The role of the Royal Society should be reviewed
...le to medical science and should undergo an urgent review of its purpose and programmes, states an editorial...es him to begin his Presidency with a wide-ranging review of the Royal Society's purpose, programmes, and aspirations. The Lancet comments: "The Royal Society...Stanford bioethicists want stronger protections for women donating eggs for stem cell research
... on human subjects. Because of that, institutional review boards - the entities responsible for approving re...rch involving human subjects - aren't obligated to review the consent forms signed by egg donors for stem cell research. Magnus and Cho want to create a new c...Canada lags behind in caregiver support
...t it gives to family caregivers. The international review was conducted as part of the Hidden Costs Invisibl...ons (HCIC) research project. The financial support review was led by Mount Saint Vincent University's (MSVU) Dr. Janice Keefe who found that Australia and the...ESMO Minimum Clinical Recommendations
... replace extensive clinical practice guidelines or review articles, but to describe minimum common standards. Considering the rapid changes in the field of medical oncology, each guideline undergoes a yearly update. "The Minimum Clinical Guidelines are an important expression of ESMO's mission to dissemina...Federal NIH office clears Ohio State research program
...essment of this explanation, OLAW finds the ILACUC review and the described performance of the spinal cord injury study to be consistent with the provisions of the Public Health Service Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals," wrote Axel Wolff, OLAW's acting director of the Division of Complian...Ramelteon demonstrates no abuse potential according to study results
...lteon, an investigational compound currently under review by the FDA for insomnia treatment, had no more potential for abuse than placebo in individuals with a history of polydrug abuse. These results, presented at the 2005 American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, showed that patients exhibited no...International medical journals amplify call for registration of drug trials
...hey must do to meet our requirements for editorial review and subsequent publication," Sox said. The ICMJE editorial tells researchers that they must not leave out key information when they register a trial. Specifically, ICJME says that researchers must name the treatment in a meaningful way so that patien...Medication errors continue even in highly computerized hospital
..., Salt Lake City, and colleagues conducted a daily review of the electronic medical records from a random sample of patients admitted to a VA hospital during a 20-week period in 2000. Because the Veterans Administration Healthcare System is a leader in implementing multiple computerized interventions, inclu...New national effort seeks a more rational organ allocation system for kidney transplants
... allocation for years. One possible outcome of the review announced this week at the annual American Transpl...d donors, UNOS wisely recognizes that it's time to review guidelines to assure we are making the best possible use of scarce and life-giving resources," says ...University of Pittsburgh study shows using expanded critera donors is safe
...Pitt study, the researchers conducted a seven-year review of liver transplant recipients who received HBV positive and HCV positive organs between 1997 and 2004. The patients were divided into three groups. Group one consisted of 28 patients that received both HBcAb positive and HCV positive livers; the sec...Diagnostic imaging in line with other hospital costs
...h shorter hospital stays. The study was based on a review of hospital costs for 17,139 patients admitted to Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston between 1996 and 2002. Although the number of diagnostic imaging procedures for this group more than doubled--particularly in computed tomography (CT) an...Transplanting kidneys which have stones poses little risk to organ's viability
...e Mayo study, a retrospective chart and radiograph review of 710 donor kidneys, 44 had stones. Of these, 86 percent had 1- to 2-millimeter stones and 14 percent had 3- to 6-millimeter stones. CT scans performed an average of 10.5 months after transplant surgery in 14 patients showed no stones in six patie...Survey of academic medical centers' standards for clinical-trial agreements with industry
...d, and 96 percent would allow industry sponsors to review manuscripts for a limited time prior to publicatio...ith 60 days being the most widely accepted maximum review period. Two thirds of the schools would let sponsors prohibit investigators from discussing ongoing ...Study shows even limited training improves communication with patients from other cultures
...ins analyses are believed to be the first detailed review of steps taken by academic medical institutions to address cultural differences with patients, since a series of national reports from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) brought about mandatory cultural competency training of health professionals in 200...Large survey suggests schizophrenia less prevalent than textbooks say
... researchers have done what is called a systematic review of the medical literature, which turned out a few ...ther example where the research community needs to review their belief systems in the face of data." Another often quoted statistic, namely that "schizophreni...Newly developed treatment for severe grief shown more effective than standard therapy
...he loss. Similar to IPT, the last phase focused on review of progress, plans for the future, and feelings about ending treatment. In contrast to IPT, however, traumalike symptoms were addressed using procedures for retelling the story of the death and exercises entailing confrontation with avoided situatio...JAMA study finds whooping cough vaccine effective, safe for teens and adults
...f injection. The experimental vaccine is under review by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. If approved, it would become the second of two pertussis booster vaccines to become available this year. The first, Boostrix, made by GlaxoSmithKline, was approved on May 17, but only for patients aged 10 to ...Overly tired teen? Sleepiness may signal serious health problem
...rder." The Pediatrics report is a first, merging a review of more than two decades of basic research with clinical advice for physicians. It represents a joint effort of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the National Center on Sleep Disorders Research (NCSDR), part of the National Heart, Lung and...Tercica presents two pharmacokinetic studies in an oral session at Endocrine Society Meeting
...which was accepted for filing and granted priority review by the U.S.Food and Drug Administration on April 29. "We designed these studies to determine the rhIGF-1 dosing necessary tonormalize IGF-1 levels in IGFD children and to understand how rhIGF-1 dosingaffects the relationship between the body's IG......their diabetes prevention care, according to a new review of recent studies in the latest issue of American Journal of Managed Care. Three studies also showed significantly lower rates of flu vaccination -- between 8 percent and 29 percent lower -- in black populations compared to white populations, accordi...