Health Services Research

... field of scientific investigation that studies how social factors , financing systems, ... care , and quantity and quality of life . 1 studies in health services research have looked at ... community, and population level. HSR studies examine how people get access to health care, how ...

Pathology

... acid microarrays for specialised diagnostic studies of disease in tissues and cells. Autopsies ... In modern clinical laboratories, many routine studies are largely automated. The clinical pathologist ... to clinicians so that the most appropriate studies can be performed for the diagnosis or assessment ...

Medicine

... examination , combined with laboratory or imaging studies (investigations)) analyze and synthesize that ... or thought) Laboratory and imaging studies results may be obtained, if necessary. The ... , cytogenetics , gene rearragements studies and fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) ...

Nuclear medicine

... 1 Diagnostic Testing 2 Types of studies 3 Imaging equipment 4 Analysis ... (e.g. blood, urine, breath). Types of studies A typical nuclear medicine study involves ... undergone micro-encapsulation . Some specialist studies require the labeling of a patient's own cells ...

Episodic memory

... visited them," said Susan Healy, of the University of Edinburgh. Other studies have now started to demonstrate this episodic-like memory in other animal ... where it saw it and when it saw it (Kart-Teke et al, 2006). In addition, studies by Eacott and colleagues (Eacott et al, 2005) have shown rats can recall ...

Gender-based medicine

... medicine or simply gender medicine is the field of medicine that studies the biological and physiological differences between the human sexes and ... the male body as the basis for clinical studies. The findings of these studies have often been applied across the sexes and healthcare providers have ...

Ramón Carrillo

... After graduation he obtained a travel grant in order to further his studies in Europe , where he worked in the best neuroscience laboratories, ... in the candidates from the poorest provinces. He carried out statistical studies showing that the country only had 45% of the required hospital beds, ...

Ultradian

... to generational morbidity. Both twins studies, and general population studies show that there is an increased chance of developing a Bipolar Disorder ... ["Acute, rapid-cycle bipolar disorder" has also been used in recent studies involving the cycling of once daily (1d) to once hourly (1h). Minor ...

Hematopathology

... Hematopathology is the branch of pathology which studies diseases of hematopoietic cells ( see below ). A hematopathologist looks at peripheral blood smears , bone marrow aspirates and biopsies , ...

Molecular medicine

... Molecular Medicine is a new scientific discipline in British universities . Combining contemporary medical studies with the field of biochemistry , it offers a bridge between the two subjects. At present only a handful of universities offer the course to ...

Surrogate markers

... occurrence; CD4 count is a surrogate marker for death from HIV infection. Criticism There have been a number of instances when studies using surrogate markers have been used to show benefit from a particular treatment, but later, a repeat study looking at endpoints has not shown a ...

Ultrasound-enhanced systemic thrombolysis

... doppler ultrasonography aimed at residual obstructive intracranial blood flow may help expose thrombi to tissue plasminogen activator . studies have shown that complete recanalisation or dramatic clinical recovery can be increased by more than 19% when using transcranial doppler ...