UCI eye doctors invent laser-assisted cornea-transplant surgery
...School of Medicine. "In addition to precision that exceeds anything that can be duplicated by even a highly skilled surgeon, the laser can create complex shapes that are impossible to achieve with conventional surgery." The study compared the results of conventional transplant surgical techniques to the resu...Federal NIH office clears Ohio State research program
... Ohio State projects using this animal model never exceeds 2 percent, she said. "By sharing our techniques with other researchers around the globe, we can reduce the number of animals required and, at the same time, enhance the quality of our discoveries, including those that lead to improved treatment for s...Treatment helps in preventing TB among those at high risk
...es in South Africa, where overall TB incidence now exceeds 4,000 per 100,000 population per year (i.e., 4 percent). Tuberculosis incidence was already high in this setting before the spread of HIV infection, largely because of a high prevalence of silica dust exposure. Rising HIV prevalence has resulted in i...'Apollo Program' for hydrogen energy needed, Stanford researcher says
..., forexample, was $2.35 to $3.99 per gallon, which exceeds the estimated meancost of hydrogen from wind ($2.16 equivalent per gallon of gasoline). The Stanford study, unprecedented in its detail, used an inventory of morethan 600,000 pollution sources reported by the U.S. Environmental ProtectionAgency from ...Statin therapy may lower mortality in heart failure patients
...t of treating patients for diastolic heart failure exceeds $3.5 billion a year. Co-authors of the report include Hidekatsu Fukuta, M.D. international research fellow, Nagoya Medical School, Japan, David C. Sane, M.D., associate professor of medicine, Wake Forest Baptist, and Steffen Brucks, M.D., internation...Scrapping BCG vaccination in British schools is justified
...andparents come from countries where the incidence exceeds 40 per 100,000. BCG vaccination will continue to have an important role in protecting children in high risk populations from tuberculosis, says the author. Coupled with vigorous efforts to identify and treat cases, and to ascertain and offer prophyla...Trauma victims' survival may depend on which trauma center treats them
...ational annual cost for the care of trauma victims exceeds $200 billion. Los Angeles County currently has four level I facilities and nine level II facilities....Even very low levels of environmental toxins can damage health
...cal action unless the blood lead level of children exceeds 0.48 micromoles/liter, several longitudinal studies of children found inverse relationships between IQ and blood lead levels over a range extending below 0.48 micromoles/liter. These studies found no evidence of a "safe" threshold. The Canadian gov...The Lancet highlights the global burden of foot disease and amputation in diabetic patients
...omments: "The worldwide prevalence of diabetes now exceeds 200 million, and is predicted to rise to more than 300 million in the next 20 years. Up to 15% of patients with diabetes have a foot ulcer at some stage, and over 1 million amputations for diabetes-related complications occur every yearIt is high tim...Caution: New Medicare drug plan may cause headaches
... coverage" is defined as a drug plan that meets or exceeds the actuarial value of Medicare Part D coverage. This could include some private-employer coverage, group health plans and veterans' drug coverage, but not most Medigap policies. (Medigap is a health insurance policy sold by private insurers to fill...Nearly half of people with diabetes are not using aspirin to reduce risk of heart attack and stroke
...ow-dose aspirin in people whose five-year CHD risk exceeds 3%, a point at which the benefits of aspirin therapy are thought to outweigh the risks; the USPSTF recommendations also note that patients with diabetes appear to benefit "as much or more from aspirin as nondiabetic patients." Despite these treatme...Obesity prevents injections from reaching muscle
...d. "The amount of fat tissue overlying the muscles exceeds the length of the needles commonly used for these injections." Pharmaceutical companies design medications so that the proper dosage is absorbed into the blood stream from the muscle. Because fat tissue has significantly fewer blood vessels relative ...Penn study reveals prevalence of night eating syndrome among people with psychiatric conditions
...evalence of night eating syndrome was 12.3%, which exceeds the prevalence of the condition in an obesity clinic. The study revealed a significant effect of night eating syndrome diagnosis on body mass index (subjects with night eating syndrome: mean = 33.1kg/m2; subjects without night eating syndrome: mean =...Losing weight by controlling flavor variety
...al profile of the diet never changes, and meets or exceeds all prevailing dietary guidelines in every phase. Because of this, Katz notes, a dieter could remain on any phase of the plan indefinitely. In addition, the meal plan is appropriate for all members of a household, from the youngest to the oldest....Darkness more than triples EMS helicopter crash fatality risk
...port patients by air only when the benefit clearly exceeds the risk of the flight." The study authors examined National Transportation Safety Board records of EMS helicopter crashes between January 1, 1983, and April 30, 2005. During the 22-year study period, 184 occupants died in 182 EMS helicopter crashes....Rutgers College of Nursing hosts end-of-life conference
...right to decide their daughter's medical treatment exceeds that of the state. The Karen Quinlan case led to New Jersey and other states to enact the "living will" legislation. Quinlan has spoken across the country on ethics, end-of-life care, hospice and the historic importance of the landmark decision. She...Bank of America grant to expand community-based childhood immunization program in northern Manhattan
... in 1999. This figure, for children 19-35 months, exceeds the 73% average for New York City and exceeds the national average of 79% The 78% immunization rate for African-American children living in Harl...Doctors develop new measures for bone disease
...nce between her head and the wall. If the distance exceeds six centimeters the patient likely has one or more vertebral fractures....Study highlighted at ACC better identifies patients at risk for sudden cardiac death
... place for any patient whose QTc interval duration exceeds a half a second at any time. Beta-blockers, widely used heart drugs, and implanted defibrillators that shock the heart back into rhythm when needed, are among the current treatments for LQTS, and will hopefully, based on the study results, become pa...Poor, ethnic children at greater risk for exposure to toxic pollutants
...ticides of other children, exposure that sometimes exceeds federal pesticide safety guidelines. "Many pesticides have the potential to disrupt brain development because they are neurotoxins," explains Dr. Dilworth-Bart. "The federal 'Worker Protection Standards (WPS)' are intended to reduce the exposure of...