MD Week

Influenza - Campaign encourages nurses and healthcare workers to get vaccinated against flu

Information Technology - Emageon signs agreement with Johns Hopkins Hospital

Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center - International scale rapidly identifies HIV-related dementia risk

L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona - Male circumcision could reduce Chlamydia trachomatis infection in female partners

Massachusetts General Hospital - Nearly 30% of initial diagnoses with CT head scans later revised

Massachusetts General Hospital - Pregnancy achieved in fertile partners of patients after prostate brachytherapy

Mercy Hospital for Women, Melbourne - Defining disease extent has potential to improve cervical cancer survival

Mergers & Acquisitions - Almost Family announces agreement to acquire St. Augustine, Florida, home health agency

Minneapolis Veterans Administration Medical Center - Low-cost mailings of reminders increase repeat mammography interventions

Mitsui Memorial Hospital, Tokyo - Recent findings in angiology described

Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx - Milk thistle used in treatment and prophylaxis of cancer

New York-Weill Cornell Medical Center - Partial nephrectomy could still be performed using open techniques with good results

Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo - Advantages and disadvantages of management strategies for stage I seminoma discussed

Osmangazi University, Eskisehir - Hypoxic hepatitis and cor pulmonale are related to ICU patient outcome

Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago - Young children are at high risk for influenza and should be immunized

Princess Anne Hospital, Southampton - Risk of coronary events is linked to childhood BMI gain rather than BMI at particular age

Rabin Medical Center, Petah Tiqwa - Non-albicans candidemia does not result in increased fatality compared to C. albicans infection

Royal Marsden Hospital, London - Radiotherapeutic techniques for prostate cancer discussed

Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University - Atorvastatin reduced serum leptin levels in hypercholesterolemic rabbit model

Sheba Medical Center, Tel Aviv - Reports add new data to cardiology research