July/August 2009 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
The Primary Care Paradox and the Need to Integrate Primary and Specialty Care to Improve the Quality of Healthcare The third in a seven-part series of commentaries to understand health and healthcare With the healthcare reform debate heating up in Washington, D.C., Annals of Family Medicine ...January/February 2009 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
Colorectal Cancer Screening: Opportunity and Challenges in Primary Care Four articles and an editorial in the January/February issue of Annals look at the issue of colorectal cancer screening and the role of primary care in early detection. Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of ca...July/August 2008 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
Innovative North Carolina Program Improves Patient Care and Saves an Estimated $160 Million in Medicaid Costs Annually Community physicians in North Carolina may have found a way to narrow the gap between rising health care costs and declining health outcomes. In this special report, the author...May/June 2008 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
The Unintended Consequences of Pay-for-Performance Programs At a time when pay-for-performance programs are proliferating, this study finds that while such programs may succeed in improving clinical outcomes and increasing physician income, they also change the nature of patient consultations ...Tip sheet for the Annals of Internal Medicine, April 15, 2008, issue
1. Testosterone Spray Improves Sexual Satisfaction Slightly in Premenopausal Women But So Does Placebo; Editorial Says Treat Women Conventionally A study that randomized 261 women aged 35 to 46 with self-reported low libido and low serum free testosterone levels to a group that received on...September/October 2007 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
Patients Seeking Care for Urgent Health Problems Report Highest Satisfaction When Seen by Their Own Family Physician; Satisfaction Lowest at Walk-in Clinics Patient satisfaction with after-hours care for an urgent problem is higher if provided by their own family physician or their physicians a...Food Allergy Facts Need More Focus
...hat 85 percent of respondents agreed that schools should have plans to keep food-allergic children safe, according to the report in the July issue of annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology . "Although there was agreement that schools need better policies to manage food allergies, most parents were n...Surgical Masks Help Ward Off Flu, Maybe
...s and Response. The CDC-funded study appears in the Aug. 4 issue of the annals of Internal Medicine , as does another study finding that the antiviral med...al Center for Emergency Medical Preparedness & Response; Aug. 4, 2009, annals of Internal Medicine ...Prototype, 7-foot-tall sanitizer automates disinfection of hard-to-clean hospital equipment
...ntamination of small instruments, has already been shown to initially disinfect noncritical equipment better than manual cleaning, they report in the annals of Surgical Innovation and Research online July 30. Study senior author and surgeon Bolanle Asiyanbola, M.D., says the four-year SUDS project was ...Earlier HIV antiviral treatment can be cost effective in areas of limited resources
...s at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, University of Cape Town, South Africa. The team reports in the August 4 annals of Internal Medicine that starting antiretroviral therapy (ART) when the level of CD4 T cells drops below a threshold of 350 per microliter of blood.../C O R R E C T I O N -- Agendia B.V./
... early breast cancer. The recommendations have been published online in the annals of Oncology and will appear in the August print edition. The St. Gal...dividual treatment plans to their patients. For online access to the annals of Oncology: http://annonc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/mdp322v1 ...AstraZeneca Submits NDA for Low Dose Aspirin/Esomeprazole Combination Product
...Preventative Services Task Force. Aspirin for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement. annals of Internal Medicine. 2009;150;396-404. Giuseppe G.L., Biondi-Zoccai, et al. A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis on the Hazards of Disconti...A urine test for appendicitis?
