Digital Healthcare Conference starts on a realistic note
The conference, which is being held May 3 and 4 at the Fluno Center on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, featured an opening panel discus...Television soaps showing unrealistic coma survival and recovery
British Medical Journal reports that television soaps or serials give a false picture about coma survival and recovery rates in coma patients. Researchers compiled 10 years data of sufferings felt // by coma patients and found that the rate of survival and recovery shown in television soaps is not true as the study show that only 8% of coma patients in soaps died during coma for instance...Most Women Have Unrealistic Expectations From Screening Mammography
A recent conducted at University of Michigan Health Systems in Ann Arbor, Michigan has found that most women have greater expectations of doom from their screening //mammography for breast cancer. The report added that more often than not these expectations were unusually high or unrealistic. A survey was administered to women who came to an outpatient clinic for screening mammography. T...Alzheimer's Vaccine- A Realistic Prospect
Research into a vaccine for protection against Alzheimer's disease is to be resumed and researchers from Southampton University will be reassessing// 80 participants of the initial trial. The progress of the disease was supposed to be reversed by the vaccine by clearing the beta amyloid protein causing the disease. But during the second phase of the trial, 6% of the patients showed sig...Health Minister Stresses the Importance of Realistic Health Targets
A recent communiqué had reported that nearly three fourth of hospitals in Canada may not be able to achieve// the estimated one-month target of completing radiation therapy to prostate cancer patients. As a reaction to this report, Federal Health Minister Tony Clement came down heavily on so-called benchmarks and targets set to achieve healthcare milestones, which according to him are...A Realistic Arm on the Anvil for Injured Soldiers
As the Iraq war continues to take its toll and the number of injured soldiers is increasing, there is some cheer for the marines who have// lost their limbs. The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in the US has announced that its team has developed a breakthrough prosthetic arm under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Revolutionizing Prosthetics (DARPA) 2009...