Infection takes high toll in young children
...nd influenza." Study co-author Dr David Burgner, specialist in infectious diseases at the School of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Western Australia, said the research team had discussed a number of possible reasons for the high rate of hospitalisation. "These days young children generall...Good news on heart attack and chest pain
...as saved both lives and dollars. U-M heart failure specialist Todd Koelling, M.D., is leading a Michigan-wide effort to improve heart failure care. And U-M is heavily involved in the national D2B Alliance, which seeks to accelerate the use of emergency angioplasty by helping hospitals be ready to deliver the li...Older, lower income patients least likely to see a specialist for lupus
...those with lower incomes were less likely to see a specialist for SLE. Between 2002 and 2004, researchers led ...male patients were less likely to see this type of specialist than female patients. Patients falling into these groups were also less likely to identify any kind ...Mayo Clinic research in cardiovascular disease presented at Experimental Biology 2007
... the molecular design of EPCs, says Dr. Katusic, a specialist in cardiovascular pharmacology at Mayo Clinic's campus in Rochester, Minn. The study was funded by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute. EVIDENCE OF NANOPARTICLES FOUND IN PLAQUE-FILLED ARTERIES EMBARGOED: 9:30 a.m. Eastern, April 3...Medical students should be taught about rape
...assault, with many thinking that this topic is too specialist for the undergraduate curriculum. By contrast, in other countries, such as Canada, training in how to deal with victims of sexual assault is routinely given to medical students. The UK survey concluded that because rape is so common and traumatic, a...Rapid oral HIV test shows great promise according to MUHC-led research
...rs with minimal training, eliminating the need for specialist laboratory technicians." "Rapid point of care HIV testing is a very important component of HIV control initiatives and programs. In particular, non-invasive, simple, accurate oral fluid-based, rapid tests have the potential to make a big impact on ...OHSU surgeon implants donated tissue allografts
...habilitation in the OHSU School of Medicine, and a specialist in sports medicine. "Oregonians, it turns out, are among the most beneficent with respect to providing their bodies to organ donation programs in the entire country." Until recently, however, it was difficult to access some of these tissues for tra...Row over study puts Korea's scientific community under scrutiny again
...Jeong Hwan Kim, against Kwang Yul Cha, a fertility specialist and one of the most powerful players in the country's struggle for biotech supremacy, writes journalist Jonathan Gornall. It is also threatening to disrupt Korea's efforts to recover scientific credibility in the wake of the recent scandal over Woo-S...Teens get needed access to care with state health insurance
...e likely to report that their adolescent visited a specialist or used prescription medications in the program. Emergency department use and other specialty services use did not change during enrollment, which suggests that the program targets needed access, not merely increased use of all health care. Anothe...Nanoparticles can track cells deep within living organisms
...ical engineering and a Washington University heart specialist at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. "And then the cells just go about their business and do what they're supposed to do by homing in on targeted regions of the body." Laboratory tests showed that the cells retained their usual surface markers and that they...Morphine kills pain -- not patients
...f The Taussig Cancer Center in which patients in a specialist palliative care in-patient unit with severe cancer pain were treated with morphine, a type of opioid. Their vital statistics were monitored before and after the pain was controlled and there were no significant changes. Morphine did not cause respira...IOF World Congress on Osteoporosis to be held for first time in Asia
...program. "We have expanded the opportunities for specialist physicians, particularly in the fields of orthopaedics and gynaecology, to meet global experts to discuss specific clinical challenges and learn how best practice is applied in different regions of the world," said Professor Cyrus Cooper, chairman, I...Headache-related work absences have a considerable socio-economic effect
...n people who took part in a study carried out by a specialist headache centre felt they were much less effective... Copenhagen. But its not just people who consult specialist services that add to the economic burden, she says. European and American studies suggest that as ma...UCSF policy expert presents recommendation for health coverage
A health policy specialist at the University of California, San Francisco has developed a strategy to provide universal health care for major and chronic illness for everyone by instituting a plan that incorporates aspects of both a single-payer model and a plan similar to a p...Specialist centers increase chance of surviving abdominal aortic aneurysm surgery
... bad outcome in this type of surgery is death, and specialist centres are best placed to prevent it," says Mr Ho...s of surgery on 112,545 patients. This showed that specialist centres dealing with more than 32 cases a year generate better outcomes than regional centres with l...Lack of guidelines on kidney stone attacks could put travel workers and passengers at risk
...hospital admission" says urologist Nigel Borley, a specialist registrar from St Georges Hospital, London. "The pain is so disabling, that even with intravenous morphine, pain relief only averages 36 per cent." "If transport workers, such as pilots and train drivers, are suddenly incapacitated by kidney sto...Sheffield scientists light up bacteria
...culturing of bacterial swabs as well as the use of specialist bacteriology laboratory facilities. By combining polymers, which change shape when they encounter bacteria, and developing a light signal through fluorescence non radiative energy transfer (NRET), the researchers will be able to detect early stage ba...Empathy skills must be given a high priority in medical education, says Jefferson author
...ts as persons, not just cases, a medical education specialist at Jefferson Medical College says. "If we want to train physicians with more empathy, then education must shift from emphasizing only the biomedical to also providing a biopsychosocial framework, as well and a more complete picture of patients as ...New device could revolutionize eye disease diagnosis -- creating eye maps on the high street
... ability to email detailed eye maps of patients to specialist eye doctors. Ophthalmoscopes, which act as an i...s, City University, & UCL) uses a combination of specialist lens digital imaging and lighting technology which for the first time allows a high quality digital......es are the result of close collaboration between a specialist in two-photon microscopy, Luc Fetler, an INSERM scientist in the CNRS/Institut Curie "Physical Chemistry Curie" Unit1, and immunologists, notably Alexandre Boissonnas, in the INSERM "Immunity and Cancer" Unit at Institut Curie. Our body's defences ag...