GE Healthcare division Vital Signs is warning anesthesiologists that its Multi Absorber Original anesthesia systems could have problems with air leakage. Launching a voluntary field corrective action for the device, the company notes that ...
The computing giant recently obtained a pair of new patents, one related to hover touch sensors and the other an integrated heart rate monitor that might be included in some of the company's 2014 product launches. The cardiac sensor can be ...
For the medtech industry, 2014 is unlikely to be a year full of surprises as companies grapple with a health care market wary of big-ticket procedures and items. The largest gains will likely involve digital health and other technologies ...
Many children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may have missed out on valuable counseling because of a widely touted study that concluded stimulants such as Ritalin or Adderall were more effective for treating the ...
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Georgia Regents University has joined the national Cooperative Multicenter Reproductive Medicine Network designed to enable large clinical trials that improve the diagnosis and treatment of reproductive health issues such as male and female ...
The imminent death of a patient is riddled with emotions for a patient and family as well as the medical team. A study based on the reflections of third-year Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine students is shedding light on ...
Tags: dying patient, control emotion, desensitized to dying patient
In the largest ever assessment of substance use among people with severe psychiatric illness, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of Southern California have found that rates of smoking, ...
Tags: psychiatric illness, psychotic disorders, rates of smoking
High-risk adults between the ages of 55 and 80 should receive annual lung cancer screening with low-dose computed tomography, according to final recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force being published in Annals of ...
Doctors are missing a prime opportunity to share information about sex with their teenage patients by failing to broach the subject during checkups, according to researchers at Duke Medicine. The study, published Dec. 30, 2013, in JAMA ...
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Tripling taxes on cigarettes around the world would reduce the number of smokers by one-third and prevent 200 million premature deaths from lung cancer and other diseases this century, according to a review published today in the New ...
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Teens may begin their driving habits with great caution, but as months behind the wheel pass, they begin to multi-task at higher frequency rates - dialing cell phones, eating, and talking to passengers, etc. - and therefore greatly raise ...
Tags: teens health, driving habits, novice drivers, multi-task during driving
Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN) and UCB (Euronext Brussels:UCB) today announced results from a Phase 2 trial evaluating romosozumab (AMG 785/CDP7851) in postmenopausal women with low bone mineral density (BMD). Published in the New England Journal of ...
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Uson LP When conducting multiple tests using different test pressures, operators face the problem of constantly adjusting manual air pressure regulators. Uson has produced an application note describing how the use of an automatic air ...
Even professional orchestra musicians suffer from particular stress on the day of the concert and release more cortisol. For the first time it has now been possible to demonstrate that, amongst others, the enzyme myeloperoxidase, which is ...
Tags: musicians, stress, cardiovascular disease, enzyme myeloperoxidase
A study from the University of Colorado School of Medicine shows patients with Medicaid insurance seeking care in an emergency department may be driven by lack of alternatives instead of the severity of their illness. The study is published ...
Tags: Medicaid insurance, emergency department, emergency care, Roberta Capp