Study of deadliest form of stroke demostrates much lower mortality rates at high caseload hospitals
...nary centers. The key is specialization involving multi disciplinary teams, access to surgical and endovascular treatment and dedicated specialized after care. Volume brings experience and most high volume centers are specialized but there are also some smaller centers that specialize and offer excellent...Study highlights success of meningitis C vaccination programme among UK children
...take-up assessed a year later was around 70%. This multi centre collaborative study, led by Martin Maiden from the University of Oxford, UK, and James Stuart from the UK Public Health Laboratory Service, compared the carriage of meningococcal bacteria from around 14,000 students aged 15-17 years at the sta...