New patient magazine from American Academy of Neurology to launch in April
...used by the barrage of inaccurate information from unreliable sources. Neurology patients and their families are also often overwhelmed and their physicians hard-pressed to put the avalanche of new information in proper perspective. For these and other reasons, the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) is launc...Obesity may affect accuracy of prostate screening
...n men, making the screening test likely to produce unreliable results in this population. The full study is published in the March 1, 2005 issue of CANCER ( http://www.interscience.wiley.com/cancer-newsroom ), a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society. Since the use of early detection tests for pr...Researchers find weaknesses in Arkansas public health system
...ring the outbreak: nonspecific clinical diagnosis, unreliable testing methods, excessive numbers of samples, unavailability of chemicals/kits needed for testing samples, inadequate transport system (causing delays between taking samples and testing), and inadequate laboratory personnel and equipment. Treating ...Patient outcomes are better indicator than patient volume for selecting hospitals for VLBW babies
...and level of care at the NICU, would tend to be an unreliable indicator of quality in our sample of hospitals (e.g., many hospitals with low-patient volume or low-level NICUs would have better patient outcomes and vice versa). "Our results suggest that direct-quality indicators based on patient mortality are li...No need to change post-operative treatment for lung cancer, says clinical scientist
...tients given adjuvant treatment, was statistically unreliable and needed to be taken in context, he said. "A large body of evidence 17 cisplatin trials as opposed to 1, the IALT study -demonstrated no survival advantage with the use of cisplatin-based adjuvant chemotherapy", said Professor Thatcher. A meta-an...Doppler-guided fluid administration during surgery improves outcome
...od pressure, heart rate and oxygen saturation were unreliable indicators of mild hypovolemia," Gan said. The issue of maintaining proper fluid volumes is an area in need of more research because of its prevalence and its effects on recovery after surgery, Gan said. "Many patients are already in a state of hypov...Study finds Medicare overbilling may be caused by government's faulty reimbursement
...urrent system for coding is too undecipherable and unreliable to justify the huge fines placed on health care institutions for allegedly upcoding services," said Dr. Asplin....Study: many poor children live in pain because barriers to dental care too great
...e dentists complain that such patients parents are unreliable and that the paperwork and bureaucracy are excessively burdensome, said Rozier, who oversaw the study. Parents and other caregivers interviewed in the new investigation say some dentists or their staffs make them feel unwelcome and embarrass them by ...Alga-Based Compound Promises Less Bleeding On The Battlefield
...ed to stop the loss of blood.The dressing alone is unreliable for hemorrhage control. Other products are presently in development by other agencies that also promotehemostasis, but they contain clot inducing proteins that are derived from humanblood. With such products there is a risk of disease transmission. ......tionalintercalative or minor groove modes, but are unreliable for mixed andnon-classical modes. For this particular project, Coury and McFail-Isom looked at threedifferent DNA ligands: ethidium, daunomycin hydrocloride and2,5-bis(4-amidinophenyl) furan, or APF. Ethidium and daunomycin wereused as controls, sin...