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Incentives Improve Response To Blood Drives
May 04, 2012
It's called the gift of life. But more people will roll up their sleeves to donate blood if a gift card comes with it. That's according to a new study from the University of Toronto. It shows a 15 to 20 percent rise in blood drive donations when incentives such as T-shirts, jackets, coupons or gift cards are thrown into the mix... Read More
Incentives Improve Response To Blood Drives
May 04, 2012
It's called the gift of life. But more people will roll up their sleeves to donate blood if a gift card comes with it. That's according to a new study from the University of Toronto. It shows a 15 to 20 percent rise in blood drive donations when incentives such as T-shirts, jackets, coupons or gift cards are thrown into the mix... Read More
Large-Scale Computer Simulation Of Human Blood
May 04, 2012
Having a virtual copy of a patient's blood in a computer would be a boon to researchers and doctors. They could examine a simulated heart attack caused by blood clotting in a diseased coronary artery and see if a drug like aspirin would be effective in reducing the size of such a clot... Read More
Large-Scale Computer Simulation Of Human Blood
May 04, 2012
Having a virtual copy of a patient's blood in a computer would be a boon to researchers and doctors. They could examine a simulated heart attack caused by blood clotting in a diseased coronary artery and see if a drug like aspirin would be effective in reducing the size of such a clot... Read More
For Patients With Multiple Myeloma, Low-Dose Whole-Body CT Finds Disease Missed On Standard Imaging
May 03, 2012
Low dose whole body CT is nearly four times better than radiographic skeletal survey, the standard of care in the U.S., for determining the extent of disease in patients with multiple myeloma, a new study shows. The study, conducted at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, included 51 patients who had both a radiographic skeletal survey as well as a low dose whole body CT examination... Read More
Lung Cancer Patients Benefit From Patient Education Video When Viewed Before Their Operation
May 03, 2012
A patient education process may provide an antidote to the emotional and physical difficulties that lung cancer patients face before and after an operation, according to a new study published in the May issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons... Read More
Stunning Inner Space Observations Could Impact Treatment Of Down Syndrome, Lissencephaly Or Cancer
May 03, 2012
Scientists using high-powered microscopes have made a stunning observation of the architecture within a cell - and identified for the first time how the architecture changes during the formation of gametes, also known as sex cells, in order to successfully complete the process... Read More
"Ex Vivo" Surgery Enables Removal Of Previously Inoperable Tumors Of The Abdomen
May 03, 2012
Abdominal tumors involving both roots of the celiac and superior mesenteric artery (SMA) are deemed unresectable by conventional surgical methods, as removal would cause necrosis of the organs that are supplied by those blood vessels... Read More
New Clues To How Brain Cancer Cells Migrate And Invade
May 03, 2012
Researchers have discovered that a protein that transports sodium, potassium and chloride may hold clues to how glioblastoma, the most common and deadliest type of brain cancer, moves and invades nearby healthy brain tissue... Read More
The Risks Of Low-Level Radiation Highlighted By Experts
May 03, 2012
Each time a release of radioactivity occurs, questions arise and debates unfold on the health risks at low doses - and still, just over a year after the disaster at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Station, unanswered questions and unsettled debates remain... Read More
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