Two days of post-surgical pain relief now possible with just one shot
...s that patients whose post-surgery pain is managed properly may have less complicated rehabilitation periods and fewer chronic pain problems than those whose pain is not managed properly." DepoDurTM: The Next Generation of Pain Relief after Surgery Marketed by Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc., DepoDur is the firs...Direct payments to households in poor countries could improve maternal & child health
...ces to local health teams could not be implemented properly because of legal complications. Dr Morris comments: "We feel confident that there is now convincing evidence that direct payments to households do increase the use and coverage of preventive health care interventions. If this outcome is to be transla...Replicating an eel's nerve circuitry may aid paralyzed people
... are cut off from the brain, they remain viable. A properly designed implant, they believe, could act in place of the brain and direct these dormant control centers to send the same kind of locomotion signals they did before the spinal cord was injured. "We want to take advantage of circuits that already exis...Using celebrities to market drugs and diseases: whats the problem?
...ute, and reuse it freely as long as the article is properly cited. His book Selling Sickness , coauthored with Alan Cassels, will be out in 2005....New treatments for infertility are unjustified
...h recurrent miscarriage and infertility outside of properly controlled studies. "This unfortunate group of women are particularly vulnerable to financial exploitation, and of being exposed to powerful treatments that have, as yet, no rational scientific basis," they conclude....University of Utah study suggests cellular waste to blame for a form of blinding eye disease
... that impair the ability of photoreceptor cells to properly dispose of waste - and as a result cause the blinding eye disease retinitis pigmentosa - have been identified by vision researchers at the University of Utah's Moran Eye Center. The discovery raises concerns that carbonic anhydrase inhibitors (medica...Capsules may be effective in treating bipolar disorder
...jority of people may suffer for years before it is properly diagnosed and treated. "Proper diagnosis and earlier treatment can usually alter the course of the illness," said Weisler. This analysis of pooled data resulted from two identically designed, three-week, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase 3 t...New study shows patients experience asthma variability, despite strict adherence to guidelines
... it can be a life-threatening disease if it is not properly managed.According to the American Lung Association, more than 4,200 Americans diedfrom asthma in 2001.(2)...Premature infants with lung disease may continue to need replacement substance to ease breathing
...g their own surfactant, it often fails to function properly in premature infants who continue to have lung disease after their first week. The study also raises the question of whether additional replacement surfactant treatment may benefit such infants, just as it does in the week after birth. Neonatolog...American ethnic groups less likely to have cholesterol controlled
...rcent less likely than non-Hispanic whites to have properly controlled cholesterol, and non-Hispanic blacks were 28 percent less likely. No difference was seen between Chinese Americans and non-Hispanic whites. Compared to non-Hispanic whites, Chinese Americans were 21 percent less likely to meet the criter...No increase in deaths for heart failure patients with pulmonary artery catheter
...rt of the heart that is not functioning or pumping properly but also to gauge the effect of medications on heart function and symptoms. Physicians can use the PAC to individualize medications for each patient. The ESCAPE trial was led by Dr. Lynne Stevenson of the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston...Method developed to replicate stem cells from the heart
...n animals whether these cells can survive and work properly in cases of heart attack and heart failure, using varying dose levels, while also monitoring the electrophysiology in a living heart," said Marbn....Mentally ill offender treatment and crime reduction act becomes law
...enders with mental health disorders are identified properly and receive the treatment they need from the point of arrest to re-entry into the community, and are not simply recycled into the system." Sponsored by Sen. Mike DeWine (R-OH) and Rep. Ted Strickland (D-OH), this legislation authorizes a $50 mill...Blood transplants may be more harmful than bone marrow transplants in pediatric leukemia patients
...tionary note, and underscore the urgent need for a properly designed clinical trial to define the role, if any, of donor peripheral blood stem cell transplantation in children." Background Leukemia is cancer of the bone marrow. Bone marrow transplants involve the collection from the donor of "hematopoietic...Research on nerve cell circuitry reveals clue about schizophrenia
...ering from schizophrenia lose the ability to think properly and cannot tell what is important from unimportant information in their surroundings....Antipsychotic drugs linked to insulin resistance in children
...n resistance, a condition in which the body cannot properly use the insulin it produces. This evidence include...ce occurs when muscle, fat, and liver cells do not properly use insulin, the hormone produced by the pancreas that helps cells absorb glucose and provides a sou...Life saving option replaces open heart surgery in newborns
...he body's primary blood vessel, the aorta, are not properly formed. As a result, the heart is unable to pump blood effectively to the body." "Approximately one percent of babies are born with some kind of heart abnormality, which can range from very minor to very serious," said Dr. Bacha "HLHS accounts for ...Why is Ian Kennedy's healthcare commission damaging NHS care?
...s outside of your narrowly drawn targets to give a properly balanced picture of an institution's work? Where is the qualitative information to add to the reductive numerical approach that you currently endorse? Your report answers none of these questions. Why is there this utter failure of scientific rigour? ...Use of cameras to monitor nursing-home care is subject of controversy
...ericans do not," Cottle wrote. To be effective and properly regulated, granny-cam technology should therefore be mandated for all nursing facilities. "Mandating the use of granny cameras in nursing homes will ensure that all nursing home residents are equally protected," she wrote. ...3D neutron-based medical imaging, 4D lung scans, and hitting a moving tumor
...and making sure pre- and post-injection images are properly aligned with one another so that the latter can be correctly subtracted from the former. (Paper TU-E-317-4, Tuesday, July 27, 4 PM.) V. 4D PET SCANS PROMISE BETTER LUNG CANCER TREATMENT To prepare cancer patients for radiation therapy, medical phys...