- Efficiency of physiotherapists 'increased by digital equipment'
The use of digital pens and paper by people with physiotherapy jobs at Rotherham Community Health Services has resulted in increases in efficiency. According to the organisation, productivity gains of 35 per cent have been...
(Issue date: 02 May 2010)
- Bruker and KIESTRA Lab Automation Announce Alliance in Microbial Identification by MALDI Biotyper Molecular Fingerprinting and Microbiology Lab Automation
Prior to the 20th Annual Meeting of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases on April 10-13, 2010 in Vienna, Bruker Daltonics and KIESTRA Lab Automation announce an expanded partnership covering...
(Issue date: 02 May 2010)
- Early baby survival rate 'static'
Premature babies are undergoing more intense treatment to keep them alive. Babies born before 24 weeks are spending longer periods in intensive care but their overall survival rates have not improved, a study has found. Newcastle...
(Issue date: 25 April 2010)
- Clinical Study Shows Patients Gain Limb Movement Years After Stroke
Patients show modest yet meaningful gains in limb movement and an improved outlook on life years after suffering a stroke, a major clinical study has found. The paper provides the best evidence yet that stroke sufferers in a...
(Issue date: 25 April 2010)
- Magnitude of over-diagnosis in cancer indicates need for strategies to address the problem
Many cancers detected by screening tests are not destined to cause symptoms or death and therefore represent a phenomenon known as over-diagnosis. And because over-diagnosis leads to unnecessary treatment and other harms, it is...
(Issue date: 25 April 2010)
- Blood test enables heart-transplant recipients to undergo fewer biopsies, study shows
Cardiologist Hannah Valantine and colleagues have shown that a new blood test can often be used instead of biopsies to check whether a heart-transplant recipient is beginning to reject his or her new heart.
After his heart...
(Issue date: 25 April 2010)
- Prescribing incentive schemes ruled legal by European court
Prescribing incentive schemes do not breach European law, a judgement by the Court of Justice of the European Union has found.
The court judged that public authorities may offer financial incentives to induce doctors to...
(Issue date: 25 April 2010)
- "Centralised procurement is not as effective as thought to be. Price is too often the only purchasing criterion for Italian hospitals" shows Italian survey
These findings emerge from a survey conducted from 2007 to 2009 by Università Bocconi in co-operation with the General Directorate of Drugs and Medical Devices of the Italian Ministry of Health. During the opening session of the...
(Issue date: 25 April 2010)
- UCLA develops world's smallest telemedicine microscope
Portable, lensless device can deliver health care in resource-limited settings.
(Issue date: 22 April 2010)
- Potential new test for early diagnosis of osteoarthritis
Researchers at King's College London's Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, based at St Thomas' Hospital have discovered new ways of measuring biological markers in the blood which could be used to diagnose...
(Issue date: 22 April 2010)
- Blood test may let transplant patients skip biopsies
A gene-based blood test worked as well as a surgical procedure used to check for signs of rejection in patients with heart transplants, U.S. researchers said.
(Issue date: 22 April 2010)
- Highly-focused acoustic pulses as sonic scalpels
Taking inspiration from a popular executive toy ("Newton's cradle"), researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have built a device -- called a nonlinear acoustic lens -- that produces highly focused,...
(Issue date: 22 April 2010)
- Review addresses problem of overdiagnosis in cancer
Many cancers detected by screening tests are not destined to cause symptoms or death and therefore represent a phenomenon known as overdiagnosis. And because overdiagnosis leads to unnecessary treatment and other harms, it is...
(Issue date: 22 April 2010)
- NEW STUDIES HELP ESTABLISH POTENTIAL OF ARTIFICIAL LIVER SUPPORT DEVICES
Results from two studies presented today at the International Liver Congress 2010 have shown that treatment with extracorporeal devices may not confer a survival advantage for severe liver failure patients, despite positive...
(Issue date: 18 April 2010)
- Clinical Study Shows Patients Gain Limb Movement Years After Stroke
Patients show modest yet meaningful gains in limb movement and an improved outlook on life years after suffering a stroke, a major clinical study has found. The paper provides the best evidence yet that stroke sufferers in a...
(Issue date: 18 April 2010)
- Attention Deficit Disorder and the Use of the Electrocardiogram
In children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), there has been some concern about the use of stimulant medicines and the need to have an electrocardiogram (ECG). As the number of children on stimulant medicine...
(Issue date: 18 April 2010)
- EAU launches new and updated clinical guidelines for 2010
A number of updated guidelines are presented at the Anniversary Congress of the European Association of Urology (EAU) held in Barcelona, from 16 through 20 April.
Production of clinical guidelines is one of the core activities...
(Issue date: 18 April 2010)
- Dance Therapy Improves Seniors’ Gait, Balance from MU News Bureau on Vimeo.
For seniors, dancing isn’t just for fun; it also can be therapeutic. Two recent studies conducted by University of Missouri researchers found that participation in dance-based therapy can improve balance and gait in older adults....
(Issue date: 18 April 2010)
- Valve-in-valve implants via catheter effective in high-risk patients
Replacing failing artificial animal-based heart valves by implanting mechanical valves inside them is an effective option for high-risk patients, according to research reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart...
(Issue date: 12 April 2010)
- PET scans show early signs of Alzheimer's
People with a family history of Alzheimer's disease often have clumps of a toxic protein in their brains even though they are perfectly healthy, researchers said.
(Issue date: 12 April 2010)
