Posted by Admin | Posted in Medical Lawyers | Posted on 14-07-2010
Updated diagnostic criteria for Alzheimers disease will allow physicians to identify patients in the earliest possible stages of the disease, capitalizing on the treatments now available and enriching the research into new therapies.
Posted by Admin | Posted in Medical Lawyers | Posted on 13-07-2010
Nearly half of all professional infection preventionists say they believe that catheter infections are a problem where they work, according to a survey sponsored by the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology.
Posted by Admin | Posted in Medical Lawyers | Posted on 09-07-2010
A new population-based has demonstrated an association between a group of human papillomaviruses viruses and an increased incidence of squamous cell carcinomas, adding weight to the emerging body of evidence that one genus of HPV may play a role in nonmelanocytic skin cancers.
Posted by Admin | Posted in Medical Lawyers | Posted on 08-07-2010
People with hypertension trained to monitor their own blood pressure and adjust their own medication achieve greater control over their disease than do patients whose hypertension is managed through conventional care, according to new research.
Posted by Admin | Posted in Medical Lawyers | Posted on 07-07-2010
Survival after lung transplantation varies widely across the 61 U.S. medical centers where it is performed, according to a report in the July 7 issue of JAMA.
Posted by Admin | Posted in Medical Lawyers | Posted on 06-07-2010
Elevated plasma levels of a protein called clusterin appear to correlate with the degree of brain atrophy, the severity of symptoms, and the speed of the clinical progression of Alzheimers disease, according to a report in the July issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry.
Posted by Admin | Posted in Medical Lawyers | Posted on 30-06-2010
Overweight and obese people in the Asia-Pacific region are at increased risk of certain types of cancer fatalities, investigators reported June 30 in the Lancet Oncology.
Posted by Admin | Posted in Medical Lawyers | Posted on 29-06-2010
Cardiopulmonary exercise testing offers the clinician the ability to obtain a wealth of information beyond the standard exercise ECG testing but is underused and underappreciated today, a panel of experts said in a clinicians and scientific statement released June 28 by the American Heart Association.