Nursing homes a popular option in Taiwan
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Dr Szu-Yao (Zoe) Wang, who recently completed her PhD with UQ's School of Nursing, found that in Taiwan, where the culture dictates that children should care for their parents, aged-care facilities are becoming more popular.
Study shows emergency physicians have good first instincts in diagnosing heart attacks
Jul 24, 2008 |
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A study out of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center demonstrates emergency room doctors are correctly identifying patients who are having a heart attack, even when laboratory tests haven't yet confirmed it.
You're more likely to do sport if you are white, middle class, and middle-aged
Jul 24, 2008 |
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The comfortably off, white, and middle aged are the most likely to participate in sporting activities, reveals a 10 year study published ahead of print in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
Novel structure proteins could play a role in apoptosis
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Isoforms from Novel Structure Proteins (NSP), a new family of genes discovered by researchers in the Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine in Temple University's College of Science and Technology, could ...
Hyperactive immune resistance brings blindness in old age
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Age-dependent macular degeneration (AMD) is the commonest cause of blindness in the western industrialised nations. Hereditary changes in the regulation of the immune system influence the risk of contracting AMD. Opthalmologists ...
Patient privacy assured by electronic censor
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Newly developed software will help to allay patients' fears about who has access to their confidential data. Research published today in the open access journal BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making describes a comp ...
Study shows residents may benefit most from time in the clinic
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A new approach to internal medicine residency training could improve patient care and physician-patient relationships, according to a University of Cincinnati study.
Consortium develops new method to manipulate genetic material
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A multi-institutional team of researchers, including scientists at the University of Minnesota Medical School, have developed a powerful tool for genomic research and medicine. The robust method will allow researchers to ...
GOCE prepares for shipment to Russia
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Launching in just two months' time, GOCE – now fully reconfigured for launch in September, is currently being prepared for shipment on 29 July 2008 from ESA's test facilities in the Netherlands to the Plesetsk ...
Region hit hard by 1993 floods showed economic resiliency, study indicates
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With the first wave of clean-up efforts behind them, residents of communities affected by this year's Midwest floods may find hope in a University of Illinois study on the economic impact of the 1993 flood that devastated ...
Early cessation of breastfeeding by HIV+ women in poor countries and child survival
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A new study by researchers from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health addresses one of the most challenging issues in infant health and preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission in poor countries. In these ...
A sensible censor for sharing medical records
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Newly developed MIT software will help to allay patients' fears about who has access to their confidential records, facilitating the use of that data for medical research.
Genetic mutation identified for eye complaint
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An international research collaboration including research teams from the Children's Hospital in Boston (USA), King's College London and the Peninsula Medical School, has identified a gene that, when mutated, causes Duane ...
Researchers identify gene responsible for rare childhood disease
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The chromosomal abnormality that causes a rare, but often fatal, disorder that affects infants has been identified by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, who happened to treat two young ...
