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Ada News Convention Daily - 2008 Day 2, American Dental Association, Publishing Division

ADA News

The ADA News Daily (also called the ADA News Convention Daily) is a special edition of the ADA News published each day during American Dental Association Annual Sessions.

Creating A Model Medical Student-Run “Free” Clinic: La Casita De La Salud-The New York Medical College Student-Run Clinic, Andrew Chang

Quill & Scope

La Casita de la Salud, The New York Medical College Student-Run Clinic, opened its doors in 2005, to service the medically underserved population of East Harlem, New York City. This article discusses how the organization came to be, and the reasoning behind its multi-faceted implemented interventions to decrease health disparities through cultural competency, patient education, community integration, and preventative medicine. For more information on La Casita de la Salud, please see http://nymclacasita.org/

Amwa Shirt Editorial, Elinor Pisano

Quill & Scope

Women's role in the medical field has expanded a great deal over the last 30 years. Women and men are represented in nearly equal numbers in medical school classes. Yet sexism still persists in the profession and in society. The author discusses a recent fund-raiser on campus and asks the question, "Are women undermining their own advocacy efforts by subliminally perpetuating sexism in the field? How far have we really come?"

Ua60/5 Wku Dental Hygiene Class Of 2008, Wku Dental Hygiene

WKU Administration Documents

Members of the 2008 dental hygiene class: Michele Bacalan, historian; Kelli Morris, treasurer; Mollie Clark, vice president; Ahsley Hendrix, president; Andrea Wilder, secretary; Casey Bostick, SADHA representative; Ashli Slover, SADHA representative; Brandi Brainard, historian; Liz Gilliam, class representative; Mallory Pace, class representative; Catherine Black, Tina Foley, Page Hamilton, Kelly Huggins, Rachel Kaelin, Cheri Kimble, Megan Morgan, Bethany Oldham, Beth Phillips, Lauren Phillips, Emily Salyer, Kellye Tenpenny, Chelsea West and Courtney White.

2008 Supplement Vol. 2, American Dental Association

ADA Transactions

This item is part of the Supplements subtitle of The ADA Transactions, a serial publication of the annual activities of the ADA House of Delegates (HOD)/Board of Trustees (BOT) made up of three separate subtitles: Annual Reports and Resolutions, Supplements, and the Transactions. Generally, The ADA Transactions are published in multiple volumes throughout the year. The Supplements function like an appendix and are, in more recent editions, numbered separately with page numbers determined by HOD reference committee assignation. Items are described variously as "Supplement #", "Volume #", etc. throughout the series but have been labeled here as Vol. # for …

Of Panjandrums, Pooh Bahs, Parvenus, And Prophets: Law, Religion, And Medical Science, George P. Smith Ii

Scholarly Articles

This Monograph derives from a Lecture, under the same title, given in Sydney, Australia, honoring Michael D. Kirby, AC, CMG, Justice of The High Court of Australia. The first part of the Monograph analyses the significant contributions that Justice Kirby has made as a compassionate champion of human rights and acknowledges what is styled as the Kirby Ethic which, in turn, is seen as the foundation for the body of work of the Justice as well as the moving force in his private life as well. Building upon a theory of transcendent idealism which interprets God's purpose as safeguarding the …

Ada News Convention Daily - 2008 Day 1, American Dental Association, Publishing Division

ADA News

The ADA News Daily (also called the ADA News Convention Daily) is a special edition of the ADA News published each day during American Dental Association Annual Sessions.

Palliative Sedation: An Ethical Option Of Last Resort, Rebecca A. Mcateer

Quill & Scope

In the wake of extensive discussion regarding the ethics of euthanasia and physician assisted suicide, a more subtle debate is evolving around the topic of palliative sedation. Specifically, this is the administration of sedatives to terminally ill patients to relieve severe, treatment-refractory suffering due to the underlying illness. Palliative sedation has not been made obsolete by recent advances in pain management and symptom control; instead, it retains a vital role in managing select patients at the end of life. Rather than merely a disguised form of euthanasia, it is a morally distinct, ethically permissible option when exercised within appropriate limits.

Caged, Edward Yap

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Caged was written during test week to represent the author’s feelings towards his expectations of medical school and the reality of medical school. The poem represents a struggle of the author’s own psyche to come to terms with what he has gotten himself into, the possibilities that could have existed otherwise, and his struggle in deciding to stay. The style in which the author presents the poem is in effort to impart the feeling of being constrained, and for the reader to feel the author’s helplessness.

Ignorant, Vedika Nehra

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'One week of rest...Perhaps the television is wrong...A forced apathy guards every hello...A thirty-dollar prescription...Peaches cost more than pasta.'

