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That act rebalanced the scales of risk and reward and, in turn, has
led to a flourishing of new
medicines for millions of people who suffer
from rare diseases.
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Many Venezuelans have reportedly resorted to scavenging for food in the garbage, while the crisis has also
led to shortages of everything
from medicine to toilet paper.
The combined company will benefit
from a broader innovative portfolio of
leading medicines in key categories and a platform for sustainable growth with diversified payer groups.
Also last year, Coury took the
lead in a bitter takeover fight with Ireland - based Perrigo Co., a manufacturer of over-the-counter
medicines, and fought off a takeover attempt
from Israel - based Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd..
With cost containment becoming the new buzzword in
medicine — particularly given the much - ridiculed but far
from unreasonable apprehension that the Affordable Care Act could
lead to «death panels» — a reader may worry that Gawande recommends forcing the weakest and most vulnerable out of the lifeboat if they refuse to jump themselves.
He has been criticized for
leading sick people away
from traditional, proven
medicine.
In a time which did not know modern
medicine, the theft of a garment, put aside during a warmer day, could result not only in the owner's bitter suffering
from cold through the night, but actually to complications
leading even to death.
I am (a) A victim of child molestation (b) A r.ape victim trying to recover (c) A mental patient with paranoid delusions (d) A Christian The only discipline known to often cause people to kill others they have never met and / or to commit suicide in its furtherance is: (a) Architecture; (b) Philosophy; (c) Archeology; or (d) Religion What is it that most differentiates science and all other intellectual disciplines
from religion: (a) Religion tells people not only what they should believe, but what they are morally obliged to believe on pain of divine retribution, whereas science, economics,
medicine etc. has no «sacred cows» in terms of doctrine and go where the evidence
leads them; (b) Religion can make a statement, such as «there is a composite god comprised of God the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit», and be totally immune
from experimentation and challenge, whereas science can only make factual assertions when supported by considerable evidence; (c) Science and the scientific method is universal and consistent all over the World whereas religion is regional and a person's religious conviction, no matter how deeply held, is clearly nothing more than an accident of birth; or (d) All of the above.
He was bounced
from the Olympics after his hair - loss
medicine led toa positive drug test; he broke his heel; he was photographed at a nightclubwith Paris Hilton; and a disgruntled fan tried to sell him on eBay as a «slightly used, washed - up» goalie.
While some experts are «now moving away
from [such] long - held and perhaps largely anecdotal belief, «1 others - both
leading experts and at least one
leading sports
medicine group - continue to urge caution
So women may buy
medicine that they bought
from their country or crossed the border that they don't know what the content is and some of those may be made in
lead.
, Texas, that will assemble, for the first time, an international group of
leading policy makers, attorneys, educators, children's rights activists, and researchers
from multiple disciplines (e.g., anthropology, criminology, history,
medicine psychology, social work, and sociology) as well as other interested individuals who concur that corporal punishment of children is an unsuitable and potentially damaging way to discipline and teach children.
Global Summit on Ending Corporate Punishment and Promoting Positive Discipline Registrations are being accepted now for this June 2011 conference in Dallas, Texas, that will assemble, for the first time, an international group of
leading policy makers, attorneys, educators, children's rights activists, and researchers
from multiple disciplines (e.g., anthropology, criminology, history,
medicine psychology, social work, and sociology) as well as other interested individuals who concur that corporal punishment of children is an unsuitable and potentially damaging way to discipline and teach children.
The journey through the arts ultimately
led back to her first love of
medicine, and she completed her premedical studies at Columbia University, followed by an MD degree
from the Weill Cornell Medical College.
Our patients benefit
from a team - based approach
led by staff physicians who are certified by the American Board of Internal
Medicine.
Dr Robert Boyle,
lead author of the research
from the Department of
Medicine at Imperial, said: «This new analysis pools all existing data, and suggests introducing egg and peanut at an early age may prevent the development of egg and peanut allergy, the two most common childhood food allergies.
