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Quality Improvement Effort Pays Off in Diabetes Care

...dy author Elbert Huang, MD, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Chicago. "A small investment in upgrading the delivery of health care brought about a substantial improvement in health that justified the costs of the program." "Unfortunately," he added, "the people who make such financial in...

Ulcerative Colitis Disrupts Many Aspects of Daily Life: Survey

...., a gastroenterologist and assistant professor of medicine at the University of Chicago Medical Center who helped design the surveys. UC is a chronic autoimmune disease that causes inflammation in the intestine and can lead to symptoms such as severe abdominal pain and cramping, uncontrollable bloody diarr...

UW Establishes Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center

...r will encompass existing programs in regenerative medicine and an interdisciplinary stem cell post-doctoral training program, and will serve as a focal point for basic, pre-clinical and clinical research in stem cell biology and regenerative medicine, an emerging multidisciplinary field that seeks to develop...

Healthy Humans Not Harmed By Taser

...he final results of a study conducted by emergency medicine physicians at the University of California, San Di...y director Gary Vilke, M.D., professor of clinical medicine and director of Clinical Research for Emergency Medicine at UC San Diego. Vilke presented his findin...

Students Devise Oral Quick-dissolve Strips for Rotavirus Vaccine

...tect the vaccine from stomach acid but release the medicine in the small intestine. The coating is pH-responsive, meaning it delivers its medical payload only when the acid-alkaline level in its environment is appropriate. 'What the students have accomplished is a way to incorporate a pH-responsive polymer ...

Beware Weight Loss Drugs, Say Canadian Experts

...ything they want, says Arya Sharma, a professor of medicine at McMaster University who holds a Canada Research... 2004 study, Robert Saper, director of integrative medicine at Boston University Medical Center, found none of the 26 most common ingredients in over-the-counte...

Toddler Infected With Rare Side Effect Of Smallpox Vaccination Recovering

...elyn Kahana, the chief of pediatric intensive care medicine at the hospital, said in an interview that the child had been covered with mounds of pox that reminded her of photos of bees swarming over beekeepers. Im a veteran of 25 years of practice in the I.C.U.s, and I thought Id seen it all, Dr. Kahana said....

A Non-profit Drug Firms Injection to Fight Kala Azar Included in WHOs Model List

...rovides guidance to the pharmaceutical industry on medicine needs globally. The decision was made at the 15t...ted the essential medicines concept and base their medicine supply system on WHOs list....

'Star Trek'-type Scanning may Help Reveal Genetic Activity of Tumors

...r a biopsy. "Ideally, we would have personalized medicine achieved in a non-invasive manner," said Dr. Michael Kuo, assistant professor of interventional radiology at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. Since the new approach is painless, avoids risk of infection and bleeding from ...

Miners in Madhya Pradesh at High Risk of Developing TB

... patient has to do the entire course again. If the medicine is not taken properly at the right time then it can do more harm than good. In such a situation there is a risk of drug resistance and treatment becomes difficult, says health officials....

Moderate Drinking Lowers Women's Risk of Heart Attack

...Ph.D.,associate professor of social and preventive medicine in the UB Schoolof Public Health and Health Professions and first author on the study. Women seem to have a quicker reaction to a smaller amount of alcohol,she noted: "Overdoing it is harmful, and what is too much depends oneach individual. In some...

Astronauts can Now Feed on 'radiation-eating' Fungi

...erina Dadachova, an Associate Professor of nuclear medicine and microbiology and immunology at Einstein and co-lead author of the study. The research began five years ago when Dr. Casadevall read on the Web that a robot sent into the still-highly-radioactive damaged reactor at Chernobyl had returned with sa...

Fidel Castro Appeals for Investment in Health Rather Than in Arms

...health and not arms. The non-profit exercise of medicine is capable of gaining any noble heart, said Castro in his recent article broadcast Tuesday by the island's mass media. In his feature, Castro condemned the construction of a "wonderful submarine" in Great Britain, which can shoot down lethal Tomaha...

Scientists Create Synthetic Proteins

...ysts that can be used as therapeutics in molecular medicine or biocatalysts in biotechnology," he adds. Chaput said that the test tube derived protein was not only stable, but could bind its target molecule ATP twice as tight as naturally evolved ones. The researchers say that they now have a technology...

A Tipple a Day may Be heart Friendly for Women

...h.D., associate professor of social and preventive medicine in the UB School of Public Health and Health Professions and first author on the study. Women seem to have a quicker reaction to a smaller amount of alcohol. "Overdoing it is harmful, and what is too much depends on each individual. In some wome...

Gene Discovery Lays Groundwork for Targeted Therapies for Endometrial Cancer

... means that we are one step closer to personalized medicine for women with endometrial cancer driven by an altered FGFR2 gene." Pollock spent several years studying the FGFR2 gene in melanoma. Pollock and Paul Goodfellow, Ph.D., an endometrial cancer expert and professor of surgery, genetics and obstetrics ...

Death from Exposure to WTC Dust Confirmed

...ief of the division of pulmonary and critical care medicine at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell hospital. 'Then the conditions are recognized, and people die in a few months.' Dr. Crystal said that some people are more genetically predisposed to sarcoidosis than others, but it remains a relatively rare di...

Cancer Children in US Get Wrong Dosage of Chemotherapy New Study

...age. "That is a reality for every single dose of medicine we give to children. There is no normal dose. There is no comfort level. There is no ability to say that is clearly, egregiously, too much for this age," Miller said in an interview. Miller said no studies have determined whether medication errors ...

Unique Electrical Stimulation Device to Restore Mobility in Stroke Survivors

...Dr. Michael O'Dell, acting chief of rehabilitation medicine and medical director of the Inpatient Rehabilitation Medicine Center at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell. Manufactured by California based Bioness Inc., the device may also be beneficial in treating patients with traumatic brain injury, multiple ...

Patients Will Suffer Under PBS Cost Recovery

...ble that drug companies will push up the prices of medicine to recover the additional costs. The AMA calls on the Federal Government to abandon its plans to introduce this measure. PBS cost recovery from the pharmaceutical industry is due to be introduced in July next year....

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