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Voluntary Error-Reporting System Ensures Patient Safety

... Hopkins researchers said ‘Human error rates are minimized by identifying, fixing and reporting on the errors voluntarily plus steps taken to overcome it in the future’. Voluntary error-reporting systems are not new, but few studies have looked at the accuracy of the reporting and its impact, the Hopkins i...

Microcirculation in Eye May Indicate Coronary Heart Death Risk

...disease can be predicted by examining his eyes for minimized curvature of the arterioles// and venules in the eyes. Arterioles and venules are small branches of main arteries and veins, and their condition reflects the general state of the smaller blood vessels in the body, or microcirculation. During the ...

Computational Model Reveals Working of AZT in Body

...er the toxic side effects of AZT can eventually be minimized or even eliminated. For this purpose, they have been developing a detailed computational model that allows scientists to simulate the biochemical reactions that take place when AZT is metabolized in cells, including their mitochondria, under differen...

Race Affects African-American Survival of Breast Cancer

...ously followed for all patients, the research team minimized biases related to access to care and type of treatment, two variables that often confound analysis of the issue. Between 1975 and 2000, 2,140 breast cancer patients were treated in two prospective series of clinical trials at M. D. Anderson involvi...

Tonsillectomy reduces risk of strep throat

... a geographically defined pediatric population and minimized potential referral and participation biases." The next step of the research phase, according to Dr. Orvidas, would be a prospective randomized trial investigating the use of tonsillectomy for recurrent strep throat infections. Such an investigation ...

New breast cancer drug on the block

... in Lancet also shows that chances of relapse were minimized by 45% after introduction of this drug. The long term chance of occurrence of any other cancer in the lifetime of the patient also showed a considerable decline of 39% in the studies. Professor Walter Jonat, the author of the study is confident that...

Skin cancer risk runs deep in marathoners

...re to sun‘s harmful ultra-violet rays .This can be minimized with adequate protection from UV-rays using sun screen lotions and appropriate clothing. In the survey done as part of the research, it was seen that only 56.2% of the athletes who were part of the clinical trials, actually used sunscreen.86.7% of ...

Testosterone Decline in Men Linked to Lifestyle, Increases in Obese Girls

...sibility that age-related hormone decline could be minimized by managing health and lifestyle factors. Obesity More than Doubles Testosterone in Pubertal Girls Compared to their normal weight counterparts, obese girls have significantly higher levels of testosterone before and during puberty (i.e., the p...

Options Improving for Patients With Acromegaly and Gigantism

... systems, have improved targeting of a tumor mass, minimized radiation damage to normal surrounding tissues, and reduced treatment times. Also in the past two decades, new medications have been introduced, working at the cellular and molecular levels to suppress the secretion of growth hormone, interrupt the p...

WHO States, “One Billion People Are Affected By Neurological Disorders

... countries like Africa. These disorders could be minimized if some simple precautionary procedures like immunization against meningitis, wearing of helmets and seat belt, early detection of malaria are followed stringently. JY...

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