Background: The Drug Burden Index (DBI), a measure of an individual's exposure to anticholinergic and sedative medications, is associated with functional impairment in community-dwelling, older people. In people from residential aged care facilities (RACFs), DBI score does not appear to be associated with functional impairment, but is associated with an ...

Objective. Recent reviews strongly discourage the routine use of gastric lavage in oral poisonings, but the authors suspected that gastric lavage might still be in widespread use in Denmark. We wished to estimate the extent to which gastric lavage in cases of medical drug poisoning, reported in inquiries to the ...

OBJECTIVES: To examine the association between atypical antipsychotic medications and incident treatment for diabetes mellitus or hyperlipidemia in elderly adults without diagnoses of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. DESIGN: Two case-control studies using medical and pharmacy claims data. SETTING: United States managed care population from multiple insurance plans. PARTICIPANTS: Individuals aged ...

Abstract Objective: To investigate the association between beliefs about medications and primary adherence in women prescribed anticholinergic medications for urgency urinary incontinence (UUI). Methods: We enrolled 160 women with UUI who were prescribed anticholinergic medications between 2009 and 2010. Validated questionnaires were administered to measure the diagnosis of UUI, its ...

AIM: The majority of medication errors that harm patients relate to the prescribing process. Our study aimed to identify the predictors of prescription errors involving anticancer chemotherapy agents. METHODS: All consecutive antineoplastic prescriptions from June 2006 to May 2008 were analysed, with medication errors being captured. Potential risk factors for ...

To determine whether the quality of press releases issued by medical journals can influence the quality of associated newspaper stories. Design Retrospective cohort study of medical journal press releases and associated news stories. We reviewed consecutive issues (going backwards from January 2009) of five major medical journals (Annals of Internal ...

Epidemiologic studies often rely on drug dispensation records to measure medication intake. We aimed to estimate correspondence between general practitioner (GP)-reported treatment and timing of prescription dispensation. From seven GPs in northern Denmark, we obtained 317 prescription records for 286 patients treated with ten commonly prescribed medication types for chronic ...

Use of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors or angiotensin receptor blockers results in decreased morbidity among patients with chronic heart failure (CHF). Undersupply of medication could result in inadequate control of CHF, whereas oversupply of medication could increase health-care costs and risks of toxicities. This study aimed to determine the effects of ...

Impulse control disorders (ICDs) are increasingly reported as a considerable side-effect of treatment with dopaminergic medication (both levodopa and dopamine agonists (DA)). ICDs together with punding are described within the entity of dopamine dysregulation syndrome along with immediate reward seeking and addictive behaviors. The brain functions involved in reward processing ...

Backround: Stigmatization of psychiatric patients is present both in the general population and among healthcare professionals. AIM: To determine the attitudes and behaviour of medical students towards a person who goes to a psychiatrist, before and after psychiatric rotation, and to compare those attitudes between medical and non-medical students. METHODS: ...

Evidence evaluating the comparative effectiveness of various treatments for chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is insufficient. This study evaluates outcomes in patients who failed initial medical management and elect a subsequent treatment option, either continued medical management or endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS) coupled with continued medical management. Adult subjects were prospectively enrolled ...

Efficient enantiomer discrimination with a convenient system remains a challenge in the fields of biochemistry, medical science, and pharmaceutics. Here we report a simple enantioselective sensing device based on a single artificial β-cyclodextrin-modified nanochannel system. This nanodevice shows highly selective recognition of histidine enantiomers through monitoring of ionic current signatures.

When a sudden increase in volume overwhelmed Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans, LA, in the wake of hurricane Katrina, ED administrators created QTrack, a new ED protocol that effectively doubled the capacity of the ED by taking full advantage of waiting-room space while preserving beds for only the sickest ...

The Internet provides a quick access to a plethora of the medical literature, in the form of journals, databases, dictionaries, textbooks, indexes, and e-journals, thereby allowing access to more varied, individualized, and systematic educational opportunities. Web search engine is a tool designed to search for information on the World Wide ...

The first year of practice after medical school is considered to be an essential part of becoming a medical practitioner in Australia. Previous qualitative investigations have investigated a number of significant aspects of this early stage of professional development. This qualitative study explores experiences and developing professional identities during internship. ...

PURPOSE: Policy recommendations specify how academic medical centers should manage clinical conflicts of interest (CCOIs), including gifts and payments to physicians from pharmaceutical companies. However, no reliable data exist on the extent to which schools have policies to manage CCOIs. The authors sought to determine the extent and strength of ...

