Autistic children show outstanding musical skills
...s'. If we could develop effective non-verbal music teaching methods, we might be able to understand more about the way these children learn and process other information." A series of music workshops in which children with autism will be taught to read musical notation are currently being planned. The resea...Patient safety study provides first national estimate of adverse events in Canadian hospitals
...ional estimate of adverse events across a range of teaching and community hospitals using methods comparable t... study methods. The Canadian study also found that teaching hospitals had a higher rate of adverse events than other hospitals. The authors attribute this to se...Delay in transfer to the ICU increases risk of death
... Dr. Young and colleagues studied 47 patients at a teaching hospital who were transferred from a hospital ward to the medical/surgical ICU over five months. They determined when these 47 patients first met any of 11 pre-specified physiologic criteria, such as changes in breathing rate, blood pressure, heart r...Oral History Research Office and NYU Child Study Center receive grant for oral history project
...of oral history interviewers and psychologists are teaching an oral history curriculum in eight middle school classrooms in New York City's Chinatown, a community that was particularly hard hit by the attacks on the World Trade Center. The classes train the students in the art of oral history interviewing, an...Biopsy system is effective in completely removing benign breast masses
...as St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Boston, MA, a teaching affiliate Tufts University School of Medicine. The patients were of various ages, and they had various reasons for wanting the benign masses removed, said Dr. Slanetz. Some had a strong family history of breast cancer and they were uncomfortable wit...Exploring why disease affects people differently
...s out to achieve the highest level of research and teaching excellence and become a recognised world-class res...latform from which to develop and foster research, teaching and clinical training in psychosocial disability. It will inform and deliver world-class evidence-b...PACS increase physician productivity by more than a third
...logists' productivity by nearly 40% in a community teaching hospital, allowing for more patient examinations without increasing physician staffing, a new study shows. Productivity data before PACS implementation at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara, CA, was compared to data after the facility ha...CAD proves to be viable option for second reading mammograms
...itas St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, Boston, MA, a teaching affiliate of Tufts University School of Medicine. "This number is probably lower than what other facilities might see because the radiologists reading the images at our facility are very experienced. Because they are experienced mammographers they a...Kids' year-round asthma symptoms triggered by parent's second-hand smoke
...ccessful," adds Clark. Part of the PACE project is teaching physicians how to counsel asthmatic patients and their parents on avoiding asthma "triggers" -- substances in the air that can bring on an asthma attack or lesser symptoms. Triggers include dust, pollen, pet dander, stress, cockroach droppings, mold,...Northwestern Memorial tests 'pacemaker' for stomach
...remier academic medical centers and is the primary teaching hospital of Northwestern Universitys Feinberg School of Medicine where this research was funded. Northwestern Memorial and its Prentice Women's Hospital and Stone Institute of Psychiatry have 744 beds and more than 1,200 affiliated physicians and 5,...Robotic technology teaches spinal cord injury patients to walk again
...walk again. The robot provides "gait training" by teaching a patient's spinal cord and brain, with sensory information, to signal the body to step again. A harness supports the patient's body weight over a large treadmill. The legs and hips are strapped into the machine's robotic exoskeleton, which simulates...Hormonal response to stress alters immune system function and alters mental and physical disease
... are identifying individuals' risk factors and are teaching people - from high level executives to young children - simple coping behaviors that can successfully buffer the effect of stress on immune function and health. The panel on "Alteration of Health by the Hormonal Response to Stress" is made up of me...Timing of adverse events in hospital patients
...e rate of adverse events in an urban, multi-campus teaching hospital with new data on the timing of such events. The authors wondered if some of the adverse events being seen in hospitalized patients might have resulted interventions received before hospitalization. In a randomly selected sample of 502 adult...Operative time increases when training surgical residents in the operating room
...te resident into the operating room at a community teaching hospital. Between January 1, 2001 and June 30, 20...hors suggest that time spent in the operating room teaching residents represents an opportunity cost in time that the surgeon could use to meet other demands su...Sitting in nonsmoking sections a powerful tactic for preventing teen smoking
...on of a school-based prevention program focused on teaching youth how to identify and resist social influences to smoke - the main thrust of smoking-prevention education and research for more than two decades - simply doesn't work. While the results were surprising, the data remain a rich resource for further...Doctor attacks South African government for failing women while spending billions on arms deals
...plemented from the centre, starting with the large teaching hospitals and extending as the nurses were trained, to the peripheral primary care centres. "This would cost about 42 million rand (about 4.8 million euros) for the whole country. Such a system was implemented successfully in Singapore. Unfortuna...JCO to offer free online access to archived content
...access to archived JCO research for all, including teaching institutions, practicing oncologists, and the general public." Online readers will be able to access JCO research that is more than 12 months old without a subscription; this includes articles published from January 1999 to the present, all ASCO Cli...USP releases first-ever case study book to advance medication error prevention
...es nationwide, including community, government and teaching institutions. MEDMARX is the nation's largest database of medication errors, containing more than 580,000 released records. To order a copy of the book go to: http://store.usp.org . MEDIA NOTE: A media teleconference will be held on Wednesday, Marc...Lack of awareness about stroke hinders use of life-saving drugs, precludes testing of new therapies
...r at Parkland Memorial Hospital the primary adult teaching hospital for UT Southwestern faculty physicians only 19 percent of 349 patients diagnosed with the most common form of stroke arrived within three hours of the initial attack, Dr. Unwin said. Three hours is the crucial window of time in which the fa...... associated with high-risk infants sharing beds by teaching mothers about the benefits of putting babies to sleep on their backs in a safe crib and by providing one." SIDS is associated with poverty and putting babies to sleep on unsafe sleeping surfaces, such as in adult beds, or not placing them on their ba...