New guideline tackles leading cause of mother and child death
...eeks. Their guideline recommends a straightforward system of early risk assessment and referral to ensure that pregnant women with pre-eclampsia are offered specialist care at the appropriate time for the best outcome for them and their baby. It is aimed at those caring for pregnant women in the community ...New NHS payment system 'is no panacea'
The new NHS payment system has already run into problems and requires careful...04 the NHS introduced its new "payment by results" system starting with foundation hospitals, whereby providers are paid for each individual case rather than ...UCLA Medical Center becomes first hospital to introduce remote presence robots in ICU
...ed initial clinical tests of the RP-6 mobile robot system in its neurosurgery intensive care unit (ICU). The...rmation system, GCQ, with the RP-6 remote presence system and we are able to monitor and access our patients anytime from our homes and offices in a way not p...Study examines lessons learned at Africa's first public antiretroviral treatment clinic
...cause the experts don't exist, but rather that the system can't pay them or [doesn't] have positions for them," Dr. Marlink said. "In other places, the experts just don't exist in the numbers needed." Botswana has a peculiar combination of the two problems in that there are lots of nursing schools, but no m...2005 Pulp Biology Research Award
...of reparative dentin and developed a novel culture system to study the responses of these cells to various growth factors in vitro. More recently, he has described profiles of gene expression in odontoblasts using two original culture systems from pulp tissue and thick slices of human teeth. These in vitro...Common anesthetics appear safe for developing fetal brain
...ation of the fetal brain, according to their novel system for measuring cerebral oxygenation in the developi...ent cerebral oxygenation in real time because of a system they optimized for fetal applications. The technique, called near-infrared spectroscopy, was origina...American Academy of Neurology presents 57th Annual Meeting in Miami Beach
...ng and managing disorders of the brain and nervous system such as Alzheimer's disease, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, and stroke....Northwestern Memorial Hospital honored with one of the nation's top awards for quality
... and refine its comprehensive clinical information system to improve quality and patient safety by implementing an electronic health record (EHR). During fiscal year 2004, 78 percent of all inpatients had medication administration documented online and 94 percent of Internal Medicine inpatients had the EHR...Computerized order entry systems can increase risk of medication errors
...ative study of house staff interaction with a CPOE system at a teaching hospital. They surveyed house staff ...ital leaders . The researchers found that the CPOE system they studied facilitated 22 types of medication error risks. Examples include fragmented CPOE displa......ich medication-errors were facilitated by the CPOE system they studied. The significance of their findings,...rrors. "Although we analyzed only one older CPOE system in a single setting, our findings reflect what is happening in health-care facilities across America...New system for the analysis of facial movement in three dimensions
...ysing the outcome of surgery, this image-capturing system for facial movements also helps in programming the...eatment. Apart from its clinical application, this system provides a highly important tool in the legal field. It can be used as very useful tool in investiga...Researchers close in on breast cancer vaccine
...lls as an antigen (a small protein that the immune system may recognize). The primed T-cells then would proliferate and attack when they met with mammaglobin-A antigens. "Mammaglobin-A is involved in breast development and secreted in breast milk," Mohanakumar says. "So we had to prove first that we could e...Pet scanning better for heart disease diagnosis, management
...ecial dye visible on an X-ray into the circulatory system near the heart. Blood flow then can be tracked and blockages detected by observing the dispersion of the dye. An angiogram costs around $4,800, the researchers calculated. PET currently is used clinically primarily for cancer patients. A Web site a...Laughter helps blood vessels function better
...certainty by using volunteers whose cardiovascular system was healthy. The results of the brachial artery blood flow measurements, which are precise and objective, appear to make the connection between laughter and cardiovascular health even stronger, according to Dr. Miller....Study: Two brain systems regulate how we call for help
...s past experiences and what kind of social support system may be in place....Portable system offers dialysis patients 'liberating' changes
...atients with kidney failure or fluid overload. The system is compact and weighs about 70 pounds. It's portab...nsive training before they are allowed to take the system home with them," Dr. Kraus says. "Training time is typically one to three weeks, and patients also m...New data on Orqis Medical's Cancion CRS to be reported at ACC
...n Orqis Medical's Cancion CRS TM cardiac recovery system for treating congestive heart failure will be presented at the Annual Scientific Session of the American College of Cardiology (ACC), held in Orlando, Florida (March 6-9). The data suggests that patients with acutely decompensated chronic heart fail...Study shows faces are processed like words
...these objects by parts, not as wholes. Our visual system recognizes "bite-sized pieces" of our world, and our brain assembles them into the perceptual objects that constitute our environment....Studies underscore genetic involvement in nicotine addiction & aggressive hostility
...nsmitter that plays a role in the brain's pleasure system and also aids learning and memory, sleep, control ...th the protein made from Chrna4. Thus the nervous system responds to nicotine as if it were acetylcholine. The authors conclude that natural variations in ......e Jefferson Lab/Duke team is now modifying the PEM system and imaging procedure to allow for better detection of lesions located near the chest wall. Dr. Rosen says the next step is to figure out what size and types of cancer tumors the unit is best capable of detecting, exactly how sensitive the unit is, a...