"Health & Medical News"

Better vigilance is needed to ensure medical research on human subjects is not flawed by financial conflicts of interest, according to the Assn. of American Medical Colleges and the Assn. of American Universities.

In March, the two organizations issued a report that calls on medical schools and research universities to put into place conflict-of-interest policies within two years. Such policies should cover how to identify, evaluate and manage financial conflicts, the report said.

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Washington — Reducing the amount of salt in America’s diet would go a long way toward lowering our collective blood pressure, according to AMA testimony before a Nov. 29 hearing of the Food and Drug Administration.

The Association joined with others in asking the agency to set strict limits on the levels of salt in processed foods and restaurant meals and to remove salt from the list of foods that generally are considered to be safe.

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Washington — Wounded veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are surviving injuries that would have been fatal in earlier wars. That’s the good news. But these serious wounds also are causing a great deal of pain, which, if untreated, can trigger a cascade of life-disrupting changes, according to pain experts speaking at an Oct. 30 Capitol Hill briefing.

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Doctors widely praised new guidelines that call for screening of all young patients for autism and for medical homes for children with this diagnosis. However, some physicians said financial realities and inadequate access to follow-up care could interfere with implementation.

The American Academy of Pediatrics issued the recommendations in two reports presented at its National Conference and Exhibition in San Francisco last month. The documents appear in the November Read the rest of this entry »