Internal medicine faculty heavily involved in residency programs believe that resident duty-hour limitations negatively affect aspects of residents? patient care, education and professionalism, but improve residents? well-being, according to a report in the July 23 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Hundreds of thousands of babies around the world are born each year with HIV–more than half a million in 2006 alone. Caring for these children is complicated by the fact that their immune systems are not fully developed in the first year of life, which makes them especially susceptible to rapid HIV disease progression and death.
The International AIDS Society (IAS) convened and facilitated a meeting between Act Up-Paris and Abbott in Sydney, Australia.
Patients are leaving hospitals quicker these days, continuing treatment and recovery ? often with the aid of medical devices ? at home. As a result, the government and home care industry together must work toward providing a safe environment for the use of medical devices in the home.
A decade ago, scientists announced the ability to introduce foreign genes into the mosquito genome. A year ago, scientists announced the successful use of an artificial gene that prevented a virus from replicating within mosquitoes.
A top panel of experts will face questions of public and scientific concern on stem cell research, during an international conference being held at the University of Manchester this week.
With HIV infection driving a deadly resurgence of tuberculosis (TB), a new publication provides up-to-date recommendations for clinicians facing the many challenges of treating patients with both of these two complex diseases.
Prof. Karen Avraham, chair of the department of human molecular genetics and biochemistry at Tel Aviv University?s Sackler School of Medicine, represented EuroHear, a consortium of 25 European, Israeli and U.K.-based research teams, at the European U nion conference ?Hearing and Seeing: European Research to Fight Deafness and Blindness,? held at Paris?s College de France on July 2-3, 2007.
As the provincial government prepares for the final sessions of its ?Conversation on Health? this weekend in Vancouver, participants from 14 of the public forums held across the province during the past six months joined with the BC Health Coalition to deliver a clear message.
For prostate cancer patients whose tumors have continued to grow despite medical or surgical castration, a new drug candidate that inhibits production of male hormones anywhere in the body is showing promise in early trials.