better outcomes, Pitt study shows
...rts in pneumonia care. In the low-intensity sites, practitioners also were asked to voluntarily develop quality imp...y strategy effectively increased the proportion of practitioners who implemented guideline recommendations in clinical practice. "On the national level, the quality ...NHS failing to provide health care according to need
...deliver in deprived areas. It follows that general practitioners in such areas have to ration what they do for patients in the time available. Too many NHS agencies have policies and initiatives which fizzle out in the most deprived third of the population. There is an urgent need for NHS initiatives and support ...200 proteins which detect diseases of the liver
... The work of Dr. Enrique Santamara allows clinical practitioners to discover "the alteration of proteins in the liver and, as a result, to discern the biological malfunctions associated with them, at a much earlier stage than permitted by conventional diagnostic methods alone". This is the case with prohibitin, a ...Researchers: More women physicians likely to choose pediatric subspecialties
...cine and neurodevelopment. More than 70 percent of practitioners in those areas were women. The two also found significant increases in the number of women doctors who chose to work in cardiology, critical care, endocrinology, gastroenterology, hematology, oncology, infectious disease, neonatology and nephrology. ...Study provides first estimate of US population affected by Barrett's esophagus
...h Care System. "The next step for researchers and practitioners is to focus on screening for Barrett's in people without reflux disease and accurately identifying those at-risk or living with the disease." Beyond providing the number of people potentially affected by Barrett's, this study gives insight into tho...Widespread media coverage contributes to rapid decline in HRT prescribing
...e Dutch associations of gynaecologists and general practitioners were prompt to issue guidelines that HRT should only be used for short durations in women with severe complaints. "However the media coverage, which included the front pages of six national newspapers together with women's magazines and medical jour...