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Major Medical Groups Back Comp Effectiveness Legislation
"Major medical organizations are urging health committees in the House and Senate to make comparative-effectiveness research a key component of healthcare reform," Modern HealthCare reports. The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee"s bill "plans for a new federal center on health outcomes research was seen by some GOP members as a possible means to ration healthcare." But "a letter, co-signed by the American Medical Association and more than 60 other groups, countered that comparative-effectiveness research would not lead to "cookbook" medicine or rationing of expensive forms of care" (Lubell, 6/26).

No Recess Rest In Health Reform Ad Wars
Major groups are promising that the August recess will be filled with advertising wars trying to manage the message of the health care reform debate, Politico reports.
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New Research Finds That Bingeing Increases Opioids In Brain Area That Controls Food Intake
Overconsumption of fatty, sugary foods leads to changes in brain receptors, according to new animal research at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The new research results are being presented at the 2009 annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB), July 28 - August 1, 2009, the foremost society for research into all aspects of eating and drinking behavior. The results have implications for understanding bulimia and other binge eating disorders.
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The UJI Is Working To Develop A Digital Analysis System Of Multispectral Images That Allows Melanoma To Be Distinguished From Other Kinds Of Diseases

The Computer Vision research group at the Universitat Jaume I of CastellÃö is working with the Hospitals Consortium of CastellÃö to develop a digital analysis system of multispectral images to help physicians distinguish melanoma from other kinds of skin diseases. A cooperation agreement has been signed by UJI, the University-Business Foundation and the CastellÃö Provincial Hospital Foundation to implement this project. The research project entitled "Characterisation of melanoma through spectral imaging" will be carried out by physicians of the Oncology, Surgery and Dermatology Departments of the CastellÃö Provincial Hospital, led by surgeon Enrique BoldÃö and technicians from the Department of Computer Languages and Systems, directed by Professor Filiberto Pla. They will create a database with multispectral images of melanomas and will select the multispectral bands for their subsequent study and classification. The first stage includes the analysis of dermoscopic images of melanomas and benign lesions to determine whether the distinctive features might be identified by a computer. The second stage includes a dermoscopy during the patient"s visit to the dermatologist and a spectrography during visits to oncology surgeons to later compare both results and check them against the pathologic anatomy. The objective is to determine what substances can be applied on the melanoma to facilitate its spectrographic analysis, and what multispectral features help diagnose melanomas. All this is carried out with the aim of creating an application software to improve medical assistance. According to Dr. BoldÃö, melanoma is the most widespread tumour worldwide and, in the early nineties, CastellÃö was the Spanish province with the highest mortality rate among the masculine population. The CastellÃö Provincial Hospital has developed innovative techniques to treat melanomas such as surgery guided by radioisotopes and the sentry node, as well as the melanoma vaccination prepared with the patient"s own tumour cells. Furthermore, the Consortium of Hospitals and its Foundation are conducting a study in collaboration with the Spanish Centre of Oncology Research (CNIO) to know the genetic characteristics of patients from CastellÃö with melanoma. This study will enhance the effectiveness of treatments as it will no longer depend on data of patients from other countries or other parts of Spain. Universitat Jaume I


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