Balancing act: Direct and indirect costs of managing musculoskeletal disorders
The value of medical treatment can be far greater than the cost of the treatment finds a study in BioMed Central's open access journal Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation. Improved physical function leads to measur ...
Health
Mar 14, 2013 |
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Alcohol, fibromyalgia, and quality of life
Low and moderate drinkers of alcohol reported lower severity of symptoms of fibromyalgia than teetotallers, finds a study in BioMed Central's open access journal Arthritis Research & Therapy. Too much alcohol reversed this e ...
Arthritis & Rheumatism
Mar 14, 2013 |
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Shock treatment can kill: Clinical trial shows how 'standard' procedure results in children's deaths
Results from the Fluid Expansion as Supportive Therapy (FEAST) trial in East Africa show that children who are given fluid to treat shock have an increased risk of death due to cardiovascular collapse at 48 hours. These findings ...
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Mar 13, 2013 |
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Processed meat linked to premature death
In a huge study of half a million men and women, research in Biomed Central's open access journal BMC Medicine demonstrates an association between processed meat and cardiovascular disease and cancer.
Health
Mar 06, 2013 |
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A better way of estimating blood loss
Research suggests that there may be a better way of measuring blood loss due to trauma than the current method, finds an article in BioMed Central's open access journal Critical Care. The study shows that base deficit (BD) i ...
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Mar 05, 2013 |
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What is the cost of rare diseases such as Friedreich's Ataxia?
What is the cost of rare diseases such as Friedreich's Ataxia? By analyzing direct and indirect costs of care research in BioMed Central's open access journal Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases calculated that conservatively this r ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 27, 2013 |
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'Network' analysis of the brain may explain features of autism
A look at how the brain processes information finds a distinct pattern in children with autism spectrum disorders. Using EEGs to track the brain's electrical cross-talk, researchers from Boston Children's ...
Autism spectrum disorders
Feb 27, 2013 |
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Face values: Ability to recognize emotions in others impaired by AIDS
People with HIV are less able to recognise facial emotion than non-infected people finds a study published in the launch edition of BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Psychology. Reduction in their ability to recogn ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 26, 2013 |
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'I'm not just fat, I'm old!'
Similar to talking about being fat, talking about being old is an important an indicator of body dissatisfaction, shows research in BioMed Central's open access journal Journal of Eating Disorders.
Overweight and Obesity
Feb 20, 2013 |
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Adding movement to 'dry run' mental imagery enhances performance
Adding movement to mental rehearsal can improve performance finds a study in BioMed Central's open access journal Behavioral and Brain Functions. For high jumpers the study shows that dynamic imagery improves the number of suc ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 19, 2013 |
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Caffeine linked to low birth weight babies
Maternal nutrition is important to a developing embryo and to the health of the child later in life. Supplementing the diet with specific vitamins is known to increase health of the foetus for example folic acid (vitamin ...
Obstetrics & gynaecology
Feb 18, 2013 |
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Flu outbreaks modeled by new study of classroom schedules
Classroom rosters combined with human-networking theory may give a clearer picture of just how infectious diseases such as influenza can spread through a closed group of people, and even through populations ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 13, 2013 |
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Paternal obesity impacts child's chances of cancer
A father's obesity is one factor that may influence his children's health and potentially raise their risk for diseases like cancer, according to new research from Duke Medicine.
Overweight and Obesity
Feb 05, 2013 |
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Mutations in ASXL3 cause problems similar to Bohring-Opitz syndrome
Mutations which affect the gene ASXL3 cause a novel syndrome similar to Bohring-Opitz syndrome, finds a study published in BioMed Central's open access journal Genome Medicine. This molecular definition distinguishes these ...
Genetics
Feb 04, 2013 |
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New publication guidelines for systematic reviews from BMC Medicine
Two articles in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Medicine by Geoff Wong, Trisha Greenhalgh and colleagues, propose publication guidelines for both realist synthesis and meta-narrative reviews.
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Jan 28, 2013 |
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