Infant Deaths Increasing Due To Preterm Birth Babies born too soon and too small accounted for a growing proportion of infant deaths, according to new statistics released from the National Center for
Health Statistics, (NCHS). Babies who died of preterm-related causes accounted for 36.5 percent of infant deaths in 2005, up from 34.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comImproving Problems In Sleep, Attention By Studying Bladder-Brain Link Bladder problems may leave a mark on the brain, by changing patterns of brain activity, possibly contributing to disrupted sleep and problems with attention. For one in six Americans who have overactive bladder, the involuntary bladder contractions that often trigger more frequent urges to urinate, such mind-body connections may be of more than academic interest.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comDo Reading Materials For Health Professionals Improve Patient Outcomes? Health professionals widely use printed educational materials short clinical guidelines, newsletters, journal articles to raise their awareness and to improve professional practice and patient
health care outcomes. Yet there is little proof that they do so. In a review of studies, Anna Farmer, Ph.D.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comScientists Race To Stay One Step Ahead Of The Drug-Taking And Genetic Manipulation That Threatens Sport The race to ensure that scientists stop drug-taking athletes from damaging sport by using performance enhancing
drugs or undergoing genetic manipulation is a constant challenge, according to a major four-decade review by three of the World's leading experts on doping in sport.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comCancer Vaccine Quest Delivers New Findings On the rocky road of cancer research, Indiana State University scientists have made important discoveries. In developing vaccines for cancer and infectious diseases, researchers often trick the immune system by mixing "adjuvants" with the vaccines (proteins, killed cancer cell or infectious agents). "Adjuvants" are substances that jump start the immune system by making vaccines more effective.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comWhat Is A Year Of Human Life Worth? Updating The Renal Dialysis Cost-Effectiveness Standard A quality-adjusted year of human life is worth $129,090, according to a study to appear in Value in
Health.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comStudent Researchers Find Higher Rates Of Serious Illness Among Patients At L.A. County Clinics, USA Preliminary findings from a scientific study released reported significantly higher rates of serious illness among patients at three Los Angeles County Department of
Health Services outpatient
health clinics than the rate of those diseases in the general population.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comSeegene's New Rapid Sepsis Test Analyzes 68 Indicators For Deadly In-Hospital Disease AACC Annual Meeting - Seegene's Seeplex(R) Sepsis multi-pathogen screening test introduced today at the 2008 Annual Meeting and Clinical Lab Expo of the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) brings a novel and fast-acting diagnostic technique for hospitals to simultaneously verify a c
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