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Amniocentesis Safer for Pregnant Women

...y their doctors and the information they have when deciding about screening for their unborn child.” One of the purposes of the FASTER trial was to calculate the contemporary procedure-related loss rate after midtrimester amniocentesis using patients who were recruited for aneuploidy screening. A total of 3...

Premature Babies- What should be done about them?

...bility of assessing the maturity of these infants, deciding each case on its merit would be a better option, rather than lay down what should be done on a week-by-week basis. The British Medical Association, as do several others favor this more pragmatic approach. Still another long over due debate is the i...

Octogenarians Are Not Too Old for Cancer Surgery

...vestigator. “We didn’t think that using age as the deciding factor was a valid argument for not performing a radical prostatectomy, and we proved that it is a safe option for some men.” One in six men will eventually be diagnosed with prostate cancer, reports the American Cancer Society, and more than 27,00...

Third Successful Hand Transplant Accomplished at United States

...'s like closing down your house for 32 years, then deciding to go back in and take a shower. You turn it on, it sputters a little bit, and then it works," said the lead surgeon, Dr. Warren Breidenbach. Past Success Stories The first two successful transplants were done at Jewish Hospital on Matt Scott an...

Video Games Fun but Pose Social, Health Risks

...eted to," she said. Each family is different, so deciding whether to game is best left up to parents, Storch said. The key: Parents who do allow video games should establish limits and rules and stick with them. Those concerned about their children abiding by the limits can remove controllers or install a n...

Blood Transfusions Raise Heart Patients’ Infection and Death Ris

...ndings may help guide hospitals and blood banks in deciding whether to filter donated blood to reduce the levels of white blood cells. This practice is increasingly common, but not yet universal, in the United States. The study is based on analysis of data from all Medicare beneficiaries ages 65 and older ...

An End to Periods?

...s the risks and benefits with their doctors before deciding to suppress their menstrual cycles, she says. Facts about menstrual suppression ? One of the main benefits of menstrual suppression is the elimination or reduction of periods among women who experience painful periods due to endometriosis, heavy bl...

Results of Research Depends on Funding Agency

... with children. According to him, children are the deciding force in any purchase and food industry especially owes a lot to them. His team has conducted around 100 studies on soft drinks, juice and milk over a period of 4 years. JYT...

Robot Nurses Ready For Hospitals 'In Three Years'

...can co-ordinate things between themselves, such as deciding which one would be best equipped to deal with a spillage or to transport medicine." He says the robots could provide a valuable service guiding people around the hospital. A visitor would state the name of a patient at an information terminal and ...

Wearing No-line Bifocals Slows Myopia Progression in Some Children

...SVLs). Knowing parental myopia may be helpful when deciding which myopic children are likely to benefit from special lenses. Participants in this study were 232 of the 469 children aged 11 to 16 recruited for the Correction of Myopia Evaluation Trial (COMET). Among the children included in this study, 87 (...

Communication in the ICU to Be Strengthened

...tive family conference was called, with the aim of deciding whether life-sustaining measures such as mechanical ventilation should be continued or withdrawn. In half of these cases, the family conference proceeded under the customary ICU practice. In the other half, the physicians conducted the conferences in...

Copper Alloys Surfaces Touted As Pathogen Killers

...study gives machine makers a range of options when deciding on the mix of metals they use to coat the insides of their cooking surfaces, thus providing processors with a better means of eliminating E coli contamination in their products. E. Coli O157:H7 is a harmful bacterium primarily found in raw and underc...

Cochlear Implants in Both Ears Enables Better Hearing

...seful, says Litovsky, when doctors and parents are deciding whether a child should get one or two of the electronic devices, which allow deaf people to hear by bypassing the damaged inner ear, or cochlea, to stimulate the auditory nerve directly. It's not a simple choice. A single implant and the required s...

Mozambique: Half of Tuberculosis Cases Go Undiagnosed

...clared. "We will not improve the situation without deciding how to increase our capacity to diagnose those people who have the disease and are scattered across the country". The problem is complicated by the relationship between TB and HIV/AIDS. TB is one of the most common opportunist infections that strik...

A Combination of Botox and Surgery Cures Migraines

...tment algorithm that includes using Botox prior to deciding whether to perform surgery. During the past several years, numerous peer-reviewed articles have been published in Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery detailing their research efforts and the researchers have presented the technique at professional mee...

Reactions to 'false-positive' Prostate Cancer Screenings Assessed

...hat PSA screening saves lives in asymptomatic men, deciding whether to have a PSA screening test needs to be an individualized decision that considers the patient's current health status and risk factors, such as being African-American and/or having a family history of the disease. "Men can discuss the pros...

Nepal Gets Its First Graduate Goddess

...itless existence. Rashmila thanks her parents for deciding she would go to school and learn to stand on her own feet, and her siblings, who when she returned home from her palace, treated her as a fellow human being and not a goddess. 'When I went to school, I was 12 and doing Grade II with five- or six-yea...

Manufacturers of Infant Formula Milk Asked to Do Away With Exaggerated Nutritional Claims

...re that new mothers are not unduly influenced when deciding their feeding practices. The legislation is framed in a way that it doesn't matter whether they are correct or not. It is designed to promote breastfeeding.' AV...

Juvenile Onset Myopia may Be Due to Parental Refractive Error

...(SVLs).Knowing parental myopia may be helpful when deciding which myopic children are likely to benefit from special lenses. The five-year study was conducted by researchers from New England College of Optometry; Pennsylvania College of Optometry; University of Alabama School of Optometry; University of Hou...

Computers Better Decision Makers Than Surrogates

... Wendler opines that population based procedure of deciding the preferences for treatment can be put to use to enable the surrogate to make the right decisions and also a compulsory alternate to surrogates. This method could also be used to allow the patient to decide in advance their treatment preferences. ...

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