Self-management program proves beneficial for macular degeneration patients
..., and decline assistance when they were capable of performing a task, she said. Although AMD sufferers have partial sight, they can't read signs or fill out forms, for example. "How to get people to understand the nature of the vision loss was a very difficult issue for them, adding to their frustration and st...Emergency angioplasty OK without surgical back-up
...iation/American College of Cardiology criteria for performing emergency angioplasty without on-site surgery shou...those for 28,603 patients treated at 562 hospitals performing elective PCI with on-site cardiac surgery units. In-hospital death rates were 3.2 percent at facilit...Death rates lower in hospitals that follow heart attack guidelines
...are, yet only 73 percent of patients in the lowest performing hospitals were prescribed aspirin, in contrast with 93 percent in the leading hospitals. ACE-inhibitors were prescribed for 70 percent of patients at leading hospitals, while just 40 percent of patients at lagging hospitals received this medicine at ...Starting beta-blocker before discharge in patients hospitalized for heart failure increases usage
...e. Hospitals will receive feedback on how they are performing compared to other hospitals....For determining protein structures, a new method boosts precision and speed in high-dimensional NMR
...a that not only has the distinction of potentially performing orders of magnitude faster than conventional methods, but does so more cheaply and with greater precision. The new method, described in the current online issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, has the potential to increase greatly t...Primary care in the United States in crisis
...te reimbursement for primary care services such as performing a history and physical, counseling patients about their health, and being an advocate to guide patients through the health system. 6. Primary care education must be revitalized, with an emphasis on new delivery models and training in sites that deli...This is your heart on drugs: Study improves ER treatment for cocaine's heart effects
...am monitored the patients for at least nine hours, performing regular blood tests, using continuous heart-rhythm monitors, and keeping an eye on other indicators of heart health. All patients were assessed by a cardiologist after nine hours, and some had stress tests. Before allowing the patients to leave the ...Outpatient setting very safe for skin cancer surgery
...e complication rate is low enough to conclude that performing Mohs surgery on an outpatient basis does not repre... said Cook. "This study demonstrates the safety of performing Mohs surgery on an outpatient basis -- a valuable setting for providing efficient and cost-effective...Alcohol-damaged brains 'recruit' new brain regions to perform simple tasks
...ven though alcoholics at some level may seem to be performing normally, if you raised the level of complexity at... can look at our patients and say 'this patient is performing at a normal rate,'" he said, "but it's not until we're able to study the concomitant brain activatio...World's largest scientific society convenes regional meeting May 30 - June 2 in Chicago
...ster presentation introduces students of the fine, performing and communication arts to the application of organic chemistry in art and nature. (Michael John Welsh, Columbia College in Chicago, Science/Math Department, 312-344-7534, mwelsh@colum.edu ) Sunday, June 1 9 a.m. - 9 p.m. Land-lake breeze effect...OneWorld Health licenses compounds from Yale, U of Washington to treat major parasitic diseases
...come possible drug resistance. OneWorld Health is performing pre-clinical studies with CRA-3316, originally a compound donated to OneWorld Health by Celera Genomics, Rockville, Md., last year. The compounds from Yale and the University of Washington are a collection of azoles with high potency against the para...Most women can skip Pap smears after hysterectomy
...aginal cancer, the life expectancy and the cost of performing the screenings. In some cases, data was weighted in a way to favor more screenings. For example, it's not known how accurate vaginal smears are for detecting vaginal cancer. Researchers assumed it was as accurate as the test is for cervical cancer. A...Job stress may be missing link between workplace exercise and heart risk
...ften they exercised vigorously (jogging, biking or performing other aerobic activities long enough to speed up heart beat and work up a sweat). They found that atherosclerosis progression slowed dramatically as the level of physical activity during leisure increased. This effect on atherosclerosis was stronger ...Research pinpoints variations in sit-up techniques
...ide out. The group tested 15 healthy young adults performing six types of sit-ups: partial sit-ups (also called crunches, lifting the shoulders about six inches from a supine position) on the floor; full sit-ups (rising to a full lateral position) with knees bent at a 90-degree angle on the floor; crunches usi...Study: Stereotypes prevail in media coverage of depression
...ar as much coverage as did the 'depression' of not performing on the job or the playing field." Metzl notes that this trend is important for patients and their doctors, because it may influence the way they communicate with each other about mental health concerns. "It's not that the media are doing a bad job c...American Academy of Ophthalmology announces outstanding humanitarian service award recipients
...alem, where he spent two weeks examining patients, performing surgery and helping establish an ophthalmic plastic, orbital and reconstructive surgery service at the St. John Ophthalmic Hospital. He will return yearly to further his work there. Dr. Lieberman, nominated by the American Glaucoma Society, establish......d to do everything from "reading" compact discs to performing surgical operations. Soft-tissue lasers work only on soft tissue, such as gums. Hard-tissue lasers work on tooth and bone. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared five types of lasers for dental use: the carbon dioxide (CO2) laser, ...Midwife shortages contributing to 'near misses' on labour wards
...actices (such as giving drugs to induce labour and performing epidurals) continued during midwifery shortfalls in all units. Many adverse events and "near misses" were caused by these shortages, and near misses went unreported in all units. Staffing shortages also prevented uptake of scheduled training sessions...Successful prostate surgery: It's quality of surgery not quantity that matters most
Copenhagen, Denmark: A surgeon's personal skill in performing radical prostate surgery and not necessarily the number of operations performed is the key to a patient's future quality of life and the potential for cure. Surgeons must be honest with patients about their own success rates and prospective patients ...Hospital care quality differs markedly by state: annual HealthGrades study
...ation. For these procedures, New York was the best performing state and Alaska was the worst. Along with Alaska, states such as Texas and Tennessee had an above-average level of PCI mortality, which resulted in hundreds of unnecessary deaths between 2000 and 2002. Hospitals in states such as New York, New Jerse...