Sudden Stress Found To Mimic Heart Attack Symptoms
... Thus researchers say their findings should help physicians distinguish between stress cardiomyopathy and heart attacks in order to be able to reassure patients they have not had permanent heart damage just due to the symptoms ....HIV-positive Parents Require More Counseling
...researchers say their findings point to a need for physicians to talk with HIV-positive parents to reassure them about the safety of certain types of intimate contact with their children ....Stanford Medical Center Implements The First Virtual Cardiac Ultrasound
...rocedures like tranesophageal echocardiograms. The physicians will be able to try out options on screen before they’d want to implement them on patients. Link: http://www.stanfordhospital.com/cgi-bin/print/printable.pl?url=newsEvents/newsReleases/2005/01053DcardiacUltrasound.html courtesy By: www.stanford...Diagnosing Sleep Apnea By Overnight Sleep Testing Method
...to reach a diagnosis of the same . For the study, physicians evaluated the patients with a routine medical exam including a medical history evaluation, an evaluation of their anatomy to check for problems that might suggest sleep apnea, and a test that looks for obstruction in the throat. Patients also underwe...Yet Another Use For Cell Phone Cameras
...ounds, then sent photos of the wounds to two other physicians at remote locations to get their assessment of the wounds as well. Overall, the remote physicians were able to diagnose the wounds in 82 percent of the cases. Agreement between the various physician...Sleepiness May Be Associated With Visual Impairment
...volved in circadian rhythms. Thus researchers say, physicians and other health care professionals should be sensitive to the possibility of daytime sleepiness or insomnia, particularly in patients with severe optic nerve disease. Researchers also add that these findings suggest the need to try to maintain any r...Decisions On End-of-Life Treatment Found To Vary From Country To Country
...in some situations at the end of a patient’s life, physicians may refrain from using all possible measures to pr...hheld or withdrawn from patients, researchers sent physicians questionnaires about their decision-making process of the treatment. Physicians were asked whether o...Computer System To Predict Deep Vein Thrombosis
...italized patients at a risk of this condition. The physicians then need to take preventive steps for the high-risk patients so that the eminent thrombosis can be averted. The computer program had helped in alerting hospitals to the risk of deep vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolism in 41% of the cases. The res...New Technology In MRI Scan Help Test Brain Cancer Therapy
... technology hopes to elevate such tensions for the physicians and patients alike....Aspirin For Treating Blocked Brain Arteries
... in deciding between aspirin and warfarin. In fact physicians should be careful of the and not use aspirin as a blanket treatment in all phases of the patients’ conditions, as there exists a 22% risk of ischemic stroke, brain hemorrhage, or death from vascular causes other than stroke as well....FDA warnings against use of antipsychotic drugs for elderly
... dementia. The organization had also requested the physicians prescribing these drugs for behavioral problems in elderly to review the situation. Reference: : Food and Drug Administration, US, news release...Herbal remedies can have harmful interaction when taken with drugs for rheumatic arthritis
...fact that the patients should be encouraged by the physicians to disclose all the details regarding alternate forms of medication taken so as to minimize the detrimental effects of the alternate therapy....FDA asks the doctors to take the patients’ dietary history before prescribing medication
...ed Pharmacogenomic Data Submissions for practicing physicians to check the //patients from suffering adverse eff...iet. Pharmacogenomics is the procedure adopted by physicians to find out the patient’s profile of response to drugs and decide on the unique treatment option bes...Air travel reduces oxygen level in the blood
...at the cruising altitude. At this saturation limit physicians may administer supplemental oxygen in hospital conditions. Although this may not be dangerous for healthy individuals, but for people with lungs problem or heart disease, this drop in the level of oxygen due to cabin air pressure may be potentially ...High expression of interferon induces lupus disease
... The wide range of symptoms makes it difficult for physicians to diagnose and treat SLE. The new study had found out that activation of the type I interferon pathway is more common among SLE patients who are most affected. The activation of the protein pathway is indicated by high levels of expression of inter...New guidelines for dealing with post traumatic stress disorder
...ly psychological intervention. Only after this the physicians need to intervene when the patients are diagnosed with depression, suicidal tendencies, addiction, medically unexplained physical symptoms, or dissociative disorders after a month of the disaster happening. In keeping with the past tsunami disaster,...Differing reactions to anti clotting drugs may be due to genetic variation.
...rence in the reactions to the drugs have foxed the physicians for long and made it difficult to standardize the ... the patients. It may take months of visits to the physicians to find out the right dose for the patient even then. Genetic variations are often not considered he...Need for considering cardiovascular risks before giving HAART for HIV/aids patients
...l in prescribing HAART treatment for these people, physicians should be careful of the recent evidence of increasing cardiovascular and cerebrovascular accidents that are happening with the treatment. Researchers feel that people infected with HIV have more risk of cardiovascular mortality on taking the HAART ...Blood test developed for malignant hyperthermia
...em get affected. Previously it was impossible for physicians to know if the patients can be susceptible to the condition of malignant hyperthermia. So instead of prevention, importance were placed on treatment. With the new test, things are expected to change for both the anesthetist and the patient. The new ...MRI for distinguishing between dementia and Alzheimer’s diseas
... as well, the new scanning technique will help the physicians make an early diagnosis based on the non-invasive scan images. Brain blood flow is usually measured by using positron emission tomography or single proton emission computerized Tomography that involves injecting the patients with radioactive tracers...