Rush receives Magnet Award for excellence in nursing
...l serve as a strong indicator that they can expect excellent care at Rush from our nurses," said Jane Llewellyn, DNSc, RN, associate vice president of nursing at Rush. She pointed out that many hospitals can make claims about delivering superior care but Magnet status provides Rush with credible third-party v...Preliminary US study findings support excellent results with CYPHER Sirolimus-eluting Stent
... Course on Revascularization (PCR) documenting the excellent results of the CYPHER Sirolimus-eluting Stent in t... encounter in everyday practice, and we are seeing excellent results. Obtaining data on a widely variable patient population, such as this, is critical to estab...American kids poor food choices: Fewer than 15 percent eat recommended fruits and vegetables
...n the future. Snack Stats Snack time presents an excellent opportunity to substitute fruits and vegetables for less healthy options, Block notes. Eighty-three percent of kids reported eating one or more snacks on the day they were surveyed, and those snacks made up approximately 20 percent of their daily cal...Emory University will conduct clinical trial of anthrax vaccine regimen
...ation for each visit. "The anthrax vaccine has an excellent safety record," says Dr. Keyserling. "We hope this new study will simplify the existing dosing and shot regimen for the vaccine and provide more data to convince an anxious public that the vaccine is safe."...Smaller aneurysms best left alone
...s. If smaller AAA surgery isnt advisable with our excellent surgery-survival rates, its hard to imagine it being justifiable anywhere else."The VA Cooperative Studies Program (CSP) funded this study. VA research will continue to investigate new ways of lessening risk among patients who need AAA surgery by st...Institute will study how worker health affects productivity and profit
... says, "Our collaboration with Cornell provides an excellent opportunity to expand our collective research efforts in the area of health and productivity management. This will, in turn, better inform decision makers throughout the healthcare industry." "As such, the institute will bring together the best of b...UCSF, UC Davis establish joint pediatric heart center
...ts in Northern California and beyond, it offers an excellent opportunity to learn all they can about these defects. UC Davis Childrens Hospital and UCSF Childrens Hospital offer a comprehensive range of services for children who are healthy, injured or seriously ill, with family-centered care that takes the n...Kaleidescope eyes: the secrets of a novel gift
...a layer of information may be behind synaesthetes' excellent rote memory. "They have color as an extra bit of information to help them remember things like names and strings of numbers," says Rich. The literature is also replete with assertions that synaesthetes tend to be creative, artistic and highly emotion...Beth Israel Deaconess study documents outstanding surgical outcomes for diabetes patients
...ate that there is no reason to expect anything but excellent results for a number of major vascular procedures in patients with diabetes....Doctors investigating one stop shop radiotherapy at time of surgery
...g or bone metastases. Again, cosmetic results were excellent and there were no side effects. The University College study known as Targit (Targeted Intraoperative radioTherapy) delivers the radiation by wrapping the targeted breast tissue round a spherical applicator. There had been no major complications and...Chemotherapy trial proves the worth of including elderly patients in clinical trials
... treatments in this population. For instance, the excellent tolerance observed in both arms of our trial was surprising. Oncologists should be encouraged to enrol the elderly in clinical trials....Improving communications and support for doctors, patients and partners
...ncer Research Network has said that the booklet is excellent and that it is a flagship study. An evaluation of the process of the booklets development showed that the approach was inclusive (taking account of the opinions of patients and carers normally excluded), it enhanced patient understanding of research,...Eye drops to treat childhood eye disorder work as well as patching the eye
...ed the compliance rate in the patching group to be excellent in 49 percent of the patients, good in 34 percent,...ed the compliance rate in the atropine group to be excellent in 78 percent of the patients, good in 18 percent, fair in three percent, and poor in one percent. O......le who consider their overall health to be good or excellent rate their oral health as only fair to poor, a study of 560 adults in the Detroit metropolitan area showed. "Oral health and general health are actually quite closely related, but people separate them in their minds," says assistant research scientis...Aventis Pasteur statement on HVTN 501 decision
... than 2,000 people throughout the world and has an excellent safety profile. In addition, ALVAC-HIV continues to be investigated as a therapeutic option for HIV. There are currently 10 phase I/II trials underway in North America and Europe studying therapeutic vaccination with ALVAC-HIV as an adjunct to HAA...Adult stem cells from knee fat turned into cartilage, bone, fat cells
...its location and accessibility, may prove to be an excellent source of progenitor cells for tissue engineering or other cell-based therapies." In addition to controlling their biochemical environment, the researchers were able to grow different cell types from the adult stem cells by controlling their shape in...Mayo Clinic study finds radioactive drug samarium hopeful new treatment for osteosarcoma
... of the 30 patients enrolled experienced a good to excellent response to the samarium treatment. Two of the patients have been in complete remission for more than two years. (See attached profiles on patients Francisco Villagran of Dallas, Texas, and Casey Quinn of Minneapolis, Minn.) The Mayo Clinic study is ......tanding of the definition of insulin resistance is excellent (80% know it is the inability of the body to respond to its own insulin1), the number of patients that it affects is being greatly underestimated. Eighty-five percent of practice nurses1 (and 60% of GPs2) are unaware that at least 92% of people with ......gainst bioterrorism and is a direct outcome of the excellent cooperation between Roche and Mayo Clinic," says Martin Madaus, President and CEO of Roche Diagnostics Corporation. "Mayo researchers have several years of experience in developing these types of assays. The speed and broad distribution of the LightC...Submicrometer-scale metallic barcodes described by Penn State and Surromed
... or measure one or even 100 species at a time. An excellent example is the gene chip, where it is possible to measure 10,000 different genes in parallel at a series of tiny spots on the chip surface. There has been a tremendous need for analogous technologies that operate in solution, and accordingly there h...