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Three Steps To Better Health Care

...private health care systems, they say. In their editorial for the Medical Journal of Australia, Ms Laurann Yen, Visiting Fellow with the Menzies Centre for Health Policy at the Australian National University and The University of Sydney, and colleagues, suggest three steps to ending the so-called blame game...

Despite Being Effective Electroconvulsive Therapy is Underused for Severe Depression

... process," Dr. Taylor concludes. An accompanying editorial by Dr. James N. Kimball of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, N.C., echoes the call for physicians and patients to be open to the possibility of pursuing ECT for persistent depression and other disorders. "It is not right f...

The Forgotten Indian Medical Genius

...ntury (20th century) in an article. It also had an editorial on him as well as a front-page story. I have the clippings," Gupta, in his 70s, told IANS. "I even asked the Nobel committee whether they had ever considered him for an award. I have written about it in my book. SubbaRow had discredited one of the ...

Women With Heart Disease and Diabetes Less Likely to Receive Proper Care: Study

... Allen Fremont, the lead author of an accompanying editorial and co-author of the RAND study. Fremont is a natural scientist and sociologist at RAND....

Doctors Urged To Help Close Indigenous Health Gap

...ndigenous and non-Indigenous Australians . In an editorial in the Medical Journal of Australia, Dr Mark Wenitong, President of the Australian Indigenous Doctors Association, and his co-authors from the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organization and the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Com...

Diabetes And Indigenous Australians

...he risk of diabetes in younger people. In their editorial for the MJA, Professor Kerin ODea from St Vincents Hospital in Melbourne, and colleagues, say prevention of diabetes must go hand-in-hand with prevention of obesity. Preventing excessive weight gain in Indigenous communities is complicated by the ...

Avandia Could Increase Risk of Heart Attack, New Study

...rt disease, or heart death. In a strongly worded editorial accompanying the study, University of Washington researcher Bruce M. Psaty says the Nissen study means there's no good reason for most patients to take Avandia. "There is little evidence for using this drug," Psaty said in an interview. "The purpos...

Urgent Need for Guidance on Mobile Phone Use in Clinical Care

...provision of clinical care are urgently needed, an editorial in the June issue of Quality and Safety in Health Care argues. Healthcare systems are increasing looking to developments in mobile communication technology to help improve the provision of care to people with long-term conditions, such as diabetes...

New Guidelines for HIV/AIDS Prevention, Treatment Program in African Workplace

...usinesses, Merck assembled a predominantly African editorial team of HIV/AIDS experts to help develop and test the Blueprint. Merck also drew on the experience and best practices of various stakeholders such as UNAIDS, the International Labor Organization, the World Bank, non-governmental organizations (NGOs...

New Strategy To Tackle Rheumatic Heart Disease

...gram for all at-risk regions of Australia. In an editorial in the same issue of the MJA, Dr Alex Brown of the Baker Heart Research Institute, Alice Springs, and colleagues claim that at the very least, RHD control programs are needed in the Top End of the Northern Territory, Central Australia, northern Weste...

Treatment Outcomes of Patients With HIV and Tuberculosis

...n patients with HIV-related TB. According to an editorial commenting on the research in the same issue of th... to include rates of acquired drug resistance. The editorial cites a report published in the Lancet of an extensively drug resistant TB strain found in a HIV co-...

Jury Still Out on Cardiovascular Risk of Using HRT

... BMJ Clinical Evidence from the BMJ Group. In an editorial published today, BMJ Clinical Evidence reports that whilst observational studies have consistently found that postmenopausal HRT reduces the risks of CHD, the Womens Health Initiative (WHI) study found contradictory results. Now a study published i...

CRN Emphasizes Importance of Folic Acid Benefits

... (CRN) today responded to a study and accompanying editorial on folic acid and the prevention of cancer in the ...cancer cells in those who already have cancer, the editorial noted the "dual effect" that refers to other previous research on folic acid which found protection ...

Controversy Spikes Over Anti-diabetes Drug Avandia

...ital diabetes expert David Nathan. In a separate editorial in Tuesday's NEJM, Bruce Psaty of the University of Washington in Seattle and Curt Furberg of Wake Forest University, North Carolina, re-evaluated the heart risks in GSK's Record study using Nissen's methodology. They found Avandia raised the risk ...

Millions of Children Denied Drug That Costs Less Than $3 a Year

...g that costs less than $3 a year, according to an editorial in this weeks BMJ. Professor Emilio Perucca urges governments and non-governmental organisations in developing countries to ensure that effective treatment is available for all. Of the 35 million people with epilepsy who live in developing countr...

Aerobics Turn Enlarged Heart into a Trimmer, More Efficient Organ

...aining," said Dr. Rubin, who wrote an accompanying editorial in the June 19 issue of JACC. "But it's not a bed of roses. The patient needs to be motivated, have realistic expectations of the small but real benefit of exercise and, in particular, understand that this form of treatment must be accompanied by ext...

Drug Surveillance System Needs to Be Fixed

...g surveillance system needs to be fixed, argues an editorial in this weeks BMJ. The call follows a recent analysis of the diabetes drug rosiglitazone (Avandia) which raised serious questions about the drugs safety. Rosiglitazone was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1999 and by the ...

Who Receives a Kidney Transplant First?

...e person at the top of the national list. A recent editorial in the American Journal of Transplantation discusses the fairness and equality in kidney allocation, particularly as UNOS is reevaluating its allocation system and will receive recommendations from a sub-committee this year. “The issue of the alloc...

Major Change Needed to Achieve Dignified Care for Older People

...achieve dignified care for older people, says an// editorial in this week’s BMJ. The welfare of older people who live in care homes has raised concern for decades in many countries, write Marion McMurdo and Miles Witham at the University of Dundee. Of course, both illness and dependency pose threats to di...

Should the UK Adopt Dutch Rules on Euthanasia in Newborn Babies?

...d practice vary between different countries. An editorial in this week’s BMJ asks should it be available? In the Netherlands, about 200,000 live births occur annually; of these, 10-20 babies – mostly with severe congenital malformations – are thought to be actively killed. Yet between 1997 and 2004 only 2...

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