health - "medicine"

An Indiana University School of medicine program that partners with Purdue University to train the next generation of physician-scientists has been given national recognition with a prestigious grant from the National Institutes of health. IU's M.D./Ph.D. program, in which students receive the both degrees in seven to eight years, has received a five-year, $1.

Later this month, thousands of scientists and health professionals from the field of medical physics will meet at the 50th meeting of the American Association of Physicists in medicine (AAPM) in Houston, Texas. There, from July 27 to July 31, they will present the latest technologies for imaging and treating diseases and discuss the ethical and regulatory issues facing the field today.

Washington, July 12 : A study conducted by experts from Boston University School of medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC) suggests that sexual behaviour counselling during drug addiction treatment may help cut risky sexual behaviour among people who are at risk of being infected by HIV.

Cool, dry air flowing between the athlete and their football pads reduces core body temperature and heart rate dramatically, thereby reducing the likelihood of heat-related illness, a study released at the 2008 American Orthopaedic Society for Sports medicine Annual Meeting at JW Marriott Orlando Grande Lakes shows.

Brain cancer experts at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) have been selected for membership in the Ivy Genomics-Based medicine Project. The project is a national consortium of cutting-edge hospitals and academic centers working to improve treatment and survival for patients with a kind of malignant brain tumor called a glioma. As part of the nine-member consortium, UAB will serve as the only research site in the Southeast.

Two pediatric eye surgeons at Washington University School of medicine in St. Louis expressed alarm over what they label a '21st century snake oil' scam. Recent newspaper stories including several from Missouri -- have reported parents flying their children to main land China for umbilical cord stem cell (CSC) infusions. The cost of these treatments, paid for entirely out-of-pocket by the parents, can be $50,000 or more.

Eighty-three percent of athletes who had 'Tommy John' elbow reconstruction surgery were able to return to the same or better level of play, according to a study released today at the 2008 American Orthopaedic Society for Sports medicine Annual Meeting at JW Marriott Orland Grande Lakes. While reassuring to athletes, the study authors find the trend of more and more young athletes requiring the surgery, alarming.

(American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine) According to a new study, 83 percent of athletes who had 'Tommy John' elbow reconstruction surgery were able to return to the same or better level of play, released at the 2008 American Orthopaedic Society for Sports medicine Annual Meeting at JW Marriott Orlando Grande Lakes. While reassuring to athletes, the study authors find the trend of more and more young athletes requiring the surgery, alarming.

Enforcement officers from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), together with assistance from Thames Valley Police, have seized approximately 20,000 unlicensed medicines, worth an estimated £50,000. The medicines seized consisted of Kamagra tablets and jellies, used for male impotence. The result came following an early morning visit, codenamed Op Jaipur, by MHRA enforcement officers and police to three addresses in the Wokingham and Bracknell area.

Nearly five percent of employees have high levels of psychological distress associated with a high likelihood of a mental disorder, reports a study in the July Journal of Occupational and Environmental medicine, official publication of the American College of Occupational and Environmental medicine (ACOEM). Led by Michael F. Hilton, Ph.D.