Experts discuss use of human stem cells in ape and monkey brains
...elt strongly that the risk of doing so is real and too ethically important to ignore. "Our group struggled with many fundamental questions," says Faden. "Are there cognitive or emotional capacities that are unique to humans in ways that make us worthy of higher moral status? What sets one primate, inclu...Malpractice litigation wrongly blamed for inconsistent health care
...ot use them because most independent practices are too small to afford the technology. Few emergency rooms have patient-protecting software because of limited resource pooling and economies of scale. Over and over, one finds that providers fail to implement proven patient safety measures because they lac...Recent use of antibiotics doubles your chances of being resistant
... presumably because the time period in question is too long. However, the more recent use of antibiotics within 2 months led to a near doubling of the likelihood of resistance. The team also found that over a 12 month period prior to sampling, each additional tablet of trimethoprim (200mg) prescribed...Single-dose antibiotics reduce appendectomy complications
... think perhaps we may be seeing the pendulum swing too far in the wrong direction, where patients are not receiving adequate antibiotic coverage. A decade or even five years ago, the opposite was true." The authors first published a review of antibiotic use during appendectomies in 2001 and then updated ...Regular yoga practice may help prevent middle-age spread
... it much easier to stop eating before you've eaten too much." Study co-author Denise Benitez, owner of Seattle Yoga Arts, agrees. "Most people practice yoga in a way that's not aerobic enough to burn a lot of calories, so it has to be some other reason." One reason, she speculates, could be that yoga cul...Missing eyeglasses make life a blur for a third of nursing home patients with Alzheimer's disease
...no longer sufficient. Several of the patients were too cognitively impaired to ask for help. Vision problems make it difficult for a person to function and can aggravate symptoms of dementia, Koch said. "The loss of visual stimulation may cause disorientation, limit a patient's mobility and increase the ...Healthy weight means healthier blood lipid profile in children, study finds
... important," says Dr. Gutin. "Fitness is important too but when you put them together it looks like fatness is more important in teens. The second issue is that the impact of high levels of fatness on triglycerides and total cholesterol seems to be less strong for blacks than it is for whites." "The tak...Wealth doesn't always equal health
...towards gaps in our understanding and warn against too simplistic a view of health inequalities....Many cancer survivors initiate lifestyle changes to benefit their health
...the quality and length of their lives. Oncologists too are faced with a teachable moment, and have an opportunity to define what care of the cancer survivor should include, and what each survivor can expect after completing their initial curative-intent therapy." More than 10 million cancer survivors liv...BMJ highlights lack of international cooperation to investigate scientific fraud
...eft the BMJ in 2004, accepts that it has taken far too long to bring the case of Dr Singh to light, and admits that "the failure is in part mine." However, he adds that "the bigger shame lies with the scientific community that lacks means to investigate these international scandals and has to leave it to...Once-dreaded leprosy 'replaced' by tuberculosis, say researchers
...f the lepers died of tuberculosis until there were too few of them to further spread leprosy. TB, meanwhile, was increasingly on the rise as people in the Middle Ages migrated to urban centers, where crowding and poor sanitary conditions provided a fertile breeding ground for the spread of the killer dis...Women missing out in heart treatment more needed in clinical trials
...ith higher mortality in female patients. "Because too few women participate in heart disease trials we are not sure whether they really benefit from some therapeutic strategies that have shown clinical benefit in trials conducted predominantly in men. So, we prescribe drugs to women adapted from evidenc...Tsunami raises questions about disaster mental health, Science reports
...ion and others also complained that many NGOs were too focused on post-traumatic stress disorder and cert...er than PTSD get overlooked when the aid effort is too focused on PTSD. At the same time, there were some groups who did very good, culturally appropriate ...Robotic technique shows promise in weight-loss surgery, Stanford study finds
...the obesity epidemic has grown in recent years, so too has the number of gastric bypass operations. In th...Curet and her collaborators acknowledge that it is too early to draw any definitive conclusions regarding long-term patient outcomes. However, they are con...Many choose more aggressive breast cancer surgery despite breast-sparing option
...hat mastectomy is overtreatment and that rates are too high. However, our study results suggest that women are thinking very rationally about breast cancer surgery from their own perspectives, weighing a lot of different factors. When women are diagnosed with breast cancer, they are looking for as compl...Vitamin D, NSAIDS provide double whammy against prostate cancer, Stanford study finds
...pitfall of earlier studies that used daily dosing: too much calcium in the blood, a condition called hypercalcemia, which can lead to kidney stones. Feldman's group uses calcitriol for both the cell culture studies and the clinical trial to ensure that enough of the active form of vitamin D is in the pat...Percutaneous aortic valve replacement
...en to have a single valve size (23mm in diameter), too small for some patients. Two most recent developments relate to a custom retrograde delivery system, as well as a larger 26mm size valve. Dr John Webb (Vancouver, Canada) is the only physician approved yet for investigating these new iterations. He h...Epidemiology in Europe: the problem starts in childhood
... environment that are conducive to poor diets with too much fat and sugar and little opportunity to be active. As IOTF has pointed out: "This is more than just a warning signal it is the red light: We can no longer afford to delay the introduction of strong prevention strategies throughout Europe."...Many resident physicians feel unprepared to care for culturally diverse patients
...ruction and little or no evaluation, and there are too few good role models and mentors." Weissman has st...es suggests that graduate medical education may be too heavily weighted toward technical skills. We know that communication is a critical part of good pat...Key strategy to limit managed care drug costs failing, survey shows
...udy found that the data usually got to the doctors too late for them to determine if they were over or under budget. "On the one hand, doctors get too much information from working with so many HMOs, each with its own array of prescription drug benefi...