Stroke patients receive better care when hospitals 'get with the guidelines'
...airplane that didn't have systems to help the crew make sure the plane is ready for take-off. Similarly, Get With The Guidelines provides a kind of check list to review while patients are being treated, and especially before they are discharged from the hospital," he said. GWTGStroke uses inter-hospital...Association publishes blueprint to strengthen stroke care from prevention through recovery
...brain and interpret the results. Telemedicine can make that happen. "Treating patients early with tPA re...itations of all hospitals in a state or region and make that information available to primary care providers, emergency services and the public. "This is a...Rat whisking may provide insight into debilitating eye disorder
...ion. Nguyen commented that positive feedback loops make engineers "squeamish" because, if uncontrolled, they can create a vicious cycle. For example, in a furnace controlled by positive feedback, rather than negative feedback, the warmer a room became the more the thermostat would signal the furnace to t...Third of European cancer patients use complementary and alternative therapies
More than a third of cancer patients in Europe make use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), according to one of the largest surveys undertaken of CAM in cancer. In the first Europe-wide study of CAM, a team of international researchers found that its use varied from a low of just under 15...Male surgeons report highest rate of mistakes in patient care
...." Male surgeons were significantly more likely to make mistakes than other doctors, although the authors point out that it may be easier to measure errors in surgery. And doctors don't always recognise "adverse events," so the figures in other disciplines may actually be higher, they say. A proportion of...Suffering from fatigue, abdominal discomfort or bloody diarrhea?
...ion about the activity of the patient's disease to make it necessary for patients to have to undergo the discomfort of an endoscopy." Several disease activity measurement scales have been developed some requiring endoscopy and some not to monitor the activity of ulcerative colitis, an inflammatory bowel...IDSA applauds Senate leadership for introduction of S. 3
...her provisions intended to eliminate barriers that make the infectious disease market unattractive to industry. The bill is aimed at preparing the nation for pandemic influenza and other emerging infectious threats. "It's a simple fact; infectious disease physicians are running out of the tools we despera...State policies decrease youth smoking, drinking and sex
...at state and local legislatures can help teenagers make decisions to avoid unhealthy behaviors by implementing laws to make cigarettes and beer more difficult to obtain and increase the number of family planning clinics. The...Cell phone users drive like old folks
...here's a difficulty dividing attention that should make using a cell phone much more difficult for them than for young people," Strayer said. Yet the study "suggests older adults do not suffer a significantly greater penalty for talking on a cell phone while driving than do their younger counterparts," St...Cardiac imaging is underused in women to diagnose disease
...o felt there is not enough gender-specific data to make a recommendation on cardiac MR imaging, but felt available data suggest some future role of this technology in diagnosing and assessing risk in women with heart disease symptoms and an intermediate risk of coronary artery disease....Women's heart risk underestimated by doctors, resulting in less preventive care than in men
...nder of the patients differed. They were asked to make recommendations regarding lifestyle management and drug therapy for blood pressure, cholesterol, aspirin and other forms of preventive care. Even when a woman's risk was the same as a man's, women were significantly more likely to be classified as...Clinicians report missing patient information is common
...nications are not standardized -- some offices may make personal telephone calls, others may correspond by letter or fax, and still others may use e-mail or have digital interfaces that allow real-time transmission of data. It is not surprising, therefore, that Smith et al found less missing clinical info...Testosterone supplements for elderly men
...ls can be included in the trial. Participants will make five visits to the Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility on Grafton Street at Manchester Royal Infirmary over the 12 month period, with their transportation arranged and/or paid for. They will receive either testosterone or a dummy placebo in t...New non-hormonal hot flash treatment set for clinical trial
...th. Amino acids are the molecules that combine to make proteins, the body's building blocks. Many amino acids are acquired through the diet. The UB researchers theorize that doses higher than can be achieved in a normal diet of certain amino acids will reduce hot flash activity. Amino acid therapy appe...15 minutes training enough to save lives with an automated external defibrillator
Just fifteen minutes of training could make it possible for anyone to use a defibrillator to stop sudden cardiac arrest. A study published today in the journal Critical Care shows that a brief training session is all that is needed for safe and efficient use of an automated external defibrilla...Views from space help oil prospectors see deep underground
It takes seismic force to make the ground give up its secrets. Through the years,...adds. "This is vital, because our customers do not make money for the amount of hydrocarbons theoretically in the ground, but what they actually recover." ...Monkey 'pay-per-view' study could aid understanding of autism
... of social judgments that monkeys were observed to make in the wild. "Decades of studies of monkeys in the wild have indicated that they act as if they make judgments about dominance rankings and of the importance of other individuals for their own reproduc...Hands-on or hands-free, using a cell phone while driving is not safe, researchers find
...nswering, change the way drivers see the world and make them more likely to miss traffic signs and other i... speaking an address into a navigation system, can make the task easier, but it can still disrupt driving, particularly the driver's ability to control the ...Mayo Clinic discovers a key to 'low metabolism' and major factor in obesity
...overfed the lean people by 1,000 calories a day to make them gain weight, and underfed the obese people by 1,000 calories a day to replicate an intense diet. Researchers then monitored their movements every half second for 10 days and compared the results. Even after losing weight, the naturally obese gr...Researchers discover genetic variant that may explain why women develop M.S. more than men
... gamma could intensify the MS damage processes and make the disease worse. Combining these three lines of evidence -- 1) women get MS more often, 2) women have higher levels of interferon gamma and 3) high levels of interferon gamma worsen MS -- suggested to the Mayo Clinic research group that interferon...