Heart, heart-lung and lung transplant recipients can have successful pregnancies
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...ure and regular use of antiplatelet drugs has been advocated in type 2 diabetes. Yet current targets are attainable in only 50-70% of individuals in research studies, argues Peter Winocour of Queen Elizabeth II Hospital in Hertfordshire. The targets are often impractical and involve taking too many drugs, with...Eisenhower Mem. 1st CA hospital to use Bridge barcode system to prevent medication errors
...of the other types of error-reduction technologies advocated today. And given Bridges experience, were convince...ss. CPOE (a controversial error-reduction strategy advocated by Leapfrog, an employer group) only prevents errors during the medication-ordering phase. It does n...Early cardiovascular disease found in asymptomatic individuals
...ng techniques that have either been established or advocated for early detection. ...NYU researchers uncover the neurobiology of decision-making
...ce of a true decision-making mechanism, of thetype advocated by social scientists, within the brains of macaque monkeys. Thesefindings raise the possibility that biological mechanisms which can account forthe complex and often upredictable behavior of living animals have beenidentified. Platt and Glimcher have...New Book Says Cross-Train Your Brain To Increase Mental Function
.... These are among 83 "neurobic" exercises advocated by Duke Medical Centerneurobiologist Lawrence Katz and co-author Manning Rubin in their new book KeepYour Brain Alive (1999, Workman Publishing Co., New York). In the book, Katz, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator atDuke Medical ...UCSF AIDS Expert Warns Against Early Treatment For HIV Infection
...V, outlines hisconcerns about the current strategy advocated by the clinical community forprescribing combination drug therapy, often called the AIDS drug cocktail. Hisarticle is titled, "Caution: Should We Be Treating HIV Infection Early" Levy's research has focused on natural immune response against the A......tastrophes) and errors in forecastestimates -- are advocated by many experts to complement currently used models.The current method involves testing for two extreme scenarios rather than thefull range of probabilities. In Section II, the preliminary survey analysis showed that, according tothe experts'...