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Behind The Growth Of Alternative Medicine: Unmet Psychosmatic Needs Of Medical Practice
The past decade has witnessed an impressive growth of alternative medicine. The Authors of this review suggest that key psychosmatic concepts (a holistic consideration of patient care; the role of psychosocial factors in affecting individual vulnerability to all types of disease; the interaction... view more (2000-06-09)

Can complementary medicine ever be evidence based?
Doctors are failing their patients by not being able to advise on the particular merits of different complementary medicines, writes Professor Edzard Ernst, of the Department of Complementary Medicine, University of Exeter, in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. Around half the UK population is... view more (1999-02-12)

IS THE AMERICAN LEADERSHIP IN CLINICAL MEDICINE RESEARCH DECLINING? A CITATION ANALYSIS
Citation analysis is a powerful measurement of the scientific impact of medical papers. All papers which were published in journals of general and internal medicine (such as the Lancet or the New England Journal of Medicine), the citations which attracted and their impact (citations divided by... view more (2001-11-13)

University of Surrey Professor appointed to the Council of the Royal Society of Medicine
The University of Surrey is pleased to congratulate Professor Ri Hornung MB BS MSc DRCOG FRCGP on his election to the Council of the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM). For two years Professor Hornung, a visiting professor at UniS' Postgraduate Medical School, has been an instrumental member of a RSM... view more (2004-09-28)

New micro instrument controls medicine flows
Research scientists at the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory in Oslo have developed a flow metre with fluid channels thinner than a strand of hair. The new device controls that patients receive the correct dosage of medicine.   view more (2004-11-03)

Complementary and alternative medicine
The popularity of complementary and alternative medicine is on the increase, with people who use it reporting greater satisfaction than those who use conventional medicine.   view more (2002-05-01)

Irresponsible use of fertility techniques will jeopardise the future of reproductive medicine warns new ESHRE president
Lausanne, Switzerland: The new president of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology has warned that the future of reproductive medicine and the hopes of infertile couples could be put in jeopardy by the abusive use of fertility techniques. Professor Hans Evers from Academisch... view more (2001-07-04)

Dr Brian Gennery appointed Deputy Head of The Postgraduate Medical School at UniS
The Postgraduate Medical School at the University of Surrey is delighted to announce the recent appointment of Dr Brian Gennery as Deputy Head of School and Vice-Dean of Medicine as from 1 March 2005. Dr Gennery joined PGMS in 2002 and has been the Programme Director for the MSc in Pharmaceutical... view more (2005-03-08)

SLU Liver Center to Study Whether Potent HIV Drug Could Benefit Hepatitis B Patients
Saint Louis University School of Medicine researchers are studying the effectiveness of a drug for patients with chronic hepatitis B that is currently used to treat HIV.   view more (2006-05-04)

New treatments based on human behaviour could reduce drug prescribing
New psychological treatments-behavioural medicine-could significantly reduce the need for drug treatments for some conditions, cutting health system costs says an editorial in this week's BMJ.   view more (2006-02-24)

Southampton-authored medical book that 'retains its humanity' wins Royal Society of Medicine book award
The Oxford Handbook of General Practice, written by Dr Chantal Simon, Dr Hazel Everitt and Jon Birtwistle from the University of Southampton's School of Medicine, and co-written by Dr Brian Stevenson, a Hampshire GP, has won this year's Royal Society of Medicine and Society of Authors book prize... view more (2003-11-11)

Nuclear medicine now safer than ever
Hospitals are now able to ensure that the correct dose is administered to the 670,000 patients that undergo nuclear medicine procedures every year due to a new device developed by scientists at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL).   view more (2007-10-11)

Nobel Laureates published with IoPP
Institute of Physics Publishing (IoPP) is proud to note that five of the 2003 Nobel Prize winners have published important works with its journals. Many of these have been key papers, which have contributed to their success today. Sir Peter Mansfield, joint winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine,... view more (2003-10-07)

IVF pioneer honoured
International fertility expert Robert Winston has been given an honorary award by the University of Sunderland. Lord Winston is well known for his award-winning television series, including Your Life in Their Hands, The Human Body, and Walking with Cavemen. He received an Honorary Doctorate of... view more (2003-07-15)

Protein that provides innate defense against HIV could lead to new treatments
By identifying a protein that restricts the release of HIV-1 virus from human cells, scientists believe they may be closer to identifying new approaches to treatment. The research is published in the advance online edition of Nature Medicine.   view more (2008-05-27)

Boston Medical Center researchers educating chief residents about addiction
Researchers from Boston Medical Center (BMC) have found that education on addiction is inadequate during medical training, resulting in suboptimal medical care for those at risk.   view more (2008-10-27)

A bitter pill to swallow
Two reports from TRAFFIC, the world's largest wildlife trade monitoring network, on traditional medicine systems in Cambodia and Vietnam suggest that illegal wildlife trade, including entire tiger skeletons, and unsustainable harvesting is depleting the region's rich and varied biodiversity and... view more (2008-07-02)

Media Invitation - Does Europe need a Research Council ?
Press conference Brussels, 8 October 2003 WHO?         PHILIPPE BUSQUIN, European Research Commissioner PROF. ERWIN NEHER, Nobel Laureate, Physiology and medicine, 1991 PROF. NÃÅ"SSLEIN-VOLHARD, Nobel Laureate, Physiology and medicine, 1995 PROF. VON... view more (2003-10-03)

Long-term narcotics use for back pain may be ineffective and lead to abuse
Narcotic drugs (opioids) are commonly prescribed for short-term relief of chronic back pain, but their effectiveness long-term has been questioned in a review article by researchers at Yale School of Medicine, who also found that behaviors consistent with opioid abuse was reported in 24 percent of... view more (2007-01-18)

Lyme disease prevention program launched in Connecticut
Researchers at the Emerging Infections Program (EIP) at Yale School of Medicine in partnership with the Connecticut Department of Public Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have launched a Lyme disease prevention study in 21 Connecticut communities.   view more (2005-08-15)

Morphine kills pain — not patients
Many people, including health care workers, believe that morphine is a lethal drug that causes death when used to control pain for a patient who is dying. That is a misconception according to new research published in the latest issue of Palliative Medicine, from SAGE Publications.   view more (2007-03-22)

NEW TECHNIQUE SHOWS DEATH OF HEART CELLS IN HEART-ATTACK PATIENTS (P 209)
In this week's issue of THE LANCET, researchers from the Netherlands describe a new imaging technique capable of pinpointing areas of cell death in the hearts of patients who have had an acute myocardial infarction (heart attack). In acute myocardial infarction, the blood supply to part of the... view more (2000-07-12)

Emergency care scheme does not tackle real problems
A new scheme designed to reduce waits in emergency departments is simply massaging the figures to meet government targets, warn senior doctors in this week's BMJ. The "see and treat" concept involves having senior staff as the first clinical contact rather than a triage and wait approach.... view more (2003-03-05)

Extremely low dose CT coronary angiography shows promise in assessing cardiac function
Extremely low dose CT coronary angiography can be used to measure cardiac function and has the potential for use when other commonly used examinations are limited, a preliminary study indicates.   view more (2008-04-14)

Increased risk of stillbirth in older pregnant women
Pregnancy at age 40 and beyond is an independent risk factor for intrauterine fetal demise or stillbirth, according to an abstract presented by Yale School of Medicine researchers at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Conference February 10 in San Francisco.   view more (2007-02-12)
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