Dr. Robert Cantu, one of the world's
leading experts on head trauma in sport and a clinical professor of neurosurgery at Boston University School of
Medicine, has pointed to studies showing at least 30 percent of concussions in soccer come
from the act of heading the ball, sometimes through direct contact with the ball but more significantly when the head smashes into another player or the ground.
Many inborn errors of metabolism can
lead to serious complications or even death if they're not controlled with diet or
medicine from an early age.
The Harrison Act did not recognize addiction as a treatable condition and therefore the therapeutic use of cocaine, heroin or morphine to such individuals was outlawed —
leading the Journal of American
Medicine to remark,» [the addict] is denied the medical care he urgently needs, open, above - board sources
from which he formerly obtained his drug supply are closed to him, and he is driven to the underworld where he can get his drug, but of course, surreptitiously and in violation of the law.»
«If you look at data
from around the country, it seems pretty consistent that there are around three times as many kids with 5 - 9 [micrograms] as there are kids with greater than 10 [micrograms],» Katrina Korfmacher, a
lead poisoning prevention expert and associate professor for the Department of Environmental
Medicine at University of Rochester Medical Center, wrote in an email.
His leadership and guidance
led to the establishment of a world center that serves as a home for scholars and fellows,
from both the humanities and the sciences, to pursue interests in education and research on ethical and policy issues in the life and social sciences, in
medicine and in the professions.
The study,
led by researchers
from Imperial College London and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, is published in the journal BMC
Medicine.
These efforts will spur advances across many scientific disciplines and
lead to applications in everything
from next generation computers to
medicine.
Understanding how margin length decreases
from surgery to pathology — because of how the removed tissue shrinks and tumor cells invade surrounding tissues — can
lead to better surgical margin planning and in turn a better prognosis, said corresponding author Milan Milovancev, a board - certified veterinary surgeon at OSU's College of Veterinary
Medicine.
Led by Dr Sakari Lemola
from Warwick's Department of Psychology and Natalie Urfer - Maurer
from the University of Basel, the study reported in Sleep
Medicine shows that children of mothers with insomnia symptoms fall asleep later, get less sleep, and spend less time in deep sleep.
«POLST is an especially useful tool for nursing home residents because they often experience transitions
from the nursing home to the hospital or emergency department and back again,» said Dr. Lee Jennings, assistant professor of
medicine in the division of geriatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and the study's lead
medicine in the division of geriatrics at the David Geffen School of
Medicine at UCLA, and the study's lead
Medicine at UCLA, and the study's
lead author.
Researchers
from Case Western Reserve University School of
Medicine and colleagues have discovered how two brain regions work together to maintain attention, and how discordance between the regions could
lead to attention deficit disorders, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depression.
To guide the spending of that money, the National Institute of
Medicine made a priority list of situations for which data about outcomes are badly needed — for instance, comparing the effectiveness of various medical and behavioral interventions to prevent the elderly
from falling (the complications of which are a
leading cause of death), comparing assorted drugs and surgeries alone or in combination in the treatment of specific cancers, comparing the effectiveness of different implants and devices for treating hearing loss, and so forth.
Combing the genetic data
from a transmission study in ferrets, a team
led by Thomas Friedrich, a professor of pathobiological sciences at the University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Veterinary
Medicine, found that during transmission, when one animal is infected by another through sneezing or coughing, the process of natural selection acts strongly on hemagglutinin, the structure the virus uses to attach to and infect host cells.
Nicholas Kassebaum, a professor of anesthesiology and pain
medicine at the University of Washington, has
led an independent analysis looking at ICD - 9 and ICD - 10 coding and maternal mortality, and says that it is very unlikely the rise in deaths comes merely
from administrative shifts like transitioning to the new ICD or introducing a check box.
Being able to predict the outcome of wet collisions could
lead to better ways to filter moist particles
from the air and mix together wet powders to make
medicine, the team says.
