Preventive Medicine 2007 to feature research and practice findings to improve public health
...k Force experts will share the latest evidence and recommendations in clinical and community preventive services. A variety of government and industry representatives will offer solutions to worksite needs at the Preventive Medicine 2007 Tradeshow. Topics to be discussed during the meeting will fall into five...Cardiology Society recommends high standards for PCI performed without on-site surgical backup
...ed States and other countries, SCAI makes specific recommendations for the highest standards of quality to ensure patient safety and excellent clinical outcomes. WHAT: International telebriefing on SCAIs expert consensus document titled, The Current Status and Future Direction of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention...Highlights from the February 2007 Journal of the American Dietetic Association
...cans in all age groups are not meeting their daily recommendations for consumption of dairy products, according to re... standards for calcium and magnesium and the dairy recommendations from the 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. The researchers conclude: "Dietary patterns that ...Exercise has no effect on risk of knee osteoarthritis
...ssists clinical decision-making and individualized recommendations regarding safety and effectiveness of interventions, including physical activity." ...Embargoed Jan./Feb. Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...ult in acute heart failure or sudden death. These recommendations are a collaborative effort of the American Academy...ces are in place. Each guideline contains several recommendations based on current evidence to clinicians to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of lower extremity dee...New guidelines issued for diagnosis and management of venous thromboembolism
...ices are in place. Each guideline contains several recommendations to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of lower ext...osed. The guideline aims to present evidence-based recommendations for diagnosis of lower extremity DVT and pulmonary embolism. "These new guidelines represent a co...Flu experts call for mandatory shots for health care workers
...ess and the Administration as part of a new set of recommendations to better prepare the nation and the world for an inevitable influenza pandemic, as well to improve responses to the perennial threat of seasonal influenza. The document is one of the most complete assessments to date on the major outstanding issues...HIV medical providers unite to advocate for patient care
...isease Control and Preventions new routine testing recommendations go into effect. We hope to start making progress identifying the 25 percent of people who dont know they are infected with HIVbut who will care for all those new patients? Thats why the Title III Coalition is forming: to deliver the message to Congre...Adding radiation decreases breast cancer recurrence
...ving surgery, than younger women. Making treatment recommendations for older patients, who may have more comorbidities than younger patients, is complicated by under-representation of older women in clinical trials and prognostic studies. Led by Ann M. Geiger, M.P.H., Ph.D., of Wake Forest University School of Me...A system in need of change -- restructuring payment policies to support patient-centered care
...ort Patient-Centered Care" offers a series of nine recommendations to address inadequacies in the current Medicare physician payment and delivery system. The combined recommendations would constitute some of the biggest changes in Medicare payment policies since the program was enac...Comprehensive reforms to move toward patient-centered care released by ACP
...ient-Centered Care," which offers a series of nine recommendations to fundamentally reform current Medicare physician payment and delivery systems. The recommendations include paying physicians on a risk-adjusted, bundled, and prospective basis for providing patient-c...JRRD releases single-topic issue focused on vision rehabilitation
...terans Health Administration (VHA). The panel made recommendations and identified areas that required more information. These recommendations became the framework for a national teleretinal imaging program. Subsequent VHA experience with tele...SCAI issues clinical alert on drug-eluting stents and late thrombosis
...nd minimize the risk of late stent thrombosis. Its recommendations include the following: Prior to any stent implantation, patients should meet accepted criteria for coronary intervention as described in guidelines jointly published by the ACC, AHA, and SCAI. The decision to treat a patient with a drug-elutin...Response to anti-HIV therapy improved if treatment begins six months after preventive regimen
...ings are consistent with World Health Organization recommendations that all HIV-infected pregnant women be tested to identify those in immediate need of treatment, explained the NIH project officer for the study, Lynne Mofenson, M.D., Chief of the Pediatric, Adolescent and Maternal AIDS Branch at NICHD. To conduct ...America's health care inadequate
... provide rationale for: Sweeping new policy recommendations to reform Medicare, Medicaid, S-CHIP, and other programs supported by the federal government. Patient-centered primary care -- a model that has resulted in better quality, more efficient use of resources, reduced utilization, and higher patient s...Children's packed lunches: Are they even worse than Turkey Twizzlers?
...by hundreds of children in their packed lunches to recommendations and found that they fell short in important nutrients like potassium and zinc and were much too high in sugar and saturated fat. The foods eaten in the rest of the day did not compensate for this. "Children who ate school dinners had higher intakes...Benefits of testosterone treatment unknown, research shows
...ort in order to help the Endocrine Society provide recommendations based on up-to-date research. "We found that the evidence for whether men are better off being treated with testosterone is much weaker than the evidence for giving estrogen to post-menopausal women was before the big estrogen trials came out," Dr....Health care expenditures significantly higher for children with obesity
...ary care provider compliance with expert committee recommendations for laboratory evaluation of obese children and adolescents," the authors write. "Compared with their healthy-weight peers, children with overweight, diagnosed obesity and undiagnosed obesity had significantly higher charges, with the highest for the...Researchers devise safer way to dose life-saving heart drug
...d," Bauman said. "To this end, we offer new dosing recommendations and a nomogram for determining the initial dose of digoxin in patients with heart failure. "This is a new way to dose an old drug."......er released in January 2006, and provided specific recommendations to Congress for legislation to implement a Medicare pilot of the model in testimony to the House Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce committees. The ACP has also joined with the American Academy of Family Physicians in proposing joint principles i...