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The public was agog over a new study suggesting that a teaspoon of honey helps a child with nighttime cold and cough, but the experts' reaction was more nuanced and [...]

SEATTLE -- When the physicians of Rochester, N.Y., first had a pay-for-performance program imposed on them, they ignored it. 'At the beginning of our program, most people would not acknowledge [...]

TORONTO -- The trial that was supposed to provide definitive guidance on which atypical antipsychotic or antipsychotics work best in schizophrenia apparently has not. The months after the publication of [...]

Fewer teenagers used drugs and tobacco this past year, continuing a trend that has been seen for the past 3 years among high school seniors and for the last 8 [...]

The Food and Drug Administration will scrap isotretinoin's handful of voluntary risk management programs in favor of one mandatory, more restrictive system like that used for thalidomide. Although many dermatologists [...]

In places like Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Florida, some ob.gyns, are getting out of the practice of delivering babies or they are moving out of their states because of the current [...]

* Breast-Feeding * Physical Activity * Television * Food * Sodas BELLEVUE, WASH. -- The solutions to the obesity epidemic are clear, but some of the conclusions researchers are drawing [...]

VANCOUVER, B.C. -- Children who pitch should be followed closely with a pitch count to avoid overuse injuries, regardless of how many innings they have pitched, Dr. Tracy Ray said [...]

In the gutter outside a hypertension clinic in Khabarovsk, Russia, Dr. Faith Fitzgerald saw a man lying dead. He had walked out of the clinic, collapsed, and died on the [...]

Human umbilical cord blood produces natural IgM antibodies to HIM reported Toby C. Rodman, Ph.D., and colleagues at Rockefeller University in New York. If those antibodies could be produced in [...]

CHICAGO - Asthma patients on a leukotriene modifier were less likely to need oral corticosteroid rescue during 10 months of follow-up than were patients on an inhaled corticosteroid, according to [...]

CHICAGO - Obesity causes asthma. The idea behind reverse causality-that people who do not breathe well tend to be less active and thus become obese-is wrong, Dr. Scott Weiss said [...]

The amount of infant formula stolen from store shelves only to end up back on different store shelves is increasing. Pediatricians should be informing new mothers about this situation, formula [...]

Seventy-eight percent of children presenting with acute otitis media will have a resolution of their fever and discomfort in 4-7 days without treatment with antibiotics, and only 1 patient in [...]

The federal Vaccines for Children program has significantly reduced the numbers of children who are referred from their physician's office to a public vaccine clinic for immunization, reported Dr. Richard [...]

Probiotic treatment administered to mothers prenatally and to their infants for 6 months postnatally reduced later development of atopic disease by 50%, according to a Finnish trial that followed 132 [...]

LAS VEGAS -- There are significant differences in the efficacy of the over-the-counter antibiotic adhesive bandages, Dr. Stephen C. Davis said at a symposium sponsored by the Association for the [...]

LAS VEGAS -- Chronic wound care may be the next application for hyaluronic acid, the tissue-derived polysaccharide whose uses already include osteoarthritis treatment and cosmetic augmentation. A recently introduced product [...]

The stem cells likely to yield the quickest, least expensive, and largest clinical benefit are readily available and present no ethical dilemma. They are umbilical cord blood stem cells. The [...]

CHICAGO -- The rate of congenital anomalies associated with montelukast use during pregnancy does not differ from the background rate, according to registry data. In the 3 years through May [...]

The stem cells that are likely to generate the quickest, least expensive, and largest clinical benefits are readily available and present no ethical dilemma. They are stem cells obtained from [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- When giving bad news, it is more important to appear competent and knowledgeable than empathic, Patricia A. Parker, Ph.D., said at the annual meeting of the American [...]

SEATTLE -- Two gene therapy techniques for angina posted successful results in presentations at the annual meeting of the American Society of Gene Therapy. The first method used a catheter [...]

An outbreak of postsurgical infections was tied to a surgical scrub nurse who had onychomycosis and severe onycholysis that she covered up with nail polish, reported Dr. Shelly A. McNeil [...]