Infant Mortality, April Tantillo

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Despite an overall downward trend in neonatal and post neonatal deaths in recent years, the United States continues to rank poorly among developed nations for infant mortality. According to the Central Intelligence Agency's World Factbook, the United States ranked 180 out of 221 countries in 2007 (with the lowest infant mortality rate belonging to the country ranked 221). This paper seeks to explore continuing racial and socioeconomic disparities among U.S. women and their contribution to this disheartening truth.

Childhood Obesity, Richard Anderson

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Childhood overweight and obesity are at an all-time high this country. This is discouraging because overweight and obese children are at a significantly increased risk of becoming obese adults. Treating the obese is expensive, resulting in a sizable contribution to total healthcare expenditures. Thus, it seems logical that we need to treat the problem in children to avoid having another generation of overweight and obese adults. School-based programs which push nutrition education and increased physical activity during the school day can help decrease childhood overweight and obesity. These programs produce excellent results and could be very cost-effective.

On The Books: Reading Overtreated, Jeffrey Eliason

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Book review of Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer by Shannon Brownlee.

Reflection On Medical Disunity, Poonam Kaushal

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How does a physician endure the administrative and political pressure that often times, conflict and antagonize proper medical decisions? Having witnessed the problem for the first time in a doctor’s office, the author recognized that the health care problems do not innately begin with the insurance companies, hospital administrators or even an HMO, but with physicians failing to unite behind the common goal of caring for the health their patients. When physicians fail to overcome the aspects of a system that do not serve patients needs, they succumb to a flawed system that inevitably and fatally reigns over medical outcomes.

Warranties For Your Flat-Screen – Why Not For Your Bypass Surgery?, Anil Joseph Kulangara

Quill & Scope

If Health Care Delivery is a business, and patients are consumers, what is the product they’re buying? Who is liable for that product’s quality? If someone purchases a television set, they get a warranty. That warranty is the manufacturer’s guarantee to the customer that their company will be responsible for repairing or replacing that product should it prove to be defective within a few days of purchase. Could medicine ever be treated the same way? The following article describes Geisinger Health System’s ProvenCareSM program, which establishes flat package pricing and a 90-day “warranty” for Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts (CABGs).

Racial Disparities In The Us Healthcare System, J. Paul Nielsen

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Provider mentality regarding minorities, both overt and subconscious, likely affects the quality of healthcare delivered. Survey research suggests that most (between 50-75%) Caucasian people believe minorities are less intelligent, more prone to violence, and less likely to be employed. More physicians identify themselves as Caucasian than all other races combined. One in five Spanish-speaking Latinos reports not seeking healthcare due to language barriers. Even when they have overcome barriers to getting healthcare, minority populations are still less likely than Caucasians to receive certain common medical procedures.

What?? There’S A Genocide? Where?, Amaka Ozah, Farzana Nuruzzaman

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Genocide is not a subject that people like to talk about, but the fact of the matter is that it does exist today. The genocide that is being referred to is that which is occurring in Darfur, Sudan. This genocide has claimed over 400,000 lives and displaced more than 2.5 million people since 2003. As the genocide continues, out of the sorrow arises the stories of healthcare professionals who have devoted their lives to providing medical care in the conflict-ridden countries such as Darfur. Leading the way in providing medical services in Darfur is the International Medical Corps.

Psychological Stress And Immune Function, Allison Rubin

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Dr. Henry Maudsley said, "The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep." The medical community has always acknowledged that psychological stress can affect physical wellbeing, even though the mechanism was not always known. Now we know that this phenomenon is mediated by the body’s response to external stress and a person who does not cope with stress appropriately can experience immunosuppression. This phenomenon is especially important for the already immunosuppressed HIV+ population because life stresses specific to HIV+ people may contribute to disease progression. Furthermore, improving life stress in this population is linked with increased …

Crude Birth Rates Among New York City’S Racial/Ethnic Groups And Latino Nationalities In 2002, Victoria Stone

Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies

Introduction: This report analyzes crude birth rates among women in the three primary racial/ethnic groups, White, Black, and Latina, and further examines birth rates by age-specific groups in the five boroughs of New York City in 2002. In addition, this report presents the crude birth rates for six Latino nationalities: Mexican, Ecuadorian, Dominican, Colombian, Puerto Rican and Cuban.

