http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Personality characteristics play a major role in determining who succeeds in medical school, according to new research published in the November issue of the Journal of Applied Psychology. The study, co-authored by University of Minnesota psychology professor Deniz Ones, followed an entire cohort of Belgian students through their seven-year medical school career, investigating which personal characteristics contribute to learning and performance in general. http://www.physorg.com/news179066797.html Medicine & Health Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:00:02 EST news179066797 (AP) -- U.S. medical school enrollment is up for the 11th consecutive year as colleges seek to meet a growing demand for physicians. http://www.physorg.com/news175268652.html Medicine & Health Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:00:01 EST news175268652 A majority of medical schools surveyed report they have experienced incidents of students posting unprofessional content online, including incidents involving violation of patient confidentiality, with few schools having policies to address these types of postings, according to a study in the September 23/30 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on medical education. http://www.physorg.com/news172856552.html Medicine & Health Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:50:01 EST news172856552 Treating second-degree burns with a nanoemulsion lotion sharply curbs bacterial growth and reduces inflammation that otherwise can jeopardize recovery, University of Michigan scientists have shown in initial laboratory studies. http://www.physorg.com/news172161872.html Nanotechnology Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:20:21 EST news172161872 Physicians teaching at medical schools and doctors who have just completed their first year out of medical school disagree about which procedures are necessary to learn before graduating, according to a new survey done by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news160056379.html Medicine & Health Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:06:58 EST news160056379 Although paying finder's fees to researchers and clinicians to identify study participants could compromise the recruitment process and harm human lives, many medical schools fail to address this conflict of interest in their Institutional Review Board (IRB) policies. http://www.physorg.com/news156613591.html Medicine & Health Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:47:00 EST news156613591 (AP) -- You wouldn't know there was an economic crisis the way the medical school business is booming these days. http://www.physorg.com/news156062673.html Medicine & Health Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:45:55 EST news156062673 Although large numbers of headache sufferers, particularly individuals who struggle with migraines, attribute their pain to the weather, there has been little scientific evidence to back up their assertions. Now, a study of more than 7,000 patients, led by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), provides some of the first large-scale data on how environmental conditions -- weather, as well as air pollution -- influence headache pain. Reported in the March 10 issue of the journal Neurology, the findings demonstrate that higher temperatures, and to a lesser degree, lower barometric pressure, contribute to severe headaches. http://www.physorg.com/news155843261.html Medicine & Health Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:48:23 EST news155843261 A new computer-aided method used with MDCT to detect and measure pneumothoraces in trauma patients helps physicians make quicker and more accurate decisions in busy emergency room settings, according to a study performed at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA. http://www.physorg.com/news155386707.html Medicine & Health Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:59:33 EST news155386707 (PhysOrg.com) -- Harvard researchers from Brigham and Women`s Hospital (BWH) and colleagues have identified the potential cause of the increased risk for cardiovascular and metabolic disease in shift workers. http://www.physorg.com/news155316624.html Medicine & Health Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:31:32 EST news155316624 A longitudinal study of infants from birth to age 3 showed TV viewing before the age of 2 does not improve a child's language and visual motor skills, according to research conducted at Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School. The findings, published in the March issue of Pediatrics, reaffirm current guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) that recommend no television under the age of 2, and suggest that maternal, child, and household characteristics are more influential in a child's cognitive development. http://www.physorg.com/news155188381.html Medicine & Health Mon, 02 Mar 2009 03:53:34 EST news155188381 Cutting edge science has finally put to rest a 90-year-old mystery that involved nobility, revolution, murder and the long-romanticized story of a child's escape from the firing squad. Genomic analysis performed at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in cooperation with Institutions of Russian Academy of Science (VIGG) and Academy of Medical Sciences (MHRC) have confirmed that human remains found in the Ural Mountains in July 2007 are indeed those of the two "missing" children of Nicholas II, the last czar of Russia, whose family was murdered in 1918 during the Bolshevik Revolution. http://www.physorg.com/news154788736.html Medicine & Health Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:52:50 EST news154788736 Low-income pregnant women and new mothers with diabetes have nearly twice the risk of experiencing depression during and after pregnancy than women without diabetes, according to a study in the February 25 issue of JAMA. http://www.physorg.com/news154720723.html Medicine & Health Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:59:03 EST news154720723 Women who've had a breast biopsy know the anxiety of waiting for the results, but that stress may cause adverse health effects, according to a new study published in the March issue of Radiology. http://www.physorg.com/news154683640.html Medicine & Health Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:41:23 EST news154683640 As the United States transitions to a new administration, and as the health care crisis mounts, the debate about how to buttress primary care delivery with information technology is getting louder. While much of the attention -and controversy - is focused on how to better equip physicians, little focus appears to be aimed at how to better equip patients to improve their health care. http://www.physorg.com/news154634398.html Medicine & Health Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:00:23 EST news154634398 A new study finds that kids who are allowed to watch R-rated movies are much more likely to believe it's easy to get a cigarette than those who aren't allowed to watch such films. http://www.physorg.com/news154583254.html Medicine & Health Mon, 23 Feb 2009 03:48:24 EST news154583254 The relationship between the drug industry, academia, healthcare professionals, and patients is widely believed to be at an all time low. Five contrasting views, published on bmj.com today, discuss what the ideal relationship should be and what steps need to be taken to achieve it. http://www.physorg.com/news152952338.html Medicine & Health Wed, 04 Feb 2009 06:46:33 EST news152952338 Compared to dialysis patients living near sea level, dialysis patients living at an altitude higher than 4,000 feet have a 12-15 percent lower rate of death, according to a study in the February 4 issue of JAMA. http://www.physorg.com/news152901744.html Medicine & Health Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:47:05 EST news152901744 People are dying from "super bugs" because our antibiotic arsenal has run dry, leaving the world without sufficient weapons to fight ever-changing bacteria, warn infectious disease researchers at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston. http://www.physorg.com/news152386854.html Medicine & Health Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:41:11 EST news152386854 Can't help being the life of the party? Maybe you were just born that way. Researchers from Harvard University and the University of California, San Diego have found that our place in a social network is influenced in part by our genes, according to new findings published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. http://www.physorg.com/news152213531.html Medicine & Health Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:44:00 EST news152213531 Americans who use illegal diet pills from South America are taking amphetamines without knowing it and seriously risking both their health and their jobs. Physicians need to be made aware of the range of serious side effects of these drugs to allow them to identify and treat those patients presenting with unexplained symptoms. These findings1, by Dr Pieter Cohen from the Department of Internal Medicine at the Cambridge Health Alliance in the US and Harvard Medical School, have recently been published online in Springer's Journal of General Internal Medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news152191204.html Medicine & Health Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:20:49 EST news152191204 Joslin Diabetes Center scientists are taking groundbreaking research on the role of inflammation in type 2 diabetes to a new level with the launch of a national clinical trial to investigate whether salsalate, an anti-inflammatory drug used for years to manage arthritis pain, can reduce blood glucose levels in people with type 2 diabetes. If successful, the trial could lead one day to an inexpensive way to treat this most common form of diabetes, which has been increasing at epidemic rates in recent years. http://www.physorg.com/news151765572.html Medicine & Health Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:07:01 EST news151765572 Whether condoms or abstinence, most efforts to prevent sexually transmitted diseases have a common logic: keep the pathogen out of your body altogether. While this approach is certainly reasonable enough, it doesn't help the countless people worldwide who, for a number of reasons, are not in a position to control their sexual circumstances. http://www.physorg.com/news151765411.html Medicine & Health Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:04:37 EST news151765411 (PhysOrg.com) -- Dartmouth Medical School researchers have found two proteins that work in concert to ensure proper chromosome segregation during cell division. Their study is in the January 2009 issue of the journal Nature Cell Biology. http://www.physorg.com/news151343442.html Medicine & Health Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:50:42 EST news151343442 The most effective treatment for hepatitis C fails in two-thirds of Hispanic patients but works for half of white patients, researchers reported Wednesday in a study that confirms ethnic disparities in the liver disease. http://www.physorg.com/news151249654.html Medicine & Health Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:47:34 EST news151249654 (PhysOrg.com) -- At the end of July 2008, major news agencies reported an outbreak of jalapeño-related salmonella that sickened more than 1,000 people in Mexico and the United States. It was the biggest outbreak of its kind in decades. http://www.physorg.com/news149346537.html Medicine & Health Wed, 24 Dec 2008 13:08:57 EST news149346537 Medical students frequently suffer from depression, especially during their internship years. New research published in the open access journal BMC Medical Education reveals the extent of the problem and features a detailed analysis of the symptoms and sufferers. http://www.physorg.com/news147698110.html Medicine & Health Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:15:10 EST news147698110 A new Web site designed to emphasize smoking prevention for young girls has been launched through Children's Hospital at Dartmouth (CHaD) and Dartmouth Medical School (DMS). The safe, online patient education site was created by Dartmouth pediatrician Henry Bernstein to help prevent smoking in young girls 8-11 years old). http://www.physorg.com/news145818109.html Medicine & Health Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:01:49 EST news145818109 Two clones of highly antibiotic-resistant organism strains, which previously had only been identified in the United States, are now causing serious sickness and death in several Colombian cities including the capital Bogotá, say researchers at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston. The study, done in collaboration with Universidad El Bosque in Bogotá, is presented in a research letter published in the Nov. 13 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news145729040.html Medicine & Health Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:17:20 EST news145729040 Researchers at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston say the use of aggressive phototherapy reduces the odds that tiny premature infants will develop neurodevelopmental impairment such as cerebral palsy, blindness, deafness or physical or mental challenges. The study, titled "Aggressive Versus Conservative Phototherapy for Infants with Extremely Low Birth Weight," is published in the Oct. 30, 2008 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news144518911.html Medicine & Health Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:08:31 EST news144518911