UCLA Medical Center becomes first hospital to introduce remote presence robots in ICU
...nize that leveraging the health care expert's time offers the possibility of improved patient care, reduced ...nize that leveraging the health care expert's time offers the possibility of improved patient care, reduced length of stay and cost savings. UCLA has combined...Breast implant Website launched by leading plastic surgery societies
..., www.breastimplantsafety.org . The new Web site offers objective and medically-grounded information for women and other concerned parties on this important topic. It presents the pros and cons of the only devices currently approved for all uses by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) -- saline imp...School-based smoking prevention programs ineffective
...he larger implications of the study's findings and offers some potentially more effective anti-smoking strategies such as use of the media, tax levies, and smoke-free environments. The school-based programs studied by Dr. Wiehe and colleagues shared certain characteristics. Most targeted middle-school stud...New imaging technologies can enhance orthopaedic outcomes
... Dr. Potter said. The Hospital for Special Surgery offers one of the largest and most experienced team of musculoskeletal radiologists in the world....Concerns over the future of children's health care in British general practice
...eral practitioners to focus on children's care. It offers additional remuneration based on a points system, but child health surveillance gets just six points. In contrast, cervical screening can get 22 points, mental health work 41 points, diabetes 99, and heart disease 121. This structure may encourage g...Major review of subway systems suggests potential for significant health and safety hazards
... their fingers into their ears, this unfortunately offers little protection, and ear plugs would be only slightly better." Subways also present a special concern with respect to crime, although public perceptions about crime are often out of line with actual crime rates, which generally have been dropping. ...Schepens scientists regenerate optic nerve for the first time
...is outstanding breakthrough by Schepens scientists offers new hope to those who suffer from blinding diseases and injuries, including our returning soldiers. The potential application of this discovery to treatments for other central nervous system injuries is yet another reason why I have been proud to sup...UIC offers new weight loss surgery for obese teens
...l keyhole incisions, during outpatient surgery. It offers several advantages over gastric bypass surgery, including reduced pain, a shorter hospital stay and recovery period. During LAP-BAND surgery, an adjustable silicone band is placed around the stomach to help the patient lose weight. The band separate...NYU Child Study Center receives grant from the American Red Cross September 11 recovery program
...ed Cross Liberty Disaster Relief Fund. The program offers a new emphasis on life enrichment programming for bereaved parents as well as continued screening of children at key life transition points. Following 9/11, both the Child Study Center and the Silver Shield Foundation recognized the need to address ...Psychiatric disorders greatly underdiagnosed in hospital emergency departments
WASHINGTON -- New research offers dramatic evidence of how psychiatric disorders are underdiagnosed in hospital emergency departments, affecting an increasing number of Americans who rely on such facilities for much of their primary health care needs. The research appears in this mon...Radiologists offer non-surgical treatment for early-stage liver cancer
...Ill. (Feb. 16, 2005) Radiofrequency (RF) ablation offers an effective first-line treatment for some liver cancer patients who are excluded from surgery, according to two studies appearing in the March issue of the journal Radiology. "I believe that this treatment will soon enter into the guidelines for the...Florida Tech scientist wins patent for device to deliver X-ray irradiation
...g and Environmental Systems Division. Florida Tech offers bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in aerospace engineering and mechanical engineering....Rutgers College of Nursing faculty member is funded to develop an interactive computer system
...ters at Rutgers Newark, Rutgers College of Nursing offers a broad range of academic programs on all three Rutgers campuses. The college offers a master's program with unique practitioner specialties and the only doctoral (Ph.D) nursing degree ...Simpler blood thinning medication effective for preventing blood clots and stroke
... safer, more dependable alternatives. Ximelagatran offers fixed oral dosing without need for coagulation monitoring, rapid onset and offset of action, stable pharmacokinetics with little potential for drug interactions, and no known food interactions. This trial, SPORTIF V (Stroke Prevention using an Oral T...HIV vaccine trial breaks ground for future research
...represents a landmark in the fight against HIV and offers the scientific community a foundation on which to build future trials. The multi-centered trial, conducted in the United States and the Netherlands and completed in 2003, is described in two papers by the rgp120 HIV Vaccine Study Group, and Peter B. ...New bedside tool gauges mortality risk in heart failure patients
...irst for the treatment of acute heart failure, and offers a simple quick way for clinicians to assess mortality risk upon hospital admission and quickly decide on a treatment strategy," said Dr. Gregg C. Fonarow, lead study author, The Eliot Corday Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine and Science, professor of ...Sequential MDCT sufficient for determining possible risk of coronary artery disease
Sequential MDCT offers an adequate way to stratify which patients have calcium build-up in their coronary arteries--a possible risk factor for developing coronary artery disease, a new study shows. "Most equipment manufacturers recommend a sequential MDCT examination for...Progesterone therapy could prevent thousands of preterm births
...em that affects 1 in 8 babies in the U.S., and 17P offers promise in an area where there have been few successes. In addition, we need more research into the underlying causes of prematurity to help women with other risk factors." Assumptions used to estimate the impact of 17P on recurrent preterm birth ...Monkey 'pay-per-view' study could aid understanding of autism
...le hindquarters. They say their research technique offers a rigorous laboratory approach to studying the "social machinery" of the brain and how this machinery goes tragically awry in autism -- a disease that afflicts more than a million Americans and is the fastest growing developmental disorder. In an art...Clinical trial participants fare no better, no worse than other patients
...fer treatment where none exists currently, or that offers benefits over currently available treatments," says CISCRP chairman Ken Getz. "Another top reason people participate is to help advance medical knowledge. . . . They participate because they feel doing so may have an impact on other people's lives."...