Endangered species: Who will teach anatomy in 2010?
...ing a crisis in anatomical education...a deepening shortage of experienced faculty members willing to teach gr... qualified persons in the pipeline to reverse this shortage as long as the academic community provides incentives to encourage new faculty members to teach gros...Tissue engineering experts discuss orthopaedics applications
...ratory-grown organs may one day help alleviate the shortage of donated organs for transplantation. Atala has developed bioengineered urethras, the tube through which urine is excreted from the bladder, that have been successfully implanted in humans. He has also created blood vessels, muscle, bladders, wombs,...To boost efficiency, hospitals borrow principles from factory floor
...ompetitive environment, especially with the severe shortage of skilled nurses, the pressure on streamlining hospital operations continues to increase," said Lin. "Health-care managers are seeking new perspectives and creative ways to manage their business. We can engineer medical services with improved cost, ...Institute of Medicine news: Human resource crisis in HIV/AIDS
...Tanzania, Uganda, Vietnam, and Zambia. However, a shortage of workers to administer medication and provide essential support could ultimately thwart PEPFAR's efforts. Preventing and treating HIV/AIDS in these developing nations will require unprecedented health systems and human resource initiatives. GHS ...Access to mammography may worsen
... services. Twenty percent of facilities reported a shortage of Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA) qualified technologists, and nearly half (46 percent) reported difficulty in maintaining qualified technologists. The survey also found that 85 percent of the facilities reported being able to schedule diag...Health geography study finds health care resources distributed unevenly in Kansas
...doctor to 1,500 people. "This relates to the acute shortage of medical personnel in the rural areas," Ghosh said. Frontier and rural counties are defined as having fewer than 20 people per square mile, and they make up about one-third of the state. These counties rely on nurses almost exclusively to provide ...Survival rates higher for children receiving living donor liver transplant
...r small-sized grafts coupled with a critical organ shortage have necessitated a turn to alternative sources for children with end-stage liver disease, including living donor liver transplantation (LDLT). In living donor liver transplantation a portion of an adult's healthy liver is transplanted into a child. ...Women rising to the challenge of weightlessness
.... For those with time on their hands, there is no shortage of things to do: reading, watching TV, using the Internet, but also lessons in Spanish, Portuguese or computing. And especially something which is particularly popular with all the volunteers: a visit from the physiotherapists for their daily massage...New national effort seeks a more rational organ allocation system for kidney transplants
...work for Organ Sharing (UNOS) is responding to the shortage of deceased-donor organs by reviewing the complex formula that has guided kidney allocation for years. One possible outcome of the review announced this week at the annual American Transplant Congress is that the allocation formula will likely includ...University of Pittsburgh study shows using expanded critera donors is safe
...n & Trade Center in Seattle. To help alleviate the shortage of organs, there has been an increase in the transplantation of livers obtained from extended criteria donors, such as organs from HBcAb positive and HCV positive donors. In the Pitt study, the researchers conducted a seven-year review of liver trans...Studies suggest that donation criteria can be expanded
...ransplant Association in Geneva, Switzerland. "The shortage of donated organs is a national crisis, with people on the waiting list dying every day," said Stratta. "This mandates an ongoing reappraisal of the limits of donor organ acceptability." Both studies were retrospective looking back at success rates ...Transplanting kidneys which have stones poses little risk to organ's viability
... with a kidney containing stones has arisen due to shortage of available kidneys, indicate Drs. Chow and Ho. Due to the scarcity, study of transplantation of more "marginal" kidneys has become relevant, they say. "It's a matter of supply," says Dr. Ho. "Demand has so far outpaced supply of kidneys that we'r...Witnessing gun violence increases likelihood that a child will also commit violent crime
...ables that were embraced in the study. There is no shortage of medical ways to view urban violence, but the challenge for social medicine researchers is to choose the best one - is violence a product of families, akin to a hereditary disorder? Or is violence like an environmental contaminant, lurking in some ...Home care managers should implement strategies to reduce high nurse turnover
...easing demand for home care services and a growing shortage of nurses are forcing home care administrators to re-evaluate nurse recruitment and retention strategies," said Flynn, assistant professor at the College of Nursing at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. "Emphasizing work environment, this s...Assuring the supply of vaccines
The recent shortage of flu vaccine, which eventually became a surplus, points to problems with vaccine financing and production. Various solutions to these problems have been proposed, but there has been no consensus on the path to take. In an article published in the J...Late peak may have prevented severe flu season from becoming worse
...s than the 2002-2003 flu season. Due to an unusual shortage of flu vaccine, the later peak of the 2004-2005 flu season may have been beneficial, allowing public health officials more time to reallocate and administer the limited supply of vaccine to those most in need -- the elderly and children. This extra t...Conflicts pitting doctors vs. patients / kin is #1 issue in medical ethics, Canadian experts say
...able in our hospitals and nursing homes. 4) The shortage of family physicians / primary care teams The paper notes this problem is so significant Ontario recently offered incentives to physicians to join "primary care teams" (family doctor groups), to work nights and weekends, and to practice in rural are...Massachusetts second state to consider nurse staffing ratios; experts to appear at public hearing
...oston, Mass. (July 12) At a time when the nursing shortage is entering its eighth year and health care costs ...nt or culture of the hospital. The current nursing shortage complicates the feasibility of increasing nurse-to-patient ratios. Massachusetts leads the nation w...Animal disease reports to be released at July 18 news conference at AVMA convention
...Academies' National Research Council examine how a shortage of veterinarians in public-health and research positions, along with a fragmented animal-health system, are hampering the country's ability to counter new and emerging animal diseases such as mad cow disease and avian influenza, as well as the threat...Experts on global nursing shortage provide recommendations to stem crisis
...ne the causes and consequences of the global nurse shortage and to consider strategies to mitigate its negativ...s recommendations for resolving the global nursing shortage build upon previous successes in developing policies and practices to recruit, build capacity, motiv...