More careful 'aiming' of CT cuts down on radiation without compromising image quality
...sivayam, MD, lead author of the study. "There is a widespread awareness of radiation risk from CT, and doctors are trying to find ways to cut down on that risk. The results of our study show that limiting the length of scanning for the body part under study can reduce the radiation dose, while still maintainin...Study reports newborn screening tests can save both lives and money
...), the first of these disorders to be subjected to widespread screening. This was the first cost-effectiveness study to examine the prospect of incorporating broad testing using tandem mass spectrometry, a method that can test for several conditions at the same time, also called "multiplexing." The IU School ...Autism has high costs to US society
...cost could be higher if there were more useful and widespread treatment options available. "Given that the federal autism research budget has been historically less than $100 million per year and given that research budgets for other conditions with similar numbers of affected individuals are sometimes orders o...Vulnerability to measles among nursery school children risen sharply
...hat the vaccine might be linked to autism provoked widespread alarm. MMR was introduced across the UK in 1988. The recommended schedule is for the first dose to be given at the age of 13 months, with the second dose at between 3 years and 5 years of age. The researchers looked at the vaccination records for Sc...Simplified dermoscopy techniques improve detection of malignant skin lesions in primary care
...n the fight against skin cancer. Dermoscopy is not widespread in Spain, contrarily to what happens in Australia or Germany, where dermoscopy is routinarily applied, and digital imaging techniques are expanding. Nevertheless, this technique, which helps PCPs take decisions, has been naturally included in the dai...Fertility drugs given 'all-clear' in new study
...ates of inherited malformations. This study led to widespread concern about the use of letrozole, a drug which has been widely used in the treatment of infertility in recent years. "There were several methodological problems with the earlier study," says Dr. Tulandi. "For one thing, it compared the incidence of...Steroids do not prolong survival in intensive care patients with ARDS on life support
...r diseases such as pneumonia or sepsis (severe and widespread bacterial infection), or who have sustained major injuries that result in severe fluid building up in both lungs, leading to breathing failure. An estimated 30 percent to 50 percent of ARDS patients die. Results of the Late Steroid Rescue Study appe...Latest issue of Alzheimer's & Dementia explores new ideas for cause, screening and risk factors
...s state their desire to develop a consensus on the widespread institution of screening policy for dementia. Alzheimer's & Dementia encourages members of the scientific community to add their perspective by contributing short commentaries on this subject. "Perspective on a pathogenesis and treatment of Alzheimer...Neuropsychological function of kids with cavities filled with mercury-containing amalgam
...e mercury is an acknowledged neurotoxin, there are widespread concerns about the health effects of exposure to this metal. But no randomized trials have been previously published that address the concern that inhalation of mercury vapor released by amalgam dental restorations causes adverse health effects. It...Self harm high among Goth youths
... with rates of 7-14% in the UK. It is particularly widespread in certain populations and may be linked to depression, attempted suicide, and various psychiatric disorders in later life. Contemporary Goth youth subculture has been linked with self harm, but there is little evidence to support this. Researchers a...Study shows more than half of esophageal cancer patients now survive
...edical Center contend that earlier diagnoses, more widespread screening and individualized care have made surger...y, medical center researchers are calling for more widespread use of the technique, particularly in those whose tumor is detected early. The study also found that...Stem cell transplants improve recovery in animal models for stroke, cerebral palsy
...onveniently stored, and efficiently delivered on a widespread basis. We believe that we can achieve that with MultiStem TM ," commented Dr. Van Bokkelen. In extensive animal testing, the mature stem cells have been shown to be safe, and do not form tumors or other abnormal tissue, a potential problem seen with...Japanese encephalitis widespread in Bali
Japanese encephalitis might be more widespread in Indonesia than previously thought. In a study p...bly due to inadequate surveillance, the disease is widespread in Bali. Better surveillance and the implementation of vaccination programmes for Japanese encephali......rception is complicated and involves different and widespread areas of the brain, there is much that remains unknown about how humans perform this task. "We found that faces aren't special in the way many scientists once thought," says Maximilian Riesenhuber, PhD, assistant professor of neuroscience and senior...The $6 billion (hu)man is becoming reality, as bionics restores or expands humans' abilities
...ineering and medicine illustrates the simulations' widespread applications: he collaborates with physicians at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital in devising new treatments for children with cerebral palsy. Dr. Homayoon Kazerooni, University of California, Berkeley, is the creator of BLEEX, a wearable robotic...Life or death can depend on teenage cancer patients taking their treatments properly
...rug compliance, yet non-compliance with therapy is widespread amongst adolescents with cancer, who are at particularly high risk, since their malignancies may have a poorer prognosis than those of younger children. Although the literature we reviewed cited studies carried out mainly in the 1980s and 1990s, we b...March/April 2006 Annals of Family Medicine Tip Sheet
... the findings' external validity by limiting their widespread applicability. The accompanying editorial by Starfield outlines action steps necessary to design clinical trials, alter the focus of primary health care and develop the basis for judging adequacy of evidence for judging the quality of care based on p...Clinton Foundation, Yale and Ethiopian Ministry of Health forge partnership
...diatric program aims to assist countries implement widespread treatment for children living with HIV/AIDS, beginning with a program to donate ARV treatment for 10,000 children in the programs' first year, approximately doubling the number of children on treatment in developing countries outside of Brazil and Th...Study finds pathological gambling runs in families
...e." Black said that gambling problems have become widespread in the last 20 years, mainly due to easy access to...ines in stores, as gambling outlets. "Gambling is widespread in Iowa, and it has been claimed that Iowa has more forms of legalized gambling than any other state...Let me hear your body talk: UH scientists mine biomedical data
...nce the user's experience, as well as create a new widespread preventive medicine paradigm for computers to one day monitor the actual health of their users during computer use. Vilalta, whose research involves analyzing massive amounts of data with the goal of extracting meaningful and informative patterns, ...