Institute of Medicine elects Gladstone Director Warner Greene
...g the safety of prescription drugs after they have reached the market, and an assessment of emergency health care in the United States and recommendations for improving it....Calls to prevent chronic disease 'juggernaut'
...ve the needs of local populations. Consensus was reached that reform was needed through careful definition of problems and tailoring appropriate solutions. Better community engagement, more multidisciplinary team working and flexibility to respond to local needs were considered important components of any...Keck School of Medicine pediatric endocrinologist elected to Institute of Medicine
...g the safety of prescription drugs after they have reached the market. Brian E. Henderson, M.D., dean of the Keck School of Medicine, praised Kaufman's selection. "This honor by the IOM is certainly well deserved and timely because of Dr. Kaufman's work in the area of diabetes and obesity," says Henderson, w...World's poorest children missing out on child survival strategies
...tamin A supplements, safe water and immunisations, reached mothers and children in nine low and middle income countries. Researchers analysed data from Bangladesh, Benin, Brazil, Cambodia, Eritrea, Malawi, Nepal, and Nicaragua. The investigators found that though there are many child survival strategies runn...Medical community recognise significance of Herceptin results in early HER2-positive breast cancer
...the secondary endpoint of overall survival had not reached statistical significance, but an improvement in overall survival is also possible as the data mature. The NEJM article provides the results of the comparison between 12 months of Herceptin versus observation, but not a comparison of 12 months versus ...Retiring early is not linked to longer life
...ciated with early death. But no consensus has been reached on the effect of early retirement on survival. The study took place in the US state of Texas and involved over 3,500 employees of the petrochemical industry who retired at 55, 60, and 65. Participants were monitored for up to 26 years to assess wheth...HIV mortality in India drops with introduction of generic antiretroviral therapy
...t. But that number rose to 22 percent in 2000, and reached 44 percent in 2003. With the availability of much-needed drugs came better health. Opportunistic infections such as tuberculosis, a common problem for immunocompromised patients, occur at a much lower rate in those receiving ART and its highly activ...Scientific societies applaud new milestone in bringing online research to the public
...ghWire Press has achieved a milestone never before reached in electronic or scholarly publishing," referring to the one million no-charge research articles now available to the public. "To appreciate the magnitude of what is now available, consider the fact that it would take an individual reading one title...Early life stress can lead to memory loss and cognitive decline in middle age
...ce of this stress disappeared by the time the pups reached adulthood. However, starting in middle age, these...rly life stress, but became very disturbed as they reached middle age. These changes in brain-cell activity were consistent with the rats' behavioral changes. ...Physician pay-for-performance programs may produce little gain in quality
...m the bonus pool. We also observed that few groups reached a majority of targets, consistent with the low correlation in performance across clinical areas that has been observed in other studies. Physician groups whose performance was initially lowest improved the most, whereas physician groups that had pre...Lancet publishes proactive study: Diabetes treatment reduces risk of heart attacks & strokes
...he primary endpoint was reduced by 10% but had not reached statistical significance by the end of the study (p=0.095). However, the principal secondary endpoint of life-threatening events showed that ACTOS significantly reduced the combined risk of non-fatal heart attacks, strokes and deaths by 16% (p=0.027)...Use of pulmonary artery catheterization does not show benefit for severe heart failure patients
...end toward greater improvement with the PAC, which reached significance for the time trade-off at all time points after randomization. "Based on ESCAPE, there is no indication for routine use of PACs to adjust therapy during hospitalization for decompensation of long-term heart failure. It seems probable tha...Only one-third of women take vitamin to help prevent serious birth defects, survey finds
...ber of women who said they had heard of folic acid reached an all-time high in the 2005 survey at 84 percent, up from 52 percent in 1995. The most common reason women gave for not taking the supplement daily is that they forgot. The March of Dimes survey on folic acid has been conducted nine times since 199...Rutgers-Newark psychology researchers reveal link between body and action perception
...d others actions and expectations. The researchers reached this conclusion by performing experiments with two individuals suffering from the rare neurological disorder of selective and complete haptic deafferentiation due to sensory neuronopathy. The participants are the only two known individuals in the wo...Scrapping BCG vaccination in British schools is justified
...mber of cases in people born in the United Kingdom reached an all time low in 2003. Although the criteria set by the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease for shifting away from routine BCG vaccination were achieved in the 1990s, policy makers were reluctant to stop the programme in schoo...Hopkins experts highlight strategies to raise levels of so-called good HDL cholesterol
...e arteries that can cause heart attack. "We have reached a turning point in the prevention of coronary heart disease from an emphasis during the last 15 years on lowering LDL cholesterol levels to an emphasis in the next decade on raising levels of HDL cholesterol," says article lead author and cardiologis...VCU researcher leads international team in developing guidelines for treating hydrocephalus
...n the field. We've taken all this information and reached consensus on how to diagnose and treat these patients." The new guidelines deal exclusively with idiopathic NPH, the form of NPH that develops from no known cause. Doctors are advised of which tests to use to make a diagnosis and how to determine if...Mayo Clinic researchers invent 'hitchhiking' viruses as cancer drug delivery system
...ell accumulation. They further showed that once it reached the tumor, the viral transporter successfully transferred a gene to both mouse and human tumor cells that then infected the cells. This proved that the concept works. Collaboration and Support In addition to Dr. Vile, the Mayo Clinic research team ...Physically abused children highly distracted by anger
... they stayed aroused even after the arguing adults reached conciliation. This study suggests that even when the levels of anger are quite mild and no real threat of physical harm is involved, children with histories of abuse focus their attention to signs of threat in their surroundings. "These results may......E and the RECAST studies). Three patients have now reached two years of follow-up. The valve performance has been excellent and there has not been a single case of valve failure when the valve was successfully placed (80% of the cases). High mortality during follow-up has been related to non valvular causes,...