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Doctors bone up on orthopaedics through wiki project
Sep 29, 2008 |
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Web-based academic discussions could well be the way forward for cost-effective and tailored continuing education for health professionals. China's interactive Orthochina.org wiki project for orthopaedic surgeons is an example ...
Can the relationship between doctors and drug companies ever be a healthy one?
Jul 21, 2009 |
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Should the financial ties between doctors and drug companies be completely cut, or are healthy alliances between the two possible with the common aim of improving human health? A debate in this week's PLoS Medicine discus ...
Warning over polyclinics and super-surgeries
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 22, 2008 |
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Research carried out at the University of Leicester by Carolyn Tarrant and Tim Stokes, of the Department of Health Sciences, and Andrew Colman, of the School of Psychology, suggests that polyclinics and super-surgeries are ...
Heart safety of non-heart drugs questioned
Medicine & Health / Medications
Dec 29, 2007 |
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A New York heart surgeon is calling for more testing to ensure the cardiovascular safety of drugs developed primarily for non-cardiovascular medical problems.
What's the ideal relationship between the drug industry, health professionals and patients?
Feb 04, 2009 |
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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 ...
Gene therapy shows early promise for treating obesity
Mar 09, 2009 |
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With obesity reaching epidemic levels, researchers at the Ohio State University Medical Center are studying a potentially long-term treatment that involves injecting a gene directly into one of the critical feeding and weight ...
Personal benefit, helping others motivate clinical trial participants
Jun 23, 2008 |
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Most HIV-infected individuals participating in a clinical trial hope to benefit personally from the research but also understand they are contributing to society, according to a report in the June 23 issue of Archives of ...
Prostate cancer patients disease free after 5 years likely to be disease free after 10 years
Jul 02, 2009 |
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Prostate cancer patients who receive brachytherapy and remain free of disease for five years or greater are unlikely to have a recurrence at 10 years, according to a study in the July 1 issue of the International Journal of ...
Chemopreventive isothiocyanates selectively depletes mutant p53 in tumor cells
Apr 20, 2009 |
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Researchers at Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University Medical Center have demonstrated that naturally-occurring compounds can selectively deplete mutant p53 and restore "wild type" function to p53 in ...
Should the Pope be worried that Wales won the rugby Grand Slam this year?
Dec 18, 2008 |
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Doctors in the Christmas issue published on bmj.com today are urging the Vatican's medical team to keep a special watch over the Pope this Christmas, after their research investigating the link between papal deaths and Welsh ...
Medicare recipients see declines in continuity of care
Apr 22, 2009 |
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According to a study by researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, elderly Medicare recipients transitioning from outpatient to hospital settings were more likely to experience lapses in continuity ...
Most inactive physicians retain licenses, return to practice without competency review
Jan 27, 2009 |
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One in eight physicians have been inactive in the state where they are licensed for at least a year, and most states do not require them to undergo competency tests or retraining when they return to actively practicing medicine.
Unmet medical needs are most common among vulnerable children
Jan 26, 2009 |
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Despite recent government efforts, the medical needs of about six million children in the United States are not being met, according to data from as recent as 2006. Even more troubling, researchers say, is the substantial ...
Free drug samples may burden patients' pockets
Mar 24, 2008 |
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Following free drug sample receipt, patients who receive these samples have significantly higher out-of-pocket prescription costs than those who don't, according to the first study to look at the out-of-pocket cost associated ...
General practitioners filling the gap left by inadequate dental services, says doctor
May 16, 2008 |
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A shortage of NHS dentists means that general practitioners (GPs) have been left to do dentists’ work without adequate remuneration, argues a doctor in a letter in this week’s BMJ.
