Maternal Mortality Rates Decline

Maternal Mortality Rates Decline

The number of women dying in pregnancy and childbirth declines by almost half in the past two decades, show UN figures. India and Nigeria between them accounted for one third ...

Paralyzed Individuals Use Thought-controlled Robotic Arm to Reach and Grasp

Embargoed for Release Wednesday, May 16, 2012 1 p.m. EDT In an on-going clinical trial, a paralyzed woman was able to reach for and sip from a drink on her ...

U.S. Lowers Cutoff for Lead Poisoning in Young Kids

By MIKE STOBBE, Associated Press ATLANTA — For the first time in 20 years, U.S. health officials have lowered the threshold for lead poisoning in young children.

Valve-in-Valve TAVI Tricky, But It Works (CME/CE)

By Crystal Phend, Senior Staff Writer, MedPage Today Reviewed by Dori F. Zaleznik, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston. PARIS — Transcatheter replacement of failing bioprosthetic aortic valves is ...

EHR incentive payments improve bottom line of for-profit hospitals

Meaningful use incentive payments made in 2011 helped boost the bottom line for several for-profit hospital companies by almost $400 million, according to Fitch Ratings. Fitch’s report, “For Profit Hospitals ...

Not all ‘good cholesterol’ is ‘good’: Raising HDL not a sure route to countering heart disease

ScienceDaily (May 16, 2012) — A new paper published on-line in The Lancet challenges the assumption that raising a person’s HDL — the so-called “good cholesterol” — will necessarily lower ...

Damaged connections in Phineas Gage’s brain: Famous 1848 case of man who survived accident has modern parallel

ScienceDaily (May 16, 2012) — Poor Phineas Gage. In 1848, the supervisor for the Rutland and Burlington Railroad in Vermont was using a 13-pound, 3-foot-7-inch rod to pack blasting powder ...

Linkam Scientific temperature controlled warm stages chosen for sperm motility in human fertility testing

Market leaders in temperature controlled microscopy, Linkam Scientific Instruments, have been chosen by an NHS Fertility clinic as suppliers of a controlled warm stage to perform routine semen analysis at ...

Air Pollution Changes During Beijing Olympics Linked To Systemic Inflammation And Thrombosis Changes

Editor’s ChoiceMain Category: Cardiovascular / CardiologyAlso Included In: Water – Air Quality / Agriculture;  Heart DiseaseArticle Date: 16 May 2012 – 15:00 PDT Current ratings for:’Air Pollution Changes During Beijing Olympics ...

Thought Controlled Robotic Arm For Paralyzed Patients

Featured ArticleAcademic JournalMain Category: Neurology / NeuroscienceArticle Date: 16 May 2012 – 14:00 PDT Current ratings for:’Thought Controlled Robotic Arm For Paralyzed Patients’ The journal Nature reports on a science ...