BOSTON (MedPage Today) — When asked for their opinions, 63% of hospital patients gave the facility in which they received care a high global rating of nine or 10, and 26% rated their care a seven or eight.
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(Baylor College of Medicine) Dr. Christian Rosenmund, professor of neuroscience and molecular and human genetics at Baylor College of Medicine, and graduate student Mingshan Xue use that analogy to describe the action of synaptotagmin-1, which acts to catalyze the fusion of the membranes of tiny neurotransmitter-filled bubbles called vesicles with the wall membrane of a [...]
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NMA 2008: Critical issues for elderly black patients — the regional perspective. Medscape Internal Medicine
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October 29 is World Stroke Day, and the theme for this year is “little strokes, big trouble,” emphasizing the importance of subtle neurological and neuropsychological deficits associated with subclinical strokes. Medscape Medical News
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NMA 2008: Critical issues for elderly black patients — the regional perspective.
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Ms. Berman describes current research and best-practice recommendations for the vaccination, screening, and management of human papillomavirus, as well as how best to use clinical guidelines when screening patients and managing those with abnormal results. Medscape Medical News
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(Worcester Polytechnic Institute) Recognizing the critical need for technology that can save the lives of first responders by accurately tracking their location inside buildings, the Department of Homeland Security has awarded Worcester Polytechnic Institute $430,000 to continue to develop its own groundbreaking technology and conduct a national test of all existing indoor tracking and monitoring [...]
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(University of Houston) Whether it’s in the human body or under the Earth’s crust, modeling the unseen involves many similar techniques. Physicians and geologists will be meeting at the University of Houston Nov. 6 to discuss just how much they have in common. Through a partnership between UH, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and [...]
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(California Institute of Technology) Brain-imaging studies reveal that voting decisions are more associated with the brain’s response to negative aspects of a politician’s appearance than to positive ones, says a team of researchers from the California Institute of Technology, Scripps College, Princeton University, and the University of Iowa. This appears to be particularly true when [...]
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The following is a summary of selected women’s health-related blogs.~ “A Stealth Attack on Privacy,” Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check:”Anti-choicers who petulantly claim that there’s no right to privacy in the Constitution are attacking many more decisions than Roe,” Marcotte writes.
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