CHICAGO -- Asthma tends to be more severe in men than in women, Dr. Cara Cassino said at the Third Triennial World Asthma Meeting. This finding among patients at a [...]

The American Thoracic Society has issued a warning that lung volume reduction surgery provides little benefit and has a high rate of postoperative mortality for patients with advanced homogeneous emphysema. [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- When giving bad news, it is more important to appear competent and knowledgeable than empathic, Patricia A. Parker, Ph.D., said at the annual meeting of the American [...]

An outbreak of postsurgical infections was tied to a surgical scrub nurse who had onychomycosis and severe onycholysis that she covered with nail polish, reported Dr. Shelly A. McNeil and [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- Biochemotherapy for metastatic melanoma, an approach that many had viewed as promising, does not induce lasting, important responses, Dr. Paul B. Chapman said at the annual meeting [...]

They have been steadily delivering results. The stem cells likely to yield the quickest, least expensive, and largest clinical benefit are readily available and present no ethical dilemma. They are [...]

The stem cells likely to yield the quickest, least expensive, and largest clinical benefit are readily available and present no ethical dilemma. They are umbilical cord blood stem cells. The [...]

CHICAGO -- Severe asthma attacks may be declining. The reductions were observed in two studies presented at the Third Triennial World Asthma Meeting. Dr. David M. Lang of Jefferson Medical [...]

CHICAGO -- New propellants permit patients with mild to moderate asthma to use lower doses of inhaled corticosteroids with comparable or superior efficacy based on two drug company-sponsored presentations at [...]

The definition of a 'stem cell' is more about function than about form. Stem cells have now been identified in almost every adult human organ system, including the central nervous [...]

Utility for diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis. The stem cells likely to yield the quickest, least expensive, and largest clinical benefit are readily available and present no ethical dilemma. They are umbilical [...]

CHICAGO -- The rate of congenital anomalies associated with montelukast use during pregnancy does not differ from the background rate, according to pregnancy registry data. In the 3 years through [...]

SNOWMASS, COLO. -- Immunostaining techniques are not certain enough at present to make Mohs surgery the definitive therapy for melanoma. But the research is making a case for it, Dr. [...]

Given the growing shortage, nurses need to be given some relief from the burden of paperwork in order to have more time to devote to patients, the House said. In [...]

The contact capitation model of specialist reimbursement neither impinges on specialists' ability to deliver quality care nor restricts access for patients, said a report adopted by the House. Contact capitation--whereby [...]

The AMA's Board of Trustees will continue to work with the National Patient Safety Foundation to define what constitutes safe office-based surgical practice, the delegates were told in a report [...]

Residents should be allowed to apply to health plans for acceptance on their provider panels 6 months before completing training, the delegates said. Currently, it takes about 6 months for [...]

The AMA will seek to have the phrase 'your physician may recommend other appropriate treatments' included in all direct-to-consumer advertising. Many members spoke in favor of more rigorous action by [...]

As they have before, delegates railed against what they perceive as the overly punitive approach to billing fraud investigation and prosecution by the Office of Inspector General. They also complained [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- The results were disappointing in the first clinical trials of angiogenesis inhibitors presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. The pilot clinical [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- Oral clodronate increased median survival from 24 months to 36 months in patients with metastatic prostate cancer. In a randomized, placebo-controlled study of 311 patients, the bisphosphonate [...]

SEATTLE -- Hemophilia is likely to be the first major disease to be cured by gene therapy, experts predicted at the annual meeting of the American Society of Gene Therapy. [...]

Antisense gene in cells from healthy twin. SEATTLE -- Genetically engineered lymphocytes appear to prevent HIV replication in AIDS patients, based on the early results of a trial presented at [...]

The AMA opposes the use of antibiotics in livestock, and will press the federal government to have their nontherapeutic use banned, the House of Delegates said. The action noted that [...]

The AMA revised its policy on medical marijuana but stopped short of endorsing compassionate use. The new policy says physicians should be able to discuss medical marijuana use with patients [...]

The benefits of genetic testing will be medically important and patients must not be dissuaded from allowing such testing by fear of discrimination. The AMA will push for adoption of [...]