Assessment

Assessment for hearing aid implants in the process

According to a new research, implants to aid hearing loss are going down well with those who use them. Hearing loss affects around a quarter of all adults aged over 60 in the United States. Traditionally there was one option for those with a hearing problem - an acoustic hearing aid. // Now, however, there's another choice - an implant into the middle ear which directly vibrates the su...

Nurses competing with junior doctors in some assessments

According to a recent survey, researchers suggests that nurses and junior doctors can both carry out pre-surgery assessments of patients to the same degree of competence.There's a shortage of junior doctors in the UK// and it's been suggested that appropriately trained nurses might be able to take over some of their roles. Researchers in Ireland, UK, have compared the way in which junior doctor...

Scorecard to help in diabetic risk assessment of the Indian Population

A new scorecard to enable easy identification of diabetics has been developed as a joint venture by researchers in India, Britain and Australia. This venture has been materialized following the initiative of the International // Diabetes Federation, and the WHO centre for diabetes and the M.V. Hospital for Diabetes. The Diabetes Research Centre developed the Indian Diabetes Risk Score...

Scorecard to help in diabetic risk assessment of the Indian Population

A new scorecard to enable easy identification of diabetics has been developed as a joint venture by researchers in India, Britain and Australia. . This venture has been materialized following the initiative of the International // Diabetes Federation, and the WHO centre for diabetes and the M.V. Hospital for Diabetes. The Diabetes Research Centre developed the Indian Diabetes Risk Sco...

AIDS Assessment Centres To Be Increased In The Country

The National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) will increase the number of centres that assess the spread of HIV/AIDS virus// in the country. 'We are planning to add 400 sites (to the existing 750 sites) to create an accurate system to gauge the number of people affected by HIV/AIDS,' said K. Sujatha Rao, additional secretary and director general of NACO, at the end of a three-day nati...

CE Sonography Score Over Others in Blunt Abdominal Trauma Assessment

A comparative study of three diagnostic methods used in assessing blunt abdominal trauma revealed that contrast-enhanced sonography proved to have a high //diagnostic value than the other two methods. In a study, the department of emergency, internal medicine, and radiology at the University of Bologna in Bologna, Italy compared the diagnostic value of contrast-enhanced sonography, sono...

Consistent National Standards For Assessment Of Overseas Trained Doctors A Priority

AMA President, Dr Mukesh Haikerwal, said today that the lack of consistent national standards and processes for assessing the skills// and experience of overseas trained doctors (OTDs) is diminishing confidence in the quality of medicine in Australia and diluting the effectiveness of the important contribution that OTDs make to the health system. Dr Haikerwal said the system must be ri...

New Guideline for the Diagnostic Assessment of Children with Continuous Seizures

A new guideline developed by the American Academy of Neurology and the Child Neurology Society aims to help physicians diagnose// the causes of status epilepticus, a state of continuous seizures, in children, many of whom have epilepsy. The guideline is published in the November 14, 2006, issue of Neurology, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Status epileptic...

Better Understanding of Quality of Life Assessments

Intent on incorporating the patient’s voice into cancer research and care, Mayo Clinic Cancer Center investigators have sought out the best //practices, promising techniques and novel applications for quality of life (QOL) assessment. Their findings were published as a monograph in two issues of Current Problems in Cancer. QOL assessments capture the patient's perspective of how their...

Diesel Exposure Model Reduces Allergy Risk Assessment Errors

University of Cincinnati (UC) environmental health experts say their research improves prior methods of classifying exposure to diesel exhaust particulates// that help minimize inaccuracies and better predict a child’s risk for wheezing. Many prior air pollution studies rely heavily on what are known as proximity (distance) exposure models, which assume all subjects in a given distan...

BioCryst Receives Special Protocol Assessment for Fodosine

BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: BCRX) today announced that it has reached an agreement with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under the FDA's Special Protocol Assessment (SPA) process for the design of its planned pivotal clinical trial of the oral formulation of the company's lead oncology compound, Fodosine(TM) (forodesine hydrochloride) in patients with cutaneous T-cell lymp...

Napo Obtains Special Protocol Assessment Agreement From FDA for Crofelemer

Napo Pharmaceuticals, Inc., which focuses on the development and commercialization of proprietary pharmaceuticals for the global marketplace in collaboration with local partners , today announced that under the Special Protocol Assessment (SPA) process it has obtained agreement with the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the design of its pivotal study protocol for crofelemer fo...