health - "medicine"

The sound of a noisy Chicago restaurant during the breakfast rush -- the clang of plates and silverware and the clamor of many voices -- was the crucial test of new hearing aid technology in a study conducted by researchers at Washington University School of medicine in St. Louis.The study showed that the hearing aids worked well in a noisy environment -- the most challenging test for a hearing aid. But the patients wearing the devices didn't need to fly from St. Louis to Chicago to participate in the test. Instead, the restaurant came to the clinic of Michael Valente, Ph.D., director of the Division of Adult Audiology in the Department of Otolaryngology at the School of medicine. Or at least its sounds did.

Researchers from four leading cancer centers have confirmed that an analysis involving a panel of genes can be used to predict which lung cancer patients will have the worst survival. The finding could one day lead to a test that would help determine who needs more aggressive treatment. The study, the largest of its kind, appears online in Nature medicine.

The earliest known writings about herbal medicines date back to 2800 B.C. in China, and many people believe that electromedicine goes back to the time of Aristotle. But while many complementary or alternative modalities may not be new, these alternative measures are still not well understood by many Americans.

Tossing out everything from plastic bandages and cotton swabs to hospital robes after a single use, the U.S. medical industry generates more than 2 million tons of waste per year, environmental advocates say. Some of that waste makes its way to incinerators and, when burned, releases dioxin, merc...

THE BMA's annual conference is over for another year. Doctors from across all branches of medicine and from all corners of the UK have now returned to their hospitals, sur

The health Protection Agency has reported a 6% increase in the total number of new sexually transmitted infections (STIs) diagnosed in 2007 compared to 2006. To coincide with the launch of the Agency's fifth Annual report and Accounts, figures are released today showing that across all age groups almost 400,000 (397,990) new STIs were diagnosed in UK genitourinary medicine (GUM) clinics in 2007 - an increase from 375,843 in 2006.

A new research study will investigate if a multiple-medication treatment of depression is superior to the common practice of a single drug. For diseases such as diabetes or hypertension, combining medicines from the start of treatment is common practice. “We are trying two active, Food and Drug Administration-marketed antidepressant medicines available by prescription from [...]

Researchers announce a surprise relationship between the genetics of blood cells and brain cells. A finding that may lead to a significant alteration in the way Parkinson’s disease is managed. Scientists from the University of Wisconsin School of medicine and Public health (SMPH), Harvard University-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the University of [...]

By studying medication orders that are withdrawn ('discontinued') by physicians within 45 minutes of their origination, researchers at The University of Pennsylvania School of medicine have demonstrated a systematic and efficient method of identifying prescribing errors. The method, they say, has value to screen for medication errors and as a teaching tool for physicians and physicians-in-training. The report is published in the July/August 2008 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.read more

PBS' 'News Hour with Jim Lehrer' on Thursday examined efforts from the Baylor College of medicine's Pediatric AIDS Corps to fight HIV/AIDS among children in Malawi.