Robotic technology to help Ohio State University heart surgeons
...isstill the one who is doing the procedure and the one who isin control," explained Randall Wolf, a cardiac surgeon from Christ Hospital in Cincinnati. Wolf, who has trained in Europe using this ...Study suggests need for better pain management in newborns
...take. We're beginning to understand thatwhat we're doing has long-term effects." As part of their required clinical care in a hospital nursery, infants,whether healthy or sick, can be exposed to procedures that adults considerpainful. In one of Porter's previous studies, physicians and nurses repo...Federal agencies report on nation's children
...ment America's children are, on average, doing better in several respectsthan they have in recent years, according to the third annual Federal report,America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being. The report, issued by the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and FamilyStatistic......ic acid before conception, the proportion of women doing so is not much more than 30 per cent. They say that because so many pregnancies are unplanned this is hardly surprising and therefore a better means of ensuring women receive their recommended daily dose of folic acid is to implement a policy of for......management of emergency admissions and the cost of doing so is an essential element of running an acute hospital service. Bagust et al simulated emergency admissions in a hypothetical hospital in England using computer modelling. They found, not unexpectedly, that there was a rapid increase in the risk of......d. "The important thing is not for people to stop doing the things they enjoy, butto understand the risks, however great or slight, and to take appropriatepreventive measures when possible," he said. "It's also important that theyrecognize common signs of infection so they seek treatment immediately if th...Scientists can now see sense of smell
...lso, that technique required killing the animaland doing detailed analyses that took weeks." Rubin's and Katz's experiments already have settled a critical questionabout the nature of olfactory processing in the brain. "There has been considerable debate in the field about whether closelyre...Double-edged effect of inflammatory response discovered after brain injury
...inue to block or antagonize its effects, you maybe doing some damage because it appears that in the chronic stages, TNF isimportant for recovery." Using genetically engineered mice deficient in TNF, the team found that 48hours after injury the TNF-knockout mice were less neurologically impaired thaninju...Walking markedly improves mental abilities of those over 60
...cognitiveimpact of walking (an aerobic workout) or doing toning exercises (anaerobicactivity) on 124 adults...cipants in both exercise groups showed improvement doing a repetitive task(pushing a button) when given a visual cue. However, the walkers were betterable t...Many Virginians would increase taxes for K-12 education, study finds
...ourths ofVirginians agree that Governor Gilmore is doing a good job for Virginia, and 65percent agree that President Clinton is doing a good job, while 20 percentstrongly disagree. The approval rating of the President is the same as 1...13 lifelines successfully used in unique umbilical cord blood transplant into ailing adult
...ren. The patient, 45 year-old Michael Giordano, is doing very well, having left thehospital and returned home, in late June, just four weeks after the monumentaltwo-day transplant. Mr. Giordano expressed his gratitude to the thirteen setsof parents, who donated their child's cord blood, CorCell, his physi...Renowned researcher in prenatal diagnostics joins Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
...ise." Now approaching hissecond birthday, Eagan is doing fine. The BUN study did not exist at the time of Kate's pregnancy with Eagan. Thistime, though, she underwent first-trimester nuchal translucency and maternalblood screening. Based on those results, no additional early testing was needed.A routine am...Health plays a crucial role in California labor market, according to UCSF researchers
...that working long hours, having more than one job, doing physically demanding work, having a short tenure on the job or being in a temporary position, results in a worsening of health or the onset of disability over a one-year period. The 1999 survey, administered to 2,044 Californians (18 years of age and...Cedars-Sinai Comprehensive Cancer Center adds new dimension in radiation treatment
...m and the optic nerve. "This is a fantastic way of doing things versus having them open up your brainand go inside and cut the tumors out," said Evans. While other stereotactic radiosurgery devices use gamma rays, Radionics' systememploys X-ray radiation and is highly adaptable and effective in treating av...Analysis suggests women treated for breast cancer do better with axillary node dissection
...right now to make the leap and saythat we can omit doing dissections." The next step in the dissection debate is to study sentinel node biopsies,Scott-Conner said. This investigation is under way and should be completed in acouple of years. The sentinel node is the lymph node to which the tumor wouldspread...Follow-up phone calls by nurses benefit cancer patients
... ask questions about anything thathad changed. "By doing that we identified symptoms of spinal cord compression inone man, pneumonitis in a woman, urinary stricture in another man." Mishel also points out that adherence to management methods is improved."For example, the doctor may teach prostate c...Even in an era of HAART Drugs, HIV patients are vulnerable to opportunistic infections
...rugs. Patients who are responding to HAART may be doing wellenough that they don't need prophylaxis, she said. "The risks versus benefits must be carefully evaluated. We want to protectpatients from MAC, but we also want to prevent them from developing resistanceto antibiotics," said Aberg, who is a UCSF...UNC studying new drug against ovarian and endometrial cancers
...ll receptor sites in uterineand ovarian tissue. In doing so, this "designer estrogen" would block estrogenuptake of ovarian and endometrial tumors, thus inhibiting their growth. At the same time, the drug may offer additional benefits.Anti-estrogenic effects in the uterus and ovaries have been show...New nasal obstruction procedure offers cheaper, pain-free alternative to surgery
...fore was the operatingroom. "Some are even doing the procedure on people whose septums aren't great.It's worth a try - it may save a trip to the operating room and there's no nosepacking and no hospital stay. If necessary, the patient can have a septoplastyafterwards." Yarbrough, whose 1998...It's high time we registered all clinical trials say editors of Lancet and BMJ
...ow can this be, ask the authors, when all they are doing is releasing administrative information and not actual data? Horton and Smith conclude that the pressure to register trials will only come when research ethics committees, medical research charities and drug and device manufacturers start to encourag...