Study finds that women with PCOS are at increased risk for cardiovascular disease
...ese findings, indicate that women with PCOS should automatically be screened for the metabolic syndrome, to prevent the risk of early-onset cardiovascular disease." After reviewing medical charts for 161 women, study investigators identified 106 women (46 women with PCOS and the metabolic syndrome; 60 women with P...Competition in health care may not result in better quality
...of 341 HMOs suggests that more competition may not automatically solve price and quality-of-care problems as hoped for by legislators, regulators and employers. "Our findings show that less, not more, competition was associated with better health plan performance in several -- though not all--factors," says lead a...Cost-effectiveness of drugs may vary across borders
...ifferent countries vary considerably, we shouldn't automatically assume that a new drug that gives good value for money in one country will do so an another," states Professor Michael Drummond, co-author of the study. Study results emphasized the fact that economic evaluations in one country give little basis on ...K-State professor takes chemistry to another world
...loping microfluidic devices which will allow us to automatically monitor the health of human cells on orbit." In the past, astronauts have had to freeze cells and bring them back to earth for analysis. With Culbertson's device, the astronauts can look at DNA mutation rates in cells and how they change over time on...ASU researchers team with Kinetic Muscles, Inc. to develop robotic arm for stroke rehabilitation
... user is attempting to reach for something, and to automatically assist their volitional movement." said Dr. He. "Not only is the goal to make the motion more intuitive, but we want the robot to assist at those points in the movement where the individual needs it," said He. As the individual's motor function im...CPR instructions should focus on continuous chest compressions, UT Southwestern physicians recommend
...://www.utsouthwestern.edu/home/news/index.html To automatically receive news releases from UT Southwestern via e-mail,subscribe at http://www.utsouthwestern.edu/receivenews...Study: Americans willing to pay more for greater vaccine coverage
...ealth plan premiums to have their health insurance automatically cover newly recommended vaccines. The results of the study, the first to indicate broad public preference for coverage of all recommended childhood and adult vaccines in employer-sponsored health plans, are published in the May/June 2005 issue of Hea...Study finds maternal exposure to parasitic infection may increase risk of schizophrenia in offspring
...ing of these women born between 1959 and 1967 were automatically enrolled in KFHP. In addition to collecting and storing blood sera samples, the CHDS study collected extensive data on the prenatal period, and conducted maternal interviews on family health history, maternal and paternal health habits, and materna...Physiotherapists cure incontinence
... form a firmer support for the bladder, performing automatically to control urine. That's partly what we're aiming for with our training program, improvement in strength and tone," Neumann said. "One of the problems for women with stress incontinence is that they leak urine during sport so it's a disincentive to e...NIST method improves timing in oscilloscopes
...ion and jitter. These errors then can be corrected automatically for each measurement made by the oscilloscope. The NIST correction method can be applied to older standard equipment, can correct time records of almost any length and can be applied to electromagnetic signals of almost any frequency. It also provide...Fitter by degress? Higher education no panacea for adult health
...ucational qualifications, this may not directly or automatically lead to better adult health. "We must not assume t...ound that a rise in educational attainment may not automatically lead to improvements in people's health. Policies for improving health and reducing inequalities nee...New technology can boost bottom lines for US hospitals
...n addition to being physician-friendly, the system automatically transcribes critical patient data from other parts of the hospital system such as lab results and medication orders and "writes" them into the physician's documentation. This feature dramatically reduces the amount of time that physicians waste sea...Fish oil supplements may be harmful to patients with abnormal heart rhythms
...t these life-threatening abnormal heart rhythms by automatically detecting and treating VT and VF with pacing and/or shocks. In this randomized, double-blind trial, half the patients received a placebo, in this case olive oil, while the other half received 1.8 g of fish oil, omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids. T...Once in the doctor's office, racial and ethnic disparities in care nearly disappear: Stanford study
...oned. "A lack of statistical significance does not automatically mean there is a lack of clinical or political significance," she said. "It is a very complex issue." Ma added that the study does not provide any information about initial access to health care, since outpatient information accounts only for patients......e official on Jan. 1, 2007. Updates to USPNF will automatically transfer to the USP Pharmacists' Pharmacopeia in subsequent supplements and editions....VCU study: Low-dose oral contraceptives may increase risk for heart attack or stroke
...pill is low Women using the pill are not going to automatically have a heart attack," said Nestler. "However, our findings do raise the issue of whether oral contraceptives are optimal therapy for certain groups of women who are at baseline risk or who are taking the pill for a longer time, such as women with PCO...Failure to suppress irrelevant brain activity in Alzheimer disease
...priate sensory stimulation, something that happens automatically when we concentrate. A study by Alexander Drzezga and colleagues (of the Technical University Munich, Germany) to be published in the international open access journal PLoS Medicine now shows that this focusing process is defective in people with Alz...Database of cancer records now available for research
...chniques to capture relevant information from text automatically and enter it into a database. The project has also implemented stringent access control, authentication and secure transmission protocols using sophisticated encryption standards to protect against accidental disclosures. Professor Alan Rector, CLE...US kidney failure rates stabilize, ending a 20-year climb
...ting for kidney disease and encourage more labs to automatically report eGFR, and time-saving tools for health prof...mate kidney function; and a letter template, which automatically calculates patient-specific eGFR, generates a list of next steps based on kidney disease stage and i...Practice makes perfect when implanting cardioverter-defibrillator devices
...entially life-threatening heart arrhythmia, it can automatically deliver a shock to jolt the heart back into a normal rhythm. The researchers analyzed Medicare records for 1999 through 2001 to identify patients who received cardioverter-defibrillators and also how many of those patients received hospital treatment...