Hospital Stays Longer Than Three Days For 'Simple' Heart Attacks May Not Be Cost Effective
... Despite the study's conclusions, Newby said she doubts many hospitalswill quickly adopt such a short stay, since it means re-engineering hospitalprocesses of care. And she warned that quality of care in such a short stay would only bemaintained if all vital procedures, such as diagnostic cathet...MIT Touch Lab Research Explores The Hand
...ces that could be common for handevaluations." (He doubts that in the near future a single device could doeverything because the hand is too complex.) Such machines might, for example,"measure how quickly functionality is returning to a hand transplant," and ifproblems arise they "could give doctors hints a...Semiconductor Plants May Be A Danger To The Health Of Employees
...industries. The most recent study to raise doubts about the safety of semiconductorworkers is one of the most dramatic. In Canada, doctors at the Hospital for SickChildren in Toronto reported in March this year that 13 out of 125 pregnantwomen exposed to workplace solvents gave birth to children wit...Ordinary Touches Multiply Into Severe Pain For Fibromyalgia Patients
...edged sword: excruciating pain, accompanied by the doubts of manywho dismiss it as a made-up illness invented by a troubled mind. But researchers at the University of Florida and elsewhere are beginning topiece together clues that reveal the physical basis of the puzzling syndromethat causes severe fatigue ...Magnet therapy: what's the attraction?
..., a University of Maryland physics professor casts doubts on magnet therapy--with some simple experiments you can try at home. Reporting that the Baylor results have not been duplicated or confirmed by researchers elsewhere, University of Maryland physics professor Robert Park has also found no plausible e...Vegans likely short on calcium, experts say
...rsity's Department of Foods and Nutrition,says she doubts that many people could follow such a strictly limited diet. "Alot of vegetarians include milk in their diets, so getting enough calcium isn'ta problem," she says. "But if they give up dairy products, and don't eatcalcium-fortified foods, I don't know...Study shows obsessive-compulsive disorder runs in families
...ald Nestadt, M.D., who led the research team, "But doubts have remainedabout the hereditary nature." "There is surely some environmental aspect to OCD," says Nestadt. "If yourmother is constantly washing her hands and worrying over it, that couldhave an effect. But what's obvious to investigators is...New research reveals jury bias against whiplash lawsuits
...d national survey, participants voiced substantial doubts about the legitimacy of lawsuits and the credibility of plaintiff claims in connective tissue cases." Typical responses include: "people try to milk it [the court system] just because they've got a little neck injury," "that kind of lawsuit is why ...Findings of Griffiths review into allegations of research misconduct fundamentally flawed
...their swingeing critique the authors raise serious doubts about the reliability of the report, the review, and the appropriateness of the ensuing recommendations. The authors defend the trial's design, which, they claim, the panel had failed to understand. They refute the allegation that no external peer re......ts. But he believes that it does raise significant doubts about the assumed effects of diphenhydramine on children. It also highlights the physiological differences between children and adults, and the need to study the effects of drugs in children before approving them for pediatric use....World's first study on surrogacy reveals high quality parenting and no problems
...d only one instance of the surrogate having slight doubts at this time, with all other mothers reporting no problems. "Since the birth of the child, the majority of the families had kept in touch with the surrogate to some extent and 70% saw her at least once every couple of months. Ninety per cent of comm...Eficiency, feasibility of antiretroviral therapy in Africa demonstrated in IRD-coordinated surveys
...ed in Senegal. The experiment is the first to lift doubts surrounding the effectiveness and tolerance of antiretroviral therapies in Africa. It uses now-standard tritherapy regimes. Dr Ibrahima Ndoye of the Senegal National Committee for Aids Control (Comit national de lutte contre le sida du Sngal ) and Pr...Clear outlook: Study finds no link between weather and stroke
...e of stroke or weather parameter. The authors had doubts about earlier observational reports linking stroke and weather change because research findings across studies have been inconsistent. Previous studies indicated that strokes are more prevalent in cooler months, but no type of stroke has been consis...The Lancet Neurology press release
...s dramatically increased over the last decade, but doubts remain over its safety. Potential health effects of mobile phones range from headache, sleep disturbance, and increased blood pressure, to cancer of the brain-the area of the body most exposed to low levels of radio frequency radiation emitted by han...'Drink at least 8 glasses of water a day' -- Really?
...th writers, nutritionists, even physicians. Valtin doubts its validity. Indeed, he finds it, "difficult to believe that evolution left us with a chronic water deficit that needs to be compensated by forcing a high fluid intake." The 8 x 8 rule is slavishly followed. Everywhere, people carry bottles of water...The lancet specialty journals press releases
...rtant drugs for treatment of this disease; however doubts remain over the dose, timing, duration, and scheduling of these agents to obtain optimum benefit. The second review deals with the use of chemotherapy to treat recurrent ovarian cancer. The paper discusses a wide range of treatment options and the pr...New approach for studying traumatic injury
...ng of how the body responds to critical injury, he doubts the situation will change. "We may actually be making things worse by trying to intervene during the body's natural, adaptive response," he explains. The group of 19 medical centers will compile an extensive database including demographic, genomic an...Pharmaceutical industry still failing health needs of less-developed countries
...evelopment costs of innovative products, there are doubts about the figures that form the basis of these claims. David Henry comments: "The international pharmaceutical industry manufactures and distributes many good drugs, displays generosity in its philanthropic activities, and has an important role in m...False memories, failing recall are not an inevitable consequence of aging, research suggests
...argets, susceptibility to false memories can raise doubts about their ability to provide eyewitness testimony. Several theories exist for why false memories increase with age. One suggests that older adults fail to properly encode information as an event is experienced or have problems retrieving and sortin...