Temperature and humidity can affect LASIK surgery results
...mperature, and curvature of the cornea, the clear, front part of the eye that provides most of the focusing power. LASIK, which stands for Laser-Assisted In Situ Keratomileusis, is a procedure that permanently changes the shape of the cornea using an ultraviolet laser. "The goal of LASIK should be for a ...Physicians, patients must work together on new electronic relationships
...ll likely involve patient and physician sitting in front of cameras mounted atop computer terminals, the doctor examining a rash or monitoring a symptom diary while the two converse verbally or electronically, two Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) primary care physicians write in the New England...Merging hearing technologies sounds good to researcher
...microphones, which are more sensitive to sounds in front of the hearing aid user. The third sets of recordings combined directional microphones with noise-reduction algorithms. The noise-reduction algorithms are intended to reduce noise interference. Participants were asked to repeat the processed words an...Europe's legacy to its children - A healthier environment?
...ers together, it is now time for doctors to take a front seat in a new specialty of environmental paediatric health. In the USA, Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units were established in 1998. In 2002, the Ambulatory Pediatric Association launched the first fellowship programme in paediatric envir...Wavefront LASIK demonstrated superior to conventional LASIK
...e extra cost. LASIK uses a laser to reshape the front part of a patient's eye to correct visual errors such as nearsightedness or farsightedness. Conventional LASIK guides the laser by using treatment formulas based on much of the same information gathered when a patient has examinations for eyeglasses...Parents overestimate children's bike, car safety habits
...re twice as likely to have children who sit in the front seat unbelted. "The time-tested mantra that 'actions speak louder than words' clearly held true in our study. This suggests the need for injury prevention programs to stress the importance of parental role models," Ehrlich says. Some children said th...Older patients with chronic kidney disease are costly as they transition to dialysis
... are needed to determine whether spending money up front on preventive therapies and health maintenance in patients with chronic kidney disease will reduce future health care costs. Many patients with chronic kidney disease have other conditions, including diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular diseas...American Journal of Nursing partners with GSA to improve care of older adults
...est gerontological research to those nurses on the front lines." The Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing in the Division of Nursing, New York University, is an additional partner in this project. "We know that older adults constitute almost half of all days of care in hospitals; 80% of people receivi......64 electroencephalogram (EEG) leads as they sat in front of a computer. Either a Greeble or a YUFO another computer-generated creature they'd never seen before flashed in the center of the screen. A fraction of a second later, a human face appeared to the right or left. Subjects pressed a key correspondi...Endoscopic approach best for repairing bone defect between brain, nasal cavity
... The alternative is opening the skull, moving the front portion of the brain out of the way destroying smell nerves in the process and approaching the defect from the top, an approach that may be necessary if the defect is too big to treat endoscopically, Dr. Kountakis says. However, Dr. Kountakis s...Doctors and patients call on politicians to save lives of cancer patients
...their illness and that funding gets through to the front line of cancer care." To illustrate further how politicians, working in unison with medical professionals and patients can revolutionise a system, Prof. Smyth used the example of the networks of cancer care, introduced in Scotland over the last 5 yea......e long term, stopping MRSA being brought in at the front door, so reducing lengthy hospital stays, expensive drug treatment, and potential litigation, will be more cost effective, he concludes. The spread of MRSA has been wholly apportioned to poor handwashing techniques by doctors and nurses. Although han...Several new techniques show promise for spinal cord repair
...ug administration, scientists found improvement in front paw control and movement and in nerve regeneration. Less of the scar formed in the Rolipram-treated animals as well. In a control group of five rats, researchers placed only embryonic cells in the spinal cord injury site, without Rolipram, but no ne...Researchers develop neural prosthesis allowing a monkey to feed self using only its brain
...he task, food was placed at different locations in front of the monkey, and the animal, with its own arms restrained, used the robotic arm to bring the food to its mouth. "The next step with this device is to add realistic hand and finger movement," said Meel Velliste, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in the S...UIC receives $8.1m for public health research, training
...atory research. "We work with the community on the front lines to improve the health of Chicagoans and beyond," said Susan Curry, director of the Institute for Health Research and Policy and principal investigator of the project. The center is part of the Institute for Health Research and Policy at UIC an...CT with multiplanar reconstruction gives new perspective on complex ankle fractures
...ded. All 51 cases showed bone separation along the front part of the growth plate of the tibia. There were 33 "classic" two-fragment fractures as seen in medical textbooks, but the "classic" three fragment fracture (which involves a separation at Kump's bump) "was not seen in this series," said Dr. Brown,...Mentally ill offender treatment and crime reduction act becomes law
...tical resources where they are needed most, on the front lines," says Russ Newman, Ph.D., J.D., APAs executive director for professional practice. "It will improve collaboration among the criminal justice, juvenile justice, mental health and substance abuse treatment systems. It will ensure that both adu...New magnetic percutaneous system navigates vessels
...eft anterior descending artery (which supplies the front wall of the heart) and 20 percent were in the right coronary artery. Saphenous vein grafts represented 10 percent. The target lesion was successfully crossed using MAI in 28 of 31 lesions, a 90 percent success rate, Atmakuri said.Two lesions were ...Study of Big Ten football injuries shows NCAA rule change did not reduce injury rates
... and prove that they are better than the person in front of them on the roster. So it is a relatively competitive time among players," Albright said. "During the fall playing season the practices are very careful to ensure that people do not get injured between games. In the spring, it is much harder to co......were more likely to have suffered an attack on the front wall of the heart (61.9 percent vs. 41.5 percent). Additionally, the researchers found that tamponade patients waited longer 3.5 hours vs. 2.8 hours before the initiation of fibrinolytic therapy. "Knowing which patients are more at risk for cardiac...