Columbia study finds hemophilia therapy dramatically improves outcomes for bleeding stroke
...st was TPA, approved by the FDA in 1996. "Current medical and surgical options for ICH are not effective. Th...ship in basic, pre-clinical and clinical research, medical education, and health care. The medical center trains future leaders in health care and includes the...Cartilage repair techniques shown to restore patient mobility and reduce pain
...005 Two separate new studies presented at a major medical meeting provide objective scientific evidence that...ocedures. It comprises a multidisciplinary team of medical professionals who have focused on the problems of detecting and treating cartilage injury, as well a...Contaminated needles not contributing to spread of HIV in Africa
...bwe. Recently, some scientists have suggested that medical injections with contaminated needles were an impor...searchers, says: "Some have speculated that unsafe medical injections are driving the continuing spread of HIV in many sub-Saharan African countries, but with ...Treatment guidelines for kids with bipolar disorder published
... in children and adults, case reports published in medical journals, and consensus by a group of experts as t... with bipolar disorder," said Daniel Nelson, M.D., medical director of the Child Psychiatric Unit at Cincinnati Children's. "By far, a majority of the childre...World's biggest study of multi-million pound health problem launched
An embarrassing medical problem that costs UK health services 50m each year is to be investigated in the biggest-ever study of the condition in the world. Until now, constipation has largely been overlooked for major health studies but the new 650,000 project, which is fun...New device will help stroke victims' recovery
... of the attack throughout their recovery, enabling medical staff to determine the correct treatment at each s...ring involved, their treatment demands significant medical resources. Recovery from a stroke is often lengthy and involves frequent hospital visits. Victims ma...Insurance incentives might help smokers quit, study says
...tion, an international organization that evaluates medical research. Systematic reviews draw evidence-based conclusions about medical practice after considering both the content and quality of existing medical trials on a topic. Previ...UIC offers new weight loss surgery for obese teens
...on available in the United States. UIC is the only medical center in the United States currently involved in ...ear study to look at weight loss and the long-term medical effects of weight loss after the LAP-BAND procedure. In addition to surgery, patients will receive n...Exercise therapy builds strength, mobility in MS patients
...tion, an international organization that evaluates medical research. Systematic reviews draw evidence-based conclusions about medical practice after considering both the content and quality of existing medical trials on a topic. Mult...Physician roles at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo
...ghts." This public forum will explore the role of medical military personnel in alleged torture and other vi...e problem of dual loyalty and its implications for medical professionalism and human rights. WHEN: Tuesday, March 1, 2005 4:00-6:00pm Reception to fo...NYU Child Study Center receives grant from the American Red Cross September 11 recovery program
...and children of firefighters, policemen, emergency medical service and port authority personnel whose lives were lost as a result of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. This project was supported by a September 11 recovery grant from the American Red Cross Liberty Disaster Relief Fund. The program ...Latest findings on genetic blood disorder 'Cooley's Anemia'
...equires regular transfusions and extensive ongoing medical care for problems such as osteoporosis, heart failure, growth hormone deficiency and pulmonary hypertension. The extensive, lifelong blood transfusions required by Cooley's anemia patients may also lead to iron overload that can cause early death fr...The courage to change the rules: A Proposal for an essential health R&D treaty
...are developing at a more rapid pace than ever, the medical needs of many of the world's population go unmet. Only 1% of new drugs approved between 1975 and 1999 were specifically developed for tropical diseases and tuberculosis - diseases that account for over 10% of the global disease burden. What we need,...Antimicrobials to prevent infection in major surgery are used properly only about half the time
...ate, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. The medical records were examined to determine if the use of antimicrobials met three parameters of published guidelines for their use to prevent SSIs: whether they were given within one hour before the surgical incision; the selection of safe and effective anti...Assessing obstructive sleep apnea syndrome in snorers
...ny and colleagues assessed the predictive power of medical history and routine physical examination as perfor...oring using a routine examination, consisting of a medical history and an assessment of the anatomy of four points in their nose and throat, on a scale of zero...Use of cell phone images appears feasible for visualizing leg wounds
...cial theme issues in the JAMA/Archives journals on medical applications of biotechnology. Telemedicine, defin...and treatment as well as education and transfer of medical data, according to background information in the article. Because leg ulcers and chronic wounds repr...Computer model being developed at Stanford may help surgeons better predict patient outcomes
...ling programs that can help foresee the results of medical interventions. On Feb. 21 at the annual meeting for the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, D.C., Taylor will present his latest accomplishment: factoring in the flexibility of veins and arteries to his model of the car...Regular cannabis may increase risk of stroke in young users
... ratio taken into account before authorising their medical use," writes Dr Dominique Deplanque, of the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Lille....Brain-scanning technologies need standards, according to Stanford researcher
... adds valuable information and may alter a woman's medical care for the rest of her pregnancy. "If that's tru...o the study, does he or she know it might not be a medical professional who looks at the brain images?" Illes said. Another issue that research subjects may no......f diabetes, lack of information on an individuals' medical treatment, no information on menopause status or on whether subjects had Type 1 diabetes, due to the body's inability to produce insulin, or Type 2 diabetes, initially caused by the inability to use the insulin produced. Data from randomized trials ...