Cedars-Sinai Surgeons Present TeleSurgery
...hough the therapeuticresults are similar, recovery time is not, according to Dr. McKenna. AtCedars-Sinai, ...nes will allow these operations to be seen in real time in Cincinnati withoutthe blurring or "ghosting" that used to occur during satellite transmissions,sa...Pairing Two Drugs With Angioplasty May Offer Best Success In Treating Heart Attacks
...hmansaid. "That's because 60 minutes is within the time span most patients are sentfor a primary angioplasty." Patients considered for the trial were those suffering uncomplicatedheart attack, and whose symptoms lasted less than six hours. Those patients whohad a prior history of stroke, bleeding......nary Session III DALLAS, Nov. 9 -- The amount of time people delay in deciding to seek care forheart att...Institute, testedcommunity campaigns to reduce the time people delay seeking emergency care forheart attack in 20 medium-sized cities in five regions of the...'Alternative' Medicine Becoming Mainstream, UF Study Finds
... research onalternative medicine for a much longer time than people in the other healthprofessions," Burg said. "Nursing traditionally has been a holistic,patient-oriented profession, which fits in well with the culture of a many alternative therapies." Neims noted that like the American population in gen......98: Zanamivir (Relenza) has been shown to cut the time torecover from influenza by up to one-third in oth...rial. The primary endpoint of the trial wasmedian time to alleviation of clinically significant symptoms of influenza,measured by the patient's own assessm...National Clinical Trial To Test Effectiveness Of Antibiotic Treatment For Coronary Artery Disease
... every person is infected with thebacteria at some time in life. In the late 1980s, researchers, includingGrayston, identified a possible relationship between Chlamydia pneumoniae andheart disease when the bacteria was identified in samples of diseased coronaryartery tissue. Two small trials eva......engage in risky sex (usecondoms less than half the time while having sex) compared to patients not beingtreated with protease inhibitors. Even more alarming, according to Dr. DiClemente, was the finding that patientsusing protease inhibitors were also more likely to report "never" using condomsduring se...Discovery: Experiments Confirm Novel Eye Pigment Controls Circadian Rhythm
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...nding the right,scaled-down child-size dose. It is time that children got their own treatments, Ferriero writes in aneditorial in the December 1998 issue of Current Opinion in Pediatrics. She saysthat scientists now have enough information about young children's developingbrains to start looking for appr...New drugs, diagnostic tests, software needed to prepare US cities for chemical, biological attacks
...n the civilian environment, the enemy, weapon, and time and place of attackare unknown, making this sort of preparation impossible. Nevertheless, high priority should be placed on preparing for certain types ofattacks, the report says. Operations-related research is needed to advisefederal authorities on...A New Era In Newborn Screening
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