Cranfield pioneers back pain research
...tics of patients who have had technically adequate operations but poor clinical results may help us avoid problems of patient selection for surgery in the future. We are hoping to continue collecting data and maintain our links with Cranfield," he said....Kidney transplant proposal reduces wait from 24 to 14 months, improves equity for blacks & women
...ities between different groups."Using the proposed operations research system, when a new cadaveric kidney becom...f patients. In their analysis, the authors use an operations research technique known as the Monte Carlo simulation model - a gaming model - and other math model...Hypnosis helps patients control stress and anxiety, UF researchers say
...ntrol over the stress, anxiety and pain of medical operations and childbirth. A study directed by UF counseling psychologist Paul Schauble found that women who learn hypnosis before delivering babies suffer fewer complications, need less medication and are more likely to have healthier babies than are women wi...Breast reconstruction during mastectomy boosts well-being most, study finds
...idence to the mounting argument for reconstruction operations for breast cancer patients. Published in the October issue of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, it also contradicts past findings that one approach or another is superior. "We seem to have found a way to cushion the emotional blow of losing a breast,...Beer, in moderation, cuts risk of cataracts and heart disease
...y important, Trevithick believes. He says cataract operations cost the U.S. Medicare program about $4 billion a year. "If you could cut that by 50 percent, you're saving over $2 billion a year. And that's just in the states." Trevithick's daughter, Colleen Trevithick, now pursuing a Ph.D. at the Unive...O.R. model could reduce high death rate among kidney dialysis patients by up to 20%
An operations research model for centers that treat kidney dialy...looks at several alternate policies that employ an operations research technique known as optimization. The first, called a dynamic flexible policy, uses patient ...Groups urge Bush: rethink natural hazards approach
...er shortages due to weather extremes, and military operations compromised by severe weather and other hazards. What can be done to build our resilience? The group has ninespecific recommendations. First and foremost, the administrationshould conduct a national assessment of community vulnerability. This assess......t the acquisition of HIV. The HVTN leadership and operations unit are located in Seattle, at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Seattle is also the site of the University of Washington and Hutchinson Center vaccine trials unit - one of the clinical testing sites that comprise the HVTN. Every day, an ...Drug war strategy: First fund enforcement then switch to treatment, says O.R. paper
... very quickly," explains Dr. Jonathan Caulkins, an operations researcher at Carnegie Mellon University and RAND....rch, an INFORMS publication. The authors are three operations researchers: Dr. Caulkins, and Gernot Tragler and Gustav Feichtinger of the Vienna University of Tec......pected community hospital performing 1,200 cardiac operations a year. At this hospital, the surgeon who adopted the procedure for the hospital handpicked the team based on their prior experience working together and their demonstrated ability to work as a group. Team members began a high degree of cross-departm...Air safety, election forecasting lead topics as operations researchers meet in Miami beach
...cience to improve decision-making, management, and operations in a host of fields.The following presentations may interest reporters -Fighting Terrorism in the Skies Monday, November 5, 8:15-9:45 AM, Fontainebleau, Fleur De Lis Ballroom The Worst Day Ever. Arnold Barnett, Sloan School of Management, MIT. The F...Fluids, electrolytes key to good health for firefighters
... arduous nature of rescue workers jobs. And while operations in New York City were an extreme example of what f...re Service Institute know that even routine rescue operations can pose serious health risks for firefighters. The most significant problems, they say, are caused...Smaller hospitals OK for heart bypass surgery - if your risk is small
... bypass surgery at big hospitals that do many such operations a year, versus patients treated at smaller local h...high-risk. In all, 2,029 of the patients had their operations at one of 25 hospitals that did fewer than 200 bypasses in 1997, while the other 11,615 went to 31 h...Deaths at Bristol not explained by low volume of operations
...hospitals performing a higher number of open heart operations in children aged under 1 year tended to have a low...th rate. For instance, a hospital carrying out 120 operations per year during this period would be expected to have a 25% lower death rate than a hospital carryin...New awards, expanded focus for Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials Group
...and data management center, and a coordinating and operations center. The PACTG has pioneered key trials evaluating treatments for children with HIV and has made great advances in reducing the rate of mother-to-infant HIV transmission in the developed world. The epidemic among adolescents in the United States,...Older patients who need high-risk surgery fare better in experienced hospitals
...o had any of 14 high-risk cardiovascular or cancer operations in hospitals highly experienced with their particu... patients die undergoing one of these 14 high-risk operations that are often elective. More than 1,000 of these deaths could be averted if patients at the lowest ...Drug cocktail prevents hepatitis B virus from recurring after liver transplant
... 1984 through April 2001. Of those, 191 transplant operations were performed on 166 patients afflicted with HBV cirrhosis. The patients were divided into four treatment groups: no prophylaxis, lamivudine monotherapy, HBIg monotherapy, or a lamivudine and HBIg combination. When comparing the combination therapy ...'SolarScan' for earlier skin cancer detection
...cal procedures. Almost 750,000 skin cancer removal operations are completed each year, costing Australian taxpayers more than $300 million. "SolarScan will ensure more accurate melanoma diagnosis so that fewer people have to undergo an unnecessary operation." The device was developed over eight years by Austral...Some patients are candidates for combined heart bypass, lung transplant surgeries
...vascularization procedures such as coronary bypass operations immediately prior to the transplant surgery. Additionally, performing the revascularization procedures does not add additional time to the transplant procedure itself, they report. The surgeons performed the heart surgery while the patient was bein...Emotional problems of children living in war zones not recognised
... and volunteers working in health care, and relief operations and education, rather than by specialists in mental health. Training of such agencies should include ways of communicating with children and basic aspects of child mental health problems, such as post-traumatic stress disorder. Systematic interventio...