...Boston demonstrate that a protein detectable in urine might serve as a "biomarker" for appendicitis. Their report was published online June 23 by the annals of Emergency Medicine . Despite improvement in imaging technologies, recent figures indicate that 3 to 30 percent of children have unnecessary appe...'Annals of the ESA' selected as one of 100 most influential journals
...ology and medicine over the last 100 years listed annals of the Entomological Society of America among the... the poll, 686 DBIO members participated, choosing annals as the overwhelming winner of the "Journals of Land Invertebrates" category. annals celebrated its 100th year anniversary last year, a...Translating the conversation between the brain and blood vessels
...College of Medicine at the University of Iowa. He is a past-president of the American Heart Association, a former editor of Physiology in Medicine ( annals of Internal Medicine ) and past president of the Association of American Physicians. He is a member of the National Academies of Science and the Ameri...Wild bees can be effective pollinators
...lations, causing some growers of fruits, nuts and vegetables to wonder how their crops will be pollinated in the future. A new study published in the annals of the Entomological Society of America shows that wild bees, which are not affected by CCD, may serve as a pollination alternative. In the artic...Genetic testing not cost-effective in guiding initial dosing of common blood thinner
...with atrial fibrillation but may be for patients at higher risk for major bleeding. This study is being published in the Jan. 20, 2009, edition of annals of Internal Medicine . Warfarin is commonly prescribed to prevent blood clotting, particularly for patients with atrial fibrillationa type of abnor...'Stroke Belt' deaths tied to non-traditional risk factors
...commonly used to predict stroke risk." The findings are reported in the annals of Neurology . All minority groups, including Native Americans, Hispanic...oke risk factors and their significance. One detail that emerged in the annals of Neurology study is that the prevalence of diabetes and hypertension was...Springer expands publishing partnership with the Biomedical Engineering Society
...inger is already the publisher of the BMES journal annals of Biomedical Engineering. Cellular and Molecu...r second official BMES journal, in addition to the annals of Biomedical Engineering, we have amplified the s...dership. Together with the BMES flagship journal, annals of Biomedical Engineering, the new journal CMBE co...ESA celebrates 100 years of insect science journals
... This year marks the 100-year anniversaries of annals of the Entomological Society of America and Journa...r relation to agricultural production, articles in annals focused on papers dealing with morphologic, faunis...t for any entomological journal in the world), and annals articles were cited 3,893 times. The...Presence of gene mutation helps guide thyroid cancer treatment
...0E, is a genetic alteration in the BRAF oncogene, a modified gene believed to cause cancer. The new research is reported in the September issue of the annals of Surgery. Past studies have shown that the mutation frequently occurs in the most common type of thyroid cancer, conventional papillary thyroid c...It's OK for men with high blood pressure to have a drink or two, new study finds
...n increase blood pressure, would the same be true for men who have high blood pressure? The new study, published in the January 2, 2007, issue of annals of Internal Medicine, is based on data from the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study. It found that men with high blood pressure can have one or two d...Micromet Presents Update at ASCO 2009 on a Phase 1b Combination Study of Adecatumumab and Docetaxel
...An open-label, randomized phase II study of adecatumumab, a fully human anti-EpCAM antibody, as monotherapy in patients with metastatic breast cancer. annals of Oncology, in press. About Micromet, Inc. Micromet, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company developing novel, proprietary antibodies for the...Corgenix Receives Two Additional Patents on AtherOx(R) Technology
...(oxLDL) complexed with the plasma protein B2GPI. Although oxLDL has been implicated in cardiovascular disease, according to results published in the annals of N.Y. Academy of Science (2007), determination of oxLDL/B2GPI complexes, rather than oxLDL alone, may be a more physiologic and accurate way of ass...From Pain to Unexpected Fame: One Woman's Journey to Know Fibro
...itis and Other Rheumatic Conditions in the United States." Arthritis and Rheumatism 2008; 58(1):31. (2) Leventhal, LJ. "Management of fibromyalgia." annals of Internal Medicine 1999; 131: 850-858. (3) Wolfe, F, et al. "The prevalence and characteristics of fibromyalgia in the general population." Arthri...European CHMP Adopts Negative Opinion on Cymbalta for the Treatment of Fibromyalgia
...lgia. Poster presented at European League Against Rheumatism Annual Meeting; Jun 2008, Paris, France. (6) Leventhal, LJ. Management of Fibromyalgia. annals of Internal Medicine. 1999; 131: 850-858. (7) Arnold, L, et al. Family Study of Fibromyalgia. Arthritis & Rheumatism. 2004; 50(3): 944-952. (8) Wh...