Posts Tagged ‘test’
Senate Test Vote Today On Bill To Extend COBRA Subsidy, Doc Fix And State Medicaid Funding
The Senate is poised to consider a measure today that would include extending subsidies for COBRA benefits and unemployment insurance, prevent the Medicare payment cut for doctors and provide additional funding to state Medicaid programs…
Sebelius Awards Over $10 Million To Utah To Test Innovations In Children’s Health Care
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced a grant of over $10 million to Utah to improve health care quality and delivery systems for children enrolled in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)…
Sebelius Awards $100 Million To 10 States To Test Innovations In Children’s Health Care
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced $100 million in federal grant funds to 10 states to improve health care quality and delivery systems for children enrolled in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)…
Is Your Back Pain Caused By Herniated Disc? Single Test Can’t Tell
While lower back pain ranks as a common cause of disability in the United States, determining what causes a person’s back pain is often challenging. A new Cochrane review on diagnosing back pain finds that no single diagnostic test is good at discriminating between patients who have a herniated disc and patients who do not, according to lead author Danielle van der Windt…
Blood test can predict rheumatoid arthritis before symptoms arise
Researchers have identified several cytokines, cytokine-related factors, and chemokines that increase significantly prior to rheumatoid arthritis disease onset. These findings confirm those of earlier studies which suggest that the risk of developing RA can be predicted and disease progression may be prevented.
Relationship of creative projects in anatomy to medical student professionalism, test performance and stress: an exploratory study
Background:
The anatomy course offers important opportunities to develop professionalism at an early stage in medical education. It is an academically significant course that also engenders stress in some students.
Methods:
Over a three-year period, 115 of 297 students completed creative projects. Thirty-four project completers and 47 non-completers consented to participate in the study. Projects were analyzed for professionalism themes using grounded theory. A subset of project completers and non-completers were interviewed to determine their views about the stress of anatomy and medical school, as well as the value of the creative projects. We also compared test performance of project completers and non-completers.
Results:
Projects completed early in the course often expressed ambivalence about anatomy, whereas later projects showed more gratitude and sense of awe. Project completers tended to report greater stress than noncompleters, but stated that doing projects reduced stress and caused them to develop a richer appreciation for anatomy and medicine. Project completers performed significantly lower than non-completers on the first written exam (pre-project). Differences between groups on individual exams after both the first and second creative project were nonsignificant.
Conclusions:
For some students, creative projects may offer a useful way of reflecting on various aspects of professionalism while helping them to manage stress.word count: 206
Largest Clinical Trial To Test Benefits Of Aspirin In Australia
Researchers at Monash University and the United States-based Berman Center for Outcomes and Clinical Research will lead an international clinical trial to test whether taking aspirin contributes to good health in the elderly. The trial, ASPirin in Reducing Events in the Elderly (ASPREE), has been awarded US$50 million from the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health, the peak health funding body in the United States.
Meridian Granted Special 510(k) Clearance To Add 2009 H1N1 Influenza A Virus Analytical Sensitivity Claim To The TRU FLU(R) Test Package Insert
Meridian Bioscience, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio (NASDAQ:VIVO) announced that the company has been granted a Special 510(k) clearance to update the TRU FLU package insert to include analytical sensitivity claims with two strains of 2009 H1N1 virus cultured from positive respiratory specimens. TRU FLU is a rapid test which identifies influenza A and B in human specimens.
Stroke Survivors At Risk Of Another Cardiovascular Event May Be Identified By A Simple Test
Measuring circulation in the ankle using a device similar to a blood pressure cuff can help identify asymptomatic peripheral artery disease (PAD) in stroke and transient ischemic attack (TIA) survivors, a group at much higher risk of subsequent cerebrovascular events, according to a study in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association.
Warnex Launches Test For Influenza A H1N1 Virus Mutation Associated With Resistance To Tamiflu(R)
Warnex Inc. (TSX:WNX) announced today that its Medical Laboratories division has launched a test for the detection of a mutation of the pandemic influenza A H1N1 virus, which is associated with resistance to Tamiflu?, a drug used for the treatment and prevention of the flu. The test specifically detects the H275Y mutation of the neuraminidase gene, which has been shown to cause resistance to Tamiflu.
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