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Oracle Corp. to help build world's first "Digital Hospital"

...ease on Monday, issued by the out patient surgical rehabilitation chain. The digital hospital will feature inpatient beds with display screens connected to the Internet, electronic medical records storage, digital imaging and a wireless communications network permitting doctors and other caregivers to access patien...

Arthroscopy for Ankles

...ents from surgical injury and lengthy recovery and rehabilitation time not only saves patients from pain and inconvenience, it also saves them money, Stienstra says....

Exercise with music aids with lung disorders

...c as they exercise. Exercise is key to pulmonary// rehabilitation in people who develop severe lung disease. The aim...two groups of twelve patients undergoing pulmonary rehabilitation for eight weeks. One group was given an audiocassette of country and western, pop, Motown and big ba...

Wearable Body Monitoring

...y everyone from assisted living facility nurses to rehabilitation therapists to athletes and even people in the transportation industry....

Vision Loss Due To Diabetic Retinopathy a Major Cause Of Concern

...ir findings researchers conclude that , low-vision rehabilitation services with programs aiming to improve outdoor mobility, print reading, participation in leisure activities, and psychological health could be an effective strategy to help individuals with DR increase their participation in activities of daily liv...

Exercising To Music Found To Boost Brain Power

... studied 33 men and women taking part in a cardiac rehabilitation program after having bypass surgery, angioplasty or other procedures to treat clogged arteries. The volunteers said they felt better emotionally and mentally after working out with or without the music. But their improvement on the verbal fluency tes...

Possibility Of Regaining Speech After Tongue, Voice Box Removal

... say that TEP, combined with post operative speech rehabilitation therapy, can provide understandable speech communication and improve the quality of life of select cancer patients who might otherwise be unable to talk. Two groups of cancer patients who underwent laryngectomies (removal of the voice box) and gloss...

Cardiac – Rehabilitation Programs Beneficial for Heart Patient

...b attendance as increased participation in cardiac rehabilitation could lead to improved survival among a large proportion of patients with MI [myocardial infarction]....

Who Board To Discuss Asian Tsunami Related Health Issues

...e emergency phase is rapidly shifting to recovery, rehabilitation and self-reliance. Ultimately we are working towards a situation in which people are less vulnerable, and are protected from health threats by an effective global system of alert and response," said Dr Lee. "This transition from relief to reconstruct...

Surgery of spine for back pain may not be cost effective

...reatment. An alternate procedure for them may be rehabilitation program with intensive training sessions where the... hydrotherapy, and cognitive behavior therapy. The rehabilitation program slowly brings them back to their life by helping them in getting settled to a new way of lif...

Pulmonary rehabilitation program effective for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

...ive pulmonary disease (COPD) said that pulmonary// rehabilitation programs are often useful for patients of this dis...D are emphysema and chronic bronchitis. Pulmonary rehabilitation programs involve exercise training to improve functional capacity of the lungs, taking into consider...

Cognitive rehabilitation holds promise for schizophrenic brain function improvements

...ions of schizophrenic// patients through cognitive rehabilitation programs. Researchers from Washington University ...use of helpful memory strategies through cognitive rehabilitation programs that improve the cognitive abilities of the patients can go a long way in improving the fun...

Ankle Fracture Surgery – Diabetics fare worse than non-diabetics

...lso after discharge, when patients typically begin rehabilitation activities, she added. One interesting finding, which the researchers said was not a focus of the current study and confirms other findings, was that the percentage of patients with diabetes steadily increased over the 12-year period from 1988 to 20...

Brain Chemical Identified For Drug Dependent Behavior

...ing behavior even after successfully going through rehabilitation and achieving abstinence. Source: NIH ...

'Art of Living' concept expanding around the globe

...ssed issues ranging from anti-terrorism and prison rehabilitation to health care with a focus on stress elimination. Indian MP Abani Roy of the Revolutionary Socialist Party, businessmen and journalists accompanied Ravi Shankar on this visit to what is seen as a Left bastion. Source: Indo-Asian News Service...

People Suffering From Chronic Pulmonary Disease To Get Relief From Harmonica

...monica//. The students are members of a pulmonary rehabilitation class at the university. The weekly harmonica inst...espiratory function. Playing the harmonica in the rehabilitation group requires a slow breath in and out to be able to modulate the tones that are coming out of the ...

Indian Doctor Wants March 21st To Be Celebrated As World Down Syndrome Day

...ese organization are not more involved in bringing rehabilitation to people with Down syndrome. Dr. Singh Said, 'DSI members and related organizations worldwide will be encouraged to observe the WDSD together with the community in an appropriate manner and in Indian communities tends to keep children and adults w...

Prose Memory Deficits Found To Be Associated With Schizophrenia

... These results may have important implications for rehabilitation of verbal declarative memory deficits in schizophrenia. Medindia on Schizophrenia: Schizophrenia is a chronic severe disabling mental illness. Some of the symptoms suffered by schizophrenia are hallucinations seen or heard, feelings of being pe...

Paralyzed Patients Can Be Trained To Walk With Robotic Treadmill

...sis following spinal cord injury. In the future, rehabilitation strategies could be individualized based on whether injured persons are capable of activating areas of brain crucial for locomotor function. Additionally, diagnostic tests such as magnetic resonance imaging can be used in predicting the outcome of a ...

Self help scheme to reduce risk of HIV in women

...cation for Women Empowering their Lives (JEWEL) as rehabilitation program for drug using women in Baltimore. // The program is specially started for providing income to drug using women involved in prositutes by providing them with alternate income through making, marketing and selling Jewelry. The program was...

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