«Under the microscope, eggs
from reproductively young and old animals may look identical, but the environment in which they are growing is completely different,» said
lead study author Francesca Duncan, executive director of the Center for Reproductive Science at Northwestern University Feinberg School of
Medicine.
In the 5 years since former president of Harvard University Lawrence Summers made a household name for himself by suggesting that women may lack an «intrinsic aptitude» for science, there's been a heightened sensitivity toward the factors in academic science and
medicine that
lead so many women to veer
from the academic career path.
Institute researchers Dr Ashley Ng, Dr Maria Kauppi, Professor Warren Alexander, Professor Don Metcalf and colleagues
from the institute's Cancer and Haematology and Molecular
Medicine divisions
led the research, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
They then searched
leading academic journals in science, economics, psychology, and
medicine for original research published
from 2000 to mid-2015 that directly examined interventions targeting these outcomes.
The generally accepted medical maxim that elevated HDL cholesterol (HDL - C) is «good» has been overturned by a multi-center, international study,
led by researchers
from the Perelman School of
Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Today, a team of researchers
from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland,
led by Emmanouil Dermitzakis, Louis - Jeantet Professor at the Faculty of
Medicine, reveals that this is not always the case and that DNA methylation may play both a passive and active role in gene regulation.
Understanding this new mechanism of cardiovascular disease could
lead to the development of new therapies to treat individuals who suffer
from heart and blood vessel ailments due to these mutations,» explained corresponding author Kenneth Walsh, PhD, professor of
medicine at BUSM.
Deaf people who sign have poorer health than the general population, according to a study
led by researchers
from the School for Social and Community
Medicine at the University of Bristol.
Professor Julian Walters,
from the Department of
Medicine at Imperial College London, who
led the study, said: «Many doctors are totally unaware of bile acid diarrhea, but it's more common than Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.
Jenifer Fenton, assistant professor and researcher in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, and Kari Hortos, associate dean in MSU's College of Osteopathic
Medicine at the Macomb University Center,
led the 18 - month, cross-sectional study, which followed 126 healthy, white American males ranging
from 48 to 65 years of age.
Lead author Ramesh Raghavan, PhD, associate professor at the Brown School and of psychiatry at the School of
Medicine, examined Medicaid records
from 36 states for 1,921 children in the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well - Being, whom caseworkers had identified as having been maltreated, and who had received Medicaid - funded services.
According to
lead author Dr Maria Rosario Capeding
from the Research Institute for Tropical
Medicine in the Philippines, «Our results suggest that vaccination with CYD - TDV can reduce the incidence of symptomatic dengue infection by more than half and importantly reduced severe disease and hospitalisations.
A team of researchers
led by Professor Miguel Valvano,
from the Wellcome - Wolfson Institute for Experimental
Medicine at Queen's University Belfast, has discovered why some particularly harmful bacteria are not responding to antibiotics.
«A significant decrease in the enzymatic activity of sucrase - isomaltase would be compatible with poor carbohydrate digestion in the intestine, possibly
leading to malabsorption and bowel symptoms» says co-senior author Hassan Naim
from the University of Veterinary
Medicine Hannover.
The signs of CTE (which can only be diagnosed postmortem) in the brains of blast - exposed military veterans were indistinguishable
from those found in the deceased athletes, according to the researchers,
led by Lee Goldstein, an associate professor at Boston University School of
Medicine (B.U.S.M.) and Boston University College of Engineering, and Ann McKee, a B.U.S.M. professor and director of the Neuropathology Service for the VA New England Healthcare System.
Lead researcher Professor Rachel Elliott
from The University of Manchester says the New
Medicine Service (NMS)-- a free scheme where community pharmacists help patients take new
medicines — has improved
medicines adherence by 10 %.
A team
led by Ken Zaret, PhD, director of the Penn Institute for Regenerative
Medicine and the Joseph Leidy Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, and Gloria Petersen, PhD,
from the Mayo Clinic, identified a pair of biomarkers that physicians could soon use to discover the disease earlier.