BACKGROUND Anxiety disorders are highly prevalent in primary care and cause a substantial burden of disease. Screening on risk status, followed by preventive interventions in those at risk may prevent the onset of anxiety disorders, and thereby reduce the disease burden. The willingness to participate in screening and interventions is crucial for the scope of preventive strategies, but unknown....

There are two clinical situations in which establishing the diagnosis of a toxic adenoma or toxic multinodular goiter is more difficult. First, the autonomously functioning tissue may be sufficiently diffuse that it is difficult to differentiate a toxic multinodular goiter from Graves' disease by thyroid scintigraphy alone. When it is important to distinguish these disorders, a high serum conce...

Background: Computerized preventive screening software is a cost effective intervention tool to address non-communicable chronic diseases. Shiraz Smart Screening Software (SSSS) was developed as an innovative tool for qualified screening. It allows simultaneous smart screening of several high-burden chronic diseases and supports reminder notification functionality. The extent in which SSSS affe...

Dr Meltzer has received grant/research support from Alcon, Alexza Pharmaceuticals, Amgen, Antigen Labs, Apotex, Astellas, AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Forest, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, MAP, MEDA, Medimmune, Merck, Novartis, Proctor & Gamble, Schering-Plough, Sepracor, Teva, and UCB. He has served as a consultant/speaker for Alcon, Alexza Pharmaceuticals, Amgen, AstraZeneca, Boeh...

PURPOSE To determine which resources residents use at the point-of-care (POC) for decision making, the drivers for selection of these resources, and how residents use Google/Google Scholar to answer clinical questions at the POC. METHOD In January 2012, 299 residents from three internal medicine residencies were sent an electronic survey regarding resources used for POC decision making. Resou...

BACKGROUND Both clinical workload and access to learning resource are important components of educational environment and may have effects on clinical knowledge of residents. METHODS We conducted a survey with a clinical knowledge evaluation involving postgraduate year (PGY)-1 and -2 resident physicians at teaching hospitals offering 2-year postgraduate training programs required for resident...

Two years ago, I attended an international conference on genetic testing in Rennes, France, where one panel was scheduled to discuss privacy and genetic testing. The specific topic was whether family members ought to have access to an individual’s test results. My assumption, an admittedly naïve and ill-informed one, was that no one, including family members, had any right to this information. ...

Eighty subjects participated in a study with five age groups (20, 30, 40, 50, and 60 years). Forty subjects showed evidence of factors related to brain dysfunction (risk factors). Their performance on a Sternberg-type memory scanning task was assessed. Age-related slowing of virtually all aspects of the memory scanning process was observed in the healthy group. However, the effect of the presen...

In bioethical discussions of preimplantation genetic diagnosis and prenatal screening, accusations of eugenics are commonplace, as are counter-claims that talk of eugenics is misleading and unhelpful. This paper asks whether "eugenics talk", in this context, is legitimate and useful or something to be avoided. It also looks at the extent to which this linguistic question can be answered without...

OBJECTIVES To examine the relationship between cervical screening uptake and political engagement, and to test whether political engagement and voting behaviour mediate the association between age and cervical screening uptake. SETTING A population-based survey of women in England in 2010. METHODS Women aged 26-64 took part in home-based computer-assisted interviews (n = 890). Women were cl...