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Medical College Students Help Change Global Health Policy

...s Dr. Skorton, who is also a professor of internal medicine and pediatrics. "Such actions by our students show...romise of their future leadership." "Adding this medicine to the list of essential medicines represents an exceptional achievement by our students," says Dr. ...

Most Parents in U.S. Not in Favor of HPV Vaccine Mandates

...ciate professor of general pediatrics and internal medicine at the U-M Medical School, and associate professor of public policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Opponents, however, argue that the vaccine is expensive and that the infection can be prevented without vaccination. Although the CDC...

Persons With HIV and Alcohol Problems Co-infected With Hepatitis C

...g to senior author Jeffrey Samet, MD, professor of medicine at BUSM and chief of General Internal Medicine at Boston Medical Center (BMC), this study has important implications for understanding the optimal management approach for co-infected patients. "Our results suggest that HCV infection may adversely imp...

Online Education Program Better Source of Information for Patients

...rnet sources," said Ileana Pia, M.D., professor of medicine at Case Western Reserve University and senior author on the study. "Patient education and empowerment are key pathways in reducing complications of cardiovascular disease," she said. "The Heart Profilers tool empowers patients to take control an...

Both Alcohol and Neighborhood Characteristics can Affect Intimate Partner Violence

...d William Fals-Stewart, professor in the school of medicine at the University of Rochester, "this study is among the very first to examine IPV within the societal context of where it occurs. The way the authors described the neighborhoods in terms of social disorder and how these characteristics might, indeed...

Choice is a Key Element in Success for Smokers Who Want to Quit

...rcher Dr. Geoffrey Williams associate professor of medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, will unveil new findings at a Toronto conference this month that demonstrate patient involvement in a quit plan leads to smokers who are more motivated to quit because they genuinely wa...

Diabetics in Nursing Homes Need Improved Care

... Jay Shubrook, D.O., assistant professor of family medicine at OU-COM; Frank Schwartz, M.D., assistant professor of endocrinology at OU-COM; and second-year medical student Rachel Holt, examined the quality of care that diabetic patients receive in nursing homes through a retrospective chart review of 108 res...

Study Tests Depression Treatment for Diabetes Patients

...ooked at type 2 diabetes patients attending family medicine and endocrinology appointments in rural Appalachian counties of Southeastern Ohio and West Virginia. Of those 201 patients, 31 percent reported co-morbid diabetes and depression through completion of the Beck Depression Inventory, a self-report quest...

Dynamic Sonography Accurate in Diagnosing Muscle Tears

...tion free imaging modality available in all sports medicine emergency rooms. It is a very important tool to diagnose, follow-up and document muscle tears for proper management, said Ashok Kumar Nath, MD, lead author of the study. Of the 50 patients, 46 had muscle tears and/or hematomas in the thigh and calf...

New Device for Stroke Patients Improves Walking

...Dr. Michael O'Dell, acting chief of rehabilitation medicine and medical director of the Inpatient Rehabilitati...ornell. He is professor of clinical rehabilitation medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College. The device, manufactured by Bioness Inc. of Santa Clarita, Calif...

TB Patients in Marginalised Groups Need Social Support for Effective Medical Treatment

...ore than a third anticipated problems taking their medicine and 30 per cent had no-one to remind them, suggesting a lack of social support. * 48 per cent were admitted to hospital during their treatment, with hospital admissions for homeless people being longer and costing two and a half times more than adm...

Genome of Botulism Bacterium Revealed

...tops nerves from working - the basis of its use in medicine to control tremors and in cosmetic treatments. For the prey of its opportunistic attacks, death is swift. Perhaps the most important tool it has to act out its stealth attacks is its ability to hibernate when times are hard by forming dormant spores....

Beware, America's Fast Food Consumers!

...Brent Tetri, M.D., associate professor of internal medicine at Saint Louis University Liver Center, and colleagues. They studied the effects of a diet that had 40 percent fat and high fructose corn syrup, the most common sweetener in soda and some fruit juices. "We wanted to mirror the kind of diet many Ame...

Rapid Syphilis Could Prevent Congenital Disease and Stillbirths in Haiti

..., founder and director of GHESKIO and professor of medicine in the Division of International Medicine and Infe...r Dr. Daniel W. Fitzgerald, assistant professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and assistant attending physician at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/...

New Wireless System Developed to Detect Esophageal Reflux

.... Shou Jiang Tang, assistant professor of internal medicine at UT Southwestern who specializes in therapeutic endoscopic and endoscopic innovations. According to the American College of Gastroenterology, approximately 19 million people have gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), which is caused by stomach ...

Washington Post Examines Increase in Minorities Seeking Cosmetic Surgery

The number of minorities obtaining cosmetic medicine procedures has increased in recent years, the Wash... women still are the highest consumers of cosmetic medicine procedures, the number of blacks, Hispanics and Asians seeking such services has increased significa...

Monogram Presents Results of First ETag Breast Cancer Studies

...nts a powerful new tool for advancing personalized medicine in cancer treatment,'said Monogram CEO Bill Young. 'By providing quantitative measurements to characterize disease at the molecular level and by detecting the protein complexes to help accurately predict an individual patient's response to specific t...

Dog Owners More Active, Leaner

...n College of Sports Medicine is the largest sports medicine and exercise science organization in the world. More than 20,000 international, national, and regional members are dedicated to advancing and integrating scientific research to provide educational and practical applications of exercise science and sp...

Surge in Cancer Incidence in Asia Feared

...ls in the late stages of disease after traditional medicine has failed to cure them. Monika Bardhan of Malaysia's NCI Cancer Hospital has seen a dramatic increase in cancer patients over the past four years. "It's staggering. Every day I see a patient with breast cancer I just hold my own and say a prayer...

Bush Seeks Doubling of AIDS-fighting Funds

... for patients in the developing world and delivers medicine to pregnant women to prevent infections to newborns. However, Paul Zeitz, director of the Global AIDS Alliance, said the proposal's fine print belies Bush's announcement. "In fact, 30 billion dollars is about what the US is already on track to sp...

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