Journal article validates the coming of age of hair replacement surgery
...ing of hair follicles, than traditional follicular unit extraction. The results of Dr. Harris' study are positive news for the roughly 40 million Americans experiencing hair loss. Lower transection rates mean increased accessibility for African-American and elderly patients who may not have qualified for ...Does alcohol labelling encourage sensible drinking?
... of those surveyed could define what constitutes a unit of alcohol, less than a fifth of men and just a quarter of women used the information to monitor how much they drank. Very few - just 8% of women and 5% of men - were aware of the current guidelines which outline sensible daily drinking levels (brou...Hydrocortisone supplementation improves ventilator weaning
Intensive care unit physicians can increase the success of mechanical ventilation weaning and shorten the weaning period by identifying critically ill patients who have adrenal insufficiency and treating them with the hormone hydrocortisone (cortisol). These study resul...End-of-life wishes vary among racial and ethnic groups, and between genders, study finds
...he study would prefer staying in an intensive care unit or nursing home, or to have hospice care, rather than being at home under the care of family. Many black men expressed distrust of doctors without even being asked about the subject, and some expressed concern related to past medical-related injustic...Researchers develop portable 'vein finder' for faster, more accurate injections
... vein finder is composed of two parts: A reusable unit houses the electronics and signal processing components, while a disposable coupler box holds a reflector and needle guide. The needle guide is positioned parallel to the sound beam being transmitted by a transducer in the device's reusable section. ...Patient safety monitoring at Hopkins Hospital finds law of unintended consequences at work
...rly by the hospital, bloodstream infections on the unit increased over the latter half of 2004. Infection rates increased from a low in the spring of slightly more than four days for every 1,000 days patients spent with catheters in the ICU, which is the relative norm, to a high of 17.3 days by the end o...Art therapy can reduce pain and anxiety in cancer patients
...choice. Fifty patients from the inpatient oncology unit at Northwestern Memorial were enrolled in the study over a four-month period. The ESAS is a numeric scale allowing patients to assess their symptoms of pain, tiredness, nausea, depression, anxiety, drowsiness, lack of appetite, well-being and shortn...Bipolar disorder more common than expected in hospitalized adolescents
...or manic symptoms upon admittance to a psychiatric unit can ultimately lead to better treatment overall. F...onsecutive admissions to the psychiatric inpatient unit at Bradley Hospital using a mania rating scale derived from a well-known research interview called t...Adults with lazy eye can improve
...that neurophysiologists have identified as a basic unit of visual perception. Surprisingly, improvement in this abstract exercise generalized to a marked improvement in standard vision tests. The seven subjects improved their overall visual acuity 25 to 216 percent, with an average of 70 percent. Another ...News briefs from the journal Chest, December 2005
...-hour work-shift model in a medical intensive care unit (MICU) over a five-week pilot period. During the nonpilot periods, which included two months prior to and two months after the pilot, residents and fellows worked six days a week and were on in-house call (28 to 30 continuous hours) once every fourth...Less-invasive ultrafiltration device may be practical alternative to diuretics
...ntravenous access, monitoring in an intensive care unit and specialized nursing care. The ultrafiltration device used in this study can be operated by standard hospital nurses outside the setting of the intensive care unit, does not require invasive central IV access and, in the RAPID-CHF trial, was used ...Penn psychologists believe 'unit bias' determines the acceptable amount to eat
...in the coming holiday season. "In terms of food, unit bias applies to what people think is the appropria... portions," Geier said. "This is where we believe unit bias comes into play; without it, people would just eat more units." According to Geier, people see ...New RSV treatment for at-risk infants under study
...dy participants from MCG's neonatal intensive care unit will get their first shot before they leave the hospital then return to the Continuity Clinic at the Children's Medical Center in subsequent months to see Dr. Bunyapen and get the four remaining shots. In between visits, Ms. Holloway will call study ...International team of experts leads new stroke journal
...sity in Hong Kong and Director of the acute stroke unit at the Prince of Wales Hospital. Professor Wong, who trained in Australia, is the author of more than 140 peer-reviewed article and is responsible for co-ordinating numerous clinical trials in Asia. "It's great to be working with such a high pr...Sensors, a smart dose of medicine for cancer treatment
...l resolution. These are then linked to a read-out unit and a PC with dedicated software. The read-out unit is based on ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) and microprocessor technologies, and its ...Doctors call for urgent review of cancer initiative
... confirmed breast cancer cases are referred to his unit under the two-week rule. "Creating a two-tier system will only be acceptable if the majority of cancers are diagnosed in the urgent referral group" says Professor Fentiman. "For example, only five per cent of breast cancers are diagnosed in women un...Measuring certain enzyme activity in urine shows promise for detection of bladder cancer
... cancer detection. Using a 50 arbitrary enzymatic unit (AEU) cutoff value, in the overall series, there was 90 percent sensitivity and 88 percent specificity. Specificity increased to 94 percent for individuals aged 75 years or younger. The same predictive capacity of telomerase activity levels was obser...Most comprehensive USA clinical trial to date shows competing medicated stents work equally well
...linas Heart Institute (a specialized coronary care unit at Carolinas Medical Center). Most of the early FDA-sanctioned studies relied on data available three or six months post-procedure. The STENT registry coordinated by CHS uses nine-month follow-up, and has a participation rate exceeding 95% of eligib...UK's first professor of teenage and young adult cancer appointed in Manchester
...n outstanding job in heading up our teenage cancer unit and we are very proud of the care we provide to young cancer patients. His expertise and dedication is truly admirable and he will, no doubt, excel in this new role." Professor Mike Richards, National Cancer Director, said: "I strongly applaud the vi...... BIDMC in 1986 and served as chief of the diabetes unit from 1990 to 2000 before assuming her current position. She received both BA and MD degrees from Stanford University and an MS in Health and Medical Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley. After completing training in internal medicine ...