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How To Check Your Pulse
Date: Mar-24-2013Your pulse, pulse rate or heart rate refer to how many times your heart beats per minute or a specific unit of time - how many contractions occur in the heart's ventricles (the lower chambers of the heart). What is the difference between your pulse and your heart rate? Heart rate refers to the heart, how many times it contracts in a given time. Pulse (pulse rate) refers to the artery you are checking with your finger(s), how many times it bulges when there is a gush surge...
Dementia And Sexuality
Date: Mar-24-2013Managing the delicate issue of sexual expression amongst people with dementia is the focus of a new education resource produced by Griffith University researcher Dr Cindy Jones. The first resource of its kind and the subject of funding from the Department of Health and Aging and Queensland Dementia Training and Study Centres (DTSC), Sexualities and Dementia: Education Resource for Health Professionals is aimed at assisting health professionals working across care settings...
Female Patients Who Receive Knee Implants Designed Specifically For Women May Not Have Improved Outcomes
Date: Mar-24-2013Anatomic differences between male and female knees have resulted in the creation and regular use of gender-specific implants. However, a new study presented at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) finds that a specialized prosthesis may not improve overall outcomes in female total knee replacement (TKR) patients. Female implants are narrower, with an atypical angle and a thinner anterior flange (front rim), reflecting the unique characteristics of the female knee...
After Total Knee Replacement, 98 Percent Of Patients Return To Work, Normal Life
Date: Mar-24-2013Ninety-eight percent of total knee replacement (TKR) patients who were working before surgery returned to work after surgery, and of those patients, 89 percent returned to their previous position, according to new research presented at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS). Another related study highlights the life-restoring outcomes of total hip replacement (THR)...
Commencing Surgery Sooner May Alleviate Hip Fracture Complications
Date: Mar-24-2013A new study, presented at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), identifies predictors of complications and mortality following a hip fracture, including dialysis, cardiac disease, diabetes, and a longer time before surgery - the only modifiable risk factor when patients are hospitalized. Each year, more than 340,000 Americans are hospitalized for hip fractures. According to AAOS data, 69 percent of hip fracture patients are female and 46 percent are between the ages of 65 and 84...
The Public Can Be Confident In The Care Nurses Provide, Comparable To That Of Doctors For Resolving Health Problems Of Low Complexity
Date: Mar-24-2013A new study has found that Spanish nurses trained specifically to resolve acute health problems of low complexity provide care of comparable quality to that of general practitioners. Published early online in the Journal of Advanced Nursing, the findings suggest that nurses may be able to take on some of the care generally provided by physicians...
The Next Best Hope Against Malaria?
Date: Mar-24-2013Scientists at Oregon Health & Science University and the Portland VA Medical Center have developed a drug that may represent one of the world's best hopes for treating and preventing malaria - a disease that kills more than one million people each year. The scientists have described the drug, and its effectiveness against mice infected with malaria, in the journal Science Translational Medicine, an interdisciplinary journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science...
Knee Replacement Outcome Unlikely To Be Affected By Obesity Alone
Date: Mar-24-2013Obesity alone may not diminish outcomes or increase the risk of complications in total knee replacement (TKR) patients, according to two research studies presented at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS). However, TKR replacement patients may face significantly longer hospital stays and related costs. Total knee replacement in obese patients previously has been associated with increased post-operative complications and lower clinical function scores in multiple research studies...
Every Year Over 200,00 Kids In The UK Start Smoking
Date: Mar-23-2013The number of kids starting to smoke has risen by 50,000 in just one year, new research suggests. Approximately 207,000 children ranging in age from 11 to 15 years began smoking in 2011, a significant increased from 157,000 in 2010, according to data from Cancer Research UK. Each day 570 kids are lighting up and becoming smokers for the first time. After examination of the data, it was revealed that the 2010 figure was surprisingly low and the most recent number is a more accurate display of those seen during the first few years of this century...
60-Year-Old Baffling Blood Mystery Solved
Date: Mar-23-2013In the early 1950's, a 66-year-old woman, sick with colon cancer, received a blood transfusion. Then, unexpectedly, she suffered a severe rejection of the transfused blood. Reporting on her case, the French medical journal Revue D'Hématologie identified her as, simply, "Patient Vel." After a previous transfusion, it turns out, Mrs. Vel had developed a potent antibody against some unknown molecule found on the red blood cells of most people in the world - but not found on her own red blood cells. But what was this molecule? Nobody could find it...
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