Study: Who claims to be a pediatrician?
...ound that as many as 17 percent of physicians in a single state who claim to be pediatricians on state licensure files have never been board certified as a pediatrician by the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP). And another 12 percent of physicians who report to be pediatricians did not complete a medical r...Talking sex on the factory floor in China
Young, single women in urban China are aware of contraceptive methods but some may be too shy to ask for them, research published in the online open access journal BMC Health Services Research reveals. Young women want more information, but need private and anonym...Focused ultrasound relieves fibroid symptoms in women
...women who have completed their families and have a single or limited number of fibroids," said co-author Clare M. Tempany, M.D., professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School and director of Clinical Focused Ultrasound at Brigham and Womens Hospital. The researchers studied 160 women with symptomatic f...Elsevier partners with European Federation of Organizations for Medical Physics
...o include hundreds of other Elsevier journals in a single query; options to sign up for e-mail alerts; and more. The Journal will be accessible through Elsevier's online database, ScienceDirect, the world's largest electronic collection of science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic inform...High pretreatment PSA velocity predicts worse outcome
The most significant single predictor of aggressive prostate cancer is an elev...s a stronger poor prognostic factor than any other single high-risk indicator, such as a biopsy Gleason score greater than 7, a PSA level of 10 ng/ml or an ad...'Smart' mice teach scientists about learning process, brain disorders
... 27, 2007 -- Mice genetically engineered to lack a single enzyme in their brains are more adept at learning than their normal cousins, and are quicker to figure out that their environment has changed, a team led by researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center has found. The results, appearing today in t...System to pinpoint airline passengers who contaminate cabins
...que can track a substance to an area the size of a single seat. The technique might enable officials to identify passengers responsible for the unintentional release of germs, such as contagious viruses, or the intentional release of pathogens or chemical agents in a terrorist attack, said Qingyan (pronou...New prevention, treatment methods for patients with painful bowel inflammation
...ignificant. At eight weeks after treatment, not a single adverse event related to the stem cells (Cx401) was observed. "The safety profile of the product turned out to be very promising. We propose this strategy as a novel approach for the healing of patients with perianal fistula, a chronic and highly d...MIT reports key pathway in synaptic plasticity
...s after robust stimulation. It is as if there is a single important trigger and then a functional circuit rapidly comes online."...Breast MRI may help determine surgical management of women with newly diagnosed breast cancer
...nosed between April 2005 and April 2006, went to a single surgeon who performed an evaluation and developed a plan for the surgical management of the disease. After this consultation, MRI was performed on both breasts. If the MRI detected new tumors that were found to be malignant or suspicious after a biop...Vacuum cleaning ineffective in allergy avoidance
...hree layer bags performed better than those with a single layer bag, and the maintenance of the cleaner and integrity of seals and gaskets were important factors in effective cleaning," Mr Sercombe said. "There are many vacuum cleaners on the market that claim to be suited to allergy sufferers. The most ...To get blood pressure under control, combination of medicines may be best
... BP treatment. These data suggest strongly that single tablets containing two drugs will control the vast...ly, blood pressure treatment guidelines call for a single medicine to be tried first in people with Stage 1 hypertension -- those with the top, or systolic, r...Drug treatment slows decline in lung function in COPD patients, TORCH study finds
...ate at a dose of 500 mcg twice daily combined in a single inhaler, with placebo, salmeterol alone, or fluticasone propionate alone for a period of three years. In February 2007, the New England Journal of Medicine published results from the TORCH study that found that the reduction in death rates for pati...New research supports early testing for prostate cancer
...ith favorable risk prostate cancer. But is there a single characteristic that could help determine which of these patients are likely to progress" What is the best predictor of subsequent intervention with treatment" To determine the best predictor of secondary treatment, researchers from the University of...A first glimpse at healthy brain and behavioral development
...ons, however, that these data are "snapshots" at a single point in time, averaging the performance of a whole population. "We don't know whether everyone's performance improves more slowly in adolescence, or whether some children continue to improve while others do not, or whether our standard tests can mea...Fatalistic beliefs about cancer cause many to ignore cancer prevention advice
... a difficult thing to talk about in the space of a single news story," Niederdeppe said. "Science values repetition, while the media values novelty. Those two concepts naturally butt heads, which can confuse people." If conflicting news accounts of cancer prevention science are the cause of confusion, Nie...MTAS will cause irreparable harm to 10,000 junior doctors
... Three quarters of those polled also rejected the single interview solution proposed by the MTAS review body during the crisis in which all applicants are guaranteed one interview. 80% of respondents want the August 1 changeover date postponed, while 85% call for consultants to withdraw from the interview...JCI table of contents -- May 17, 2007
... from the University of Michigan have shown that a single session of endurance exercise on a treadmill was sufficient to prevent insulin resistance in healthy, non-obese women. The authors showed that exercise triggered a corresponding increase in triglyceride synthesis within skeletal muscle as well as a p...Tests show healthy humans not harmed by Taser
...uzzle by looking at the physiological effects of a single Taser activation in human subjects," said study director Gary Vilke, M.D., professor of clinical medicine and director of Clinical Research for Emergency Medicine at UC San Diego. Vilke presented his findings at the 2007 Society for Academic Emergenc...Testing the taser on human subjects -- preliminary physiological measurements
...uzzle by looking at the physiological effects of a single Taser activation in human subjects. The presentation is entitled Cardiovascular and Metabolic Effects of the Taser on Human Subjects by Gary M Vilke MD. This paper will be presented at the 2007 SAEM Annual Meeting, May 16-19, 2007, Chicago, IL on ...