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Minimally invasive surgery removes sinus tumor without facial disfiguration

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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

Only about one in 2,000 people in the United States get a sinus tumor, but Johnnie Wilcox was one of the unfortunate few.


NICE guidelines ration affordable osteoporosis drugs

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore and Washington DC (December 11, 2009) - Low cost osteoporosis drugs are strictly rationed for the under 75s, and UK physicians hampered by restrictive guidelines, according to findings ...


Physicians knowledge of childhood food allergies needs room for improvement

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

With an estimated four to six percent of children in the U.S. suffering from food allergies, a new study shows that pediatricians and family physicians aren't always confident they have the ability to diagnose or treat food ...


Santa is ready to ride! (w/ Video)

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of UNC medical experts say that Santa is tanned, rested and ready for the big ride he has coming up.


Brain imaging shows kids' PTSD symptoms linked to poor hippocampus function

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Psychological trauma leaves a trail of damage in a child's brain, say scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. Their new study gives the first direct evidence that children ...


A virtual physician's conference

A virtual physician's conference

Technology / Software

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Telemedicine facilitates communication between family physicians, hospitals and nursing services -- yet current solutions lack flexibility and are consequently very expensive. A new software program is now ...


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, ...


Managing doctors' practices made easier with new software

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A McMaster University-led research team has developed an innovative software tool that gives family doctors up-to-date information on their patients in two seconds or less.


Autism treatment: Risky alternative therapies have little basis in science

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

James Coman's son has an unusual skill. The 7-year-old, his father says, can swallow six pills at once. Diagnosed with autism as a toddler, the Chicago boy had been placed on an intense regimen of supplements and medications ...


Involving family in medical rounds benefits both family and medical team

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Involving family members of pediatric cancer and hematology patients in medical rounds benefits both the family and the medical team, according to a new Indiana University School of Medicine study.


Seniors must use it or lose it, study shows

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Doris Stinson has learned that it's never too late to start exercising. The 85-year-old Stoney Creek woman has regained her strength and maintained her independence after enrolling in Hamilton-based physical ...


Medical establishment prevents nurses from assuming new roles

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Physicians still retain the bulk of decision-making power over nurses in Quebec - a situation that's detrimental to evolving nursing roles. According to a new study by Université de Montréal researchers, published ...


Early end to key study on benefits of niacin, a B vitamin, in keeping arteries open was premature

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Heart experts at Johns Hopkins are calling premature the early halt of a study by researchers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and Washington Hospital Center on the benefits of combining extended-release niacin, a B vitamin, ...


Doctors embrace social networking

Technology / Hi Tech

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

In the waiting room, the patient's family members circled a Blackberry. About every 15 minutes, Dr. Carlos Wolf of Miami Plastic Surgery gave them a few keystrokes of information about how the patient was doing.


Breast Cancer Physicians Have Limited Access to Trained Interpreters

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In a new survey of physicians who treat breast cancer patients, only one-third said they had good access to trained medical interpreters or telephone language-interpretation systems when they needed it. Poor access to interpreters ...