Genetic 'roadmap' charts links between drugs and human disease
A research team led by scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard announced today the development of a new kind of genetic "roadmap" that can connect human diseases with potential drugs to treat them, as well as predict how new drugs work in human cells. Called the "Connectivity Map," the new tool and its uses are described in the September 29 issue of Science and in separate publicatio...Rising in career top charts is Medical transcription
India is a country that wakes up to new things and accepts them, although medical transcription is not so popular it is fast catching up.// Here doctors maintain there records in papers and are not well stocked in most cases. It is treated as just a job to document doctors’ patient records. In contrast, in the US, medical case files are dictated by the doctors and maintained in the ele...WHO Updates Outdated Pediatric Growth Charts
The World Health Organization (WHO) is in the process of updating the pediatric growth charts. The outdated charts will be replaced with the new one, which will present// the rates at which the babies are supposed to grow, in a more accurate form. The 20-year old charts are said to be based on growth patterns of babies fed formula-milk. The revision is based on growth data from breast...Genetic 'Roadmap' Charts Links Between Drugs and Human Disease
A research team led by scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard announced today the development of a new kind of genetic “roadmap” that can connect human diseases// with potential drugs to treat them, as well as predict how new drugs work in human cells. Called the 'Connectivity Map,' the new tool and its uses are described in the September 29 issue of Science and in separate...Obesity Surgery Tops Popularity Charts
Washington – The last ten years have witnessed a surge in the number of obesity surgeries, US statistics portray//. The data shows that the number of surgeries have gone up by 2000 percent amongst the 55 to 64 age group and by 726 percent among patients between the age of 18 to 24. The procedures which are clubbed under the technical name, bariatric surgery, is advised for patients wh...2000 series revised ETDRS Translucent Charts
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Description:These revised charts incorporate the slight change in the difficulty score for each of the 10 Sloan letters derived from the best corrected visual acuity examinations of 7420 eyes during the ETDRS study. The original charts difficulty scores were derived from the examination of 234 eyes. In addition to the revised arrangement of letters which resulted in the ultimate homogeneity of difficulty per...OrthoPad® Digital Patient Charts
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