Methods: The data examined here was derived from the NYC Vital Statistics 2002 Report and the Census 2000 SF4 table on Sex by Age by race and Latino nationality. The birth rates were calculated by dividing live birth numbers (Vital Statistics report) …

The Collected Works Of Hippocrates And Galen: The Greatest Physicians Of The Graeco-Roman World, Charles T. Ambrose

Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Professional Product Review Vol. 3 No. 1, American Dental Association, Council On Scientific Affairs

Professional Product Review

A user-friendly newsletter from the ADA Council on Scientific Affairs offering scientifically sound, unbiased, and clinically relevant information to member dentists about professional dental products tested by the ADA. This collection is historical and may not reflect current standards. For up-to-date information contact the ADA.

Oncolog Volume 53, Number 11, November 2008, John Lebas, Sunni Hosemann

OncoLog MD Anderson's Report to Physicians (All issues) Archives

• Options for Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma
• House Call: Saying No to Smoking: When You Need More than Willpower
• Intermediate-Stage Bladder Cancer: Deciding on Preoperative Chemotherapy and Urinary Diversion

Oncolog Volume 53, Number 07/08, July/August 2008, John Lebas, Sunni Hosemann

OncoLog MD Anderson's Report to Physicians (All issues) Archives

• Multiple Myeloma: Increasing Response, Remission, and Survival Rates in a Complex Disease
• House Call: A Guide to Radiation Therapy
• In Brief: Researchers Enhance Anticancer Activity of Natural Killer Cells in Laboratory
• Beyond Images: Advances in Interventional Radiology
• Radioembolotherapy Using Yttrium 90

Oncolog Volume 53, Number 05, May 2008, John Lebas, Joe Munch, Alexander V. Prokhorov Md, Phd

OncoLog MD Anderson's Report to Physicians (All issues) Archives

• Hepatocellular Carcinoma: New Standards in Therapy Emerging
• House Call: When Diagnosis Meets Denial
• In Brief: Overweight, Obese Patients Fare Worse with Breast Cancer, Researchers Find
• DiaLog: ASPIRE to Stop Teen Smoking, by Alexander V. Prokhorov, MD, PhD, Project Director, ASPIRE, Professor, Department of Behavioral Science
• A Reverse Approach to Adrenal Gland Resection

Oncolog Volume 53, Number 03, March 2008, John Lebas, Gordon B. Mills Md, Phd

OncoLog MD Anderson's Report to Physicians (All issues) Archives

• In Search of the Answer
• DiaLog: Mapping the Cancer Genome, by Gordon Mills, MD, PhD, Director, Kleberg Center for Molecular Markers, Chair, Department of Systems Biology
• House Call: The Basics of Biopsies

Oncolog Volume 53, Number 02, February 2008, Joe Munch, Diane Witter, Guillermo Garcia-Manero Md

OncoLog MD Anderson's Report to Physicians (All issues) Archives

• Assessing Symptom Burden in Cancer
• DiaLog: Making Headway in Hematology, by Guillermo Garcia-Manero, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Leukemia
• Helping Kids Make Smart Food Choices
• Expanding Therapy Options for Advanced Cancer

Oncolog Volume 51, Number 01, January 2006, Stephanie P. Deming, Diane Witter

OncoLog MD Anderson's Report to Physicians (All issues) Archives

• Fertility After Cancer
• Improving the Odds in Lung Cancer
• House Call: Understanding the Basics of Melanoma

Oncolog Volume 53, Number 06, June 2008, Karen Stuyck, Virginia M. Mohlere, David Stouter, David Jenkins

OncoLog MD Anderson's Report to Physicians (All issues) Archives

• Psychotherapy Extends Cancer Care Beyond the Physical
• House Call: Understanding How Cancer Spreads
• DiaLog: Teaming Spiritual and Medical Care, by Rev. David Stouter, Chaplain, Department of Chaplaincy and Pastoral Education, and Rev. David Jenkins, Director, Department of Chaplaincy and Pastoral Education
• Radical Trachelectomy: A Fertility-Sparing Option for Invasive Cervical Cancer

Oncolog Volume 53, Number 01, January 2008, John Lebas, Don Norwood

OncoLog MD Anderson's Report to Physicians (All issues) Archives

• Prostate Cancer: A Tale of Two Therapies
• In Brief: Newly Identified Gene May Stop Development of Lung Cancers
• House Call: What You Should Know About Male Cancers
• Making Headway Against Myeloproliferative Disorders

Oncolog Volume 53, Number 04, April 2008, Diane Witter, John Lebas, Sunni Hosemann

OncoLog MD Anderson's Report to Physicians (All issues) Archives

• Cancer as a Chronic Disease
• In Brief: Cancer-Promoting Protein in Ovarian Cancer May Be Stopped with RNA Liposome
• House Call: Caring for the Caregiver
• Barely Benign