This study investigated the opinions of preceptors on select topics relevant to the benefits and rewards of precepting medical assisting (MA) students. A 35-item questionnaire was distributed to volunteer MA preceptors over the course of 1 year. Survey items prompted participants for information concerning background and previous experiences with MA ...

Objective: This study aimed to investigate Chinese medical interns' cancer knowledge and associated factors, focusing on cancer screening. Methods: A questionnaire survey was conducted in ten leading Chinese medical schools from June to July in 2011. Medical interns were invited to fill the questionnaire. Results: Out of the 1350 copies ...

This study reviews data available from a mediation committee (MC) for a county medical society, the Texas Medical Board (TMB), and the Texas Medical Liability Trust (TMLT) during the decade of Texas tort reform. It explores why some patients file formal complaints and grievances against their physicians. It also compares ...

Paul Farmer, physician, anthropologist, and author, spoke at the 2009 Society for Medical Anthropology Conference at Yale University in September.

Medical anthropologist Barbara Koenig spoke on the intersection of bioethics and genomics at the 2009 Society for Medical Anthropology Conference at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

Regulatory decisions and scientific statements regarding the management of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) raise questions about the safety of medications and the appropriate pretreatment evaluation to determine suitability for treatment with medication. This is particularly true in the setting of known structural or functional heart disease. The present paper reviews ...

The Medical Society of Delaware has invited this article to provide its members and potential donors with guidance on ways in which tax-advantaged contributions may benefit both the donor and the Medical Society's capital campaign, "Delaware's Home for a Healthy Tomorrow." Donations to the capital campaign should be directed to ...

The Swiss Haemophilia Registry of the Medical Committee of the Swiss Haemophilia Society was established in 2000. Primarily it bears epidemiological and basic clinical data (incidence, type and severity of the disease, age groups, centres, mortality). Two thirds of the questions of the WFH Global Survey can be answered, especially ...

Nanomedicine is a reality of medical research and clinical practice, and it offers new and promising approaches to fundamental problems in medicine. Most prominent are the early detection of neoplastic disease and the individualized treatment of metastases. These potentially transformational developments require careful scrutiny of the potential impact of nanomedicine ...

At its ninth biennial conference, the membership of the Society for Tropical Veterinary Medicine (STVM) adopted a resolution in support of "One Health," an initiative that promotes collaboration between veterinary and human medical professionals and allied health scientists. The resolution is published on the website of the STVM and has ...

Dr Eric Anson was New Zealand's first specialist anaesthetist. Following his father's footsteps, his basic and advanced medical training were done in England. He served in the Royal Navy in World War I and in the New Zealand Army Medical Corps in World War II, both in Egypt and on ...

Natural philosophers of the early-modern period perceived fool's gold or iron pyrites as a substance required for the formation of metals, and chemists such as Johann Glauber speculated the vitriol produced from pyrites was the source of the legendary philosopher's stone. The sulphurous exhalations of fool's gold were also thought ...

Protocols to determine the accuracy of noninvasive blood pressure monitors have been published by the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation, the British Hypertension Society, and the European Society of Hypertension (ESH). We compared the statistical basis for each of these protocols. Although the Association for the Advancement of ...

The discovery of the Bell-Magendie Law, which states that the ventral spinal roots transmit motor impulses and the posterior roots sensory impulses, established a major landmark in the history of neuroscience. It led to further elucidation of brain function and served as a starting point for virtually all of electrophysiology. ...

Members expressed overall satisfaction with their AMS membership and agreed that, through their membership, they benefit from a collective voice and a stronger influence where health issues are concerned. How do you rate your Arkansas Medical Society? The Society always wants to hear comments and suggestions from its members. Call ...

Disabling perfectionism rules both the personal and professional life of many surgeons. Internalization of a relentless drive for perfection in care, as well as in life, is reinforced through rigorous and competitive training and fostered by cultural pressures to perform to the highest--and frequently unrealistic--standards. Society demands perfection from surgeons ...

Dr Percy Charles Edward d'Erf Wheeler, a medical missionary of the London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews, spent 24 years (1885-1909) as head of the English medical institution in Jerusalem. Wheeler dedicated the years he served in Palestine to promote the medical condition of the Jews as a ...

The Kappa Lambda Society of Hippocrates, an early medical professional organization, was founded circa 1819 in Lexington, Kentucky, amid the first economic depression in the United States. Its primary stated purpose was to elevate medicine as a profession. This article will reevaluate the acknowledged purposes and accomplishments of the Society ...

