A new research study has provided a significant contribution to a national medical society's efforts to establish standards of practice that will stem unnecessary medical and surgical errors in a clinical environment.
Spring rains mean more opportunities for leptospirosis to spread to domestic and wild animals. A Kansas State University veterinarian and infectious disease specialist whose research emphasis is on Leptospirosis said lepto is more prevalent during the spring months because of weather conditions.
Parents are increasingly placing their children in child safety restraints during car trips, according to a national study. In an important shift, parents are more likely to use child safety seats and belt-positioning booster seats, which are safer than adult seat belts for younger children.
Using CT images to steer gene-therapy injections into tumors offers a safe delivery route for treating patients with metastatic kidney cancer, report radiologists. The disease resists intravenous chemotherapy in 85 percent of cases.
Will there be enough neurosurgeons in the United States available to treat my family or me? This is the question that neurosurgeons will address when they present their findings of a recent study which evaluates the sufficiency of the neurosurgical workforce.
Glioblastoma multiforme is identified as the most aggressive and ultimately the most common primary brain tumor. It is solely responsible for 50 percent of all patients' intracranial gliomas and 25 percent of intracranial tumors in adults.
Degenerative disc disease is a disorder that may cause low back pain, which affects 80 percent of adults in their lifetimes. Neurosurgeons recently conducted studies to determine whether new functional intervertebral cervical disc prostheses can provide relief from neurological symptoms and signs.
Helmets saved the lives of approximately 692 motorcyclists in 2002, according to the National Center for Statistics and Analysis of the National Highway Traffic Safety. If all motorcyclists had worn helmets, an additional 449 lives could have been saved.
Researchers at Duke University have demonstrated the feasibility of directly using human brain signals to operate external devices in patients who may not be able physically to control such devices with their hands.
More than 40,000 Americans each year are diagnosed with brain tumors, according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. About half of those are primary, the others are metastatic.
Military neurosurgeons serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom have recently reported a significant decrease in casualty rates compared with other recent conflicts.
Medical liability insurance premiums have risen by 500 percent in the past 10 years. State and federal reimbursement has continued to drop. These are some of the current trends facing Florida neurosurgeons, and their colleagues nationwide.
A collaboration has produced new clinical practice guidelines offering evidence-based methods to identify, monitor, and treat OME in children aged two months through 12 years, including options on observation, medical intervention, and surgical referral.
O'Connor compared how Denver Health's new standard open access appointment system works to the traditional prescheduled appointments for infants' 2-, 4- and 6-month well child care (WCC) visits when vaccines were given.
A new UCLA study shows how communication techniques between a doctor and a parent can result in increased parent satisfaction with the treatment plan for their child's upper respiratory illness and avoid unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions.
Depending on their race, children and their families may be treated differently in emergency departments throughout the United States.
Many other hazards cause injuries to kids on farms than previously thought, researchers show.
Pediatric asthma patients with low socioeconomic status and low quality primary care are five times less likely than those with higher quality primary care to utilize the ER as their primary source of asthma care and more likely to suffer from a significantly poorer quality of life.
Asthmatic children admitted to pediatric medical centers received equal quality of care regardless of race or ethnicity, according to a study.
Early postpartum visits with pediatricians may help prevent a dangerous complication associated with jaundice, according to the presentation, "Inadequate Attention Given to Jaundice in Healthy Term Infants During the First Postpartum Week."
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