Medical Association

Hospitals, being a nerve center of modern medicine, have long attracted historical notice. Traditional histories of hospitals tend to focus on a single founding and often are written by practitioners with a penchant for history who have been associated with the institution. Such histories generally privilege personalities and personnel, internal institutional developments and events, and of the healing art movement forward. In recent decades, however, with a tidal wave of PhD historians engulfing medical history, the story of hospitals has changed. There is inferior celebration of institutional achievement and more ...

Fourteen years posterior a gentle majority of Oregon voters made their state the rudimentary to allow physician-assisted self-destruction, a Washington ballot initiative nearly identical to Oregon's law was approved with 58% of the vote. "It was a resounding win," said Peg Sandeen, executive manager of the Portland-based Death With Dignity National Center, whose political activity committee raised more than $615,000 for the ballot fight. "That's a trouncing any sort of dabbler in politics would be glad to win anyplace." The group's board ...

Incorrect Table Column Headings and Inaccurate Information in Text: In the Original Contribution by dint of. Marano et al titled "Effects of a Reduced Dose Schedule and Intramuscular Administration of Anthrax Vaccine Adsorbed in succession Immunogenicity and Safety at 7 Months," published in the October 1, 2008, edition of JAMA (2008;300[13]:1532-1543), a table contained inaccurate column headings, and the text required clarification. In Table 1 on serving-boy 1537, the last 2 column headings under "Ethnicity" should be reversed so that "Non-Hispanic" refers to the second-to-last file of data and "Hispanic" ...

Washington -- The outlook for treating extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis turned gloomier with a new study that confirms earlier reports of the poor prognosis associated with the disease. The study, the largest to date on the mostly mortal form of TB, determined that patients with XDR-TB are four times more likely to fail treatment and three times more likely to subside than are patients with other strains of multidrug-resistant TB. The apply the mind was in the Nov. 15 American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care ...

Washington -- Add another strong incentive to the list of reasons for women smokers to quit: abdominal aortic aneurysms. A study posted online Oct. 14 in the British Medical Journal found that women who smoke were four times more likely to consider an abdominal aortic aneurysm repair or rupture than women who had stopped. Women smokers also were eight times more likely to have the serious medical emergency occur than were women who had never smoked. Most studies of AAA have focused ...