To contain health care costs, US must reduce error, modernize administration
...s are projected to rise 7 percent annually for the rest of the decade. Davis outlined several steps that could be taken to achieve a high-performance health care system--one that is high-quality, safe, efficient, and accessible to all. Those steps, which will require major changes in the health care deliv...Scientists develop technique that uses ultrafast lasers to obtain hi-quality images of brain tissue
...ne the volume of the blood vessels relative to the rest of the brain. Images of brains that express a particular fluorescent protein could also be used to quantify how much of that protein there is in different regions of the brain. This technique is not limited to the brain, either. Other tissues in th...Physics and medicine in San Diego
...tter pathway that connects the motor cortex to the rest of the body will result in a loss of movement, whereas damage to a different pathway will result in a different problem. Until now it has been very difficult to obtain pictures of these white-matter pathways. However, a new magnetic resonance imaging...Rheumatoid arthritis patients caught in middle of doctors' disagreement over hand surgery
...utoimmune malfunction, it affects patients for the rest of their lives, often worsening year by year. The condition especially strikes the hands and wrists, where it has a major impact on a patient's ability to perform daily functions such as lifting, eating, personal care and writing. Medications have l...Stanford research shows targeted DNA vaccine may reverse autoimmune disease
...he harmful responses as possible while leaving the rest of the immune system functional. To do so, they took advantage of a well-known but poorly understood process known as tolerization. In this process, the immune system is coaxed to tolerate an offending protein after injection of that same protein or ...St. Jude Medical announces publication of results of its ADOPT-A trial
...pacing, which can be uncomfortable for patients at rest or sleeping. In addition, fixed overdrive pacing can't result in the high percentage of atrial pacing that's possible with AF Suppression(tm)." "This algorithm tailors the atrial rate to pace just above the patient's intrinsic rate to allow for acti...Irvine chemist wins national award for new drug techniques
...doctors often prescribe cycles of chemotherapy and rest to avert damage to their patients' immune systems, for example. "Particularly in the pharmaceutical industry one wants to have increasing selectivity in regulating a pathway or target," said Overman, an organic chemist at the University of California...Finding the link between fat and high blood pressure
...loped by Dr. Harshfield that includes two hours of rest followed by an hour-long stressful video game, then two more hours of rest. Blood pressure and sodium excretion are measured throughout. Participants are put on a diet for three days prior to the test protocol to regulate their sodium levels. They a...NSF considers alternatives for treating ill South Pole worker
...e a minimum of 10 hours, not including a mandatory rest period for the crew, and would face the potentially challenging weather conditions of the polar spring. Spring warming produces strong winds and extremely changeable weather that is difficult to predict. Unlike in April of 2001, however, the amount ...Starve a tumor, or feed a tumor?
...area, are vastly different from the network in the rest of the body. In healthy tissue, the layout is well planned and ordered, and the walls of small arteries contain elastic and muscular layers to fine-tune their diameter and closely control blood flow. But in tumors, blood vessels are poorly laid out...UCLA scientists invent search-and-destroy method to flush HIV out of hiding places in body
...xposed and killed hidden HIV without affecting the rest of the immune system. The T-cells in the UCLA model also did not divide, indicating that they were able to produce virus without behaving as if they were confronting a foreign particle. "In our mouse model, the two-step approach cleared out nearly 8...Study points to long-term health problems for pediatric cancer survivors
...e cancer need to be periodically evaluated for the rest of their lives. We hope physicians become more aware of the risks and are cognizant of the problems survivors face." The cancer survivors were treated between 1970 and 1986 and were 21 years of age or younger at the time of their diagnosis. Each was ...More children survive cancer but the after-effects present a challenge to doctors
...h leukaemia, a quarter with brain tumours, and the rest with a wide range of other solid tumours. They had been treated with one or a combination of therapies: 5% had surgery alone, 55% radiotherapy and 85% chemotherapy. However these treatments had caused side effects that required long-term follow-up,...Report cites risks associated with over-the-counter cosmetic contact lenses
...ill need regular observation and treatment for the rest of her life. After falling asleep with her contact lenses still on, a 19-year-old woman awoke to burning and light sensitivity in both eyes. She said she had been buying the contact lenses from open-boxed sets without a prescription for the past f...Device measures force used to deliver a baby
... midwife's forearm muscle impulses are recorded at rest and while pulling with five pounds of force, then 10 pounds, as measured by a dynamometer. The students' device can then produce an accurate record of the force used during delivery by comparing it to the calibration readings. Beyond the delivery roo...Public access defibrillator use increasing
...tops beating normally and cannot pump blood to the rest of the body, causing death within minutes, unless the patient gets cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). For many victims, an electrical shock to the heart from an AED is their only chance for survival. "PAD was used in only a small proportion of all...Thanksgiving: A time for healthful eating?
...ient in most stuffing - is more healthful than the rest of the bread and crust-rich stuffing is packed with antioxidants . Thomas Hofmann, Ph.D., formerly with the German Research Center of Food Chemistry reported this finding in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry . Cranberries - This Tha...Better brain imaging helps surgeons avoid damage to language functions
... of logically related words, such as doze, pillow, rest and dream, and later asked if a non-presented but related word, such as sleep, had been part of the presented list. Most falsely recall that the word sleep had been part of the original list. Another version of the test asks patients to recall if a p...Clinicians need to put heads together on sports concussions
...tice until he or she is completely asymptomatic at rest and with exertion. Any athlete with prolonged loss of consciousness or evidence of amnesia should not return to play that day. Careful and repeated assessments by individuals with training and experience in evaluating concussive injuries should b......rements performed onboard." And you can follow the rest of their trip out of the ice via the internet....