'Considerable reductions' in radiation exposure possible with 16-MDCT scanner on body applications
...noise (scan thin, view thicker). This is often not optimally possible using 4-MDCT because of the long breath-holds and low geometric efficiency at very thin slices. So the overall clinical imaging quality, especially when taking the coronal and sagittal orientations into account, can be improved with a 16-sli...Childbirth and disasters discussed in July/Aug issue of Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health
...disaster or low resource settings. "Midwives are optimally prepared to draw upon their existing knowledge base in order to minimize interventions to achieve positive outcomes, especially in disaster situations," said Gwen Brumbaugh Kenney, CNM, PhD, guest editor of the supplement issue. "Knowing what simple...New internet resource facilitates international HIV/AIDS healthcare provider training
...rker training systems that are locally-determined, optimally resourced, highly responsive and self-sustaining in countries and regions hardest hit by the AIDS epidemic. The UW Center for AIDS and STD was established in 1989 and designated a World Health Organization Collaborating Center for AIDS and STD in 199...Heart attack, stroke risk overlooked in diabetics
...ows that people with Type 2 diabetes are not being optimally managed for their cardiovascular risk." "Seventy per cent of people with Type 2 diabetes die of heart attack and stroke. If we keep paying attention to blood sugar, we're missing a big piece of the picture," warned Dr. Jeffrey Johnson, a professor an...Novel drugs help solve Gleevec resistance
...st be remembered that we are still learning how to optimally use Gleevec itself, a drug which we have only had available for a few years." The clinical trial reported by Giles is unusual in that it allows for a rapid "intrapatient" dose escalation. Within the trial, patients are allowed to move to higher doses...Study shows haploidentical natural killer cells may provide hope for some patients with AML
...ancer may suppress the ability of interleukin-2 to optimally stimulate the patient's own natural killer cells.) The result of Miller's study was this: the donated natural killer cells thrived in some patients for more than 28 days, and five of 19 patients achieved remission. ...Guidelines for following pediatric cancer survivors aim to reduce medical complications
...aid. "The needs of these individuals have not been optimally addressed in the present health care environment. Late treatment effects occur in the majority of survivors but are severe and life-threatening in as many as 25 percent of adult survivors of childhood cancer. Anticipating potential complications prov...Study finds that adherence to diet, not type of diet, more important factor for losing weight
...ndividuals found these diets to be too extreme. To optimally manage a national epidemic of excess body weight and associated cardiac risk factors, practical techniques to increase dietary adherence rates are urgently needed," the authors write. "One way to improve dietary adherence rates in clinical practice m...Balancing care decisions for gravely ill patients
...ore prognostication and resource allocation can be optimally improved in gravely ill ICU patients. "Providing health care is challenged by the need to balance increasingly expensive medical resources with the needs and desires of a growing and aging population," says Dr. Berge. "One important factor that affec...Many children are undervaccinated or have delayed vaccinations in their first 2 years of life
...sure that all children remain fully vaccinated and optimally protected from vaccine-preventable diseases throughout early childhood--the time when children are most at risk for illness and severe complications from many vaccine-preventable diseases," the researchers write....ESC releases the first European Guidelines on Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (PCI)
.../she should still undergo cardiac catheterisation, optimally within 24 hours after successful thrombolysis. Due to the differences in the infrastructure between the USA and Europe, the ESC Guidelines differ from those of the USA (issued by the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association)(2) ...