Loud music can make you drink more, in less time, in a bar July 19, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Commercial venues are very aware of the effects that the environment – in this case, music – can have on in-store traffic flow, sales volumes, product choices, and consumer time spent in the immediate vicinity. A study of ... | |
Analysis of quickly stopped Rx orders provides new tool for reducing medical errors July 18, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
By studying medication orders that are withdrawn ("discontinued") by physicians within 45 minutes of their origination, researchers at The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have demonstrated a systematic and efficient ... | |
Doctors are key to tackling knife violence, says expert July 18, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
Every hospital emergency department should share information about violent incidents with local crime reduction agencies to tackle the problem of knife crime, says an expert in this week's BMJ. | |
Study shows cost-effectiveness of 64-slice CT scanner in emergency department chest pain patients July 17, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A recent study led by Rahul Khare, MD, emergency department physician and assistant director of operations at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, sought to determine the cost-effectiveness of utilizing a CT scanner to evaluate ... | |
Doctors' orders lost in translation July 17, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
When patients are discharged from the emergency department, their recovery depends on carefully following the doctors' instructions for their post care at home. Yet a vast majority of patients don't fully understand what ... | |
Mini ECG gets heart attack rehab patients mobile July 17, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Dr Charles Worringham of Queensland University of Technology's Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation said the unique 'Cardiomobile' monitoring system, developed by Gold Coast company Alive Technologies, was being ... | |
New protocol streamlines therapy that makes more kidney transplants possible July 17, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A new therapy developed at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center improves transplant rates and outcomes for patients awaiting living- and deceased-donor kidney transplantation, according to a study published in the July 17 issue of ... | |
Raw deal for foreign brides in Taiwan: study July 17, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
More than a quarter of a million women have been sold as wives and baby-makers in South East Asia, but they are getting a raw deal in health care and social inclusion. | |
Drugs industry protecting 'morally unacceptable' patent system July 17, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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Major drugs companies are using fierce lobbying tactics to protect a pharmaceutical patent system that is "simply morally unacceptable", a world-leading political philosopher will tell a major meeting of UK and European pharmacologists ... | |
Probing Question: Fishhooks of addiction July 16, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
When the American writer Theodore Roethke taught at Penn State from 1936 to 1943, he was known for three things: being a good poet, coaching the men’s tennis team, and falling down drunk, perhaps the latter more than the ... | |
Kidney damage caused by iodinated contrast material thought to be overestimated, study shows July 16, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
The use of iodinated contrast material may be less damaging to the kidneys than previously recorded, according to a recent study conducted by researchers at Columbia University Medical Center in New York, NY. | |
First human use of new device to make arrhythmia treatment safer July 16, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
On June 16, 2008, Barbara Ganschow of Palatine, IL, became the first person in the world to be successfully treated with a new device designed to make it safer and easier for heart specialists to create a hole in the cardiac ... | |
Combating urinary schistosomiasis: Both metrifonate and praziquantel can be used July 16, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
In 2000 the World Health Organization (WHO) stopped recommending metrifonate for treating urinary schistosomiasis because the drug did not appear to be as effective as the treatment of choice, praziquantel. Now a systematic ... | |
Foot pain: Custom-made insoles offer relief July 16, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Custom-made insoles known as foot orthoses can reduce foot pain caused by arthritis, overly prominent big toe joints and highly arched feet, a new systematic review shows. | |
Placenta removal -- a safer method after Caesareans July 16, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
In Caesarean deliveries the placenta is usually removed by hand or by a technique known as 'cord traction'. A recent systematic review by Cochrane Researchers shows that cord traction poses less risk to the mother than manual ... | |
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