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Scientists have long known that the brain’s frontal cortex supports concrete rule learning. Less clear is how the brain processes more complex and unfamiliar knowledge. In a paper published today (Wednesday, April 28, 2010) in the journal Neuron, a team of researchers at Brown University and the University of California–Berkeley tested whether the frontal lobe [...]
Patients recovering from stroke sometimes behave as if completely unaware of one half of the world: colliding with obstacles on their left, eating food only from the right side of their plate, or failing to dress their left side. This puzzling phenomenon is termed “spatial neglect” and it affects roughly 45% of patients suffering from [...]
“Rather than asking whether the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) does everything to improve access and lower costs, we should ask how it compares with the status quo,” the American College of Physicians’ (ACP) senior public policy adviser said in a paper published online today in Annals of Internal Medicine, the flagship journal of ACP. “By this measure, the PPACA is an extraordinary achievement.”
Fibromyalgia is a condition that causes chronic, widespread pain throughout the body. In a new study, University of Missouri researchers are examining how the diagnosis of Fibromyalgia can affect marriages. Initial findings reveal that diagnosed spouses have considerably higher levels of depressive symptoms and pain and report more marital instability and anger than their spouses. [...]
Hypochondriasis is a rarely used diagnosis in clinical practice despite studies having reported prevalence between 0.8–9.5% in primary care [1-3]. This may be because the disorder is not taken seriously, but rather is viewed as an imaginary illness or a phenomenon secondary to another psychiatric disorder [4-5]. Hypochondriasis is also considered a stigmatizing label, and [...]
Four unhealthy behaviors – smoking, lack of physical activity, poor diet and alcohol consumption – appear to be associated with a substantially increased risk of death when combined, according to a report in the April 26 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on [...]
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann formally introduced a bill (with co-sponsors) that would repeal President Obama’s Health-Care Plan discussed at BMED Report here and here. Congresswoman Bachmann asks for your support by signing an online petition. Many Americans have serious concerns about the government take over of healthcare, new taxation of Americans with decent private insurance, fining those who refuse to purchase a commercial product (health insurance) they may not want or need, and the unfair back room deals to various U.S. States and interest groups. If this describes you, now is your chance to voice your opposition to “ObamaCare” and demand its repeal. Check the end of this report for a link to Congresswoman Bachmann’s online petition.
The following is a response to and further analysis of the recent BMED Report article, “Efforts To Promote Use Of Lower-Cost Physicians May Be Based On Misleading Profiles.” My original intention was to provide only a brief comment, but as it became apparent that my response contributed meaningful new information and at the urging of the Managing Editor (Christopher Fisher, PhD), I decided to make this response my first full article for BMED Report.
Editors of several medical research journals have issued a statement calling for rigorous standards and transparency in research that is designed to influence patient care and health policy. Led by Dr. Harold Sox, co-chair of the 2009 US Institute of Medicine Committee on Comparative Effectiveness Research Prioritization, the statement’s author list includes editors of Medical [...]
Energy in, energy out, it’s the basic equation to weight loss, or is it? With more than two thirds of Americans classified as overweight or obese, a study in the May/June 2010 issue of the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior examines how motivation might be a large contributor to sticking with weight loss programs. [...]
