ACP and ACP Foundation launch 3-year effort to improve diabetes care
...nts, healthcare providers, associations and others who share our vision and plans to defeat diabetes. A clear example of this is our partnership with ACP, as this highly respected and effective organization brings tremendous educational opportunities and resources to its membership, those physicians on t...Stanford gut check shows diversity of intestinal ecosystem
...hers at the Stanford University School of Medicine who have embarked on the early stages of exploring the...t step in studying this ecosystem is to figure out who is there and how the community census varies in time and space," said Eckburg, the lead author of th...Independent voice rises to help consumers navigate health care
...th insurance enrollment by identifying individuals who are eligible for public insurance programs and assisting them in enrolling in these programs." Counties covered by the organizations include San Francisco, San Diego, Fresno, Los Angeles, San Mateo, Sacramento, El Dorado, Placer, Yolo and Orange. Fo...Cost-effectiveness of drugs may vary across borders
...ies and particularly pharmaceutical manufacturers, who may have to consider repeating studies in every possible setting....One-meter waistline predicts high risk of diabetes and heart disease
...o identify those at greatest risk (therefore those who would benefit most from lifestyle changes), they conclude....Exercise variety - not intensity - appears to reduce some Alzheimer's disease risk
...included 3,375 men and women age 65 years or older who participated in the Cardiovascular Health Cognition Study from 1992 to 2000 and who did not have dementia at the onset of the study. Each study volunteer was asked to fill out a quest......ek study of 1,587 men, researchers report that men who suffer from premature ejaculation (PE) had an aver...LT) of 1.8 minutes, compared to 7.3 minutes in men who did not. Men with PE and their female partners also had higher ratings for personal distress, inter...Can hospital data detect poor performing doctors?
...used to identify the gynaecologist Rodney Ledward, who was suspended in 1996 and was the subject of the Ritchie inquiry into quality and practice within the NHS. The research team compared the performance of 142 gynaecology consultants with the performance of Ledward over a five year period, to determine...New treatment for hereditary breast cancer
...leday, associate professor at Stockholm University who runs the research group. Both the treatment and the possible use as a preventive treatment are new concepts in cancer therapy. They could lead to revolutionary new treatments for women with hereditary breast cancer within the next five years or so....Drug can reduce bodyweight and cardiovascular risk factors in obese people
...t compared with placebo. More than 67% of patients who completed treatment with 20mg of rimonabant achieved 5% or more weight loss, and 39% achieved 10 % or more weight loss. Patients on 20mg of rimonabant had greater improvements than placebo in waist circumference (average reduction of 4cm), and cardio...Researcher sheds light on ghostwriting in medical journals
...able here. Dr. Fugh-Berman, a general practitioner who is the author of a reference text, The 5-Minute Herb and Dietary Supplement Consult (Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins 2003), teaches in the Georgetown University School of Medicines complementary and alternative medicine masters degree program. Base...Execution by lethal injection is not humane or painless suggests study
...Doctors should not be in the job of killing. Those who do participate in this barbaric act are shameful examples of how a profession has allowed its values to be corrupted by state violence."...Pessimism and depression increase dementia risk
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Individuals who do not have psychiatric problems but score very hi...ral decades later. The same is true of individuals who score very high on the test's depression scale. The risk is even higher -- 40 percent more -- for in...Hormone aids recovery in rats with hemorrhagic stroke
...lood cells, has shown a therapeutic effect on rats who have suffered an intracerebral hemorrhage, according to research that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology 57th Annual Meeting in Miami Beach, Fla., April 9 16, 2005. The study examined whether erythropoietin might have a neuroprot...Golfers' yips may be movement disorder
.... A trend revealed that the five golfers with yips who had co-contractions were older, had higher current...yips for fewer years than the other five with yips who did not have the co-contractions. There was also a trend for those five golfers with the yips to mak...Women not given same tests for stroke
MIAMI BEACH Women who have strokes are less likely to receive some stand... examined 220 women and 161 men in southeast Texas who had the ischemic type of stroke. Researchers examined the use by gender of four diagnostic tests: ec...Special physical therapy technique successful for chronic back pain
...ation is wonderful." The study involved 102 people who had severe pain for an average of seven months due to spinal disc protrusions, spinal canal stenosis, or narrowing, or other disc disease. Of those, 82 had lower back pain and 20 had neck pain. They all had received different combinations of treatmen...Drug may help MS patients with laughing, crying spells
... drug may help people with multiple sclerosis (MS) who have a condition that leaves them unable to contro...wer emotional episodes during the study than those who received the placebo. They also reported overall improvement in the condition and improvement in the...Obesity linked to risk of severe headaches
...hed by phone, researchers identified 30,850 people who had at least one severe headache attack in the previous year and took weight and height assessments. Participants were categorized into four body mass index types: underweight, normal weight, overweight, and obese. A fifth group of morbidly obese ind......ecrease depending on the weekly dosage. For people who took a daily ibuprofen tablet, the risk was 38 percent lower, compared to people who did not regularly take ibuprofen. The reason ibuprofen has an effect on the development of Parkinson...