Grandparents, older adults encouraged to seek help for a sleep disorder
...o have trouble sleeping are advised to see a sleep specialist at a facility accredited by the AASM. Be prepared to tell the doctor how you spend your day and night, including your medicines, fluid intake and activities so that they will have all the information needed to decide how best to help you, says Krai...UQ researchers discover some of the oldest forms of life
...rom the Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, a specialist in transmission electron microscopical techniques; Justice Baiano, from the School of Molecular & Microbial Sciences, who developed special facilities to culture primitive microbes derived from seafloor mineral-laden hot springs active at plate margi...Africa: International volunteer impact small, but significant
...teer agencies to government facilities, often with specialist training such as tropical medicine, had a significant local impact on capacity building and resource allocation. Health managers organise and develop health services for the general population, whereas volunteer organisations do not always fit int...Medical students respond positively to simulated patient experience
... when I started, said Fitch, an emergency medicine specialist who developed the teaching scenario and conducted a pilot study to determine the simulations success in a non-traditional location with a large number of participants. The research is published online today in Medical Teacher and will appear in the ...UK scientists set their sights on cure for AMD
...The beauty of this Project is that there are three specialist groups working in parallel; a team in Sheffield, the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and Moorfields Eye Hospital. Working in conjunction, they will be respectively safety testing the cells in Sheffield, confirming that the cells are RPE cells and pre...Antipsychotic drugs increase risk of death in older people with dementia
...a, said Sudeep Gill, MD, MSc, a geriatric medicine specialist and the studys lead author. The FDA and Health Canada both issued warnings in 2005 that use of newer atypical antipsychotics to treat elderly patients with dementia was associated with an increased risk of death. But Dr. Gill said, Previous trials...Treatment for early prostate cancer associated with type of specialist seen
... Medicare-linked database to determine the type of specialist they saw and the therapy they received. The treatm...lists. A high correlation was observed between the specialist patients saw and the treatment they received. This was especially true in the younger men aged 65 to...Study: Who claims to be a pediatrician?
...ved the appropriate training to be designated as a specialist in the field of pediatric medicine," warns Freed, the Percy and Mary Murphy Professor of Pediatrics and Child Health Delivery at the U-M Medical School and professor of health management and policy at the U-M School of Public Health. "Parents have...Scripps Research awarded $17 million for adult stem cell use to treat eye diseases
...lander, a professor at Scripps Research and retina specialist at Scripps Clinic. "Our goal in the next five years is to develop this new approach to treating retinal diseases to the point it can be tested in the clinic. The project addresses a large unmet medical need-developing new treatments for patients who ...Elsevier partners with European Federation of Organizations for Medical Physics
...ersity departments and industry in a wide range of specialist areas. Each quarterly issue of EJMP presents the latest peer-reviewed clinical research on medical physics, complemented by expert reviews of critical topics in the field. Other features include conference papers, technical notes and book reviews...HIV and malaria combine to adversely affect pregnant women and their infants
..." says Professor Kevin Kain, an infectious disease specialist and lead author of the study. "We set out to understand how women acquire protection against malaria during pregnancy and how HIV infection impairs that protection. By understanding how they lost protection in the face of HIV we learned how they acqu...Clinical review -- A psychological approach to the management of irritable bowel syndrome
...that this treatment option should be restricted to specialist centres dealing with more severe cases of the syndrome. Nevertheless, hypnotherapy has the potential to help those patients whose IBS is severe, say the authors. The choice of treatment will depend on the individual patient and, inevitably, will ...Follow-up care for breast cancer patients is 'devalued and deregulated'
...also said that at the end of primary treatment the specialist and the patient should agree a written care plan, and that there should be evidence-based policies on the frequency of mammographies for patients. However, the research by Mr Donnelly and his colleagues revealed that: although 84% of specialists...MTAS will cause irreparable harm to 10,000 junior doctors
...ss, of which MTAS is part, was an improvement over specialist registrar training. This figure was slightly higher 25% - for senior house officers. 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 guarant...Implanting dopamine generators in brain cells obtains improvement in Parkinson's in monkeys
...published in 1999 by the same research team in the specialist journal, Neuron . The first name amongst the contributors is that of the researcher Waldy San Sebastin. On this occasion the research was extended to a greater number of non- human primates and for a longer period of time. The procedure involved i...Web-based program could ease treatment decisions for prostate cancer patients
...diagnosis followed by a consultation with a cancer specialist and treatment. The other half will use the P4 program. "These men will go to the Web site and answer questions like who they feel should be responsible for making treatment decisions their doctor, themselves or a combination of the two and the p...Estrogen is important for bone health in men as well as women
...e Division of Bone and Mineral Diseases and a bone specialist at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. She is senior author of a new study in the journal Calcified Tissue International. "Research by other groups had suggested that estrogen may be more important than testosterone for maintaining bone health in men," she say...Warts vaccine -- 1 of many in pipeline
...fessor Ian Frazer and trial manager, sexual health specialist Dr David Jardine More than 200 patients in China and Australia have taken part in the trial so far run from the Princess Alexandra (PA) Hospital. "The new treatment has so far proven safe, and we want to know if it improves the outcome after con...First clinical trial of gene therapy for childhood blindness
...ye surgeon Mr James Bainbridge and leading retinal specialist Professor Tony Moore. Professor Ali said: "We have been developing gene therapy for eye disease for almost 15 years but until now we have been evaluating the technology only in the laboratory. Testing it for the first time in patients is very impor...Gender, ethnic differences may hamper eating disorder diagnosis
...ers," said adolescent medicine and eating disorder specialist Rebecka Peebles, MD, instructor in pediatrics (adolescent medicine). Peebles pointed out that diagnostic and even treatment criteria were developed with Caucasian women or girls in mind. "We may not be asking the right questions for these other group...