Memories of the meetings in Atlantic City of the two major academic medical societies, the AAP and the ASCI, are enveloped by a vague and unsettling nostalgia. Dominating the scene was the Boardwalk--a site of unexpected encounters, often with long-forgotten colleagues, evoking a feeling of shared intellectual excitement and rich ...

BACKGROUND: We have seen a number of individuals who received blood-type tattoos on the left side of the chest as schoolchildren in northwest Indiana during the 1950s. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the history of blood-type tattooing. METHODS: Historical research was conducted using newspaper and journal articles found in medical libraries, online ...

Professional institutions played an important role in the life of Birmingham surgeon James FF West and his colleagues. West held office in the Birmingham Medical Institute, the Midland Medical Society, the Birmingham Medical Benevolent Society and the local branch of the British Medical Association. He was an energetic and active ...

OBJECTIVE: Since mild COPD can be detected in the annual health check by lung function tests, we conducted a questionnaire survey on how such examinations are used to assess chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). METHODS: We mailed questionnaires to 633 facilities performing comprehensive medical check-up from June to July 2005 ...

Easter Island, even though it's in the middle of nowhere, is indeed a piece of the continent, as John Donne alluded to. In addition to contributing rapamycin to the medical field, the island is an example to the whole world of the consequences of affluent lifestyles, tribal wars, and ignorance ...

To assess associations between race/ethnicity and medication adherence, and the potential modifying effects of weight category (normal, overweight, obese) in a community-based sample. We studied 1355 participants from the CARDIA (Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults) study who were taking prescription medications in 2000-1. Medication adherence, as rated on ...

In the seventeenth century, Holland and the allied provinces of the northern Netherlands won final independence from their Spanish overlords and formed a worldwide economic empire. Dutch ships dominated the seas from the Caribbean to Japan and reconnoitred the coasts of Australia and New Zealand. Dutch society was cosmopolitan and ...

The intention of this paper is to reflect on the development of medical informatics as a discipline and on the development of IMIA, the International Medical Informatics Association, as its international organization. IMIA is the international organization in health and biomedical informatics, which has the goal of stimulating and communicating ...

Huge amounts of money and knowledge have been poured into biomedical research for decades. Yet, in some disease areas next to no progress has been made in providing medical treatment. Importantly, it is not only neglected diseases where unmet medical need remains, but many diseases of 'rich' countries are also ...

This paper examines the ambiguous place of medical assistants-dispensers-in a post-slavery British Caribbean colony, British Guiana, from the end of slavery in the 1830s to the early twentieth century. Although the latter were crucial to the functioning of the colonial medical system, local physicians resented them, complaining about the economic ...

The 1st Japanese Urological Association-Japanese Society of Medical Oncology Joint Conference, titled 'A step towards better collaboration between urologists and medical oncologists', was held to coincide with the 44th Meeting of the Japan Society of Clinical Oncology, Tokyo, in October 2006. The main theme of the conference addressed the need ...

Up to 50 percent of the U.S. population reports that their own "bad breath" has concerned them during some point in the course of their lifetime. Half of this group is indeed likely to have an ongoing sporadic or a chronic breath malodor problem. This report looks at the phenomenon ...

In their didactic poems on fishing and chocolate, both published in 1689, two Neapolitan Jesuits digressed to record and lament a devastating 'plague' of 'hypochondria'. The poetic plagues of Niccolò Giannettasio and Tommaso Strozzi have literary precedents in Lucretius, Vergil, and Fracastoro, but it will be argued that they also ...

Professional medical societies have become increasingly dependent on pharmaceutical, device, and biotechnology companies for ongoing support of their programs, but the internal influence of this financial largesse on medical societies' practices is well hidden. Many examples exist in which societies' educational products, including clinical practice guidelines and professional publications, have ...

This article attempts to analyze the crucial link between the plant Agnus castus and human health, particularly hormonal status, with special reference to the needs of the society of ancient Sparta. The ancient Spartans used Agnus both as a cure for infertility and as a remedy to treat battle wounds. ...

The decomposition of sunflower hull and its mixtures was examined under mesophilic (M) and thermophilic (T) temperatures during 100 days. Thermophilic conditions were used to define the composting process. Vetch, alfalfa and ammonium nitrate were used as nitrogen co-substrates, in 6 treatments: sunflower hulls alone (C), sunflower hulls plus ammonium ...