Patient-centered approach can backfire
...s are studying whether doctors could be trained to recognize a patient's style and adapt their own style to match it. Another idea: assess doctors' and patients' attitudes toward healthcare roles and use that information to match caregivers and patients. "When you see a physician, you are routinely asked a l...DNA vaccine against multiple sclerosis appears safe, potentially beneficial
...he involvement of immune cells and antibodies that recognize and attack specific substances in the myelin, such as myelin basic protein. Certain cytokines, small proteins produced by cells that trigger inflammation, also may play a role. Amit Bar-Or, M.D., of the Montreal Neurological Institute and colleague...NIH scientists target future pandemic strains of H5N1 avian influenza
... mutations that render H5N1 viruses better able to recognize and enter human cells. Bird-adapted H5N1 binds bir...inding domain could enhance the ability of H5N1 to recognize human cells. Additional mutations would likely need to accumulate for H5N1 to spread more easily ...Young children's taste preferences may be influenced by fast-food branding
...fs about certain brands and 2- to -6-year-olds can recognize brands and associate them with products. In a study by Thomas N. Robinson, M.D., M.P.H., Stanford University School of Medicine, California, and colleagues, preschoolers age 3 to 5 tasted five pairs of identical foods and beverages in basic McDona...Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet for Aug. 7, 2007, issue
...nts with multiple illnesses and disability, do not recognize the importance of geriatric conditions on quality of life and as markers for decline and disability. 3. Expert Group: Evidence on Benefits of Counseling Patients about Preventing Car Accident Injury Is Inconclusive Motor vehicle accident inju...Many heart attack patients still not getting emergency clot-busting treatment
... individuals and their loved ones and the need to recognize that chest pain may not occur in everyone who has a heart attack. In the study, patients who came to the hospital with no chest pain but with other symptoms of heart attack were less than one-third as likely as those with chest pain to get emergen...Medical residents score poorly in diagnosing and managing tuberculosis
...he community in addition to the hospital wards, to recognize and treat this infection early and before it spreads, Karakousis says. ...Physician and congressional leaders convene on Capitol Hill
...eving that accomplishing our goal will be easy. We recognize that this is a complicated and expensive issue. However, the complexity and cost of a solution should not be obstacles to reform, said John Crosby, JD, Executive Director, American Osteopathic Association. Congress must take positive steps to ensure ...UT study reveals inaccuracies in cardiac PET-CT imaging, finds fixes
... technology as now used. Failure of physicians to recognize and correct those errors can have a profound impact on patients lives, said Gould, the Martin Bucksbaum Distinguished University Chair. These falsely positive results could lead to unnecessary procedures for nonexistent heart problems or for problems...ACP supports improved access to information on relative strengths and weaknesses
... into benefit design issues. Congress should recognize that inclusion of "cost effectiveness" as an eleme...nally," Dr. Dale emphasized, "ACP asks Congress to recognize that the value to the healthcare system of a systemized approach to developing comparative effective...Tony Hunter receives Robert. J. and Claire Pasarow Award for Cancer Research
... J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation, are designed to recognize distinguished accomplishments in basic and/or clinical research while increasing public awareness of vital areas of investigation. Also receiving Pasarow Awards are Daniel Steinberg, M.D., Ph.D., FAHA Professor and Endowed Chair at the University ...Brain-boosting pill alleviates post-chemotherapy fogginess
...omen had a faster memory and could more accurately recognize words and pictures after four weeks on the drug. The ability to focus attention, however, did not change at first. But after taking modafinil for another four weeks, attention deficits improved and memory was even greater. Larger studies are still n...Mayo researchers discover overdiagnosis of long QT heart syndrome
...e extremely high, he says. On one hand, failing to recognize this disease could end in a tragic, premature death that could have been prevented easily with current treatments. On the other hand, the proverbial dark side of increased awareness of LQTS and its potential lethality may prompt physicians to think, ...New mothers often not asked about depression, UNC survey finds
...d? Do you feel depressed or hopeless? We recognize that physicians must cope with many demands on their time, Gaynes said. But depression is one of the most common postpartum complications, and a postpartum depression needs to be identified before it can be treated. We encourage clinicians to always...Better insight into brain anatomical structures
...he manganese oxide nanoparticles. These antibodies recognize and specifically bind to receptors on the surface of breast cancer cells. In mouse brains with breast cancer metastases, the tumors were clearly highlighted by the antibody-coupled contrast agent. The same principle should allow other disease-related...'Nurse cells' make life and death decisions for infection-fighting cells
...e function of T cells produced by the thymus is to recognize harmful invaders. Once invaders have been identified, T cells then attempt to eliminate disease-infected cells. "In early studies, it was suggested that thymic nurse cells only removed non-functional thymocytes," said Eve Barak, program director in...Steps needed to reduce smoking in the US
...st of the past two decades. Adolescents generally recognize the harmful effects of smoking, but typically overestimate their ability to escape addiction and fail to appreciate fully the personal impact of the long-term health consequences, the report says. The committee believes that federal regulation is...Why Lincoln fell gravely ill after delivering his Gettysburg Address
...ranch at Galveston, most historians have failed to recognize that when Lincoln delivered it on Nov. 19, 1863, h...their findings will encourage future historians to recognize in their writings the nature and gravity of Lincoln's Gettysburg illness. ...The quest for an effective HIV vaccine presents new possibilities, challenges
...xposure, the immune system develops the ability to recognize the specific microbe and can protect the human body against it if it reappears. HIV, however, has thwarted scientists efforts thus far to develop a classic preventive vaccine for the virus because of its ability to integrate into target cells and eva...Decorated professor adds Farfel Award to his long list of honors
... Laboratory at UH, Hussain was one of the first to recognize that the organized motion underlying the seemingly random motion of turbulence is the key to understanding and controlling it for technological benefits. A colleague from another university wrote in a letter of support that Hussain is "one of the...