Lymphoma :: New guidelines for assessing lymphoma treatment
An international team of cancer specialists and imaging experts has developed standardized guidelines for assessing lymphoma response to treatment.
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Healthcare :: Gettting to grips with the healthcare gap
Tackling health inequalities in Britain needs closer coordination between all major policy areas including health, education, housing, employment and taxation, according to the authors of a new Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) publication.
Tai Chi :: Tai chi to fight degenerative nerve disease
Peripheral neuropathy is a degenerative nerve disease with no cure and few effective treatment options ? until now. Li Li, professor of kinesiology at LSU, is conducting a study into the benefits of tai chi for elderly peripheral neuropathy patients.
Healthcare :: California Pacific Medical Center Elects New Chair of its Board of Directors
Scott Minick, longtime executive and board member of leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, has been elected as the new Chair of the Board of Directors for California Pacific Medical Center.
Health Care :: Health Care Trend Moving Focus on Healing, Not Sickness
In years to come, hospitals and other health-care facilities will look more like hotels or resorts and less like the institutional, often inconveniently designed buildings many think of today, says a Purdue University expert.
Education :: Historic Opening And Naming Of Ambulatory Care And Medical Education Building
On the morning of Friday, January 26, 2007, we invite you to celebrate with us a momentous event in the histories of Weill Cornell Medical College and the medical community of New York City. The presentation will include the opening of the new 13-story, 300,000-square-ft. Ambulatory Care and Medical Education Building along with the formal naming of the building.
Heart Disease :: Existing research supports metabolic syndrome link to cardiovascular heart disease
For years cardiologists and other specialists have disagreed over the condition known as metabolic syndrome, a complex confluence of factors such as abdominal obesity, low HDL, or “good” cholesterol and hypertension.
Flu :: Rapid flu testing is associated with decreased antibiotic use in hospitalized adults
Rapid influenza testing is associated with reductions in the use of antibiotics in hospitalized adults, according to a report posted online today that will appear in the Feb_26, 2007, print issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Hypertension :: US beats Europe for hypertension treatment
By starting treatment for high blood pressure earlier and being more aggressive, physicians in the U.S. control hypertension significantly better than their counterparts in western Europe.
Neurology :: Motor protein plays key role in connecting neurons
A motor protein called myosin X runs the main road of a developing neuron, delivering to its tip a receptor that enables it to communicate with other neurons, scientists say.