New guideline tackles leading cause of mother and child death
...n in which abnormally high blood pressure and many other disturbances develop in the second half of pregnancy. It affects about seven per cent of pregnancies and is dangerous for both mother and child. The most important risk factor for developing pre-eclampsia is a previous history, show researchers at th...Sharing clinical trial results with participants may be beneficial
...) in person, two (2%) by telephone and two (2%) by other methods. Of the 68 patients who received results b... of overall results if they were to participate in other studies. 81 (95%) of the 85 respondents who learned results did not regret their decision, 13 (15%) ...Aircraft cabin ventilation influences the transmission of diseases in-flight
...s suggest that the risk of disease transmission to other symptom-free passengers within the aircraft cabin ...e than 8 hours. This is believed to be relevant to other airborne infectious diseases. However, in one outbreak of SARS, passengers as far as seven rows awa...UCLA Medical Center becomes first hospital to introduce remote presence robots in ICU
...he RP-6 robot in the ICU, though more than a dozen other institutions are using the robot to provide remote medical expertise in areas such as emergency rooms and patient wards....Study examines lessons learned at Africa's first public antiretroviral treatment clinic
...argely overcome--can serve as valuable lessons for other developing countries trying to launch their own tr...t] have positions for them," Dr. Marlink said. "In other places, the experts just don't exist in the numbers needed." Botswana has a peculiar combination of ...Sex selection popular among infertile women
...the sex of their child for family balancing or for other reasons, Jain said. "As the techniques gain more popularity, physicians will have to decide if they will offer the procedure to patients with and without children," he said. The study also found that 55 percent of women would choose sperm separation,......n of protein in the granules as well as removal of other ions in condensation of granule content, and salivary-gland-specific proline-rich proteins that play a role for their sorting into secretion granules. These studies have led to the more general conclusion that there is no common module in secreted pr...Common anesthetics appear safe for developing fetal brain
...rared range can easily pass through skin, bone and other tissues. However, within these frequencies of light, the oxygen-carrying molecules within red blood cells known as hemoglobin absorb light to an extent based on their oxygen content -- giving the researchers a reliable indicator of cerebral oxygenati...Emergency clopidogrel could save thousands of lives46,000-patient heart attack trial results
...ese early benefits and hazards tend to cancel each other out. The findings are from the 45,852-patient COMMIT/CCS-2 randomised study [2] the largest ever conducted in China and the second largest study of emergency heart attack treatment in the world. This five-year joint Chinese/British venture involvi...Breakthrough in medical research: New chemotherapy gives hope to brain tumour patients
...d of once every eight weeks the common dosage for other chemotherapy drugs" "This landmark study represents the most important advance in the management of glioblastoma since radiotherapy was shown to be of benefit over 35 years ago", comments Dr. Warren Mason, a lead investigators in Canada and head of t...Study examines consequences of Thailand's 'war on drugs'
...in said they switched to using methamphetamine and other drugs. The researchers also found the war on drugs... drug users switched to taking methamphetamine and other drugs when heroin became more expensive and harder to obtain." Thailand's war on drugs began in Febr...American Academy of Neurology presents 57th Annual Meeting in Miami Beach
...rkinson's disease, stroke, migraine, epilepsy, and other neurological disorders will be included in more than 1,300 scientific studies presented as platform and poster sessions. This meeting will also introduce a new magazine and a gala. Key science presentations will be presented at four plenary sessions,...Northwestern Memorial Hospital honored with one of the nation's top awards for quality
...es from an organization comprised of providers and other healthcare industry leaders. None of this would be possible without the support and involvement of our board of directors, medical staff, employees and every member of the Northwestern Memorial family," added Mecklenburg. "The jury, chaired by NCQHC...Women less likely to get quality heart attack care
...r of both men and women. Some previous studies by other researchers have found that doctors are less likely to deliver evidence-based medical care -- the foundation of quality improvement efforts like GAP to women compared with men. But the new study is the first to show a correlation between this failur...Is your job giving you a heart attack? Occupational health conference answers that, and more
...s targeting hypertension control among Chinese and other Asian populations should be instituted to help lower the high morbidity and mortality of cardiovascular diseases. Abstract No: 014. Job and family stress impact blood pressure for working Chinese women Liying Xu at the Centre for Clinical Trials at...Violence exposure and traumatic stress reactions can lead to poor health in children
...points out that the direction of these effects--in other words, whether post traumatic stress disorder causes illnesses or illnesses cause post traumatic stress disorder--is presently unknown. The research also indicated that substance abuse and the overall health of the mother were factors in predicting ...How effective are herbal supplements in reducing illnesses in children?
...ful information was found and assessed for various other herbal supplements. Andrographis paniculata is an ...d Ayurvedic medicine for the common cold, flu, and other respiratory infections. One study evaluated children who were given A. paniculata supplements for t...News tips from the 2005, 54th Annual Scientific Sessions of the American College of Cardiology
...o might benefit from early detection of cancer and other diseases, when treatments are most likely to succe...ee if the scan affected the settings or caused any other kind of problem, such as heating of the electrical leads and surrounding tissue. All patients and d...Two years after gene therapy treatments, severe angina patients showed prolonged clinical benefit
...prolonged clinical benefit in patients who have no other options for the treatment of severe angina. These results are cause for encouragement, and we are now conducting the largest double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial of its kind to confirm these findings." Dr. Richard A. Schatz, Co-Chairman of the D......have been resolved satisfactorily by CPOE systems, other risks of medical-errors are accentuated. After ...ed. Indeed, he and his colleagues suggest, among other things, that IT-assistance programs focus primarily on the organization of work in an institution, r...