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... The findings could, if affirmed and adapted to a standardized and affordable test format, someday aid physicians in the diagnosis of heart failure and help determine which kind of therapy is best to use for the condition. In ischemic heart disease, the patient's arteries have narrowed and the heart cannot pump...DepoDur found to be innovative option for postoperative pain relief
...s of DepoDur TM 5*, 10, 15, 20, or 25* mg or 5 mg standardized conventional morphine sulfate (MS; Astramorph/PF or Duramorph) were administered to 487 adult patients 18 years of age or over approximately 30 minutes before lower abdominal surgery and before the induction of general or regional anesthesia. The stu...Physically fit children appear to do better in classroom, researchers say
...ive function was determined by analyzing scores on standardized academic performance tests (the Illinois Standard Achievement Test) and by observing and measuring neuroelectric and behavioral responses to stimulus discrimination tasks. Hillman and Buck will present results from one of the research group's studies...Domestic violence recognized but not always investigated by medical students
...sor of psychiatry; Michael Curtis, director of the standardized patient program; and Jeffrey Barrett, M.D., assistant professor of emergency medicine. ...Breathing problems during sleep may affect mental development in infants and young children
...term and preterm infants at one year of age with a standardized test that measured physical and mental development. The infants were part of the multi-center Collaborative Home Infant Monitoring Evaluation (CHIME) study. The CHIME study sought to identify factors that could put infants at risk for sudden infant d...Researchers examine recurrence of low back pain
...ilds on previous work by Thomas that developed the standardized reaching protocol used to detect changes in motor coordination in individuals with low back pain. The researchers also will draw on previous studies on fear avoidance, including those that have shown that people who have suffered from back pain fall ...Attention to detail can make kids' hospital stays shorter, less costly & less frequent
... For instance, the pulmonologists developed standardized orders that doctors and nurses could follow for each patient, so that they could adjust levels of inhaled asthma-calming medications throughout the day instead of waiting for a pulmonologist to come. The team also developed a procedure that ...Short term memory's effectiveness influenced by sight, sound
...ature Neuroscience have important implications for standardized tests, which often employ ordered-list retention as a measure of a person's mental aptitude. "When we hear things, we naturally process them in a series," says Daphne Bavelier, associate professor of brain and cognitive sciences at the University ...Patients with severe depression improve using guidelines developed by UT Southwestern researchers
...rithms." Patients' outcomes were measured by three standardized tests regularly used to determine levels of depression. When TMAP began seven years ago, it was the first program in the nation aimed at establishing and implementing medication guidelines for treating psychiatric illness in the public sector. Beside...Antioxidant controversy: Scientists seek measurement standards
...agreement that antioxidant measurements need to be standardized but disagreement on the best method to measure the beneficial compounds, which are thought to reduce the risk of cancer and heart disease as well as fight aging, arthritis and Alzheimer's disease. "Right now, it's difficult to compare the antioxidan...Latest results from international islet transplant study confirm potential patient benefits
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...ians By James M. Gill, M.D., M.P.H., et al Using standardized criteria and the PanOptic ophthalmoscope, a new technology for screening for diabetic retinopathy, family physicians were fairly accurate in screening patients for diabetic retinopathy. Whereas this technique is not sufficiently accurate to replace ...Studies indicate healthy eating may affect cancer development, improve digestive system
... With their parents, school children completed a standardized questionnaire concerning socioeconomic parameters and abdominal pain intensity, frequency, duration, nature of RAP and possible relationships with school activities, eating patterns and other upper gastrointestinal symptoms. Children were identified...Minimally invasive colon cancer surgery is effective
...ons who participated in the study, and established standardized operating procedures. Patients in the study were randomly assigned to receive either standard or minimally invasive surgery and their progress was followed for eight years. The team found that cancer returned to the colon or to the location of the ...Co-occurring disorders increase risk of suicide attempt by adolescents
...Alcohol Research Center. The adolescents completed standardized assessments of substanceand nonsubstance-related p...s. Both the adolescents and their parents answered standardized questions about age of onset for all diagnosed psychiatric disorders. Adolescents who attempted suic...Hidden cost of depression in seniors: $9 billion in care from spouses, children
...to eight depressive symptoms in the last week on a standardized survey. Another 44 percent had one to three symptoms. These proportions are in line with previous estimates of depression's incidence among older people; about 1 to 5 percent are thought to have serious, major depression, while another 7 to 23 percen...Anthrax survivors continued to have health problems one year after exposure
...rview, a medical review-of-system questionnaire, 2 standardized self-administered questionnaires, and a review of available medical records. The researchers found that the anthrax survivors reported symptoms affecting multiple body systems, significantly greater psychological distress, and significantly reduced h...Sounds of New York, evidence for a preferred ear, ultrasound for the eye
...e performance of children in grades 3-4 and 7-8 on standardized tests of oral reading, silent reading, and vocabulary. In the presence of noise, the older children exhibited reduced performance on the silent reading task (1aAA8). Bridget Shield of London South Bank University ( shieldbm@lsbu.ac.uk ) will present...Botox injections restore voices, confidence to voice disorder patients
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