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RCN Welcomes New Strategy For Primary Care, UK
07.07.2008 08:15
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Commenting on the publication of a new strategy for Primary and Community Care, Dr Peter Carter, Chief Executive & General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said:"The RCN welcomes the genuine potential this strategy has to offer for improving public health, reducing health inequalities and boosting the management of long term illness.
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Critical Care Medicine & Anesthesiology
A Baby's Smile Is A Natural High
07.07.2008 07:13
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The baby's smile that gladdens a mother's heart also lights up the reward centers of her brain, said Baylor College of Medicine researchers in a report that appears in the journal Pediatrics. The finding could help scientists figure out the special mother-infant bond and how it sometimes goes wrong, said Dr. Lane Strathearn, assistant professor of pediatrics at BCM and Texas Children's Hospital and a research associate in BCM's Human Neuroimaging Laboratory.
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Psychiatry
Asthma Study Reinforces Pharmacists' Role In Primary Health Care
07.07.2008 07:13
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An asthma-management study published in today's edition of the Medical Journal of Australia highlights the valuable role pharmacists can play in primary health care and chronic disease self-management, according to the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA). An abstract of the study Data-mining of medication records to improve asthma management, conducted by the University of Tasmania's School of Pharmacy, can be
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Pharmaceutics
Innovative Program Focuses On Improved Care For Children With ADHD
07.07.2008 07:13
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An innovative program is helping busy primary care physicians improve the care they provide for school-aged children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), according to a study led by researchers at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and published in the July edition of Pediatrics.
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Children Diseases
Newborn Vitamin A Reduces Infant Mortality
07.07.2008 07:13
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A single, oral dose of vitamin A, given to infants shortly after birth in the developing world can reduce their risk of death by 15 percent, according to a study conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The study is published in the July 2008 edition of the journal Pediatrics. "It has long been known that vitamin A supplementation can reduce mortality in children over 6 months of age.
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Children Diseases
Pediatricians Told To Taper Meds In Kids With Stable Asthma
07.07.2008 07:13
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A study of how pediatricians prescribe asthma medications suggests that while most would readily increase a child's medication if needed, many are reluctant to taper off drug use when less might be best. A report on the study, led by Johns Hopkins Children's Center researchers, appears in the July issue of Pediatrics.
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Children Diseases
Update Of Salmonella Saintpaul Situation In Canada
07.07.2008 07:12
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Public Health officials in Canada have reported a case of a Salmonella Saintpaul infection that matches those associated with the outbreak in the United States. The individual involved has indicated that he recently travelled to the United States. Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) officials will continue to work with their colleagues in Canada and the U.S. to monitor the situation and assess further cases.
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Infectious Diseases
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Causes Early Heart Disease Death
07.07.2008 07:12
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Vietnam veterans who experienced posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) were twice as likely to die from heart disease as veterans without PTSD, a new Geisinger study finds. In a study published in the July issue of Psychosomatic Medicine, Geisinger Senior Investigator Joseph Boscarino, PhD, MPH examined the prevalence of heart disease, PTSD and other problems in more than 4,000 Vietnam veterans.
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Cardiology
Risk Factors For Deadly Form Of Lymphoma
07.07.2008 07:12
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A new study indicates that the incidence of mantle cell lymphoma, an aggressive type of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, is on the rise, most frequently striking men, Caucasians and older individuals. The study, published in the August 15, 2008 issue of CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, also reveals that most patients are diagnosed with advanced stages of the disease.
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Cancer
Sex During Adolescence Doesn't Predict Future HPV Infection
07.07.2008 06:17
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Predicting a child's future is a near impossible task - today's straight-A student may not become tomorrow's doctor, and the school-yard bully may actually grow up to become a member of the Peace Corps. So why should an adolescent's sexual behavior- or lack thereof - determine whether or not she gets vaccinated against the human papillomavirus, to protect against future HPV infection? It shouldn't, say researchers at the University of Michigan C.S.
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Sexology
New Scholarship For Leaders Of Bipolar Lives
07.07.2008 06:16
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What do you do when you want to let the bipolar community know about scholarships for people with bipolar disorder, but soon discover that support for bipolar students is still far too rare? Why donate a scholarship yourself of course. The Bipolar Lives Scholarship is a new scholarship, created when journalist Sarah Freeman added a webpage on bipolar scholarships to the Bipolar Lives website, but found only a handful of suitable awards existed.
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Mental Disorders
BD Announces CE Marking Of A New Molecular Test To Diagnose Patients With Clostridium Difficile Infections
07.07.2008 06:16
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BD Diagnostics, a segment of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), announced the CE marking of the BD GeneOhm(TM) Cdiff molecular assay for the rapid diagnosis of patients with Clostridium difficile infection (CDI). It is the first CDI diagnostic test that offers sensitivity, simplicity and speed in one test procedure. BD has also submitted this assay to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for clearance.
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Gastroenterology
Unfavorable Immediate Outcome Of The TVT Secur Sling In Twenty Consecutive Women With Stress Urinary Incontinence
07.07.2008 05:14
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ORLANDO, FL (UroToday.com) - Dr. Fabio Bacarat from Sao Paolo, Brazil reported on an unfavorable early outcome of the new TVT Secur ™ in twenty consecutive women with stress urinary incontinence (SUI). TVT Secur ™ was reportedly placed into the obturator internus muscle in a "tension free" fashion. Preoperative Valsalva leak point pressure (VLPP) was 38-115 cm H20, but did not predict outcome in this small cohort of patients.
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Urology
Transurethral Ultrasound Guided Application Of Autologous Myo- And Fibroblasts In Treatment Of Incontinence In Women: 2 Year Data
07.07.2008 05:14
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ORLANDO, FL (UroToday.com) - The group from Innsbruck, Austria, who has considerable experience with transurethral injection of autologous myo- and fibroblasts, presented their two-year follow up data on 112 women with stress or mixed urinary incontinence who underwent the procedure. Small skeletal muscle biopsies were harvested from the upper arm and grown in culture.
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Urology
Use Of Tunica Albuginea Crural Graft For Severe Penile Curvature Due To Peyronie's Disease: Long-Term Results
07.07.2008 05:14
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ORLANDO, FL (UroToday.com) - This presentation by Dr. Claudio Teloken et al., from Brazil, reported on long-term results using tunica albugineal grafts from the crural bodies for plaque incision and grafting (PIG) procedures. In a series of 78 patients with a mean follow-up of 65 months, outcomes such as recurrence of curvature, ED, and penile shortening were reported. Curvature recurrence requiring surgical intervention occurred in 7.6% of patients, penile shortening occurred in 8.
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