Journal of Controversial Medical Claims articles from May 2003

Journal of Controversial Medical Claims archives from May 2003

Smallpox vaccine injury and law guide.
May 1, 2003... On December 13, 2002, the White House announced its smallpox vaccination plan and the White House Smallpox Vaccination FAQ. Half a million military personnel were to be vaccinated immediately, and 500,000 hospital and healthcare workers were...

Liability risks reduced, but not eliminated, for childhood vaccines.
May 1, 2003... Children's vaccines are among the safest medicines made, public health officials maintain, but occasionally young patients are injured when they receive their required shots. The liability concerns that arise when such injuries occur have...

Head injury. (Clinical Currents).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Although analysis of functional independence measures (FIM) at discharge are useful for assessing extent of disability in head-injured children, there is no reliable method to predict the severity of disability at the time of admission, say...

Fibromyalgia. (Clinical Currents).(Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire )(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... A 1.5 day multidisciplinary fibromyalgia treatment program has a significant positive effect on the impact of illness among patients with fibromyalgia with or without concomitant depression, and may be a cost-effective model for the treatment...

Whiplash. (Clinical Currents).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Researchers at Aarhus University Hospital compared the course of pain and other neurologic complaints in patients with acute whiplash injury and in controls with acute ankle injury, and found that disability only was encountered in the...

Adverse drug reactions. (Clinical Currents).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Adverse drug reactions are a significant clinical and economic problem in surgical intensive care units, researchers writing in Critical Care Medicine conclude. To determine the frequency of adverse drug reactions in surgical intensive...

Carpal tunnel syndrome. (Clinical Currents).(findings of MRC Environmental Epidemiology Unit research )(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Researchers at the MRC Environmental Epidemiology Unit at the University of Southampton in England looked at whether different distributions of numbness and tingling in the hand can be usefully distinguished in epidemiologic studies of...

Chronic fatigue syndrome. (Clinical Currents).(defining study populations in research)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... It might be inappropriate to synthesize results from studies of chronic fatigue syndrome that use different definitions to select study populations, say researchers at DePaul University. Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is an illness that...

Workers' compensation. (Clinical Currents).(surgical outcomes of arthroscopic acromioplasty)
May 1, 2003... Arthroscopic acromioplasty consistently provided a good surgical outcome and the ability to return to work in both the Workers' Compensation and non-Workers' Compensation populations for patients with subacromial impingement syndrome who were...

Chronic pain. (Clinical Currents).(manual therapy versus exercise therapy for low back pain)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Norwegian researchers comparing the effect of manual therapy to exercise therapy in sick-listed patients with chronic low back pain found that manual therapy showed significantly greater improvement. Writing in Spine, the researchers say...