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Online Education Program Better Source of Information for Patients

...of medicine at Case Western Reserve University and senior author on the study. "Patient education and empowerment are key pathways in reducing complications of cardiovascular disease," she said. "The Heart Profilers tool empowers patients to take control and manage their condition by providing personal...

Both Alcohol and Neighborhood Characteristics can Affect Intimate Partner Violence

...y well established, according to Carol B. Cunradi, senior research scientist at Prevention Research Center and sole author of the study. However, she noted, IPV researchers are increasingly examining the role of other factors that may exacerbate this link. "Social disorganization theory, along with other ...

Why Malaria Parasite Affects Red Blood Cells Deformability Revealed

...id Subra Suresh, Ford Professor of Engineering and senior author of the study. According to the researchers, their findings may lead to the development of treatments that target the parasite protein. The RESA protein has long been suspected to be involved in the early stages of that process. The parasit...

Scientist Found New Mechanism for Brain Learning

...of cognitive implications," Nature magazine quoted senior study author Dr. James Bibb, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, as saying. "Everything is more meaningful to these mice. The increase in sensitivity to their surroundings seems to have made them smarter," he added. The researcher said that the ge...

Bengal Junior Medicos Strike Work to Protest Violence

...n (IMA) vice-president Santanu Sen said no doctor, senior or junior, would let a patient die in front of his eyes. "We don't do it intentionally but the patients' relatives attack the doctors some time, alleging negligence. We feel insecure as there are no protective arrangements," Sen said....

Rapid Syphilis Could Prevent Congenital Disease and Stillbirths in Haiti

...f slightly more than half a million dollars,' says senior author Dr. Daniel W. Fitzgerald, assistant professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and assistant attending physician at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. 'This study provides a convincing case for adding rapid...

Senior Doctor of Apollo Hospital Commits Suicide

A senior doctor with the Apollo Hospital here allegedly committed suicide Tuesday morning , with police attributing it to a family dispute. Umesh Sharma, president of the orthopaedics department, was found dead at around 7.00 a.m. in his cabin in Apollo Hos...

Hearing Loss Becoming an Epidemic in Canada

...ed to grow faster than the rate of increase of the senior population itself. A Canadian Hearing Society Awareness survey indicated five years ago that 25 per cent of people with hearing loss are under 40, and 70 per cent are under 60. The average age of those experiencing hearing loss was 51. And 16 per...

Ban Smoking Indoor Workplaces and China Cause for Concern WHO

...ommon to see people smoking even in hospitals. A senior official from China's State Tobacco Monopoly warned earlier this year that smoking was so pervasive in China that efforts to curb it would upset social stability -- something Bekedam acknowledged.'Fighting tobacco is not easy, especially when there i...

Detecting Cold, Feeling Pain: Study Reveals Why Menthol Fresh

...these changes may contribute to chronic pain, says senior author David Julius, PhD, chairman and professor of physiology at UCSF. The methanol receptor, and other temperature receptors discovered in recent years by the Julius lab, offer potential targets for developing analgesic drugs that act in the peri...

Aerobic Exercise Helps Maintain Muscle in Elderly: Research

...in older people," said UTMB professor Elena Volpi, senior author of a paper on the experiments appearing in the June issue of the journal Diabetes. "It turned out that a fast walk restored the insulin response quite well." To test their hypothesis, the researchers first required six of their 13 subjects t...

Red Cross Promotes Prevention, Control of TB Along U.S. - Mexican Border

... At a conference held in Matamoros, Mexico in May, senior representatives from both the American and the Mexican Red Cross came together to discuss greater cooperation in local border communities, as well as at the international level, in health promotion. Lance Leverenz, the regional director for the Ame...

Cells Re-Energize to Come Back From the Brink of Death

...the St. Jude Immunology department and the study's senior author. After disposing of damaged mitochondria the cell can replace these vital components....

CMPMedica Adds Oncology Search Engine to SearchMedica.com

...ch engine focused on oncology," said Cyndy Finnie, senior product manager for SearchMedica. "As with our specialty-specific search engines for psychiatry and primary care, we conducted focus groups, collected input from physicians and leveraged that input to improve the search engine and make it as useful a...

Toolkit to Assess Reproductive Health Needs of Displaced Women

...ealth emergencies," said CDC's Dr. Marianne Zotti, senior health scientist, Division of Reproductive Health, who developed the toolkit. "The resources in this toolkit will increase the ability of organizations to identify health issues, gauge the extent of health problems and take steps sooner to address he...

Manipur Pharmacies Shut Down Fearing Separatist Threats

...up its operations here if such threats persist," a senior official said. Militants in Manipur have reduced the government and security agencies to mere spectators with their threats and extortion demands triggering panic. Last year, the headquarters of the taxation department in Imphal was locked for we...

Advanced Breast Cancer: Study Reveals White and Black Women Have Different Survival Rates

...ocio-economic factors," says Giordano, the study's senior author. "While SEER data does not code for treatment, we hypothesize that lack of access to healthcare and to newer modalities for treatment of Stage IV breast cancer, such as targeted therapies like Herceptin and aromotase inhibitors, are two contri...

Early Prostate Cancer: Specialty of Physician Influences Type of Therapy Received

...t of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the studys senior author. "It is imperative that men be advised about the details of all options so that they can make an informed decision that is right for them." In 2007, the American Cancer Society predicts that 218,890 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer...

Fortis to Inject Rs.300 Mn into Escorts Hospital

...said. The Escorts hospital, meanwhile, appointed senior cardiologist T.S. Kler as new executive director of cardiac science. Anil Karlekar has been appointed head of anaesthesia and critical care - the post held by Yatin Mehta before he left Escorts along with Trehan....

Crackdown on Dirty Hospitals in UK

...n to tell whether the fall would be sustained. A senior department of health official admitted in a leaked memo published last January that the Government's target to halve MRSA rates by 2008 might never be met. The latest move follows a pledge by David Nicholson, chief executive of the NHS, to make redu...

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