Interests in research electives among osteopathic medical students.

Context: The number of physician-researchers in the United States is in decline. Osteopathic medical schools must examine strategies for increasing the number of trained clinical researchers.

Objectives: To assess the interest of first- and second-year osteopathic medical students in taking an elective research course during their third and fourth years of medical school; and to examine the relationship among students' personal characteristics, previous research experience, and elective research courses.

Diabetes risk and obesity in food-insecure households in rural Appalachian Ohio.

Introduction: In 2003, 11.2% of U.S.

The effect of mental distress on women's preventive health behaviors.

Purpose: To examine the relationship between mental distress and preventive health behaviors (i.e., mammograms, pap tests, physical exams) among women.

Schnabel cavernous degeneration: a vascular change of the aging eye.

Context: Schnabel cavernous degeneration is a histologic finding originally attributed to glaucoma; however, its cause and significance have been controversial.

Objective: To determine the basic cause of the formation of cavernous spaces in the proximal optic nerve and its clinical significance.

Methods: A retrospective analysis of 4500 autopsy eyes processed for histologic evaluation between 1967 and 1991.

Use of osteopathic manipulative treatment by Ohio osteopathic physicians in various specialties.

The authors mailed a survey designed to determine the use of osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) to the 2,318 active osteopathic physicians registered with the Ohio Osteopathic Association; 871 responses were received, for a response rate of 38%. Approximately 75% of the respondents had not or had rarely used OMT: 44% of these respondents did not use any OMT and 31% reported treating fewer than 10 patients with OMT during the week before the survey. Approximately 25% of the surveyed osteopathic physicians treated more than 10 patients with OMT, and about 6% of these treated more than 30 patients with OMT.