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06/14/2006
The American Medical Association voted at its Annual House of Delegates Meeting in Chicago to support individual responsibility as an additional approach to cover the more than 46 million uninsured Americans.
06/14/2006
At its annual House of Delegates meeting in Chicago, the American Medical Association declared war on salt, citing its overconsumption in the United States as a primary reason for hypertension. The association is undertaking a campaign to get Americans to drastically reduce the amount of salt in their diet.
06/14/2006
In older adults with functional difficulties, mortality may be reduced by in-home occupational and physical therapy sessions, according to a study published in the June issue of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
06/13/2006
In light of interrogation techniques used at Guantanamo Naval Base, Cuba and Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, the American Medical Association, at its annual House of Delegates meeting in Chicago, has approved a new policy that opposes direct participation by physicians in interrogations.
06/13/2006
Risky behavior among U.S. high school students has dropped since 1991, but many teenagers smoke, drive after drinking and have sex without condoms, according to a report in the June 9 issue of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
06/12/2006
Delegates at the American Medical Association House of Delegates meeting in Chicago are considering a report from AMA's board of trustees that suggests the association push for a small tax on sugar-sweetened sodas in an effort to raise money to help prevent and treat obesity.
06/12/2006
Delegates at the American Medical Association House of Delegates meeting in Chicago have asked the AMA to open emergency negotiations with the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Congress and the Bush administration to work out ways to preserve patient access to health care providers at California and Arkansas hospitals involved in lawsuits over use of Medicare funds.
06/12/2006
Suicide among physicians is significantly higher than among the general population, and a resolution presented at the American Medical Association House of Delegates meeting in Chicago calls for the AMA to work with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and the Federation of State Physician Health Programs to educate physicians and raise public awareness of physician suicide.
06/12/2006
Even when total calories are controlled, a diet rich in trans fatty acids is more likely than a diet rich in monounsaturated fat to accelerate the development of abdominal obesity, which is associated with an increased risk of diabetes and heart disease, according to research in animals presented this week at the American Diabetes Association's 66th Annual Scientific Sessions in Washington, D.C.
06/12/2006
More than half of patients with chronic neuropathic pain of unknown cause have impairments in glucose metabolism, with the two-hour oral glucose tolerance test (2h-OGTT) a better indicator than fasting plasma glucose levels, according to a study published online June 12 in the Archives of Neurology.
06/12/2006
Mutations in the parkin gene can accelerate the development of Parkinson disease by 12 or more years, according to a study in the June issue of the Archives of Neurology.
06/12/2006
Three studies in the June 13 issue of Neurology may help identify the nearly 30 percent of patients diagnosed with epilepsy who actually have psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES).
06/09/2006
About 3 percent of men who have undergone inguinal herniorrhaphy experience pain that moderately or severely affects their sexual function, according to a study in the June issue of Pain.
06/09/2006
In two cases in the United Kingdom, children developed toxic shock syndrome (TSS) from relatively minor skin trauma caused by blisters from new soccer boots, according to a report published in the June 10 issue of BMJ.
06/09/2006
U.S. health officials are calling for stepped-up public awareness and precautions against Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) after more human cases of the potentially fatal illness surfaced in five western states during the first three months of 2006 than in the same time period in 2005, according to a report in the June 9 issue of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
06/09/2006
Leptin levels are directly associated with body mass index (BMI) and waist size, while levels of ghrelin are inversely associated with BMI and waist size, according to a study published in the June issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association.
06/09/2006
Nearly 45 percent of children who require emergency treatment after car accidents are insufficiently restrained or not strapped in at all, researchers report in the June 9 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Children aged 4 to 8 were the most likely to be restrained inappropriately with use of a seat belt without a booster seat.
06/09/2006
Three days of intravenous antibiotic treatment are as effective as seven to 10 days of intravenous and oral antibiotic treatment for patients with community-acquired pneumonia who respond to the intravenous treatment, according to a study published in the June 10 issue of BMJ.
06/08/2006
By modifying conventional microbeam radiation therapy, researchers have produced a strong, focused X-ray beam that spares normal tissue and may be useful in treating brain tumors, according to a study published online June 7 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Early Edition.
06/08/2006
As early as a decade before the onset of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) symptoms, RA patients have a significantly more atherogenic lipid profile than those who don't develop the disease, according to a study published online June 7 in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases.
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