Experience Not Always The Best Prescription For Snowblowers Snowblower-related injuries to the hand have been on the rise in recent years, with more than 5,000 injuries reported each year in the United States. Many of those injuries might be prevented with better safety features, according to a study presented at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) (http://www.aaos.org).
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comCompliance To Stroke Treatment Guidelines Improved By Hospitals Using Quality Improvement Program Hospitals participating in a voluntary quality improvement program for stroke treatment increased adherence to national recommendations, researchers reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comCompliance For Life™ Medication Dosing Reminders Go Global Compliance for Life™ is going global. iReminder, LLC, announces that Compliance for Life now delivers dosing reminders anywhere in the world by phone and SMS text message, as well as email.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comYeast Gives Clues To Parkinson's Scientists from the US and Australia are using cells from yeast and mammals to learn about how environment and genes affect whether a person gets Parkinson's disease or not.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comTravel Fellowships To Experimental Biology 2009 In New Orleans Received By 40 Minority Scientists One of the nation's oldest and most respected non-profit science organizations will provide more than $68,000 in travel fellowships to underrepresented minority students and scientists to attend the Experimental Biology conference in New Orleans, April 18-22. The American Physiological Society (APS), which administers the program, has announced that 40 fellows will receive the travel awards.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comAlzheimer's Plaques Play Bigger Role Researchers in the US studying mice with and without amyloid-beta plaques in their brains (the plaques that are characteristic of Alzheimer's disease) found that contrary to current thinking, the plaques don't just damage the neurons they are close to but may well affect signalling in other parts of the brain through their influence on extensive networks of astrocyte brain cells.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comWomen May Be Protected From Parkinson's Disease By Naturally Produced Estrogen Women who have more years of fertility (the time from first menstruation to menopause) have a lower risk of developing Parkinson's disease than women with fewer years, according to a large, new study by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comPharmacy Benefits Managers Promote Low-Cost Generics, Adherence To Drug Plans Pharmacy benefits managers have begun offering tools to help consumers find low-cost generic drugs, adhere to drug regimens and increase consumer choice, all of which can help increase profit margins, the Wall Street Journal reports. According to the Journal, PBMs generally experience greater profit margins and members typically spend less when they use generic drugs, especially when ordered by mail.
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