Compact, wireless and power efficient body sensors that allow doctors to monitor illnesses and injuries remotely are a step closer thanks to new research. The use of biosensors attached to the body ...

Un estudio de contactos adecuado es un pilar clave en el abordaje de la tuberculosis para atajar la enfermedad con un diagnóstico precoz en fases iniciales en las que aún no genera contagios y cortar ...

Debido al origen de la heparina y al proceso para obtenerla, su purificación requiere controles de calidad en todas las etapas. Para obtener una materia prima que permita certificar la eficacia y ...

La Administración de Alimentos y Fármacos de Estados Unidos (FDA) busca incorporar a más de 1.300 biólogos, químicos, farmacólogos y otros profesionales para octubre, como parte de una importante ...

Fertility and Sterility 2008; Advance online publication Sonohysterography (SHG) is a simple and sensitive tool for assessing uterine abnormalities in women with recurrent failed IVF-embryo transfer ...

Italia dijo el jueves a la Comisión Europea que no exportó mozzarella contaminada con la sustancia cancerígena dioxina, informó una portavoz de la Comisión. La portavoz de Salud y Seguridad ...

Background Algorithms for converting descriptive measures of health status into quality-adjusted life year (QALY)—weights are now widely available, and their application in economic evaluation is ...

Objectives. The objectives of this study are to determine the relative importance of 6 guideline features for physicians' and nurses' willingness to adopt practice guidelines, to examine whether ...

The results of a new study identify two factors—medication nonadherence and therapy intensification—that are important for the control of blood pressure in a community-based cohort study 1 Both ...

Darle a los pacientes acceso por correo electrónico a sus cirujanos parece mejorar la comunicación, según un informe reciente. "A las personas que usan correo electrónico ciertamente les gustaría ...

Abstract & Objective. To evaluate how widely quality improvement methods are used in Finnish primary health centres and how the use has changed over five years. Design. Two national ...

Nunca es demasiado tarde para aprovechar los beneficios de un estilo de vida saludable, según un grupo de investigadores que halló que hacer ejercicio y no fumar a los 70 años aumenta enormemente las ...

Payment by Results (PbR) is one of the most fundamental changes in NHS policy since the introduction of the 'internal market' in 1991. It is also one of the most visible and influential attempts ...

Impatient with the lack of progress at federal and state levels in reducing the number of uninsured Americans, many counties across the United States are seeking their own solutions to the health ...

Background. The incidence of Clostridium difficile–associated disease (CDAD) is increasing. There are few data on the short-term and long-term attributable costs of CDAD. The objective of this study ...