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Reduction in Drug Costs

...rule was introduced than before, though this small difference may have been due to chance. The fact that three-quarters of patients were still not getting thiazides indicates how hard it is to change what doctors prescribe. CONTACT:Atle FretheimNorwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health ServicesNorway+47 23 25...

Electronic Health Records Shows No Improvement in Quality of Outpatient Care

...ed by the study, electronic health records made no difference in 14 measures. In two areas, better quality was a...s for which electronic records made no significant difference included such factors as prescribing recommended antibiotics; diet and exercise counseling for high-...

Dotted All Over? - Count Yourself Lucky

... telomeres than those with fewer than 25 moles.The difference between the two groups was equivalent to six to seven years of normal ageing, and this was estimated by looking at the average rate of telomere length loss per year. It was concluded that people with a lot of moles appeared to have longer telomere...

WBC Selective About Sugar

...he neutrophils and was surprised to see a striking difference in their response to the two sugars. The neutrophils quickly engulfed many of the beads coated with beta-1,6-glucan, but only a few of those covered in beta-1,3-glucan. Previous studies indicated that blood serum (basically blood minus cells) helps...

Urine is a Rich Source of Phosphorus

...ilets are similar to flushing toilets but with the difference that the urine passes to a holding tank through a second set of pipes. Farmers empty the holding tank at regular periods by using the urine as fertilizer. She insists that the recycling systems provide additional benefits to the environment becaus...

Envisat Captured Breath of Volcano

...RS-1, ERS-2 and Envisat. Envisat and ERS-2, with a difference in overpass time of 30 minutes, are continually adding to the archive. To boost the use of Earth Observation (EO) data at volcanic observatories, ESA has started to monitor volcanoes worldwide within the framework of the Agency's Data User Element ...

Extrovert People Drink More Alcohol

...g situation, but within the situation they make no difference whatsoever. Men determine the drinking behaviour Sex ratio in the group is a major determinant for alcohol use: the more men present, the greater the amount drunk by both men and women. Possibly a process might be initiated in male groups which ens...

AIDS can Be Prevented by Using Diaphragm During Intercourse

... in South Africa and Zimbabwe found no statistical difference in the rate of new HIV infections in the two study arms: those who received a diaphragm plus lubricant along with male condoms for their partners and those who only received male condoms. In the context of a comprehensive HIV prevention package pr...

Large Geographic Differences in EpiPen Prescriptions in the U. S.

...per 1000 persons. The team also found a regional difference in the number of prescriptions. New England had th...Vitamin D levels and could explain the north-south difference in the incidence of respiratory and allergic disease....

Extroverts are More Likely to Drink Under Pressure

...g situation, but within the situation they make no difference whatsoever. Dr Bot also noted that sex ratio is a major determinant for alcohol use: the more men present in a group, the greater the amount drunk by both men and women. Possibly a process might be initiated in male groups which ensures that men...

Nodal Status is the Best Predictor in Esophageal Cancer

...fter neoadjuvant therapy, there was no significant difference in the 1, 3, and 5 year survival rates. And within the node-negative group, the combination of complete response with a low tumour stage conferred better survival: individuals with stage 1 disease and no involved nodes (n=65) had a median survival ...

British Government Has Funded to Develop green Car Made from Hemp

...tains its active ingredient THC wouldnt make much difference to the environment. The real problem is there are too many cars burning too much fuel, said FoE....

Treat Every Patient as a Potential Organ Donor, British Health Official Says

...ically lead to a rise in transplants. "To make a difference we need more surgeons, we need more intensive care unit beds, we need the government to put more money behind transplantation and we need more willing donors," said Chief Executive Timothy Statham. Chief Medical Officer of Scotland Harry Burns too ...

Diabetes may Lead to More Complications

...id not have diabetes for comparison. There was no difference between the two groups in death rates or length of hospital stay. However, compared with patients who did not have diabetes, patients with diabetes: were more likely to experience any complication (23 percent vs. 14 percent) were more likely to r...

Steroids may Reduce Recurrence of Asthma

...identify enough data to show whether there was any difference between oral or intramuscular routes of administration. This topic is the subject of a future Cochrane Systematic Review....

Hospital Provides an Oppurtunity to Quit Smoking

...ding the intensive counselling alone, although the difference was not statistically significant. High intensity behavioural interventions that begin during a hospital stay and include at least one month of supportive contact after discharge promote smoking cessation among hospitalised patients, says lead rese...

Virginity Rules-Meant To Be Broken?

...inence programs for about five years, and found no difference in the age of first intercourse between them and their peers. Yet, according to one of the leading experts on sex education programs, Dr. John Jemmott of the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, some abstinence educa...

An Exclusive Restaurant to Appease the Culinary Needs of HIV/AIDS Patients

...600 registered members, Aadhar is trying to make a difference in the lives of around 1,000 HIV/AIDS infected patients in and around the city....

Rare Womens Lung Disease May Yield Insights Into Common Diseases

...robust. Biomedical research can make an enormous difference in the lives of women. Take Dr. Elizabeth Petri Henske, M.D., the recipient of the 2007 Society for Womens Health Research Medtronic Prize for Scientific Contributions to Womens Health. The prize was established to recognize a women scientist or engi...

Diabetic Womens Death Rate Shows No Decline

... 1995 and 2005. "In our study we did not find any difference between men and women and we found an overall decline of about 25 per cent," said Lipscombe....

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