Plastic surgeons warn of malnutrition in body contouring patients November 13, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Identifying malnutrition before surgery in massive weight loss patients seeking body contouring will significantly decrease surgical complications, accelerate wound healing, improve scar quality and boost patient energy levels, ... | |
The next step in health care: Telemedicine November 12, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Imagine a scenario where doctors from different hospitals can collaborate on a surgery without having to actually be in the operating room. What if doctors in remote locations could receive immediate expert support from top ... | |
Minority children waiting for heart transplants have higher death rates November 11, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Minority children awaiting a donor heart for transplant have a higher death rate than white children, even after controlling for clinical risk factors, according to research presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific ... | |
Gifts, affirmations boost medication adherence in African-Americans November 11, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
A patient education program that included self-affirmation and positive affect in the form of occasional gifts significantly increased medication adherence among African Americans with high blood pressure, according to research ... | |
Staying active may lower health risks for large, retired athletes November 11, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
The larger body size of professional football players doesn't increase risk of cardiovascular disease or atherosclerosis after they retire, according to research presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions ... | |
Doctors should disclose off-label prescribing to their patients November 11, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Doctors should be required to disclose when they are prescribing drugs off-label, argues a new article in this week's PLoS Medicine. Michael Wilkes and Margaret Johns from the University of California Davis argue that ... | |
High temperatures decrease antifungal properties of contact solution November 10, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Exposure to prolonged temperature elevation reduces antifungal activity of a contact lens solution that was implicated in the epidemic of the eye infection Fusarium keratitis that occurred between 2004 and 2006, according ... | |
Crossing the digital divide November 10, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
What will motivate the elderly, the chronically ill and the medically underserved to use interactive information technology systems to actively help manage their own health problems? What barriers have prevented people in ... | |
New performance measures refine tools for improving care of heart attack patients November 10, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
A new set of clinical performance measures will help doctors and hospitals give the best possible care to heart attack patients by providing up-to-date tools for gauging how closely they're sticking to guideline recommendations ... | |
Caring for the caregiver: Redefining the definition of patient November 10, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
One quarter of all family caregivers of Alzheimer's disease patients succumb to the stress of providing care to a loved one and become hospital patients themselves, according to an Indiana University study published in the ... | |
Indigenous Australian patients confused and frustrated by kidney disease November 10, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
New Australian research has shown that Indigenous Australians with kidney disease are confused, frustrated and feel poorly informed about their illness. | |
Hispanics less likely to have repeat revascularizations 1 year after angioplasty November 09, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Hispanic patients were 57 percent less likely than Caucasian patients to undergo coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) one year after successful angioplasty, a type of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) to open blockages ... | |
Music headphones can interfere with heart devices November 09, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
Headphones for MP3 players placed within an inch of pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) may interfere with these devices, according to research presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific ... | |
Overnight hemodialysis dramatically improves survival November 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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For hemodialysis patients, undergoing dialysis for eight hours overnight, three times weekly, reduces the risk of death by nearly 80 percent, compared to conventional, four-hour dialysis, according to research being presented ... | |
Could vitamin D save us from radiation? November 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Radiological health expert Daniel Hayes, Ph.D., of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene suggests that a form of vitamin D could be one of our body's main protections against damage from low levels of ... | |
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