Patient-centered approach can backfire
...ion or making diet changes -- if they see a doctor whose attitudes toward patient-physician roles are in line with their own. But some patients, especially older patients, prefer a doctor with a more traditional "doctor-centered" or "paternalistic" style, someone who spends less time explaining a conditi...Comparison of obstetric outcomes between on-call and patients' own obstetricians
... whether obstetric outcomes differed between women whose babies were delivered by their own obstetrician and those attended by an on-call obstetrician who did not provide antenatal care. They performed a cohort study of all live single term births between 1991 and 2001 at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Mon...1 of 2 pediatric kidney disease research centers in world established
...ael Dunn, M.D., dean and executive vice president, whose research focus is kidney disease, says, The Center will draw on the rich interdisciplinary environment at the Medical College, particularly thorough collaboration with its Human Molecular Genetics Center and the Kidney Disease Research Center. The Me...Test project of patient-centered medical home model endorsed by American College of Physicians
...nced payment will be given to primary care doctors whose care is based on the model and who demonstrate measurable improvements in the overall health of patients. This is what physicians-in-training signed up for when they elected to become internists and this is the care that patients want and deserve, ...Pathway links inflammation, angiogenesis and breast cancer
...om 116 patients. They found breast cancer patients whose tumors had the TSC1/TSC2 tumor suppressor complex blocked by phosphorylation did not survive as long as those with an active TSC1/TSC2 (46 percent survival at 60 months vs. 65 percent). Rapamycin is a powerful immune system suppressor used to prote...Stanford researchers find culprit in aging muscles that heal poorly
...ay came to light. The work was done with live mice whose circulatory systems were joined, and in lab dishes with young cells immersed in serum from old blood. As expected, the young muscle stem cells were influenced negatively by the aged environment, repairing damaged muscle tissue just as slowly and po...UCLA researchers awarded $9M contract for study identifiying antibiotic treatment for MRSA
...ylococcus aureus. Off-patent medications are those whose patents have expired, allowing any manufacturer to produce them. The emergence of the new, potentially more infectious and virulent strain of S. aureus in the community, referred to as community-associated or CAMRSA, has caused serious outbreaks o...'Heroes of Chemistry' honored for medical, energy, environmental breakthroughs
...The awards specifically honor "chemical innovators whose work has led to the welfare and progress of humanity" in a significant way in the past decade. The scientists were part of multidisciplinary teams representing Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP, DuPont, with partners Genencor International and T...Parents' depression can weigh on children
...academic performance and social status. Children whose parents were struggling or who reported more problems with peers tended to have a lower overall score for quality of life. Both bullying and parent distress were linked to more depressive symptoms in children, and these symptoms seemed to be related ...Michigan-CDC study supports value of social restrictions during influenza pandemics
...ned full force. The new study finds that cities whose NPIs were sustained and layered with multiple tactics had the best outcomes. In addition to quarantine and isolation, the NPIs examined in this study were school closures and cancellation of public gatherings. Public health is everyones responsibil...In women, caffeine may protect memory
...neficial effect. The study involved 7,000 people whose cognitive abilities and caffeine consumption were evaluated over four years. Compared to women who drank one cup or less of coffee per day, those who drank over three cups were less likely to show as much decline in memory. Moreover, the benefits in...Maternal obesity prior to pregnancy associated with birth defects
...o be obese prior to becoming pregnant than mothers whose children are born without such defects, according ...olleagues interviewed 10,249 women in eight states whose babies were born with birth defects between 1997 and 2002. The women were contacted between six week...Backache sufferers who fear pain change movements
...Thomas, an associate professor of physical therapy whose study is funded by a four-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. "It's like if you run every day, and then a friend invites you to a game of racquetball," Thomas said, noting that the sports use different muscle groups. "...Many heart attack patients still not getting emergency clot-busting treatment
...ergency treatment was highest among those patients whose heart attack symptoms dont include typical symptoms like chest pain, those who didnt reach the hospital until six or more hours after the start of their attack, women, people over age 75, and non-white people. The study, published in the American...Heat-related deaths in middle, high school football players spikes in 2006
...boys who died playing or practicing football, kids whose body temperatures rose so high and so fast under the summer sun that their brains couldnt keep up, couldnt regulate their cores, and the boys died. When something is preventable ..., Mueller said, shaking his head. Those kids could be alive today. ...Science steps in to discover wonders of Toe-tankhamun
...or Biomedical Egyptology, is recruiting volunteers whose right big toe has been lost in order to test an exact replica of the artificial toe. A model of a second false Egyptian big toe on display in the British Museum, albeit without its mummy, will also be tested at the Human Performance Laboratory at n...Obese girls less likely to attend college
...s more pronounced among non-whites and among girls whose parents did not graduate from college. Obese boys did not differ from their non-obese peers in college enrollment. "That girls are far more vulnerable to the non-health risks of obesity reinforces the notion that body image is more important to gi...Medical students respond positively to simulated patient experience
...felt the same way about the presentation. Fitch, whose Ph.D. is in neuroscience and who directs the Emergency Departments simulation program, was asked by James Johnson, Ph.D., who directs the neuroscience courses taught to first- and second-year students, to develop a simulation to help teach basic scie......he environment will be losers, while agribusiness, whose political contributions are fueling the ethanol frenzy, will become the winners, said Food & Water Watch Executive Director Wenonah Hauter. "Rising oil prices, energy security, and global warming concerns have led to today's 'go yellow' hype over ......wever, this means there are more and more patients whose cardiac health has to be monitored so that follow-up treatment can be given if problems arise. Available methods of heart monitoring usually restrict the mobility of patients to a hospital or a single room. Thulasi Bai and S.K. Srivatsa of the Sath...