Study naming hospitals in top 5% for clinical quality released by HealthGrades
...y acquired pneumonia 52,949 lives could have been saved from 2001 to 2003 about the average attendance of an NFL football game A Medicare patient who underwent heart bypass surgery at a Distinguished Hospital for Clinical Excellence TM had, on average, a 15.3 percent better chance of surviving than a p...National Academies News: William H. Foege to receive Public Welfare Medal, Academy's highest honor
...air of the selection committee. "In terms of lives saved and freed from disease, he has changed the world as we know it." An epidemiologist, Foege is perhaps best known for his contributions to the successful global effort to eliminate smallpox. Early in his career, he traveled to Nigeria, where he worked...Longer cardiac rehab programs necessary, says U of T study
...s. Kavanagh says this shows that more money can be saved by introducing a progressive tapering of supervision. "Our results justify the approach first taken by the Toronto Rehabilitation Centre in 1968, and which has made it one of the largest, best-known and most effective cardiac rehabilitation programs ...How often should women get mammograms?
...requency of mammograms affects the number of lives saved by detecting breast cancers at an earlier stage. With screening guidelines and financial coverage varying among health systems and insurers sometimes dramatically the model provides quantitative predictions of the mortality benefits, on average, in...Schepens scientists regenerate optic nerve for the first time
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...that is considered almost universally fatal can be saved if they receive radiation therapy followed by tand... children who experienced relapse of ATRT could be saved using ICE chemotherapy (ifosfamide, carboplatin- and etoposide). Other authors of the report are Tan...Innovation prize finalists announced in 'Science of Better'
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...ewborn babies who die worldwide each year could be saved by low-tech and low-cost interventions, concludes ... in low-birthweight babies, although many could be saved with simple support for warmth and feeding. More than half of women in Africa and South Asia give bi...End AIDS drug waiting lists, HIV care providers tell policymakers
...f Directors. "Two million years of life have been saved since the introduction of HAART. Access to these revolutionary medicines and the medical services required to deliver and manage their use should be given precedence when Congress renews Ryan White this year." "Lack of funding has, furthermore, forc...New fingerprint visualization method uses X-rays to reveal missing clues
...tal elemental image is collected on a computer and saved for analysis. If further testing and refinement prove successful, the experimental technique could be used commercially for fingerprint visualization in two to five years, the researchers predict. In addition to revealing fingerprints, the MXRF techn......hose computer screen displays the amount of energy saved by the panels. Since the system was installed last...ust, the monitor shows that enough energy has been saved to "to power 510 houses in one day," or "enough energy to make 500,000 cups of coffee." The monitor ...