Freeze frame: The look of Gen-Now.
Horses sweat, men perspire, ladies glow. Well, that's for dummies. Move on and capture the look of Gen-Now. Although we're still a long way off from finding the fountain of youth, medical science is breaking new ground each day in this exciting field to help the beauty conscious stop...

Health promotion courses for music students: Part 1.
OHIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC Athens, Ohio PERFORMANCE PREPARATION Instructor: Gail Berenson, Professor of Piano, berenson@ohio.edu Gail Berenson, Professor of Piano at Ohio University (Athens, OH) initiated "Performance Preparation" in 1991, as an outgrowth of some workshops she co-presented with Dr. Gary Chleboun,...

Comparison of outcome measures during treatment with the proprietary Harpagophytum extract Doloteffin[R] in patients with pain in the lower back, knee or hip.
Summary Besides checking estimates of effectiveness and safety of using the proprietary Harpagophytum extract Doloteffin[R], this postmarketing surveillance compared various disease-speciffic * and generic ** measures of effect. We enrolled 250 patients suffering from nonspecific low back pain (Back group: n = 104) or osteoarthritic...

Racial/ethnic disparities in knowledge about risks and benefits of breast cancer treatment: does it matter where you go?
Persistently high rates of mastectomy and wide geographic variation in surgical treatments for early stage breast cancer (National Institutes of Health 1990; Nattinger et al. 2000; Morrow et al. 2001; Wennberg 2002; Baxter et al. 2004) have raised concerns that many women may not be fully informed about surgical...

Physician-assisted death in the United States: are the existing "last resorts" enough?
Although there has been relatively little activity in the last ten years with regard to legal access to physician-assisted death, this fall a citizens' initiative in the state of Washington is proposing an Oregon-style law that would allow legal access to potentially lethal medication for terminally ill patients, subject...

Helping hands; Plastic surgeon weaves humanitarian endeavors into his work.
Byline: Laura Porter Raised in a family of free thinkers in East Berlin, Worcester facial plastic surgeon Frank P. Fechner always knew that communist East Germany wasn't the place he wanted to spend his life. The divide of the Berlin Wall had shadowed his childhood....

Postsurgical Bra secures dressings.
Dale Medical Products, Inc., has unveiled a postsurgical bra that securely and comfortably holds dressings and eases examinations and treatments for a variety of procedures, such as mastectomy, lumpectomy, biopsy, reduction, and reconstruction. The Dale Postsurgical Bra[R] features a stretch knit fabric that helps the surgical site...

Shortchanging patients.
Byline: The Register-Guard Many people may be surprised to learn that some doctors would not be willing to provide them with medical information about emergency contraception, stem cell therapy or abortion. These doctors - admittedly a minority of practicing physicians - believe it's their right to withhold...

Informed consent or institutionalized eugenics? How the medical profession encourages abortion of fetuses with down syndrome.
ABSTRACT: Many women are unprepared to make prenatal decisions about fetuses diagnosed with Down Syndrome because of societal pressures to have "normal" children, a negative view of persons with disabilities by many in society, a fear of legal liability by those in the medical community, the lack of genuine...

Medicine's magic bullets? We trust today's miracle cures, but some have caused great harm. Who is to blame?
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Phil Brewer thought he knew exactly what to do when the ambulance crew wheeled a well-dressed man in his late sixties into the emergency department. What he didn't know: He was about to be involved in a series of events that would kill his patient....