Northwestern Memorial Hospital honored with one of the nation's top awards for quality
...ure patient centered practices, innovative use of new and emerging technologies, and continuous efforts to maintain financial strength." said Catherine E. McDermott, NCQHC's president and CEO. "We see quality as extending beyond outcomes to include such things as how somebody answers the phone to how...Computerized order entry systems can increase risk of medication errors
A new study suggests that computerized order entry syste...improvement, recognizing that all changes generate new error risks," the researchers write. "As CPOE systems are implemented, clinicians and hospitals mus...Women less likely to get quality heart attack care
...ppear to be working better for men than for women, new research shows. That finding, presented at the An...e State University Medical School in Detroit. The new analysis showing differences in the delivery of care to women and men, even after the quality improv...News tips from the 2005, 54th Annual Scientific Sessions of the American College of Cardiology
...their bodies. The Hopkins team has also developed new guidelines for their use, making MRI scans more av...se confines of the MRI scanner. The researchers' new guidelines caution that only modern devices, predominantly models from the last seven years, are saf...Two years after gene therapy treatments, severe angina patients showed prolonged clinical benefit
...he GENASIS trial, VEGF-2 treatment may result in a new class of therapeutics for the treatment of refract...ded VEGF-2, which in turn stimulates the growth of new blood vessels by promoting the migration and proliferation of endothelial cells in the heart. Coron...... can just wrap people and organizations around the new technology, rather than make the technology responsive to the way clinicians and hospitals actually work," adds Koppel, who also teaches in Penn's Sociology Department. Recommendations As CPOE systems continue to be implemented and enhanced, Koppel...Blood pressure treatment could cut risk of strokes and heart attacks
A new treatment strategy for hypertension can cut the ri...rst look' at the data also found that those on the new treatment strategy had a one third less chance of developing diabetes compared with the older strate...New system for the analysis of facial movement in three dimensions
...ively frequent pathology (each year there are nine new cases per 100,000 inhabitants), its origin being d... facial musculature does not exist. In these cases new techniques are applied. These involve the implanting into the face of a muscle from another part of ...Mouse gene shows new mechanism behind cardiac infarction in man
Mouse gene shows new mechanism behind cardiac infarction in man A gene ... of a number of chronic inflammatory diseases. The new finding will spur further research into the relationship between the protein and cardiac infarction....Emotional memory study reveals evidence for a self-reinforcing loop
...combination of images they had previously seen and new images -- pleasant, unpleasant and neutral -- while their brains were being scanned. They asked the subjects to indicate whether they had seen the images before and whether the memory also brought back associated details. Such details indicated the i...Student identifies electrical changes preceding heart failure
...s Hopkins undergraduate student has contributed to new research showing that electrical changes in the he... the early electrical changes, we hope to identify new targets for therapy that can either reverse or, at the very least, hinder the progression of the vic...Northwestern Memorial physicians encourage screenings during colon cancer awareness month
... Illinois alone, it is estimated that nearly 7,000 new cases of colorectal cancer will be diagnosed and more than 2,500 will die. Colon cancer screenings lag far behind screenings for other cancers such as breast, cervical and prostate. Colorectal cancer remains the second-leading cause of cancer death...Computational tool predicts how drugs work in cells, advancing efforts to design better medicines
...ol to predict the molecular targets of a potential new anticancer compound, PTSB, shown in CMLD studies t...so pave the way to investigations of a potentially new class of therapeutic compounds....Combining PET and CT scans leads to more accurate radiation therapy for lung cancer patients
...issue in some lung cancer patients, according to a new study published in the March 1, 2005, issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, the official journal of ASTRO, the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology. The study, conducted on 21 patients with non-s...Even mild depression increases long-term mortality in heart failure
... Americans suffer from the condition, with 400,000 new cases reported each year, and according to the researchers, it is the only cardiovascular disease that is rising in incidence. The condition often leaves patients exhausted and breathless, severely restricting the normal activities of everyday life....Gender gap for lung cancer rates narrowing
...ecline, while the rate in women remains steady. A new study in the March issue of CHEST, the peer-reviewed journal of the American College of Chest Physicians, shows that, in addition to the unequal incidence of lung cancer in men and women, there are other gender-linked differences, including subtype o...News briefs from the journal CHEST, March 2005
...with life-threatening asthma (LTA), according to a new study. Researchers at Erasmus MC-Sophia Children'...nst possible adverse pulmonary effects, suggests a new study. Researchers from Groningen, the Netherlands, gave 15 patients with mild-to-moderate COPD and ...Severe injuries on the rise among children and adolescents riding motorbikes
...ng to a greater number of injuries, according to a new Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center study. In addition, the study shows that children often ride motorbikes on public roads and, most of the time, without wearing helmets, leading to significantly increased severity of injury. The study, p...Implanted devices detect high-risk heart failure patients
...ction of patients with heart failure have provided new insights into which patients might be at higher ri...defibrillation) devices are giving cardiologists a new view of subtle changes in a key measurement of heart health -- heart rate variability. Patients with...Tobacco industry pays scientists to challenge secondhand smoke's link to infant death risk
...luenced by cigarette manufacturers, according to a new study of once-secret industry documents. The key a...rch and Education at UCSF and senior author of the new study analyzing the tobacco company documents. Analysis of the Philip Morris documents shows that th...