A majority of first-year medical students at a single medical school who were surveyed regarding race and social class preferences had scores consistent with an unconscious preference towards white people and upper social class, although when presented with various clinical scenarios, these biases were not associated with the students’ clinical assessments or decision making, according to a study in the September 7 issue of JAMA.
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A study of almost 10,000 cardiac arrest patients in 10 North American regions shows that extending initial cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) from one to three minutes provides no benefit.
The study, led by Dr. Ian Stiell of the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI), the University of Ottawa (uOttawa) and the Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium (ROC), resolves a worldwide controversy about cardiac arrest care. It is the largest randomized cardiac arrest trial in the world.
COLUMBIA, Mo. – Here's an easy way to improve your health: trust your neighbors. A new study from the University of Missouri shows that increasing trust in neighbors is associated with better self-reported health.
Just one second, one heartbeat.
That's what is needed for a new, noninvasive functional imaging technology to record data for locating the source in the heart of a dangerous cardiac arrhythmia called ventricular tachycardia (VT).
VT is an abnormal, fast beating of the heart, which, if ignored, can lead to ventricular fibrillation, which causes some 400,000 cases of sudden death yearly in the United States alone.
HOUSTON – (Aug. 31, 2011) – Using a patient's own bone marrow stem cells to treat acute stroke is feasible and safe, according to the results of a ground-breaking Phase I trial at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth).
Parents, if you want to improve your child's motivation to do homework, it will help to change your own attitude.
In atudy study published in Learning and Individual Differences,, researchers found that if parents had a more positive, supportive attitude and communicated the learning value as motivation, rather than focusing on completing an assignment or getting a higher grade, then the child's attitude and motivation would improve.
An editorial concludes that in the two years since extensive ghostwriting by pharmaceutical giant Wyeth to promote its hormone drug Prempro was exposed through litigation intervention, medical ghostwriting remains a prevalent problem with few concrete solutions in sight.
Marketing by pharmaceutical companies is baffling. Take erectile dysfunction commercials; someone looks at someone and then suddenly they are in a bathtub in the woods. It has nothing at all to do with the reason people want to take Viagra - to have sex.
Can changing a single word on a sign motivate doctors and nurses to wash their hands?
If you live in the country, you're more likely to get a pedophile living near you than if you live in the city. Does it mean they are more likely to be repeat offenders in the country? No, but that is the problem, according to two articles in Journal of Law and Economics which cast doubt on whether sex offender registry and notification laws actually work as intended.
As if nurses don't work hard enough for a lot less money than doctors, a new study is saddling these caregivers with additional pressure and responsibility: their attitudes can influence whether their patients commit to a healthy lifestyle.
Unfortunately, nurses may not actually be good models for an active lifestyle.
Victims who suffer violence at the hands of a spouse, boyfriend or girlfriend, or other intimate partner aren't only brutalized physically; they also suffer disproportionately higher rates of mental health distress, according to a new policy brief from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
An Indiana University study that compared strategies used by extroverted college students and their less socially inclined peers found that happy people who are less outgoing relied less on partying and drinking to be happy and more on connections with family and friends or cognitive strategies, such as positive thinking.
A second study found that college students who are goal-oriented also tend to be happier than their less focused peers.
Since 2007 Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) has become an alternative treatment for elderly patients with severe aortic stenosis at high risk for surgical aortic valve replacement. At present, durability and hemodynamic performance of transcatheter aortic valves remain unclear. Our single center data of the German Heart Center in Munich demonstrates a sustained improvement of hemodynamic performance up to 3 years after CoreValve implantation.
The Great Recession could have lingering impacts on the children of the unemployed, according to researchers at the University of Chicago.