Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
E-mail access to one's surgeon has can improve doctor-patient communication. Additionally, this seems to occur without affecting levels of patient satisfaction. This was reported on February 18, 2008 in Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
write the authors. E-mail has influenced industries worldwide, including banking and retail, but there ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday examined House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Bark Stupak's (D-Mich.) efforts to increase FDA oversight and improve the safety of prescription drugs. According to the Journal, Stupak is "at the center of an aggressive effort by congressional Democrats to spotlight what ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Manipulating levels of nitric oxide (NO), a gas involved in many biological processes, may improve the disorganized network of blood vessels supplying tumors, potentially improving the effectiveness of radiation and chemotherapy. In an upcoming issue of the journal Nature Medicine, researchers from the Steele Laboratory of Radiation Oncology at Massachusetts ...
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Saturday, February 9th, 2008
As perhaps confirmed by their ubiquity on nature cable channels, crocodiles are among nature's most fearsome predators. When the opportunity arises, crocodilians will gorge, voluntarily consuming meals weighing 23% of their own body weight. This is analogous to a 130 -pound woman eating, at one sitting, a hamburger weighing 30 ...
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday examined how U.S. hospitals have begun to improve their informed consent processes amid "mounting concern about patient safety and lawsuits arising from botched communications." According to the Journal, researchers have found that "most patients don't read the forms they sign before undergoing surgery or ...
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