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Interactive computer screening enhances domestic violence detection in family medical practice

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jul 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- An interactive computer questionnaire may give family doctors a better opportunity to identify and intervene with patients who are victims of domestic violence, according to a new study from the Dalla Lana ...


Religious physicians are surveyed

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jul 31, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A U.S. study found that religiously focused physicians don't disproportionately care for poor and underserved patients.


Women researchers less likely to receive major career funding grants, U-M study shows

Women researchers less likely to receive major career funding grants, study shows

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Women were less likely than men to receive major funding for scientific research, according to a study from the University of Michigan Health System. The study also found that only a quarter of all researchers, ...


What killed Mozart? Study suggests strep infection (AP)

What killed Mozart? Study suggests strep infection

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Aug 19, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(AP) -- For more than two centuries, the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has endured - as has the speculation about what led to his sudden death at age 35 on Dec. 5, 1791.


Primary-care physicians can fill gap in colorectal cancer screening

Primary-care physicians can fill gap in colorectal cancer screening

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The number of people who need colonoscopies to screen for colorectal cancer is outpacing the number of endoscopists available to perform them, Medical College of Georgia researchers say.


Researcher develops screening tool to identify patients with prediabetes

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 04, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A third of Americans with diabetes do not know that they have it, and many more who have prediabetic conditions are unaware that they are at risk. A University of Missouri researcher has created a clinical tool to identify ...


Weight Loss 'Maintainers' Have Fewer TVs at Home

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- What's the secret of success of people who lose lots of weight and keep it off for many years? A new study suggests predictable factors like exercise and control over eating play a role, but so do factors ...


ACP recommends routine HIV screening for all patients

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Dec 01, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 2

On World AIDS Day, the American College of Physicians (ACP) is giving doctors a call-to-action to routinely encourage HIV screening to all of their patients older than 13 years. This new practice guideline appears on the ...


Positive thinking is prescription for the heart

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 14, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 0

Optimism is good for heart health, at least among men, a new study shows. University of Rochester Medical Center researcher Robert Gramling, M.D., D.Sc., found that men who believed they were at lower-than-average risk for ...


Strict blood sugar control in some diabetics does not lower heart attack, stroke risk

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Strictly controlling blood glucose levels in type 2 diabetics with coexisting health problems such as heart disease and hypertension does not lower their risk of a heart attack or stroke, according to a UC ...


Ibuprofen is as effective as acetaminophen with codeine to treat pain in children with arm fractures

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Children with arm fractures fared as well with ibuprofen to control their pain as acetaminophen with codeine, according to a new study by researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and Children's Research ...


Largest study compares cholesterol treatment in HIV patients and patients without HIV

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new study in the online issue of Annals of Internal Medicine has found that cholesterol medications can work well among certain HIV patients at risk for cardiovascular disease.


Researchers design re-engineered hospital discharge program to reduce rehospitalization

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created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers from Boston Medical Center (BMC) and Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have designed a process to minimize discharge failures. The Re-Engineered Discharge (RED) program reduces hospital utilization within ...


Doctors' orders lost in translation

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created Jul 17, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

When patients are discharged from the emergency department, their recovery depends on carefully following the doctors' instructions for their post care at home. Yet a vast majority of patients don't fully understand what ...


Tackling depression in cancer patients can extend life

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 10, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

David Spiegel highlights a research article for Faculty of 1000 Medicine that supports aggressive treatment of depression in cancer patients to extend their life expectancy.