Miniature implanted devices could treat epilepsy, glaucoma
...ng your optic nerve. What you really need to do is check it often, every couple of minutes, but you can't go to the doctor every couple of minutes for the rest or your life. So what you need is a device that measures your eye pressure continuously." The research is sponsored by SOLX Inc. in Waltham, Mass...Journalists: Register now for CHEST 2007 in Chicago
...ession topics, special events, or Chicago tourism, check out the CHEST 2007 Advance Program. Exclusive Offerings for Registered Journalists: Complimentary registration to CHEST 2007, which includes access to general sessions, honor lectures, and special events, such as press conferences, simulated m...Scaling up HIV prevention programs is cost effective
...ould save millions of lives, as well as keeping in check the number of new patients requiring expensive anti-retroviral therapies. Larger prevention programs use money more efficiently than smaller ones, analysis of the Prevent AIDS: Network for Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (PANCEA) project suggests. The ...When minority patients have insurance and a medical home, their health care improves
...ensive adults with a medical home report that they check their blood pressure and it is well controlled compared with 25 percent of those without a medical home. Having Health Insurance Matters. More than half of insured adults received a reminder from a doctors office to schedule preventive visit...Low libido in menopause linked to trouble sleeping
...he said. Middle age is a great time for couples to check in with each other and work toward improving communication and nurturing their partnership. With age, sexual desire may be diminished for both women and men, said Dr. Reed, whose clinical practice is at the Women's Clinic at Harborview Medical Cent...New mothers often not asked about depression, UNC survey finds
...can be treated. We encourage clinicians to always check for signs of depression during postpartum visits. These questions represent the core symptoms of a major depressive disorder. According to the study, only 43 percent of physicians said they were almost certain to ask whether a woman felt down, depr...Study: Who claims to be a pediatrician?
...xpertise," he says. Parents also can go online to check a pediatrician's board certification status via th...American Board of Pediatrics every seven years. To check on a pediatrician's board certification status, visit the ABP at www.abp.org. 2. Office hours. Doe...Researchers find deadly prescription drug effects 6 years before FDA
... Sunday and ask her to drive back to her office to check a chart. Then Bennett and his team fit all the puzzle pieces together to figure out what happened and how to prevent it in the future. The new study also shows, however, that the FDA and drug companies were faster than RADAR to spread the word a...African-Americans perceive people with extreme health problems as less productive and valuable
...lem, or extreme problem, and subjects are asked to check the level most descriptive of their current level of function or experience on each dimension....Ruling out pulmonary embolism with a simple bedside protocol
...stic testing. Patients do not want a technician to check off tests on an order sheet while the physician hurries off to see the next patient. The ability to document PERC rule negative on the chart will provide physicians with the scientific and medicolegal backstop they need to justify not ordering a test...Use of Swedish 'snus' is linked to a doubled risk of pancreatic cancer
...have never smoked. The subjects attended health check ups between 1978 and 1992, during which they were asked to report on their smoking and snusing habits. The researchers have also studied rates of oral and lung cancer amongst the men, but found no correlation to snus. "Were actually not that surpri...Baby aspirin better for your health, University of Kentucky study says
...use of heart attacks and strokes. "Patients should check with their doctor to be sure, but there is almost no one who needs to take more than 81 mg of aspirin a day for protection from heart attacks," Steinhubl said.Going forward, the study notes that the greatest challenge ahead for physicians may be to d...A revolution in the monitoring of unborn babies
...sy to use so that mothers-to-be can keep a regular check on their babys heart beat without having to go into hospital and be attached to a machine. No other technology allows them to do this. It took 15 years of pioneering work and enterprise, with funding from Action Medical Research and Venture Capital...UQ researchers identify thousands with curable high blood pressure
...re indefinite monitoring by their doctor to keep a check on their health. It would be a shame for people to miss the opportunity to be cured," he said. Excess hormonal activity by the adrenal glands causes this type of hypertension. When only one of the two adrenal glands is overactive, it can be safely...New research shows why too much memory may be a bad thing
...ryday working memory tasks, such as balancing your check book or decision making. "We were surprised to find that halting neurogenesis caused an improvement of working memory, which suggests that too much memory is not always a good thing, and that forgetting is important for normal cognition and behavio...Measuring lung motion leads to better radiation treatment for lung cancer
...iation treatment plans because they can be used to check the accuracy of equipment and computer software used to obtain four-dimensional computed tomography (4D CT) scans. 4D CT allows physicians to locate tumors and create a three-dimensional model of a patient's internal organs that accounts for bodily m...Sign language at your fingertips, anytime, anywhere
...page to www.mobilesign.org and type in a word or check the alphabetic listing. Users will need a mobile, on any networks, which has a video player or a 3G phone. ...New study: Pine bark significantly reduces endometriosis
... at 4,12, 24 and 48 weeks after treatment began to check for symptom control (pain, urinary and bowel symptom, breakthrough bleeding). Pain was evaluated by patients self-assessment and an investigator interviewed and performed a gynecologic examination. Patients were randomized to two groups: Pycnogeno...On a diet? You'll spend more on impulse purchases
... were NOT to write it down, but instead to place a check mark at the side of their paper. The participants were then told that they were taking place in an unrelated study and given $10 to spend on items from the college bookstore. They were told that whatever unspent money was theirs to keep. Even a...Northwestern surgeon invents teaching technology for scary patient exams
...ill I pay my bills, will the lights go out, is the check going to bounce?" she said. Now she talks to and encourages black students to go into medicine. She tells them what she has learned: "You can accomplish anything."...