Canadian study demonstrates medical induction of labor increases risk of amniotic-fluid embolism
...f three million hospital births in Canada, for the twelve fiscal years 1991-2002. "AFE remains a rare occurrence," said Dr. Michael Kramer, principal investigator of the study and Scientific Director of CIHR's Institute of Human Development, Child and Youth Health. "Of the 180 cases of AFE we found, 24 or...Poor readers have higher risk of suicidal thoughts and behavior
...th between interviews for students and parents was twelve months. The follow-up interviews revealed that students with poor reading skills were more likely to experience suicidal thoughts or attempts and were more likely to drop out of school. In addition, suicidal thoughts or attempts and school drop-ou...Underweight women at greater risk of miscarriage
...who suffered from nausea and sickness in the first twelve weeks of pregnancy were almost 70% less likely to miscarry, and the more severe the sickness, the better the odds of the pregnancy continuing. Noreen Maconochie, Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology and Medical Statistics at the London School of Hygiene......ie. The original images obtained and assembled in twelve video sequences 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 ...IOF World Congress on Osteoporosis to be held for first time in Asia
...m the numerous Meet the Expert Sessions as well as twelve plenary lectures by global experts, special nutrition session, Asian Osteoporosis Audit, oral presentation of selected abstracts, poster sessions and nine satellite symposia which complete the thought-provoking program. "We have expanded the opport...A remedy for what ails medicine
...that's also where the numbers stop adding up. Just twelve percent of women faculty members are promoted to full professor, compared with one-third of male faculty. Furthermore, in the nation's 125 medical schools, on average there are only thirty-five women full professors compared with 188 male full profes...Scientific breakthrough for naprapathy
... and 7% in the control group was totally recovered twelve weeks after the study had started. Separate analysis of neck pain and back pain patients showed similar results. For the majority of the patients the pain/disability had lasted for more than one year. The study looked at a very common type of bac...VEGF Trap shows activity in patients with advanced ovarian cancer
...ents with advanced ovarian cancer at 44 centers in twelve countries in Europe, Canada, and the United States. Favorable results were reported for 85 percent of participants after one month: 8 percent showed tumor shrinkage and 77 percent had stable disease. After fourteen weeks, 41 percent of patients conti...Borderline personality disorder shows improvements with intensive psychotherapy
...TFP treatment showed improvement in ten out of the twelve domains studied. The improvements for the TFP patients were not merely statistically reliable, but they represented fairly impressive scientific effects, not just trivial changes, said Lenzenweger. TFP not only helped reduced suicidal behaviors, bu...U of M researchers assess effectiveness of computerized physician order entry system
...g the wrong drug, did not decrease. In five of the twelve studies, the number of adverse events from drugs errors did not decrease. More than one-half million patients suffer injuries or death from adverse events, causing up to $5.6 million annually per hospital, according to the review....