News tagged with hours


Too much, too little sleep increases ischemic risk in postmenopausal women

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 17, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Postmenopausal women who regularly sleep more than nine hours a night may have an increased risk of ischemic stroke, researchers reported in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association.


Study says cut to junior doctors' hours does not compromise patients' safety

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 02, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Research led by a team at the University of Warwick's Warwick Medical School has found that reducing the hours of junior doctors does not compromise patients' safety and could even dramatically cut mistakes on wards but, ...


A simple therapy for brain injury

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created Jun 27, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Severe brain injury due to blunt force trauma could be reduced by application of a simple polymer, Polyethylene glycol or PEG, mixed in sterile water and injected into the blood stream – as reported in BioMed Central's Journal of ...



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