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Is Growth Hormone – a Key to Longevity

...lthy elderly people. The journal also publishes an editorial warning against the general use of growth hormone as a therapy in adults. It claimed that there was a danger that it would do people more harm than good. SI...

Safe Sun Exposure a Burning Issue

...hy levels of vitamin D, Dr Rachel Neale said in an editorial in the latest issue of the Medical Journal of Australia. Dr Neale, an epidemiologist working with the Queensland Institute of Medical Research in Brisbane, said the solution is not simple. 'It still may not be possible to provide a single messa...

Medicine Information Out of Date

... guarantee timely and accurate revisions. In an editorial in the same issue of the MJA, Dr Dowden suggested a ‘use-by date’ for PI. “Drugs have an expiry date, so why not extend the concept to product information? This would require a date to be set for a comprehensive check of the product information,”...

Accuracy of Gene Expression Test for Heart Transplant Patients Confirmed

...tion, according to new data reported in an invited editorial authored by a consensus team of international heart transplant experts, including a physician-scientist at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University Medical Center, and available today in the online edition of the Journal of Heart and Lun...

Cough and Phlegm Cause Fourfold Increase in COPD Incidence

...ups at the beginning and end of the study. In an editorial on the research in the same issue of the journal, J?rgen Vestbo, M.D., of Hvidovre University Hospital in Denmark and the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom, wrote: “The virtue of the study by Drs. Cerveri and colleagues lies in its size ...

Medical Teams Are Key to Patient Safety

..., safety, and welfare of patients, according to an editorial by two Virginia Commonwealth University physicians... pressure of excellence for patient safety.” In an editorial commenting on a recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Wenzel, together with...

Lung Functions and Stroke

...ish Columbia, Vancouver, co-author of accompanying editorial claims that in a previous study he and his colleagues helped establish that exposure to air pollutants can lead to hardening of the arteries. This could explain the relationship between reduced lung function and stroke in people who had never smo...

Medical Teams Are Key to Patient Safety

...safety//, and welfare of patients, according to an editorial by two Virginia Commonwealth University physicians...ressure of excellence for patient safety.” In an editorial commenting on a recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Wenzel, together with...

Black Cohosh Does Not Treat Hot Flashes

...afe alternative to estrogen." The good news, the editorial writers say, is that women in the placebo group experienced about a 30 percent reduction in severity and frequency of symptoms during the 12-month follow-up period. This means that many women will probably have fewer symptoms within six to 12 month...

Common Cold Virus Leads to Death in Lung Transplant Patients

...gement, and anti-viral use, if available.” In an editorial on the research in the same issue of the journal, Marc B. Hershenson, M.D., of the University of Michigan, and Sebastian L. Johnston, M.D., Ph.D., of the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College in London, wrote: “The report by Drs. Kais...

Two Lung Cancer Patients Die Due To HRV

...gement, and anti-viral use, if available." In an editorial on the research in the same issue of the journal, Marc B. Hershenson, M.D., of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Sebastian L. Johnston, M.D., Ph.D., of the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College in London, wrote: "The report b...

With Early-Stage Prostate Cancer Treatment, Older Men Live Longer

...e preliminary, while commenting on the study in an editorial of the same issue. They also advised that Doctors must remain steadfast in their efforts to reduce over-treatment and under-treatment by thoughtfully defining each patient's unique balance between the natural history of prostate cancer and that ind...

A Basic Symptom Index For Early Detection Of Ovarian Cancer

...al Alliance in Washington, D.C. in an accompanying editorial from the same issue. Although years away, the development of a screening blood test would be "the real key to early detection." She continues, "until there is a valid screening test, the symptom index could serve an important role in detecting cancer...

Hajj Pilgrims Need Flu Shots – Says British Doctor

...e University of Edinburgh and his colleagues in an editorial for December issue of British Medical Journal. The hajj pilgrimage, this year will start by December 28 and last for seven days and at the end of January, two million Muslim pilgrims from various countries will converge on Saudi Arabia to visit Mec...

Southern California Wildfires Pose Health Risks to Children

...the journal's cover story and is accompanied by an editorial written by Sverre Vedal, M.D. of the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine. Using existing populations from the ongoing USC-led Children's Health Study (CHS), researchers led by Nino Künzli, M.D.,Ph.D., associate p...

Large Variations in Cost Has No Effect on Length of Stay or Mortality

... others in large academic medical centers. In an editorial on the research in the same issue of the journal, Jeremy Kahn, M.D., M.Sc., of the University of Pennsylvania, and Derek C. Angus, M.D., M.P.H., of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, wrote: “Total per capita health care costs have incre...

Depression After Heart Attack Means More Heart Problems

...ving care. Dr. von K?nel is the first author of an editorial comment about heart attack and depression that will be published in conjunction with the new research. “Given what we now know, I believe that screening for depression should be part of today’s clinical practice in a cardiology setting any time a p...

Fetal Oxygen Monitors Not Helpful To Prevent Mishaps In Labor:Says Study

...ly does not offer ground breaking benefits. The editorial to this publication also pointed out that fetal oxygen monitoring certainly need not be included as part of routine obstetric procedures. The Food and Drug Administration In 2000, had approved one device, for fetal monitoring but had also cautione...

Surgery vs. Non-surgical treatment for back disorders

...iskectomy to treat patients with back pain. In an editorial along with the study, Dr. Eugene Carragee of Stanford University Medical Center wrote that these findings show that there is no overbearing reason to advocate surgery as the only panacea unless a patient requests for surgery as a preferential choice....

Tackling Violence in Families

...n the home, say Melbourne researchers. // In an editorial for the latest issue of the Medical Journal of Australia, general practice and family health specialists have outlined new international guidelines for GPs and other doctors managing families in which partner violence is occurring. Over a period o...

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