Virtual colon screenings examined
...cal institutions and health care service providers adopt and reimburse for virtual colonoscopies, we may see a significant decrease in the popularity of more traditional colonoscopy techniques," said Darren C. Schwartz, M.D., University of Wisconsin Medical School and lead study author. "However, differen...$900,000 for first Canadian Chair in Hypertension Prevention and Control
...order to improve their health." Dr. Campbell will adopt a multi-faceted approach toward the primary prevention of hypertension and improvement in the treatment of those in whom the disease cannot be prevented. He will: Expand the Canadian Hypertension Education Program (CHEP); Develop a comprehensive...Human Factors research highlights ways to improve patient safety
...tes, Patterson and colleagues discovered that they adopt a variety of workaround strategies that could result in errors and risk to patients. The researchers suggest ways to minimize workarounds. It can be difficult to diagnose the severity of the condition of a person exhibiting signs of acute cardiac is...Indoor air purifiers that produce even small amounts of ozone may be risky for health
...ould require the California Air Resources Board to adopt regulations to reduce emissions from indoor air cleaners by 2008. The state board and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have issued advisories discouraging use of air purifiers, but the devices remain on the market because no agency has the ou...Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet for May 2, 2006
...od, personnel from the agencies who volunteered to adopt the new guidelines withheld resuscitation in 11.8 percent of patients having cardiac arrests, compared with an average of 5.3 percent of patients in control groups. Most (53 percent) of the withheld resuscitations came from honoring verbal requests. ...Heart attack patients do better at hospitals following guidelines
...s or ACE inhibitors. "The speed in which hospitals adopt novel therapies may identify those hospitals that are systematically incorporating the latest evidence into standard practice," Peterson continued. "Again, keeping up with the latest is another indicator of a hospital's overall culture of providing t...National report identifies Regenstrief Institute as health care information leader
... decision-makers and health-care providers as they adopt technology to make the delivery of the nation's health care safer, more effective and more efficient. The new report, funded by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), looked at studies that have examined the impact of health-care...Study warns of growing cardiovascular disease epidemic in China
Bethesda, MD As more people in China adopt Western diets and lifestyles, many are developing a cluster of cardiovascular disease risk factors, according to a new study in the April 18, 2006, issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. "The metabolic syndrome has become increas...Therapy program export treats borderline personality disorder
...e ways they think about themselves and others, and adopt specific skills for managing their intense emotions. Patients learn new behaviors related to eating, sleeping, exercise, physical health and relationships. Patients also learn new ways to communicate about the disorder with others in their "system," ...Time for Britain to adopt universal hepatitis B immunisation
It's time for Britain to adopt universal hepatitis B immunisation, say senior doc...elective programme effective and should the UK now adopt universal immunisation against hepatitis B, ask the authors? Although the UK has one of the lowest i...Simple checklists could improve child protection
...fective strategies for healthcare professionals to adopt to safeguard children, say the authors. A spate of child deaths as a result of abuse in the UK has pointed to the repeated failures of child protection. And the 2003 Laming Report into the death of Victoria Climbie called for better training and grea...New generation of cardiac interventions, therapies optimize heart disease care
...tientsAs community interventionalists increasingly adopt carotid stenting for the treatment of high-risk patients with plaque build-up in the arteries supplying blood to the brain, the procedure is proving to be just as safe and effective as it was in the hands of pioneering researchers. A registry of pat...Diabetics who control blood sugar today are more likely to have healthy feet and nerves tomorrow
...ns a day. The latter group was later encouraged to adopt tight blood sugar control, and the EDIC study tracked all patients' health. The new paper reports results from eight years of neuropathy assessments under the EDIC study, among 1,441 DCCT participants who had no symptoms or signs of neuropathy at the...Study finds room for improvement in angioplasty, shows what can be done to cut risks
...livering key medications or reducing risks and to adopt practices that would help them improve. For instance, the project's participants developed quick-reference tools that could be used to calculate how much dye was appropriate for each patient, or what their risk of suffering complications might be t...Researchers provide dose of education to lower blood pressure
...es, recipe books, and other tools to help patients adopt healthier lifestyles are also available. An estimated 65 million American adults nearly one in three have high blood pressure. For more than two-thirds of them, blood pressure remains out of control. High blood pressure leads to more than half of a...The Emotional First Aid + Kit: A Practical Guide to Life After Bariatric Surgery
...loss the tools to move beyond their roadblocks and adopt new lifestyle changes." Readers can utilize downloadable patient worksheets that are available through the book, and can learn realistic and practical strategies for dealing with emotional difficulties encountered before and after weight loss surgery...People who restrict calories have 'younger' hearts
...e bread and white pasta. While many people could adopt some of these diet practices, Dr. Fontana cautione...ely that many people would be able to successfully adopt such a strict diet. "The value of the study is that it points to possible mechanisms explaining how...New generation clinical trials could save time and money, improve patient care
...ich he has advocated for more than 30 years, is to adopt a system called the Bayesian method, a statistical approach he says is more in line with how science works. He sites examples of Bayesian approaches being used routinely in physics, geology and other sciences. And he is putting his approach to the te...Structure of viral harpoon protein reveals how viruses enter cells
...," says Dr. Jardetzky, explaining that it does not adopt a single, stable conformation as one normally expects from a protein but rather exists in two very different conformations depending on whether it has harpooned a cell or not. "It's giving us new ideas about how flexible protein structures can be." ...Black baby girls more likely to live when born very premature
... hold their babies as they pass away, while others adopt a wait-and-see approach or request all measures be taken to save the preemie's life. "It's very hard to make rules as to which babies should be resuscitated," said Herman A. Hein, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Iowa. "Each case should...