New treatment 'roadmap' improves odds for unusual brain aneurysm
...ith an aneurysm," Lawton said. "The classification scheme may provide important preoperative guidance to neurosurgeons, increasing the chances of preserving the patient's life and function." Lawton likened the classification to a driver having a roadmap. "It puts the surgeon a couple of steps further ahead,...Number and quality of kidney transplants much greater if national matching program adopted
...earchers compared the optimized algorithm with the scheme currently used in some centers and regions. The model included simulated patients from the general community with characteristics drawn from distributions describing end-stage kidney disease patients eligible for kidney transplantation and live donor...Kidney donation program may provide more matches for previously incompatible recipients and donors
...earchers compared the optimized algorithm with the scheme currently used in some centers and regions. The mo...th an extension of the currently used first-accept scheme to a national level. Highly sensitized patients, who are extremely difficult to match and typically ...'Sister Mary' the robo-doc to start making ward rounds at St Mary's Hospital
...S Trust and Imperial College London are piloting a scheme where medical robots will cover ward rounds. Remote Presence (RP6) Robots allow a medical expert to visually examine and communicate with a patient from anywhere in the world, via the machine, using wireless technology. The robots (nicknamed by staf...National medical and public health groups sue EPA
... also substitutes an inappropriate "cap-and-trade" scheme for strong technology-based pollution control stan...d under the Clean Air Act. This proposed trading scheme threatens individual communities with toxic mercury 'hot spots,' local areas of higher mercury conce...Queensland to be hub of Australasian kidney network
...illion over five years. The NHMRC Enabling Grants scheme is designed to strengthen the research base in particular areas and is intended to assist Australian researchers to continue high quality, world-class research by providing support for specific facilities and activities to enhance the national health...Use of kidney paired donation for incompatible donors could expand donor pool
...eceive transplants using a national KPD transplant scheme with blood type compatible, negative crossmatch kidneys, including as many as 14 percent of the highly sensitized patients," the authors write. "Patients unable to be matched by KPD could undergo desensitization with their intended donor. Those who w...Young scientists turn to gel to ease side-effects of cancer treatment
...der the Bioscience Yorkshire Enterprise Fellowship scheme to commercialise their idea. Their product, a formulation of various chemicals, is a gelatine whose density is comparable with human tissue and can be tailored for different applications. "This technique should allow more rapid, accurate, and there...Government spin on success of NHS cataract privatisation criticised
... practice arising from Action on Cataracts (an NHS scheme run along with the Royal College of Ophthalmologists) not IS-TCs increased the rate of cataract surgery from 170,000 operations in 1998/99 to over 300,000 operations per year by 2003/04. He also notes that the South African corporation Netcare, which...Indians suffer poor health services while private sector expands for foreigners
...rent Indian government aims to create an insurance scheme for poor families and increase health spending. Yet the share of GDP spent on health has decreased in the past two years. The government must focus on improving the health of its citizens rather than "enticing foreigners with offers of low cost ope...Government pledge on access to medicines welcomed
...s and the pharmaceutical industry. "Otherwise, the scheme may not end up being sustainable and the viability of Pharmacy and the pharmaceutical industry could be threatened. "Mr Abbott's comment today that 'there is absolutely no risk that people will miss out on the drugs they need' is reassuring, as was h...New scheme will help London's most vulnerable people
...In this week's BMJ the founders explain why such a scheme is needed, while an editorial explores what this says about society's attitude towards marginalised people. Providing health care to marginalised groups is an integral part of Medecins du Monde's work in developed and developing countries, write Kare...Robust monitoring is crucial to patient choice
...ring of care provided under the new patient choice scheme in England is poorly structured and variable, warn two ophthalmologists in this week's BMJ. They believe that robust monitoring of standards is urgently needed so that patients can make a truly informed choice. Under the new patient choice scheme, al...One million people in medical gamble
...dentities (New Scientist, 15 July 2000, p 42). The scheme was declared unconstitutional after citizens, doctors and opposition groups in the country complained that individuals had not given explicit consent to their details being used in this way. Following the failure of this "Icelandic health database", ...Tomorrow's medical researchers to be nurtured in Manchester
...Clinical Fellowships (ACFs), as part of a flagship scheme to train the medical researchers of the future. A ...ugh annual competitions. The long-term aim of the scheme is to increase the research capacity of the NHS, by developing an expert workforce to support all as...Innovative approach affords Binghamton University researchers clearer view of autism
...for autism. "Part of the reason for this elaborate scheme is we've also been doing some research on how adults interact with children with autism, how they perceive what they think is going on versus what the child is actually doing," said Romanczyk. "This ties into the subtleties of social interaction that...Powerful new tool for studying brain development
...can rapidly determine how it fits into the overall scheme of brain development," said Craig Brumwell, PhD, the GENSAT manager in St. Jude Developmental Neurobiology. "The BGEM helps researchers skip over much of the drudgery of digging up information from the literature or from other databases." The BGEM al...OHSU brings relief to 'suicide disease' sufferers
...sed computer program built around a classification scheme that categorizes forms of the disorder, and it can be trained to recognize patterns in facial pain data and continually improve its accuracy in predicting the correct diagnosis. "It's software designed to work the way the brain does," Burchiel said. ...NYU, Austrian researchers create non-invasive imaging method with advantages over conventional MRI
... be straightforward. The same detection scheme is applicable to NMR spectroscopy. Very delicate samples, such as explosives could be investigated with this method. Preliminary investigations also predict a sensitivity advantage over conventional experiments at length scales of millimeters to micr...