Tag: "reasonable" at medical news

Short-Term Topical Corticosteroid May Offer Relief for Certain Type of Psoriasis

...e treatment with one of these agents seems to be a reasonable approach in the treatment of IP."...

Free Medicines, Health Insurance for Poor Soon: Paswan

...nce's common minimum programme to provide drugs at reasonable prices to the common man, the ministry favours adoption of some of the recommendations of two earlier committees. It is considering capping the cost of branded drugs at the average of prices charged by some top producers to protect both consumers a...

'Autopsies' dissected

...lared that 26 per cent were deplorable, half were reasonable and just 23 per cent could be termed as an excellent report.This report chiefly studied autopsies that were done on the order of coroners for individuals who died outside hospital premises which at times include care homes. MST...

Scientists Seek Release Of Health Workers In Libya

...ital before the accused workers arrived. The most reasonable explanation for the outbreak is poor infection control practices, including the lack of sterile, disposable injecting equipment, wrote Sunil K. Ahuja and co-authors in a letter to Science, published online Tuesday. Ahuja is from the University of Tex...

Doctors Protest against Regulation Changes

...ractice cases from criminal standards - beyond all reasonable doubt - to civil standards - on the balance of pro... balance of probabilities rather than proof beyond reasonable doubt." The BMA has also rejected the idea of setting up an independent tribunal to judge serious ...

Severity of heart failure in elderly can be measured with a seven-point system

...d shown that the number of risk factors can give a reasonable estimate of the probability of living for six, 12 or 60 months.' The researchers next aim to better identify the heart failure patients not likely to survive six months so that they can be referred for hospice care. 'Hospice is very nurturing for...

Deep-Brain Stimulation for Dystonia patients

... at Christian-Albrechts University, said, 'It is a reasonable treatment for people who have failed other therapies.' Deuschl and his colleagues conducted a study on 40 patients with severe dystonia for 5 years. Medicines gave only partial success. This study was published on November 9 in the New England Jour...

Researchers Study Reimbursing Living Organ Donors for Out-of-Pocket Expenses

...nt and the transplant community want to find every reasonable way to put more organs into the pool," he says. "One way might involve removing economic disincentives for living donors. Another way might be giving people better long-term information about donor outcomes. If we can assure donors that they won't ha...

Tennis Elbow is Not Caused Due to Improperly Sized Tennis Racket Grip

...dations have no scientific basis. Therefore, it is reasonable to recommend whatever grip size feels most comfortable for them." Tennis elbow (lateral epicondylitis) is the most common upper extremity complaint among recreational players, accounting for 75% to 85% of elbow injuries. Researchers believe it res...

Hospitals Miss Most Patient Safety Incidents

...the type, nature, and severity of incidents and at reasonable cost, they write. Healthcare organisations should consider routinely using structured case note review on samples of medical records as part of quality improvement, they conclude. Source-Newswise...

Brain-child of Natus Medical, “Cool Cap”, Protects Brains of Babies Born With HE

...0 to 9,000 US babies who come into the world, with reasonable to intense hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE). This product could be an answer to such problems during birth, to avert or soften what might be a debilitating aftermath. The Cool-Cap system ensures a consistent flow of cool water, via a cap, posi...

Reversal of Roles – Humans to Infect Mosquitoes to Mitigate Malari

...d Health & Human Development said, "This is a very reasonable approach. I think it has a shot at being an answer." The mouse vaccine was developed using the conjugate technology, which connects molecules so that they are identified by the immune system. SA...

Prevention (Of AIDS) By Circumcision More Cost-effective Than Cure

...male circumcision, per HIV infection prevented, is reasonable as compared to the costs of other strategies for prevention of HIV. There would also be implications for HIV prevention programs in other African countries. Source-Eurekalert PRI...

Medical Teams Are Key to Patient Safety

...ay, compared to 10 years ago,” Wenzel said. “It is reasonable for patients to take charge of their care to some extent. I tell my patients not to allow anyone to touch them or any catheter unless they first see them wash their hands and put gloves on,” he said. Wenzel said that to prevent infection, it is impe...

Physicians Enlisted in Efforts to Keep Demented Drivers Off the Road

...ory and other cognitive and functional areas, is a reasonable stage at which retirement from driving may be initiated. "Primary care physicians and other health professionals often have limited experience in diagnosing dementia and assessing driving safety, but a small amount of additional training can make a...

Medical Teams Are Key to Patient Safety

...ay, compared to 10 years ago,” Wenzel said. “It is reasonable for patients to take charge of their care to some extent. I tell my patients not to allow anyone to touch them or any catheter unless they first see them wash their hands and put gloves on,” he said. Wenzel said that to prevent infection, it is impe...

Bird Flu Virus Shows Moderate Resistance to Tamiflu

...ding to a latest WHO report, the H5N1 virus showed reasonable resistance to Tamiflu, an antiviral, in two Egyptians who died last month due to bird flu.// This caused anxiety in the medical community. The report also states that the mutated virus strain called as 294S was first found in Vietnam in 2005. The o...

Royal College Issues Revised Guidelines for Face Transplantation

...s of transplants, a 30 to 50 percent risk seems "a reasonable estimate." The report cites the many psychological issues that face transplant recipients must confront, including unrealistic expectations, the risk of devastating transplant failure, and the reactions of others to their altered appearance. Face t...

Potentially Pathogenic Virus Found in Mad Cow Cells

...'Although much work remains to be done, there is a reasonable possibility these are the long sought viral particles that cause transmissible spongiform encephalopathies,' Manuelidis said. 'The abnormal protein is probably not infectious, but is a pathological result an infectious virus binding to this host prot...

More Support for Zinc-antiatherogenic Link

...ient dietary intake or lower tissue levels of zinc reasonable supplementation of zinc in the diet of humans at risk of atherosclerosis should be considered as a strong candidate for further clinical investigation.” However they said that the mechanism of action is still unclear, despite several studies demon...

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