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Atrial Fibrillation - New Treatment Shows Promise
Date: May-04-2012According to the design and technology consultancy Cambridge Design Partnership, their research project to identify the future of medical technology to treat Atrial Fibrillation has been completed. The report is designed to explore the emerging technologies that will lead to new innovations and help organizations who want to design treatments. Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia (irregular heart beat) that affects up to 7 million individuals in the U.S. and Western Europe alone. AF is a major contributory factor to strokes and can cause congestive heart failure if...
Patients' Complex Moral Issues - Doctors Need Mediators
Date: May-04-2012According to a study in The American Journal of Bioethics, physicians and patients need assistance in order to deal with complex moral issues. Physicians often have the tendency to label their patients as 'difficult' when things become difficult, however, according to the author of the new study it actually the system that is at fault and not the patients. Bioethicist Autumn Fiester of the University of Pennsylvania Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy explained: "All providers encounter patients they find challenging or difficult, but often the problems are too entrenched or severe...
Nanotechnology In Medicine: Huge Potential, But What Are The Risks?
Date: May-04-2012Nanotechnology, the manipulation of matter at the atomic and molecular scale to create materials with remarkably varied and new properties, is a rapidly expanding area of research with huge potential in many sectors, ranging from healthcare to construction and electronics. In medicine, it promises to revolutionize drug delivery, gene therapy, diagnostics, and many areas of research, development and clinical application. This article does not attempt to cover the whole field, but offers, by means of some examples, a few insights into how nanotechnology has the potential to change medicine, both...
£40m Owed By NHS Tourists In Unpaid Fees, UK
Date: May-04-2012According to an investigation conducted by Pulse, hospitals are owed as much as £40m in outstanding fees for treating foreign nationals. The results will most likely fuel the debate over health tourism again and expose incidents in which GPs were under pressure to register foreign nationals who are not eligible to receive secondary care. In instances where individuals are not entitled to NHS care, their insurer or their country of origin will be approached for payment. Pulse approached acute trusts across the UK under the Freedom of Information Act to obtain information on outstanding payments...
Sports & Energy Drinks Damage Teeth
Date: May-04-2012Sports drinks hit the wire today with a red light that their level of acidity is increasingly responsible for irreversible damage to teeth, especially amongst adolescents and younger adults, their predominant target market. The report is published in the May/June 2012 issue of General Dentistry, the peer-reviewed clinical journal of the Academy of General Dentistry. Lead author of the study, Poonam Jain, BDS, MS, MPH confirms the findings: "Young adults consume these drinks assuming that they will improve their sports performance and energy levels and that they are 'better' for them than soda...
Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Linked To Higher Bacterial Infection Rates
Date: May-04-2012According to an observational study published in Arthritis & Rheumatism, children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) have higher rates of hospitalized bacterial infection compared with those without JIA. The study demonstrates that the risk of infection in JIA patients was considerably higher with use of high-dose glucocorticoids (steroids). However, methotrexate (MTX) and tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF) inhibitors did not increase the risk of infection in these pediatric patients. Arthritis is an inflammation of the joints that is usually accompanied by pain, stiffness and swelling...
Frequent Jogging Increases Lifespan Considerably
Date: May-04-2012Women who jog regularly live 5.6 years longer, and men 6.2 years longer than their counterparts who don't, according to Danish researchers who presented their study - Copenhagen City Heart study - at the EuroPRevent2012 meeting. Dr. Peter Schnohr explained that they had set out to determine how healthy or hazardous regular jogging might be. He informed that between 1 and 2.5 hours of jogging per week at a "slow" or "average" pace significantly lengthens lifespan. Dr. Schnohr is chief cardiologist of the Copenhagen City Heart Study. Schnohr said: "The results of our research allow us to...
Where Touch And Hearing Meet
Date: May-04-2012Given that vision and hearing are vital in day-to-day living, an individual generally notices any impairment of these senses right away. Regardless of the fact that various known genetic mutations can result in hereditary vision and hearing defects, little knowledge exists about the sense of touch as defects may not be as obvious, and therefore may go unnoticed. The first edition in May of the online, open-access journal PLoS Biology reveals that differences in touch sensitivity caused by genetic factors can also be inherited. Researchers at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC)...
EndoBarrier Re-Implantation Feasible
Date: May-04-2012According to an announcement made by GI Dynamics Inc., new data results demonstrate that the EndoBarrier®, a new device for the treatment of type 2 diabetes and/or obesity, is feasible and can be re-implanted safely. EndoBarrier is a pioneering device for the treatment of type 2 diabetes and/or obesity. 13 clinical trials in over 500 patients demonstrated several of the device's benefits, including decreasing HbA1c levels, achieving a loss of weight of more than 20%, as well as improving significant important metabolic measures, such as cholesterol, blood sugar and triglycerides. The...
Graft Patency For Hemodialysis - Fish Oil Supplements Show Mixed Results
Date: May-04-2012A study in the May 2 issue of JAMA reveals that daily ingestion of fish oil did not lower the percentage of grafts with loss of patency, i.e. that remained open in patients with new synthetic arteriovenous grafts within 12 months. An arteriovenous graft is a synthetic tube that is grafted between an artery and vein in order to gain vascular access for hemodialysis. Those who took fish oil were observed to have a longer period of time without thrombosis - their rate of thrombosis was reduced by 50% and they achieved a significant decrease in the frequency of radiological and surgical...
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