Beyond Batten Disease Foundation Forms To Find Cure For Rare Children's Disease
Leading scientists, medical researchers and affected families joined together today to launch Beyond Batten Disease Foundation, an organization committed to finding a cure for this rare disease that claims the lives of children. The organization is also developing a single, inexpensive blood test to detect the gene mutations for Batten disease and hundreds of other so-called "orphan" diseases.
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Beating Blood Clots After Joint Replacement
As the number of hip and knee replacements skyrocket into the coming years, patients and orthopaedic surgeons need to work together to evaluate and assess a potentially fatal complication -- blood clots. According to findings released today at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) (http://www.aaos.org), deep vein thrombosis (DVT) (
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GE Scientists Create Wireless Sensing Platform That Could Dramatically Improve Neonatal And Home Health Monitoring
GE Global Research, the technology development arm of the General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), today announced that scientists have transformed a common and commercially available GE sensor for home security into an innovative, intelligent wireless medical sensing platform. If successful, this new platform could dramatically improve neonatal and home patient monitoring.
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Health Minister Opens Our New Fitness To Practise Premises
The NMC's dedicated Fitness to Practise premises were officially opened yesterday by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health Services, Ann Keen. Ms Keen, the first nurse ever to hold ministerial office, unveiled the commemorative plaque at the new modern premises at the Centrium building, 61 Aldwych, London and expressed confidence in the changes taking place at the NMC.
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Kansas House Approves New Restrictions On Abortion
The Kansas House on Wednesday approved two bills that would impose new restrictions on providers performing so-called "late-term" abortions, the AP/Wichita Eagle reports. One bill (H.B. 2206), approved 82-40, would require physicians to provide health officials with detailed medical reasons for performing abortions late in pregnancy (AP/Wichita Eagle, 3/5). The bill, sponsored by state Rep.
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Medical Aid For Palestinians (Map): Solution Lies In Justice, Sovereignty, And Self-Determination
The solution to improve health and welfare lies in justice, sovereignty, and self-determination for Palestinians. This is the conclusion of a Comment which accompanies The Lancet Series on Health in The Occupied Palestinian Territory, written by Andrea Becker, Katharine Al Ju'beh, and Graham Watt, of Medical Aid for Palestinians, London, UK.
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Are The The Youth Of Today Yobs Or Future Leaders?
Should we dismiss the youth of today or look to them as future leaders? Teenagers are already forming thoughts and opinions on how policy should shape the society of tomorrow. Events during the Economic and Social Research Council's (ESRC) Festival of Social Science (6 -15 March) will showcase the views, ideas and motivations of young people in our society. Issues to be discussed by teenagers around the country include environmental sustainability, organ donation and migration.
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MR Applications - Innovations For Women's Health With The Magnetom Espree - Pink, The New Dedicated MR Breast Scanner
Siemens Healthcare exhibits its latest solutions in the field of Magnetic Resonance (MR) for Oncology at the European Radiology Congress ECR 2009 in Vienna. The syngo TimCT Oncology application enables not only comprehensive patient examinations within an extreme short examination time, it can also eliminate the need for multiple examinations with other modalities.
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Wilmington News Journal Examines Bilingual Hospital Staff Serving As Interpreters
With a growing population of non-English-speaking patients, many hospitals are training their bilingual staff members to be "effective communicators on health issues," the Wilmington News Journal reports. Many of those providing interpretation services do not have a medical background and might work in the billing, scheduling or custodial departments.
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