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HL7 Announces Industry’s First Electronic Health Record System (EHR-S

...nality, while the conformance criteria serves as a reference for purchasers of EHR systems and vendors developing EHR software. “This new standard is a ‘superset’ of functions that enables a standardized description and common understanding of functions, which is necessary when you’re working across care setti...

Study Aims to Find Which Breast Cancer Patients Need Chemotherapy

...le test that looks at 16 tumor genes and uses five reference genes as controls. “How cancers behave largely depends on what the DNA is like.” Although it’s been on the market more than a year, the test is not widely used, possibly because its efficacy was studied in a relatively small number of women and it ...

Garlic Plus Vitamin C may Reduce Blood Pressure

... systolic and diastolic blood pressures reduced to reference values of 110-120 and 75-80 mmHg, respectively. Blood pressure increased when the combined supplement was stopped. The mechanism behind the apparent effects was proposed to be due to effects of garlic on the production of nitric oxide (NO) in endot...

Stay Healthy at Any Age With Preventive Screening

...ents with scientific evidence in an understandable reference tool.” Your Checklist for Health, available in English and Spanish, is a pocket-size brochure designed to be taken with patients when they visit their health care providers to make it easier to talk about which screening tests they might need. Unli...

Eat Berries, Prevent Colon Cancer

...ower cholesterol when fed to animals (see AGFD 038 reference below). More studies on the mechanism of action of pterostilbene are needed, the researchers note. Reddy recently demonstrated that certain COX-2 inhibitors, anti-inflammatory drugs that are used for pain and arthritis, were capable of preventing c...

New Standards Could Cut Number of Malnourished Children on Feeding Programs

...ted as a replacement for the currently used growth reference curves, produced by the National Center for Health...acute malnutrition from the WHO standards and NCHS reference data. Under the z score calculation, children were more likely to be diagnosed as severely malnou...

New Guidelines to Address Growing Obesity Epidemic

...iovascular disease and diabetes. The guidelines reference the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) cut-off points for waist circumference, given that these measures better reflect the ethnic diversity of Canada. Using IDF criteria, over 50% of Canadians are considered abdominally obese. "While many Can...

Bill Clinton Says US Healthcare System Immoral

...oubt about that. We’re going to get it done.” In reference to her failed effort to establish a universal health insurance system in 1994, Clinton said that “we’re in a better position today to do that,” because the number of U.S. residents who lack coverage has increased and because “so many people with insu...

Scientists Identify Genes Activated During Learning and Memory

...y transcriptome includes the gene name, symbol and reference number — data that are not usually all collected and made freely available. 'By using standard nomenclature and multiple identifiers, we've made this a robust set of data for future research studies,' Schwartz added. Source-Generef ME/B...

Life Functions Governed by Circadian Rhythms-new Research

...sidered "housekeeping," have been used as a stable reference platform in gene expression studies. "Anyone who diets, for example, knows you shouldn't eat late, and now we are getting closer to understanding why exactly," said Ptitsyn, a researcher in the Bioinformatics Center at the College of Veterinary Med...

A Pratical Tool to Detect Bone Mass Deficiencies in Children With Chronic Diseases

...he spine, forearm, hip and whole body to establish reference data for multiple skeletal sites. This comprehensi...ism. Prior to this study, available bone density reference data were not optimal for evaluating the status of children because sample sizes were too small and ...

Nexavar Significantly Extends Survival of Liver Cancer Patients

...the compelling study results of Nexavar as the new reference standard of care for the first-line treatment of HCC," said Dr. Josep M. Llovet, co-principal investigator and Professor of Research, Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer (BCLC) Group, IDIBAPS, Liver Unit, Hospital Clinic Barcelona; Director of Research, HC...

A Tipple a Day may Be heart Friendly for Women

...'t consume at least one drink per month during the reference period), and current drinkers. Additional variables calculated were: total ounces of alcohol consumed; drinks per drinking day; drinking frequency; drinking primarily with food; beverage preference -- wine, beer, liquor, or some of each; and frequ...

Moderate Drinking Lowers Women's Risk of Heart Attack

...n't consume at least one drink per month duringthe reference period), and current drinkers. Additional variables calculated were: total ounces of alcohol consumed; drinks per drinking day; drinking frequency; drinking primarily with food; beverage preference -- wine, beer, liquor, or some of each; and freque...

Adolescents Brains Fully Develop Between 10-12 Years

...ians and scientists studying brain development can reference for many years to come,said NIH Director Elias A.Zerhouni, MD. Once enrolled, the children underwent MRI scans of the brain and completed a battery of behavioural and cognitive tests to determine their overall IQ, verbal ability, mental processing ...

NIH Study Normal Brain Development in Children Across US

...o 18. The study "will provide researchers with a reference point for how the normal brain develops, so that they can better understand what goes wrong in children who have brain abnormalities caused by genetic disease, prenatal exposure to alcohol or drugs, or other factors," said lead author Deborah Waber, ...

VA Should Revise Its Methods for Evaluating PTSD in Ex-military Personnel

...make a concerted effort to gather data and provide reference materials to help disability raters better address the management of PTSD claims related to sexual assault during military service, the report says....

Furious Reaction to insensitive Caption of the Picture of Abandoned Baby Girl

... alongside , How could she? The all too obvious reference to the mother who abandoned the girl, for whatever reason, has infuriated many who say the newspaper has been insensitive. "It is outrageous, it is irresponsible, it is unprofessional," said Jeff Kennett, who heads Beyond Blue, a national initiativ...

NIH Awards Emory $3.6 Million for Schizophrenia Gene Research

... that can compare DNA copy number differences in a reference genome to the genomes of the individuals being screened. Scientists can array 2.1 million locations in the genome, or about one in every 1,000 base pairs, on a single chip the size of a microscope slide. The project team will use the new Emory high p...

Scientists Recommend New Guidelines For Cholesterol Testing In Children

... his colleagues developed age- and gender-specific reference points for total cholesterol, LDL ("bad") choleste...holesterol and triglyceride fat levels. This new reference data is meant to improve upon current guidelines, published by the U.S. National Cholesterol Educati...

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