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...y each participant, which could be subject to some degree of imprecision. However, she notes, BMI is the standard for population-based studies....Rehabilitation professionals in nationwide survey cite barriers to assistive technology transfer
...te students about the benefits of an undergraduate degree in rehabilitation engineering and a master's in physical therapy, which may provide a wider range of potential career choices. 7. Convene an electronic national forum. Launch a national assistive technology forum online, composed of providers, educa...White physicians slower to prescribe HIV medications for African-Americans than for whites
...e. On the doctor's part, the knowledge, specialty, degree of training and years of experience did not affect the results. The fact remained that African-American patients seen by African-American doctors, received better care than African-American patients seeing white doctors. "Our findings are significant...Dealing with casualties from a terrorist attack
...6% had shrapnel wounds. Fractures, first or second degree burns, eye lesions, head trauma and abdominal injuries were also common. The pattern of injuries is consistent with other terrorist bombings. One of the unusual aspects of GMUGH's experience was the large number of blast lung injuries (BLI). The 63%...'Weekend' use matches daily drops for 'lazy eye'
...l levels by the four-month mark. This considerable degree of improvement is similar to that accomplished with daily eye patching, the mainstay of amblyopia treatment, the researchers note. "The daily burden of administering drops usually falls on the parent, and if weekend eye drops are a good option, the ...New study of African-American and Hispanic colorectal cancer patients
...ncer due to family history among two or more first degree relatives should be screened by colonoscopy at age 40 or 10 years younger than the age at diagnosis of the youngest affected relative, whichever is earlier. ...Virco establishes comprehensive set of clinical cutoffs for the vircoTYPE HIV-1 resistance test
...preting resistance information, providing a higher degree of correlation with virologic outcomes. Additionally, unlike the approach for biologic cutoffs, the approach used to determine CCOs considers the effects of drugs used in combination regimens. The virco®TYPE HIV-1 report reflects genotypic and p...Sleep disorders often indicate multiple health conditions
...pnea (OSA) and/or nonrestorative sleep have a high degree of attention deficit, as well as neuromuscular and...mpairment." Study results also showed a high degree of attention deficit in non-OSA patients with insomnia or a lack of deep, restorative sleep. Test r...Jefferson neuroscientists find evidence of lead exposure affecting recovery from brain injury
...ad-poisoned animals eventually recover to the same degree as the unexposed animals. They also plan to try to determine if there is a threshold for lead exposure and its effects of the brain's ability to recover following a brain injury....College of Nursing professor develops videos for computers to reduce HIV sexual risk behavior
... specialties, and the only doctoral (Ph.D) nursing degree in New Jersey....New technologies shed light on schizophrenia
...esume that the health of these fibers reflects the degree to which different parts of the brain are able to communicate," says Nestor. Patients with significantly smaller left-side UF bundles than those of age-matched controls had worse declarative-episodic verbal memory; they found it significantly hard...Mothers have brains primed for care
...peared to activate in the same way and to the same degree to cries of their own offspring and to cries of an infant unrelated to them. "Conventional wisdom has long suggested that mothers are more attuned to infants, especially their own, than are fathers," says Lorberbaum. "Our studies suggest that this m...Further evidence showing treatment benefits of beta interferon for MS
...ed to clinically definite multiple sclerosis. The degree of brain-tissue loss assessed by MRI scans was greater among patients given placebo (1.68% loss over the two-year period) compared with individuals given beta interferon (1.18% tissue loss). Dr Filippi comments: "This study has confirmed in a large ...Study explores treatment for urinary incontinence among prostate cancer surgery patients
... specialties, and the only doctoral (Ph.D) nursing degree in New Jersey....A controlled study of peripheral neuropathy after bariatric surgery
...ndices including age, gender, rate of weight loss, degree of obesity (body mass index or BMI), time to reach maximum weight loss, and taking multivitamin and calcium supplements, to determine which factors were correlated with neurological complications. "People who had had bariatric surgery were significan...MRI shows brain changes underlying language deficits in autism
...typical asymmetry." Furthermore, Harris noted, the degree of language impairment was related to the degree of Broca's area asymmetry. "This study represents a major contribution to the field," commented Foun...Modifications to body contouring techniques for post-bariatric patients
...he tissue will give over time, but not to the same degree as experienced previously." The popularity of gastric bypass surgery has skyrocketed to treat morbid obesity, leading to an influx of post-bariatric patients looking for body contouring plastic surgery. In fact, more than 52,000 body contouring p...Smart lights, nonstick implants and 100th birthday of electronics at science & technology meeting
...o weeks---and controlling fluid delivery to such a degree that entire cell analysis can be performed within the microfluidic channels. With this "complete cell culture lab on a chip" in hand, Folch believes that microfluidic technology is now ready for complex cell-based experimentation (see website at fa...Personality tests could predict doctors' burnout
... six years previously. Doctors who reported a high degree of satisfaction with medicine as a career tended to be more extraverted and less neurotic. In addition, these medics have a deep approach to work, favouring an integrative approach that leads to higher levels of personal understanding. In addition, t...Topiramate: a potential new medication for treating alcoholism
...effects of topiramate were confounded to a certain degree by the dosage amount. However, in my experience, patients need to exceed 200 mg a day of topiramate to have significant benefit in terms of drinking reductions. Of course, there will be exceptional folk who derive benefit at lower levels." "Results...