Treating medically unexplained symptoms
...nal taped situations and more patients before firm recommendations can be made to help people with somatization syndrome. Nevertheless, given that medical reassurance and the presentation of negative results led to overestimates of the likelihood of medical explanations for symptoms in patients with somatization ...Health-care workers' SARS protective clothing systems
... each protective system need to be considered when recommendations are made about which choice of system, donning and removal procedures and decontamination procedures are optimal," says Queen's University anesthesiologist Jorge E. Zamora, lead author of the study. Released today in the Canadian Medical Associatio...Understanding what people with arthritis believe about exercise
...ents, Dr. Wilcox and her colleagues offer concrete recommendations for health care professionals and communities, including: Make a practice of prescribing exercise, with referrals and instruction. Work to expand the availability of arthritis-specific exercise programs. Emp...American College of Physicians launches quality measures tool in PIER
...riteria for applying them, and links to supporting recommendations and evidence in PIER. According to David Goldmann, MD, Vice President and Editor-in-Chief of PIER, "The new PIER tool was developed to help physicians by consolidating the list of AQA quality measures with supporting administrative and clinical in...Inhaled nitric oxide reduces lung disease in premature babies
...ts. The NOCLD team expects to provide definitive recommendations for clinical use of nitric oxide after it analyzes follow-up studies of the children's neurodevelopmental status at two years of age. The follow-up studies will be accomplished by the end of 2007, said Dr. Ballard. ...NICE gives backing for the use of advanced biological therapies to treat severe psoriasis
...viders throughout Europe should take note of these recommendations and ensure that necessary funding is in place to allow access to biological therapies. Psoriasis can be highly debilitating and painful condition. If patients fulfill the criteria for a biological therapy then, I believe, it is important that treat...Saving antiretroviral treatment in long-term HIV-positive patients
...treating antiretroviral-experienced patients, with recommendations including: addressing existing problems of adherence, taking thorough patient histories and performing resistance tests on HIV from the patient. Using drugs from new antiretroviral classes that the patient has not taken before should improve outcomes...Study shows digitalis safe in patients with common form of heart failure
...until more recently. "There are few evidencedbased recommendations for these patients," wrote the authors. The results reported in Circulation are from a larger study conducted in the United States and Canada from 1991 to 1993 and had not been previously published. The study involved patients with diastolic hear...NIDA announces recommendations to treat drug abusers, save money and reduce crime
...s that make relapse likely upon return to society, recommendations for the components of adequate treatment programs, cost-effectiveness of treatment, and the role of medication in treating offenders with substance abuse. ...Light to moderate drinking reduces risk of cardiac events, death
...r risk," they conclude. "From this point of view, recommendations on alcohol consumption should be based, as any medical advice, on a careful evaluation of an individual's risks and benefits, in the context of adequate treatment and control of established cardiovascular risk factors."(Arch Intern Med. 2006;166:1490...Doctors treating pain from circumcision more seriously
...s, and the American Academy of Pediatrics released recommendations since 1999 calling for the universal use of local or topical anesthetics to provide pain relief for neonatal circumcision. A previous study on circumcision training techniques, which shared author Cynthia Howard, M.D., M.P.H., associate professor o...IOM Advisory: Preventing Medication Errors News Conference on July 20
... reduce and prevent them. It also offers specific recommendations on how patients can protect themselves. The report will be released at a one-hour news conference. DETAILS: Thursday, July 20, at 11 a.m. in the Lecture Room of the National Academies' building, 2100 C St., N.W., Washington, D.C. Those who cannot...Women still get lower-quality heart attack care than men, despite hospital improvement efforts
...ract with their doctor or nurse pledging to follow recommendations and stick to their medicines. On the whole, men treated after the quality effort began were more likely to receive pre-discharge prescriptions for all four classes of recommended heart medications than were women. The quality effort significantly i...Education campaign improves skin cancer screening rates
...ing rate increased four-fold. The authors say that recommendations and instructions from doctors are important for improving men's skin self-examination behavior although "we did not observe a significant increase in doctors recommending such skin self-examination behavior" within this program. According to the a...Cancer researchers confirm brain tumor genetic subtype informs treatment, predicts outcome
...th, which helps us make better and wiser treatment recommendations for our patients." This insight offers hope to refine the way brain cancers and all cancers are evaluated in the future. Recognizing the evolution from microscopic diagnosis to molecular diagnosis, the U of C and Alberta Cancer Board are developi...ESC recommends interdisciplinary collaboration in non-invasive imaging
...uclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. The major recommendations are: Cardiac units should develop joint clinical services with common diagnostic pathways for patients with suspected cardiovascular disease, which are organised in collaboration between cardiologists, radiologists, and specialists in nuclear medi...Literature review highlights options for self-management of asthma exacerbations
...ABA) therapy. The review provides evidence-based recommendations on the best way touse oral corticosteroids (OCS) t... people with asthma. Our aim was to determine what recommendations should be included in these plans and to make sure they encompass patientstaking combination therapy...New study predicts child injuries by consumer fireworks
... consumer fireworks, in accordance with the policy recommendations of the American Academy of Pediatrics, should be implemented in order to reduce the burden of fireworks-related injuries among children." "Children who were injured while playing with fireworks themselves accounted for approximately half of the in...Teen sexual assault survivors seldom complete HIV prevention therapy
... prophylactic therapy. "We agree with published recommendations that postexposure prophylaxis be offered to adolescent sexual assault survivors for exposures that pose a risk of HIV transmission," the authors conclude. "Patient education and a comprehensive follow-up system with extensive outreach and case manag...Chocolate, wine, spicy foods may be OK for heartburn, Stanford study finds
... Gerson's advice runs counter to the long-standing recommendations of virtually every professional organization of gastroenterologists, including the American College of Gastroenterology, as well as the National Institutes of Health. For the past 15 to 20 years, the standard treatment for heartburn has been to cut o...