UK approval procedures will drive research overseas
...new obstacle to health service research will block evaluation work and accelerate the migration of clinical studies to other parts of the world," they conclude....Blood test can accurately diagnose heart failure in emergency patients
...re enrolled in the study. In addition to standard evaluation of symptoms, a blood sample was drawn for NT-proBN...P testing should now become a routine component of evaluation for patients with shortness of breath in emergency department settings." Januzzi is an assistant pr...Few women at risk for breast cancer willing to use drug to prevent the disease
...he risks and benefits of tamoxifen and a follow-up evaluation of their knowledge about the drug and their decision to take or not take tamoxifen. The women in the study seriously overestimated their breast cancer risk, perceiving they were at ten times their actual risk. Despite that substantial overestimation ...NIST to host public forum on robot standards
... responders and response agencies; and testing and evaluation sites and laboratories....Can hospital data detect poor performing doctors?
... seeking explanations for outlier status. "Further evaluation of our method is warranted, but our overall approach may be potentially useful in other settings, especially where performance entails several indicator variables," they conclude....Patients' lives at risk from substandard drugs say heart specialists
...drug reached the open market, systematic long-term evaluation was more difficult, with assessment relying on a combination of government-sponsored vigilance, spontaneous reports and epidemiological monitoring. Present arrangements were not fully adequate and did not always favour impartial decisions, she said, ...Institute of Medicine news: Human resource crisis in HIV/AIDS
...e input on the development, ongoing operation, and evaluation of the proposed service. In the first year, 150 U.S. health professionals should be selected for the GHS service corps and deployed based on several criteria, including specific priorities that have been identified by each country's health ministry i...Increased risk associated with combining carotid artery, coronary artery surgeries
ST. PAUL, Minn. Among patients undergoing evaluation for coronary artery bypass surgery, stroke neurologists are frequently consulted when the patient also has severe carotid artery stenosis (blockage of an artery that supplies blood to the brain). In a small number of these cases, a carotid endarterec...Report reveals need to improve physical health of people with schizophrenia
...hizophrenia. The researchers also assert that the evaluation of new therapies should include assessments of long-term risk to physical health in addition to psychiatric effects....Patients swallow 'camera-in-a-pill' to help doctors check for diseases of esophagus, GERD
...will make it easier for people at risk to get that evaluation sooner and keep esophageal disease in check." Brown cautions the pill camera is not for everyone. People with swallowing disorders, pacemakers or with known or suspected gastrointestinal obstruction, strictures, or fistulas are not candidates. Brown ...Rush University Medical Center studies advanced 3D imaging system for radiation therapy
... use of the Perspecta Spatial 3D system to improve evaluation and planning of radiation treatments. This unique ... is being studied to determine if it is useful for evaluation of the radiation dose distribution, but the tools are not yet available to use the equipment for tre...Low-dose MDCT 'better option' than x-rays for imaging children's sinuses
...w-dose MDCT is a better option than x-rays for the evaluation of sinus disease in children," said Dr. Mulkens. ...ASU researchers team with Kinetic Muscles, Inc. to develop robotic arm for stroke rehabilitation
...ng. Dr. He will present a paper on the design and evaluation of the robotic arm this summer at the 9th International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics in Chicago on June 28-July 1. Dubbed "RUPERT," for Robotic Upper Extremity Repetitive Therapy, Kinetic Muscles, Inc. is producing the prototypes for the pr...Kids at risk for lead poisoning don't get necessary testing
...evel. While the majority of these visits were for evaluation and medical care management, more than 13 percent had at least one visit for preventive care and more than 26 percent had an emergency department visit all of which account for missed opportunities for follow-up testing, Kemper says. "Based on thi...Surgery to treat vocal-cord spasms shows high success rate
...ice samples. Of the total 81-patient sample, this evaluation was limited to 46 patients who possessed a pre-operative vocal recording. In a blind, randomized comparison, the team detected no voice breaks in 74 percent of the post-operative sample. Fifteen percent of the patients still experienced mild voice...Study concludes primary IGF-1 deficiency is a frequent cause of short stature
...diatric endocrine centers in the United States for evaluation of the hormonal basis of their short stature. Of these, 4,663 children were diagnosed with short stature. The study, known as Sub-study 6 of the National Cooperative Growth Study, found that among IGF-1 deficient short stature patients, non-growth h...Improvements in critical care decrease risk of post-injury multiple organ failure
...e of the study. Multiple organ failure is based on evaluation of four organ systems, pulmonary, liver, kidney and cardiac. Single organ failure is defined by a dysfunction grade of one or greater on a scale of zero (best) to three (worse). Post-injury multiple organ failure is defined by a total score for the ...Cutting-edge technologies signify a new era for colorectal cancer screening
...ts of this trial are promising and warrant further evaluation in larger clinical trials." Aer-O-Scope: Self-Propelling Self-Navigating Skill-Independent Colonoscopy; a New Era in Screening Colonoscopy (Abstract 90) The colonoscopy screening procedure has been the subject of debate in the field of gastroentero...Trumpeting vaccination may only entrench opposition
...ssor of medicine and health policy, management and evaluation at U of T, internal medicine physician at Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, and lead author of the research. "Some parents have strongly held beliefs about the safety and benefits of vaccines and any attempts to try to change their...New kidney function test better than standard at predicting death and cardiovascular outcomes
...beth G. Nabel, M.D., NHLBI director. The standard evaluation of kidney function is an estimate of the kidney's rate of filtration--called the glomerular filtration rate (GFR)-- based on measurement of creatinine in the blood and a further calculation based on a patient's age, gender and race. Measurement of cy...