Topical Meeting Of The Health Physics Society To Focus On Recent Advances In Planning And Response To Radiation Emergencies What would be your response to a radiological incident? How will your State and the Feds respond? Who would or can take care of us? How do we even know if we are exposed to radiation? These and other questions will be addressed at the 42nd Midyear Topical Meeting of the Health Physics Society (HPS), which will take place January 31-Feb 3, 2009 in San Antonio, Texas at the Henry B. Gonzales Convention Center.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comWoman Suffers Serious Vitamin Deficiency After Gastric Bypass Surgery A woman developed disease because, after her weight-loss surgery, she did not take her multivitamin, as reported in a Case Report released on October 10, 2008 in The Lancet. The obesity epidemic is well documented around the world, and has affected developed countries in great magnitude. One treatment for obesity is gastric bypass surgery, which actually limits the size of the stomach cavity to help curb the patient's appetite.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comUniversity Of Montreal Students Design Argus, A High-tech Pill Organizer - Could Help Save Lives And Money A new high-tech pill organizer designed by two students could help save lives and billions of dollars to the health-care system. According to Statistics Canada, 50 percent of Canadians don't follow their prescriptions. As a result, one out of 10 patients ends up in the emergency room. This problem can have lethal consequences on the health of a patient and contributes to the blockage of ERs across the country.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comCAPHOSOL Results In Minimal Oral Mucositis And Pain In Head/neck Cancer Patients New data show that CAPHOSOL® (www.cahttp://www.caphosol.comphosol.com), an advanced electrolyte solution, results in low rates of oral mucositis and pain in patients with head and neck (HN) cancer who are undergoing chemotherapy and radiation therapy.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comNICE Skin Cancer Guidance Causing Rise In GP Referrals To Dermatology Departments, UK NICE's contentious skin cancer guidance seems to be triggering a steep increase in hospital activity throughout the UK, according to an article published by Pulse. During the last nine months of 2008 GP dermatology referrals rose by 24% compared the same period in 2007 (figures gathered from 30 NHS acute trusts).
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comPCTs Failing In Legal Duty To Provide Computerised CBT, UK Approximately one third Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) are failing in their legal obligation to provide computerised cognitive behavioural therapy (cCBT) to patients, according to an article published today in Pulse. Trusts blame financial cutbacks or a lack of funding for the failure to commission cCBT services, almost three years after the publication of a mandatory NICE technology appraisal.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comNew Study Sheds Light On Higher Adherence To HIV Drugs In Africa Than In North America Levels of near-perfect adherence to life saving antiretroviral drugs among African HIV patients should be understood as a means of preserving key social relationships, says a new study published in the open-access journal PLoS Medicine. In Sub-Saharan Africa, adherence to these anti-HIV drugs improves patients' health, which is also a strong predictor of adherence success in developed countries.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comSome U.S. Residents Cut Back On Prescription Drugs To Save Money The New York Times on Wednesday examined how, as "people around the country respond to financial and economic hard times by juggling the cost of necessities like groceries and housing, drugs are sometimes having to wait." An analysis conducted recently by IMS Health found that U.S.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comStudy Shows No Standardized Approach To Epidural Steroid Injections For Back Pain Today at the American Academy of Pain Medicine's 25th Annual Meeting, researchers from University of California at San Diego report that no standardized practices exist for administering an epidural steroid injection for back pain. Researchers looked at many factors including: which steroids were given, the amount of steroid used, and whether or not a local anesthetic was mixed with the steroid.
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