Tag: "calculator" at medical news

Study Finds Most Women Getting Wrong Dose of Fertility Drugs

...FSH that triggers egg development. They used the calculator to check the dosage given to 161, and found that 75 per cent were being given a higher dose than required, while 15 percent were being given a lower dose of the infertility drugs. When 113 of the women were then given the right dose, an average of ...

'Lights Out' as London Does Its Bit for Climate Change

...e government on Wednesday launched an online trial calculator that enables people to figure out their "carbon footprint," or how much the consumption of energy releases carbon dioxide into the air....

Yale F&ES Graduation to Offset Gas Linked to Global Warming

...ut the United States. The students used a travel calculator on the Native Energy website (nativeenergy.com/tra...ng from as far away as China, India and Nepal. The calculator takes into account whether the trip is by plane or vehicle, and the rate of emissions for air travel...

Women Wary of Coronary Diseases Get Two More Risk Factors to Worry About

...ome of this investigation is a Reynolds Risk Score calculator that can be used by doctors to judge a woman’s 10-year risk score for developing coronary diseases. Says Roger Blumenthal, of Johns Hopkins Hospital,in Baltimore "Future multivariable models to predict a woman's long-term (20 to 30 years) risk of ...

Childhood Obesity Tackled in Arkansas

...han classifying children as obese, as an adult BMI calculator does. The CDC has estimated that 17 percent of children are overweight, nationally whereas in Arkansas the rate is 20.4 percent. 17.1 percent students are considered to be "at risk." Huckabee said, "Arkansas is the only state now that shows an ac...

Voluntary Error-Reporting System Ensures Patient Safety

...ressdetails.cfm?newsid=340) ? An online infusion calculator that reduces medication errors in children undergoing IV infusions (for more information, see http://www.hopkinschildrens.org/pages/news/pressdetails.cfm?newsid=340) ? An online total parenteral nutrition (TPN) calculator, designed to prevent nutr...

New Web- Based Calculator to Assess Heart Disease Risk

A new web-based calculator has been develooped to assess the risk of heart di...today in the BMJ journal Heart, said: "The ETHRISK calculator adjusts for ethnic groups and is based on a re-calibration of the Framingham risk equations. It prov...

Dispensing Drug Dosage To Children Through Computers

...reduce complications as well. An online infusion calculator and a computerized drug ordering system, developed...nges. "Our findings reveal that using a Web-based calculator makes it less likely to order and give a child the wrong dose or commit other errors, such as omitti...

Majority Of Americans Deny That They Are Overweight

...gh. Doctors and researchers around the world use a calculator of height to weight called body mass index to calculate if a person is obese or overweight. The survey also found that women claimed that they were an inch taller and 5 pounds lighter than they probably were, while men claimed to they were two inches...

‘Train The Trainers’ Health programme Inaugurate

...gnancy Due Date Calculator : Medindia’s due-date calculator predicts you the possible due date of arrival ofyour baby. www.medindia.net/patients/ calculators/pregnancy.asp Medindia - About Pregnancy: Encyclopedia section of medindia gives general information about Pregnancy. www.medindia.net/patient...

Smokers puff away despite cancer Diagnosis

...te Smoking Risk Calculator Cigarette smoking risk calculator is a powerful and interesting calculator that predicts the loss in one's lifespan due to smoking. www.medindia.net/patients/ calculators/ci...

Nutrient Profiling System Launched By Food Officials in UK

...g Daily Average Calorie needs of individuals. This calculator would be of immense use to those intending to shed...uire less calories as compared to an Athlete. This calculator indicates an approximate calorie requirement for a person having a normal lifestyle. More on Medin...

Eating disorder occurs due to increased weight consciousness

... a complete picture of your weight status. Use the calculator link below to find your BMI. For more information read: http://www.medindia.net/doctors/ Clinical_cal/bmi.asp...

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