Chinese children with hearing devices benefit from new speech test
...essment tools and the audiologists who use them is ever increasing, as the number of hearing impaired children identified through Chinas early screening and intervention programs increases, said Dr. Zheng, who is also vice president of the Chinese Academy of Audiological Rehabilitation (CAAR). She further...Study says COPD testing is not measuring up
...t only one-third of patients with a COPD diagnosis ever received spirometry testing. Without proper testing, both underdiagnosis and misdiagnosis may occur, which can lead to improper therapies being prescribed, said lead author MeiLan Han, MD, MS, University of Michigan, Division of Pulmonary and Crit...New treatment effective in counteracting cocaine-induced symptoms
... with nearly 35 million Americans reporting having ever tried cocaine and an estimated 7.3 million users, including 15 percent of young adults ages 18 to 25, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Life-threatening emergencies related to cocaine use include sudden cardiac death, high blood pres...New study counts the economic cost of persistent pain in Australia
...icine experts are setting out to conduct the first ever study to determine the true economic cost of persistent pain in Australia in a project being funded by the MBF Foundation. An estimated one in five Australians of working age suffers from relentless and often disabling pain but as few as 10 per cen...Even older women at high risk have little interest in being tested for HIV, study finds
...r than 25 percent of the participants could recall ever receiving counsel to get a test for HIV from a provider, despite their risk factors. Yet, in part because of a lack of education and prevention efforts targeted at older populations, older women appear to be less capable of accurately assessing th...Sports concussion research using fMRI provides insight for safe return-to-play decisions
... traumatic brain injury or concussion than we have ever known, noted Dr. Lovell, including the knowledge that mismanagement of even seemingly mild concussions can lead to serious consequences in young athletes. A concussion can occur when an athlete receives a traumatic force to the head or upper body ...Trial stops after stroke and mortality significantly reduced by blood
...on in the Very Elderly Trial (HYVET) is thelargest ever clinical trial to look at the effects of lowering bloodpressure solely in those aged 80 and over. Preliminary results of thetrial, which is coordinated by scientists from Imperial College London,suggest that lowering blood pressure significantly redu...Postpartum hospital discharges -- when is the 'right time?'
...shed today in the journal Pediatrics, is the first ever to prospectively examine the decision-making process of over 4,000 mothers and their physicians around the readiness of mothers and their infants to leave the hospital after childbirth. The study, led by Dr. Henry Hank Bernstein M.D., Professor of...RAND, Health Dialog form alliance to create tools to evaluate health-care quality and efficiency
...ted the largest and most comprehensive examination ever made of the quality of American health care. Health Dialog will integrate the RAND QAScoresTM into its care management services and provider performance measurement system. This alliance brings together two organizations that are leading efforts ...European heat waves double in length since 1880
...t accurate measures of European daily temperatures ever indicate that the length of heat waves on the continent has doubled and the frequency of extremely hot days has nearly tripled in the past century. The new data shows that many previous assessments of daily summer temperature change underestimated he...Shining light on pancreatic cancer
...Trek, a doctor is able to make a diagnosis without ever interrogating an organ. Biophotonics shows that this approach may be closer to reality that one might expect," added Backman. The nanoscale approach allows the researchers to differentiate cancerous or pre-cancerous tissue from normal tissue, even ...Trials underway for 'essential' new TB vaccine
...l trials to date show the highest T cell responses ever induced with a vaccine. "This vaccine is safe and stimulates very high levels of the type of immune response we think we need to protect against TB. It is important for us to test whether or not this vaccine does work to stop people getting TB," s...Speeding up CT scans with cellphone technology, ultrasound warning signal for breast cancer
...eatments. ABOUT MEDICAL PHYSICISTS If you have ever had a mammogram, an ultrasound, an x-ray, a CT or a PET scan, chances are reasonable that a medical physicist was working behind the scenes to make sure the imaging procedure was as effective as possible. Medical physicists help to develop new imagi...New heart disease risk score will help minimize health inequalities
...nt out that this is the largest such study to have ever been undertaken, and the first time routine data in a UK general practice population have been used in this way. Study leader, Professor Julia Hippisley-Cox, of The University of Nottingham, said: QRISK is derived from primary care data for use in...IOF Bone Apptit campaign wins prestigious communications award
... largest number of national osteoporosis societies ever held Bone Apptit events. The campaign used celebrity chefs to communicate the Bone Apptit message and they also assisted by doing hands-on cooking demonstrations and preparing meals at fundraising and media events. Global Gold Sponsors for the IOF ...Where is the most dangerous place to travel over the holiday?
...r vehicle is one of the most dangerous things they ever do, and this is particularly true when traveling on rural roads. While U.S. Census figures show that about two out of ten (21 percent) Americans live in rural areas, the U.S. Department of Transportation has found that about six out of ten (57 percen...Weill Cornell Medical College announces gifts totaling $400M
... million -- believed to be the single largest gift ever given to a medical college -- from Joan and Sanfor...ion gift to Cornell University -- the largest gift ever to the Ithaca campus from an individual -- to help fund its New Life Sciences Initiative, which aims......Yorkers are getting life-saving colonoscopies than ever before, the Health Department announced today, and people of all races and incomes are benefiting. The test which can detect, prevent, or cure colorectal cancer is generally recommended once every decade for people 50 and older, and earlier for tho...Heading to Siberia: UH signs agreement with Russian Academy of Sciences
...pooling resources and working better together than ever before. This partnership will facilitate this sharing of talent both on the faculty and student levels that is so crucial in todays expanded research endeavors, creating scholarly communities across traditional lines. Past and current collabor...GSK announces launch of largest ever Phase III trial in lung cancer treatment
...l cancer immunotherapy; the largest clinical trial ever conducted in lung cancer treatment. MAGE-A3 ASCI will be evaluated as adjuvant therapy in about 2,270 MAGE-A3 positive patients with completely resected stage IB, II or IIIA NSCLC. GSKs ASCIs aim to stimulate the patients own immune response to ide...