HIV patients face discrimination from doctors
...and ignore treatment recommendations," states lead researcher Mark A. Schuster, MD, PhD, a UCLA professor and RAND health researcher. "We need to focus on what leads patients to perceive discrimination, whether real or misunderstood, and address it." Among those reporting perceived discrimination, they tended ...Dual therapy works best for controlling asthma
...olled asthma, says Jerry Krishnan, M.D., an asthma researcher and assistant professor of medicine and epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. "This practice is likely to be driven in part by the step-down approach, where more aggressive therapy is initiated, then stepped down once contr...Injury prevention for indigenous children
...earcher, Dr Kathleen Clapham, a leading Indigenous researcher at The George Institute, said that "The causative factors of injuries among Indigenous populations has received almost no research attention, yet Indigenous children and youth are currently over-represented in intentional and unintentional injury sta...Precision radiation therapy yields rare success for liver tumors
...tion was used," said Alan Katz, M.D., M.P.H., lead researcher and assistant professor of Radiation Oncology. "High-dose, precision radiation therapy is proving to be a promising therapy for metastatic liver disease and provides an effective treatment option for patients who previously didn't have any." Radiatio...Side-effects cause some breast cancer patients to skip hormone treatment
...ide two potentially important messages," said lead researcher Professor Lesley Fallowfield, "The first is that the distress caused by the side-effect of the hot flushes that all endocrine treatments produce is seriously under-played. The second is that, although the assumption of many health professionals that ...Mayo Clinic measures psychological and social impacts of contralateral prophylactic mastectomies
...," says Marlene Frost, Ph.D., Mayo Clinic oncology researcher and lead investigator of the study. "Women need to carefully weigh the benefits of this procedure with the potential adverse effects." Over 211,000 women are diagnosed each year with breast cancer in the United States. The risk of developing breast c...Children's Hospital of Philadelphia physician elected to Institute of Medicine
...of Medicine. Dr. Stallings has long been a leading researcher in the nutritional needs of children. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) today announced the election of 64 new members from throughout the United States, in recognition of their major contributions to the advancement of medical sciences, health care an...Miller, Schuman receive ARVO/Pfizer Ophthalmics award
...almology. Schuman was chosen for his role as a key researcher in the development of optical coherence tomography that is widely used clinically in the diagnosis and management of glaucoma and retinal diseases. He is Eye and Ear Foundation Professor and Chairman of Ophthalmology at the University of Pittsburgh ......ULTISENSE scientific coordinator Cinzia Zannoni, a researcher at CINECA. "The really unique aspect of MULTISENSE is that it will give an indication of if an implant in a particular patient will fail." Surgeons can then test another implant to determine if that has a better chance of success. The key to the MULT...Columbia study shows how doctors may manage blood glucose levels during heart surgery
...rumento, Ph.D., lead investigator of the study and researcher at the department of anesthesiology at Columbia University Medical Center. "The next step will be to conduct a larger, randomized trial on non-diabetic patients before expanding studies to the more vulnerable diabetic patient population. We believe...Depression raises disability risk, especially among African-Americans
... is research associate professor of medicine and a researcher at the Institute for Healthcare Studies and the Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Center in Rheumatology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. The prospect of developing disabilities in daily activities, such as dressing, bathing, ...Viagra blunts effects of stress on the human heart
...an enzyme, called phosphodiesterase 5 (PDE5A), the researcher says. This enzyme is involved in the breakdown of a key molecule, cyclic GMP, which helps control stresses and limit overgrowth in the heart. PDE5A is also the biological pathway blocked in the penis by sildenafil to prevent the relaxation of blood...New technology could improve clinical trial recruitment
... medicine at the University of Cincinnati (UC) and researcher at UC's Institute for the Study of Health, shows that by using the tools of an electronic medical record system in a new way, it's possible to increase the number of patients who volunteer to participate in clinical studies and generate more referral...Sandia researchers determine that common anthrax sampling methods need improvement
...nation than previously believed. The team, led by researcher Gary Brown, spent a year looking at sampling processes used to determine the number of viable organisms existing on surfaces following a biological attack with agents such as anthrax. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funded the study."We eva...Diabetes and depression can be a fatal mix
...oral Sciences, led the recent study. He is a noted researcher on the associations between depression, aging, and chronic diseases, and on the medical costs and personal toll from untreated or inadequately treated depression. The research team included Drs. Carolyn Rutter, Greg Simon, Elizabeth Lin, Evette Ludma...Who's available to help in times of crisis and disaster?
...ON, Vt. - Oct. 27, 2005 - New research by disaster researcher Alice Fothergill, Ph.D., and the Office of Nursing Workforce at the University of Vermont , attempts to answer the question of whether inactive nurses can and are willing to be mobilized in emergency situations. A recent survey of nurses with lapsed ...UCLA study identifies $7 in societal savings for every $1 spent on drug abuse treatment
...ncreased employment earnings totaling $11,487. The researcher team used detailed data from 2,567 clients admitted to 43 treatment providers in 13 California counties during 2000 and 2001. The information was gathered via an automated system operated by the California Treatment Outcome Project. "Even without con...Deprived people less likely to get treatment to prevent heart disease
...factor levels in these groups. Dr Peter Brindle, a researcher at the University of Bristol and a Bristol GP, said of the study: "Our results suggest that 4,196 people in the study, mainly from manual social classes, might have received preventative treatment, had the scoring method been properly calibrated for ...A new blueprint to aid physicians in predicting risk for type 1 diabetes
...le at risk first," said Massimo Pietropaolo, MD, a researcher in the Diabetes Institute at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. "Our study and the new research it leads to will help us better predict risk of type 1 diabetes and identify those who can be involved in major trials in the United States and around the......eg Simon, MD, MPH, a Group Health psychiatrist and researcher who is the lead author of the article. "Decision makers need some principles for sorting through those claims." While other groups have established broad principles for addressing the problem, the Group Health authors offer "more specific rules for i...