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Cell Toxin Inhibits Survival Protein in Cancer Cells

...ssion, said Hockenbery, who is also a professor of medicine at the University of Washington Medical Center. This effect was preserved when 2-Methoxy antimycin was used in combination with other agents, and could lead to a targeted molecular therapy to enhance the effectiveness of cancer treatments. Hockenb...

40 Percent of Community Pharmacists Dispensed Off-label Drug

...ng the supply of prescription and over-the-counter medicine for use by children and ensuring that any off-label drugs are prescribed and dispensed appropriately. Give their role, we feel that greater emphasis should be placed on providing them with both undergraduate and postgraduate education in off-label ...

Researchers Develop Tool to Gauge Quality of Life of Hepatitis B Patients

... principal investigator and assistant professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System. Hepatitis B is caused by a viral infection that can damage the liver and lead to chronic disease. It is contracted most often through con...

Uninsured Adults Increase Medicare Costs

..., says John Z. Ayanian, HMS associate professor of medicine and of health care policy and a practicing general internist at Brigham and Womens Hospital. Even if theyre eligible for private insurance, it can be prohibitively expensive. McWilliams and Ayanian, along with colleagues in the HMS Department of H...

Vets To Team Up With Human Health Specialists

... Health. Its goal is to integrate human and animal medicine in education, public health agencies, research facilities and clinical practices, to help improve diagnosis and treatment of emerging and chronic diseases. According to Roger Mahr, outgoing president of the veterinary association, a task force wil...

Arthroscopic Treatment of Tennis Elbow is Successful

... L. Baker, Jr., M.D., practices orthopaedic sports medicine surgery. Tennis elbow, a potentially debilitating condition, is common and can be successfully managed without surgery in almost 90% of cases. When it cannot be controlled by nonoperative measures, including rest, the arthroscopic technique used in...

Pain Doctor in Virginia Sentenced to Five Years Imprisonment

...ended the bulk of Hurwitz's practice as legitimate medicine that saved patients' lives. She said medical literature has increasingly come to support Hurwitz's theories about the propriety of massive drug doses for patients in chronic pain. William E. Hurwitzs 61, pain-management clinic in a suburb of Washin...

Harvard to Develop Medical City in Islamabad

...lthcare through better medical education, clinical medicine and biomedical research. Since its inception in 1994, HMI has created several partnerships with healthcare organisations, academic institutions, governments and NGOs around the world, developing over 50 programmes in more than 30 countries. Acc...

Nasal Cannula Treatment for Sleep Apnea Patients

... Badr, chief of pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine at Haper University Hospital in Detroit and chair of the American Thoracic Societys Assembly on Respiratory Neurobiology and Sleep. The authors noted that the minimally intrusive nasal interface of TNI may improve patient adherence, and may ultimat...

Patients Not Complying With Their Dermatologic Problem

...k. He planned to take a photo of the rash, put the medicine on once a day and then take a photograph one week later. I wanted to make sure I didnt forget to apply the medication, so I put it on top of my toothbrush, he said. The first night I used the medication. The second night I managed to brush my teeth ...

Female Doctors Facing Barriers to Careers in Education and Research, Study Finds

... medical schools has no female professor, Academic medicine is failing to attract and retain women doctors. The researchers surveyed 1,162 doctors working in the NHS and higher education institutions across the UK. The results show that in medical schools and other universities: Men are much more likely t...

Smokers may Be Motivated to Quit During Interventions in Hospital Stays

...usetts General Hospital and associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. The aim of the systematic review was to evaluate how effective smoking cessation programs are when directed to patients admitted to a hospital. The review appears in the current issue of The Cochrane Library, a publicat...

AIIMS Fined Rs 5 Lakhs for Negligence

...s been registered against the premier institute of medicine AIIMS and has been asked to pay a fine of Rs five lakhs by the State Consumer Commission . All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) is guilty of wrongly diagnosing a woman as cancer patient and removing her breast as a part of treatment, nine...

Fake Drug Factory Busted in Orissa

A spurious medicine manufacturing unit was busted in Orissa's Bolangir district and fake drugs worth over Rs.20 million were seized, police said Saturday. A police team raided a factory owned by Sankarlal Agarwal at Kantabanji town, over 400 km from here, late Friday...

Traditional Tibetan Medicine Gaining Acceptance in Himachal Pradesh

Traditional Tibetan system of medicine is gaining acceptance among visitors and locals he...to health care. "People are attracted to Tibetan medicine because it is a holistic system. It means Tibetan medicine sees mind and body as one integral elemen...

AIDS No Longer a Death Sentence for South Africa's Children

...tric formulations is still required. Sometimes the medicine tastes terrible and you have to get your toddler to drink disgusting medicine." The first person who really opened the world's eyes to the plight of Africa's young AIDS victims was 11-year-old Nkosi Johnson who delivered an electrifying speech at the...

Punjab Wants Ban on Advertisements by Doctors

...ces. Sood asked councils of different schools of medicine to register their respective practitioners again so that it was clearly known how many genuine doctors were practising. This step will also help to know about the unemployed doctors, he said....

Genetic Variations Leads to Fever After Smallpox Vaccination

...search at Washington University and a professor of medicine and microbiology. Routine smallpox vaccinations in the United States were halted in 1972, when the disease was considered eradicated in this country, but the U.S. military and other high-risk groups, including some healthcare workers, continue to g...

Diabetic Womens Death Rate Shows No Decline

...ot have a clue," said Dr. Larry Deeb, president of medicine and science for the American Diabetes Association (ADA), when asked why women are falling behind. "But I do know that it argues that something we're doing isn't right. If you're a woman, and you have diabetes, it may be we're not aggressive enough ab...

Bone Health Protection by Dietary Calcium

... Armamento-Villareal, M.D., assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Bone and Mineral Diseases and a bone specialist at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. "In addition to analyzing the volunteers' daily calcium intake, we tested bone mineral density and urinary concentrations of estrogen metabolites." The re...

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