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...ccounted for nearly 56,000 procedures, continue to drive the growth in body contouring. In 2004, more than 98,000 breast lifts, 5,900 buttock lifts, 15,000 lower body lifts, 13,000 thigh lifts and 17,000 upper arm lifts were performed, according to ASAPS....Massive weight loss patients create mass appeal for body contouring procedures
...ccounted for nearly 56,000 procedures, continue to drive the growth in body contouring; however, more patients are choosing these procedures as awareness grows and as plastic surgeons apply improved surgical techniques. Body contouring procedures include breast (76,000), buttock (3,500), lower body (9,000...UCLA Medical Center becomes first hospital to introduce remote presence robots in ICU
...ped with a joystick, which allows the physician to drive the robot to the patient's bedside, control movements of the robot's head and even zoom in to take a closer look at the patient or bedside monitors. "The RP-6 robot will increase doctor access for patients, their families and hospital staff, and UCLA...Sex selection popular among infertile women
...gdom. "One of the fears is that sex selection will drive patients toward a certain sex," said Jain. "And the presumption is a preference for boys. But our study did not show that. In fact, in patients who did not have children there was no greater desire for boys over girls." The researchers also determine...Women less likely to get quality heart attack care
...y, and many more across the nation are joining the drive to improve the quality of health care. In addition to Jani and Eagle, the study's authors are: Michigan GAP co-director and project coordinator Cecelia K. Montoye, MSN; Benrong Chen, Ph.D.; Canopy Roychoudhury, Ph.D.; Anthony D. DeFranco, M.D., and ...Northwestern Memorial physicians encourage screenings during colon cancer awareness month
...bout colon cancer in an interactive way and really drive home the message that the only way to prevent or treat colon cancer is to get screened," says Jeffrey Wayne, MD, a surgical oncologist at Northwestern Memorial and assistant professor at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. The Su...UCSD-Utah team develops mouse model to test therapies for macular degeneration
...n in the eye, and it controls the ability to read, drive a car, recognize faces or colors, and see objects in fine detail. The UCSD-Utah scientists said that the AMD and STGD forms of macular degeneration are characterized by high levels of debris called lipofuscin that accumulates in the retinal pigment ......earchers admire Nelson Mandela for his honesty and drive in identifying what needs to be done to curb the epidemic, in particular the care he has shown for those affected by the disease. This has not only helped to lift the stigma surrounding HIV and AIDS, it has also raised awareness about the action that...How often should women get mammograms?
...umatic to women and lead to unneeded biopsies that drive up health costs. Lee and Zelen, along with Hui Huang, MS, of Dana-Farber, described the model in 2004 in Statistical Methods in Medical Research. Among their conclusions: Annual screening from age 50 to 79 of women with average breast cancer risk ...Americans support most uses of reproductive genetic testing, report on US attitudes reveals
...at "unrestrained human selfishness and vanity will drive people to use reproductive genetic testing inappropriately," such as to select for non-medical but socially desirable characteristics. Many focus group participants mentioned that use of reproductive genetic technologies represents a "slippery slop...International gathering of experts to share retinoblastoma breakthroughs
...curred in understanding the molecular signals that drive cells to become cancerous. Also, the recent development of mouse models by Dyer's laboratory and several other laboratories allows St. Jude researchers to test potential new drugs that might be valuable additions to the limited number of agents avail...Mayo Clinic identifies key cellular process in prostate and other cancers
... the specific question: Do elevated levels of Skp2 drive down and disable FOXO1, thus resulting in loss of its tumor suppression ability? The answer is yes....Cell phone users drive like old folks
...ar: When young motorists talk on cell phones, they drive like elderly people, moving and reacting more slow...ittently hit its brakes 32 times as it appeared to drive in front of study participants. If a participant failed to hit their own brakes, they eventually wou...Background 'DWI' checks effective
... several possible reasons why people who drink and drive have poorer flight safety records," adds Baker. "Drinking behaviors can be transmissible across activities as DWI is an indicator of chronic drinking problems, which can impair cognitive brain function and safety performance when flying. Pilots wit...Reviparin effective in reducing risk of death after heart attack
...k (a slowing in the flow of electrical pulses that drive the heart beat). The patients presented within 12 hours of symptom onset at 341 hospitals in India and China from July 2001 through July 2004. Patients received reviparin (n = 7,780) or placebo (n = 7,790) subcutaneously twice daily for seven days. T......ses reveal yet another effect. Magnetic variations drive electric currents in the mantle, the main region between the core and the crust. These in turn cause further magnetic changes, from which scientists can estimate the electrical conductivity of the mantle. This provides a check on the temperature of t...Molecule predicts colon cancer patient survival
...in determining what factors disrupt normal EMT and drive the development of tumor cells, examined the EMT process in colon carcinoma cells. They found that EMT involves activation of the protein integrin known as v6 and this protein enhances the tumor-generating properties of these cells. Furthermore, anal...JCI table of contents, January 20 2005
...in determining what factors disrupt normal EMT and drive the development of tumor cells, examined the EMT process in colon carcinoma cells. They found that EMT involves activation of the protein integrin known as [alpha]v[beta]6 and this protein enhances the tumor-generating properties of these cells. Furt...Brain region identified that controls collecting behavior
... structure in humans that modulates the collecting drive and that's what we think we have tapped into." The UI team studied 86 people with focal brain lesions - very specific areas of brain damage to see if damage to particular brain regions could account for abnormal collecting behavior. Other than the l...U of M research explores addiction as a computational process
...opharmacological mechanisms, thereby continuing to drive learning, forcing the brain to over-select choices which lead to getting drugs. This computational model of addiction connects a variety of disparate learning theories and will allow researches to test how addiction impacts learning systems. ...