Dilated eye exams, in which special eye drops are used to widen the pupils, allow eye care professionals to see into the back of the eye to check for early signs of eye disease such as glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy, two of the leading causes of blindness in this country. But many people, particularly seniors who are at increased risk for these diseases, do not get this important test.
GE Healthcare, a division of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) today announced that it has expanded its alliance with Intermountain Healthcare to include the development of standardized terminology, clinical knowledge management technology and clinical process content as part of their multi-year project for the development of an ?enterprise clinical information system? built on GE?s Centricity? Enterprise Solution. Together, GE Healthcare and Intermountain are working to help enhance patient care by accelerating the adoption of electronic health records and the use of evidence-based medicine and other forms of best practice among health systems in the United States.
GE (NYSE: GE) and Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT) (TSE: 6501) have signed a letter of intent to negotiate the formation of a global alliance that will combine their new nuclear power plant and services businesses with the goal of strengthening their existing operations, accelerating the development of new products and services, and positioning their alliance for growth in the nuclear energy industry.
Regional launch of the UN Secretary General?s Study on Violence against Children with a focus on the situation in Latin America and the Caribbean. The report includes recommendations particularly targeted at Governments urging them to meet their obligations in terms of prevention and eradication of all forms of violence against children.
The greatest risk in science is to stop taking risks,? said Elias A. Zerhouni, Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Md.
Infants and adults who are blind due to a cloudy or damaged cornea are seeing some remarkable results thanks to a new version of an artificial implant that takes the place of the cornea, the clear covering of the eye that serves as our window on the world.
Testing the eyes of preterm children when they reach 2.5 years of age may predict vision problems at age 10, according to a report in the November issue of Archives of Ophthalmology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
A transformation in health care requires vision, values and leadership ? and physicians are best poised to be transformative leaders, according to Ian Morrison, Ph.D., president emeritus of the Institute for the Future.
In a study published in a recent issue of Brain Injury, researchers at the University at Buffalo found that discharge sheets from 14 of 15 hospitals that were reviewed lacked at least one important sign of a possible hemorrhage. Ten of the hospitals were located in Western New York; five were located in southern Ontario, Canada.
Researchers at the University of Rochester may have answered one of neuroscience’s most vexing questions — how can it be that our neurons, which are responsible for our crystal-clear thoughts, seem to fire in utterly random ways?