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Brain Retains Picture Of Missing Limb After Amputation, Often Resulting In Phantom Pain
Date: Mar-07-2013Changes in the brain following amputation have been linked to pain arising from the missing limb, called 'phantom pain', in an Oxford University brain imaging study. Arm amputees experiencing the most phantom limb pain were found to maintain stronger representation of the missing hand in the brain - to the point where it was indistinguishable from people with both hands...
Base Deficit A Better Way Of Estimating Blood Loss
Date: Mar-07-2013Research suggests that there may be a better way of measuring blood loss due to trauma than the current method, finds an article in BioMed Central's open access journal Critical Care. The study shows that base deficit (BD) is a better indicator of hypovolemic shock than the Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) classification, which uses a combination of heart rate, systolic blood pressure and the Glasgow Coma Scale...
Link Between Insomnia And Increased Risk Of Heart Failure
Date: Mar-07-2013People who suffer from insomnia appear to have an increased risk of developing heart failure, according to the largest study to investigate the link. The study, which is published online in the European Heart Journal [1], followed 54,279 people between the ages of 20-89 for an average of more than 11 years, and found that those who suffered from three symptoms of insomnia had a more than three-fold increased risk of developing heart failure compared to those with no insomnia symptoms...
Eye Movement Analyzer May Diagnose Stroke
Date: Mar-06-2013A bedside device that expertly analyzes eye movements could one day save lives by helping doctors determine whether stroke is the cause of a patient's disabling, severe, continuous dizziness, or a more benign condition like vertigo. A small "proof of concept" study reported online this week in the journal Stroke shows how the device was able to diagnose stroke with 100% accuracy. The electronic device is a small, portable, video-oculography machine that detects minute eye movements that are difficult for most physicians to notice...
Anger Due To Delusions Associated With Violence, Psychosis
Date: Mar-06-2013JAMA Psychiatry Study Highlights Jeremy W. Coid, M.D., and colleagues from Queen Mary University of London, Forensic Psychiatry Research Unit, Barts, and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, England, investigated which delusional beliefs and characteristics are associated with violent behavior during a first episode of psychosis. The study included 458 patients with first-episode psychosis who were 18 to 64 years of age...
Insomnia Triples Risk of Heart Failure
Date: Mar-06-2013The risk of developing heart failure tripes for people who suffer from insomnia. The finding came from a new study, the largest yet to examine the association, and was published in the European Heart Journal. Previous research suggested that insomniacs have a moderately higher risk of having a heart attack (27 to 45% greater) than people who rarely have problems sleeping. The new investigation involved 54,279 people between the ages of 20 and 89 who were followed for an average of over 11 years...
Drug-Resistant Superbug Hits U.S. Hospitals
Date: Mar-06-2013More evidence has been revealed that untreatable, antibiotic-resistant infections from a rare but life-threatening superbug are on the rise in U.S. hospitals, creating a growing public health concern, officials said Tuesday. The findings were published in the CDC's (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) Vital Signs report and outline action for the health care community to take immediately on the individual, regional, and national levels. Early on in 2012, close to 200 hospitals and long-term care facilities treated at least one person infected with these types of bacteria...
International Study: Excess Dietary Salt May Drive The Development Of Autoimmune Diseases
Date: Mar-06-2013Increased dietary salt intake can induce a group of aggressive immune cells that are involved in triggering and sustaining autoimmune diseases. This is the result of a study conducted by Dr. Markus Kleinewietfeld, Prof. David Hafler (both Yale University, New Haven and the Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, and Harvard University, USA), PD Dr. Ralf Linker (Dept...
Boehringer Ingelheim Announces Interim Results From A Phase III Trial In HIV Patients Co-Infected With Chronic Hepatitis C
Date: Mar-06-201380 percent of patients achieved early treatment success* with faldaprevir^ plus PegIFN/RBV highlighting the potential to reduce treatment duration from 48 to 24 weeks. Interim results indicate potent activity of faldaprevir in HCV/HIV co-infected patients Interim study results from STARTversoTM 4 presented today at CROI+ show that 80 percent of hepatitis C (HCV) patients also infected with HIV achieved early treatment success with faldaprevir (BI 201335) combined with pegylated interferon and ribavirin (PegIFN/RBV)...
3rd Annual European Life Sciences EPP Pricing & Profit Optimisation Forum: Performing "Under Pressure" 5-6 June 2013, Switzerland
Date: Mar-06-2013Life Sciences organisations in Europe are facing unprecedented challenges: a heightened competitive state is squeezing margins, whilst at the same time emerging markets bring new opportunities as well complexities that require water-tight commercial compliance, firm controls on discounts, rebates and incentives as well as highly skilled teams with a clear strategy and good insights...
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