Puerto Rican women influenced more by quality of medical care than doctor's ethnicity
...rovided, characteristics of the medical staff, the delivery and content of care and the outcome of care. "Two aspects of process that are especially important are the continuity and content of care. Continuity of care has to do with whether or not prenatal care was received from the same or different physici...Researchers pinpoint pain responses in newborns
...infants undergo painful, invasive procedures after delivery for medical reasons and it is important for us to understand how they react to pain, and look at ways to decrease their pain, " added Dr. Taddio. In the study, infants who received repeated painful procedures (heel lances) over the first 24-36 hours ...FINAL ALERT: RPB Science Writers Seminar in Eye Research to be held in Washington, DC Sept. 22-25
...oid -- repeatedly and in sufficient doses. A new delivery system shows promise of filling that gap. Now in animal trials, it calls for pumping drugs directly across the sclera (the white of the eye). Under development: devices that can reside on the surface and deliver medications on demand for months or e...A 'first' for Parkinson's disease sufferers
...sustain, beyond the pilot study, and to expand the delivery of reliable, clear and easily accessible information to all patients with Parkinson's Disease and their carers." Parkinson's Disease is one of the commonest causes of disability in older people, with more than 120,000 patients in the United Kingdom...Real time health records reduce clinical errors, enhance time with patients
...ibility safer and quicker, staff will improve care delivery and have more time to deal with patients," Dr. Ludwin adds. Since each staff member's hand-held computer is connected to the hospital information service through a wireless access point (as well as to the Internet), new patient data is immediately av...Are people with mental illness more violent than other people?
...eoccupation with risk of violence, rather than the delivery of effective treatments in the community, they conclude....A new method for assessing neurological development of fetuses?
...dies with improved stimulation protocols and light delivery mechanisms will increase the success rate of the technique. Serial recordings of visual evoked brain activity in conjunction with auditory evoked brain activity will be a new method to study the neurological development of the fetus....Study results show higher mortality rates in female children who undergo cardiac surgery
...ot appear to be related to factors influencing the delivery of in-hospital medical care. The American Heart Association (AHA) estimates that in the United States alone, about 25,000 to 30,000, or eight of every 1,000 infants born a year, have a heart defect. There are at least 35 types of recognized defect...Caesarean rates unaffected by level of nursing care
... to reduce or at least not increase your caesarean delivery rates, don't count on one-to-one support by nurses as the only answer," says Hodnett who is also cross-appointed to the Department of Public Health Sciences, Mount Sinai Hospital and the Centre for Research in Women's Health (CRWH), a partnership of ...UT Southwestern researchers find clue to understanding tolerance to drugs of abuse
...us mimicking the CREB hyperactivity seen after the delivery of drugs of abuse or exposure to stress. The mice were then tested for their sensitivity to rewards, such as morphine or sucrose, as well as for their sensitivity to anxiety-causing negative situations or painful stimuli. "In the paper we show th...Equation rivals ultrasound in calculating birth weight
...al size early enough to intervene in the timing of delivery successfully," he said. However, the equation does have its limitations, said the researchers. It depends on an accurate gestational age, which must be calculated using an accurate last menstrual period cycle date or an early datingsonogram. Also, th...New test predicts pregnancy problems long before they happen
...gnificant compared to the cost of just one preterm delivery caused by preeclampsia," he says. "Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring should be performed at least once in the first half of pregnancy, and repeated in those women with a positive THT. Women at high risk for preeclampsia because of family or medi...University of Pittsburgh researchers develop a urinary catheter to monitor oxygen delivery to organs
...ge. Current monitoring techniques to assess oxygen delivery in trauma patients are often invasive and not alwa...uring hemorrhage, changes in blood flow and oxygen delivery to the urethra were correlated. These findings suggest that such information about the clinical stat...Initial Avon/NCI breast cancer research grants awarded in 'Progress for Patients' awards program
...ll help NCI to close the gap between discovery and delivery in breast cancer research," von Eschenbach said. In addition to the Progress for Patients funding, the Avon Foundation maintains a comprehensive philanthropic program that supports junior investigators and areas of great promise in research that are ...'Virtual stomach' reveals pill's path
...ed by the virtual stomach to aid in the design and delivery of new extended-release tablet formulations, to shed light on diseases involving stomach motility and to help explain basic gastric function. Dr. Anupam Pal will present the team's results at the meeting of the European Society of Neurogastroenterol...Most definitive study of its kind shows that sleeping on the stomach increases infant SIDS risk
...said that a doctor or nurse had advised them after delivery about infant sleeping position. The most common recommendation was that infants be placed to sleep on their sides, consistent with recommendations at that time. The next most common recommendation was that infants be placed to sleep on their stomac...UW awarded $1 million grant from The Paul G. Allen Foundation for Medical Research
...l research which promotes and improves health care delivery to individuals in the Pacific Northwest," said Jody Patton, executive director of the six Paul Allen Foundations. "The University of Washington and Dr. Berger have demonstrated encouraging progress in their previous research, which will not only have...Researchers track elusive brain tumor cells in mice with neural stem cells modified to deliver IL-12
...erapy to include their use as vehicles for protein delivery to in vivo glioma, and therefore represents a promising new treatment modality for malignant brain tumors."...Prototype developed for ultrasonic patch to deliver insulin
...ve developed a prototype for an ultrasound insulin delivery system that is about the size and weight of a matc...nge as the large commercially available sonic drug delivery devices, is about an inch-and-a-half by an inch-and-a-half in size and weighs less than an ounce. ......ly receive the drug, Alberts says. Intra-arterial delivery of tPA has some theoretical advantages, he says. The drug can be delivered directly to the clot, whereas intravenous administration requires the drug to pass through the heart before entering the arterial circulation. A higher dose could be carried...