Alberta develops world's first electronic surgical reporting
...gical Medical Records program (WebSMR) and will be extending the program to other parts of the province thanks to $1.4 million in funding by Canada Health Infoway. The new tool allows doctors to fill out a standardized electronic report after performing surgeries. The reports can be shared by the entire cance...Stevens Institute of Technology Roundtable
...stent with governmental standards may be required, extending the guidelines of HIPAA even further. "The merger of a robust systems integration of hardware, software, network, telecom, and audit components with encryption, data control and access centralization, extends the security umbrella for any system, an...Treating obesity may improve the efficacy of therapy for hepatitis C
...ss, medications to decrease insulin resistance and extending duration or dosage of therapy are strategies that may improve the efficacy of therapy. The results of this study appear in the June 2006 issue of Hepatology, the official journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD). Pu...Study finds ways to improve detection of blood clots in the lung
...entially deadly blood clots in the lung shows that extending the scan to the legs "where the clots typically originate" or adding a standard clinical assessment significantly improves physicians' abilities to accurately diagnose pulmonary embolism. A sudden and potentially deadly blockage in a lung artery, pul...New preservative increases shelf life of blood platelets - decreases risk of harmful reactions
...sia, or combat situations in Iraq and Afghanistan extending the shelf life of platelets could have global impl...ined glucose, which seems to be a key component in extending the shelf life of platelets. The preservative also contained sodium acetate and sodium bicarbonate. ...Embargoed materials for Complementary & Integrative Medicine Conference
NOTE: The HMS public affairs office is extending the media materials below on behalf of the North American Research Conference on Complementary & Alternative Medicine, which is sponsored by the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine. The chair of the consortium's scientific...Inhaled steroids help young children breathe but do not prevent chronic asthma
...sults of the PEAK study provide strong support for extending the use of inhaled corticosteroids, for the same reasons, to pre-school children at high risk for asthma....12-Qubits reached in quantum information quest
...l control method in quantum information processing extending up to 12 qubits. The team's research is available in Physical Review Letters (PRL 96, 170501 week ending 5 May, 2006) and describes the approaches, accuracy and scalability. Despite decoherence, the researchers reached a 12-coherence state and deco...Study finds middle-aged Americans not as healthy as English counterparts
...ans found in studies by Smith and others. Further, extending the study to other countries with different health systems, such as Canada and the rest of Europe, and looking at minorities would allow experts to compare the effects of publicly funded health care in each country.......oric intake in hopes of improving their health and extending their lives. Society members, who call themselves CRONies (Calorie Restriction with Optimal Nutrition), have developed ways to eat low calorie/high nutrition diets. Fontana has done extensive research with CRONies, most recently reporting in the Jan...Researchers win money to develop breath test to detect breast cancer
...n 2003. Lahann came to U-M in 2003, and his lab is extending the technology into applications. The IDEA proposal states that the switchable surfaces have molecularly designed sites that will attract certain metabolites indicative of breast cancer. These sites are actually little nanopockets about 6.4 nm2 in s...Let me hear your body talk: UH scientists mine biomedical data
...g modalities, the grant seeks to unify these labs, extending the range of technologies and adding computation and visualization resources. Zouridakis' research, for instance, involves dense-array scanners to capture and analyze the electrical, magnetic and infrared aspects of brain activity in an effort to un...Study recommends treatment change for pre-leukemia disease
...of the present analysis point to the importance of extending therapy with low-dose decitabine beyond the point of first response, and strongly support institution of a maintenance treatment." This type of continued outpatient maintenance treatment is presently studied by the authors in a multicenter clinical t...Newsbriefs from the journal Chest, March 2006
...g per patient was $1,580. Researchers believe that extending their findings to large numbers of ICUs could have a major impact on national health-care expenditures. The study appears in the March issue of CHEST, the peer-reviewed journal of the American College of Chest Physicians. PATIENTS ON MEDICAID FACE U...5,000 rare diseases need drugs, but Europe only approves a handful each year
...simplifying marketing authorisation procedures and extending market exclusivity" adds Dr Jeffrey Aronson, Chair of the journal's editorial board. "Only the last of these incentives is available in Europe. "The experience in Europe also contrasts sharply with the USA, where there are more incentives - 1,100 dru...Early intervention with ICDs: Saving lives and money
...chers have introduced the concept that the cost of extending life with a defibrillator in young and otherwise healthy subjects with genetic cardiac disorders can be balanced by society gains when the lifespan of an individual is considered. Through computer-based analytical models, the study, published in Ann...Australian first to save sight
...save the sight of hundreds of Victorians a year by extending the time between donation and needing to perform the transplant. Thanks to the new facilities, LCDS can now store corneas at human body temperature levels (34C) for up to a whole month. Previously, corneas were held at low temperatures and had to be ...News nuggests: University of Pittsburgh health sciences research roundup
...n called the "silent killer," may prove useful for extending the life of transplanted organs, suggests a University of Pittsburgh study that found prolonged, low-dose exposure to be protective against chronic rejection in a rat kidney transplant model. Chronic rejection is the primary reason that patients requ...Radiotherapy advance points way to noninvasive brain cancer treatment
...to current therapies that offer little promise for extending life. De Stasio says it will be a year before it is known whether the treatment works in animal models, and likely another five to ten years before clinical trials and available treatments would emerge. While the human health payoff seems far away, ...Threat of avian influenza pandemic grows, but people can take precautions
...est that the influenza A (H5N1) virus is closer to extending beyond Southeast Asia and into the worldwide population, write Priya Sampathkumar, M.D., Mayo Clinic Division of Infectious Diseases, and Dennis Maki, M.D., University of Wisconsin Medical School's Section of Infectious Diseases. They co-authored an ...