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Wounded British Troops Wait Hours to Reach Hospital

... in the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan faced delays of several hours before being transported to field...ces and too many layers of decision-making for the delays which meant that it could take several hours to transport casualties even short distances to a field...

Prison Healthcare Continues to Fail Despite Emergency Measures, Warns BMA

...ialist mental health team because of confusion and delays in supplying his release details. In some areas,... from a number of different angles. There are long delays in initial assessment, chronic shortages in manpower and resources that impede treatment and confusi...

Chemotherapy Better for Non Small Cell Lung cancer

... is, however, that having a course of chemotherapy delays the operation, and could therefore leave patients at risk of allowing the tumour to spread. 'The data suggest that the benefits of the chemotherapy outweigh the risks associated with the delay,' says Burdett. A project to collect complete data on...

Two Week Wait Rule Not Working With Breast Cancer Patients

...lly being disadvantaged by longer clinic waits and delays in diagnosis as waiting times for routine referrals have increased in the face of increasing service demands from the dramatically increased number of patients referred under the two week rule, over 90% of whom have benign disease. Despite increasi...

Switzerland Approves Brain Cancer Vaccine

...e without side effects. Studies found the medicine delays recurrence of the tumor by 18.1 months for new patients, Northwest claims. According to the U.S. National Cancer Institute, there are 19,000 new cases of primary brain cancer diagnosed each year. The five-year survival rate is around 30 percent....

Delay in Cancer Diagnosis for Children

A review of the published literature found that delays could be generally attributed to gatekeeper-type h...search should focus on understanding the impact of delays in diagnosis on morbidity and mortality in children with cancer. Though delays in the diagnosis of...

Genaera Discontinues Lomucin in Cystic Fibrosis Studies

...e had been no recent enrollment in this trial, and delays in restarting the study at a new investigative site made the decision to end the study appropriate....

Traffic Control Boxes to Help Road Monitoring

...he average American also loses 47 hours to traffic delays every year. More than half of those costs -- both in time and money -- were found to be due to roadway incidents such as accidents. Coifman hopes that his software can help traffic control centers identify incidents more efficiently, so that people...

High-risk Patients Need Better Guidance on What is and Isnt a Heart Attack

...e during a suspected heart attack and the greatest delays in calling 999 are among the high-risk group. This implies, say Dr Khavandi and colleagues, that high-risk patients do not seem to be receiving clear effective guidance from their doctors. One of the symptoms of a heart attack is angina. Yet angi...

Autism Children can Be Diagnosed Within One Year of Age

...and 24 months of age. Some children with only mild delays at 14 months of age could go on to be diagnosed wi...h ASD at 14 months of age, others showed only mild delays with a gradual onset of autism symptoms, culminating in the diagnosis of ASD by 36 months. If pare...

Irish Outsourcing of Smear Test may Result in Cervical Cancer Being Undetected

...l smears. The Irish system is plagued with long delays and this was the main reason that HSE decided to out source tests. Well Woman Centre Chief Executive Ms Alison Begas said the move by the HSE was purely system driven and did not take into account the fact that the method of reporting results in t...

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