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Medicine Strategies (medicine + strategy)

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Medical Sciences75%

Selected Abstracts

Behavioral Medicine Strategies for Heart Disease Prevention: The Example of Smoking Cessation

PREVENTIVE CARDIOLOGY, Issue 1 2000
Barrie J Guise PhD
Health related behavior change is one of the most important challenges in the prevention of cardiovascular disease. Lifestyle patterns, such as high fat diet, lack of exercise, persistent smoking, and poor compliance with prescribed medications present the core of this challenge. Conventional wisdom and considerable scientific evidence establish that the barriers to health related behavior change are many and varied. However, much is also known about methods of improving behavioral outcomes. Behavioral medicine strategies incorporate fundamental principles of behavior change together with biomedical and interpersonal approaches to facilitate successful cardiac risk factor modification. Physicians have the most potent opportunity to assist patients with health behavior change. Unfortunately, physicians are least familiar with behavior change technology and the contemporary physician-patient relationship lacks the partnership needed to succeed in these difficult areas. The good news is that medical education has begun to incorporate training in behavior change and interpersonal effectiveness. A description of the behavioral medicine approach to smoking cessation provides an excellent model for a thoughtful and practical approach to heart disease prevention in every day practice. [source]

Regenerative Medicine: (Adv. Mater.

ADVANCED MATERIALS, Issue 32-33 2009
32-33/2009)
Biomaterials are essential "elements" in Regenerative Medicine strategies. The role of such smart polymer systems (center left) is to support or control the endogenous regeneration for a specific duration and therefore are designed to degrade (upper left), to control cell function (lower right), substitute the extracellular matrix (background), or to control the sustained release of bioactive molecules (upper right). Images in the front cover courtesy of Andreas Lendlein, Dieter Hofmann, Anna Marie Lipski, Michael Schossig, Jay C. Sy, and V. Prasad Shastri. [source]

Behavioral Medicine Strategies for Heart Disease Prevention: The Example of Smoking Cessation

PREVENTIVE CARDIOLOGY, Issue 1 2000
Barrie J Guise PhD
Health related behavior change is one of the most important challenges in the prevention of cardiovascular disease. Lifestyle patterns, such as high fat diet, lack of exercise, persistent smoking, and poor compliance with prescribed medications present the core of this challenge. Conventional wisdom and considerable scientific evidence establish that the barriers to health related behavior change are many and varied. However, much is also known about methods of improving behavioral outcomes. Behavioral medicine strategies incorporate fundamental principles of behavior change together with biomedical and interpersonal approaches to facilitate successful cardiac risk factor modification. Physicians have the most potent opportunity to assist patients with health behavior change. Unfortunately, physicians are least familiar with behavior change technology and the contemporary physician-patient relationship lacks the partnership needed to succeed in these difficult areas. The good news is that medical education has begun to incorporate training in behavior change and interpersonal effectiveness. A description of the behavioral medicine approach to smoking cessation provides an excellent model for a thoughtful and practical approach to heart disease prevention in every day practice. [source]

Spatiotemporal Delivery Strategies for Promoting Musculoskeletal Tissue Regeneration,,

JOURNAL OF BONE AND MINERAL RESEARCH, Issue 9 2009
Robert E Guldberg PhD
Abstract A primary regenerative medicine strategy is to stimulate or augment endogenous repair mechanisms that promote functional restoration of damaged or degenerated tissues. There is increasing evidence that maximizing the potency of tissue regenerative therapies will require design and development of delivery approaches that provide controlled spatiotemporal release of key signaling molecules. Guidance on which factors to deliver and the timing of delivery is emerging from advances in understanding of critical pathways involved in the development of integrated musculoskeletal tissues. A broad range of biomaterials-based deployment technologies are becoming available that allow controlled spatial presentation and release kinetics of biological cues. The purpose of this perspective article is to review promising spatiotemporal delivery strategies designed to promote functional tissue regeneration with an emphasis on vascularized bone repair. [source]