News tagged with white river junction
Overdiagnosis since introduction of prostate cancer screening
The introduction of prostate-antigen screening, or PSA, has resulted in over 1 million additional men over the last 23 years being diagnosed and treated for prostate cancer—most of whom were likely overdiagnosed, researchers ...
Aug 31, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
Search results for white river junction
Regions with higher rate of diagnoses have lower fatality rate for chronic conditions
An examination of data for more than 5 million Medicare beneficiaries finds that hospital regions that have a greater frequency of diagnoses have a lower case-fatality rate for chronic conditions such as coronary artery disease ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 15, 2011 |
not rated yet |
0
Vt. city stumbles in effort to do telecom itself
(AP) -- Tired of waiting for state-of-the-art communications technology, voters of Vermont's biggest city decided in 2000 to form their own company to provide telephone, Internet and cable TV service.
Dec 06, 2010 |
3 / 5 (1) |
1
Most patients survive common thyroid cancer regardless of treatment
Individuals with papillary thyroid cancer that has not spread beyond the thyroid gland appear to have favorable outcomes regardless of whether they receive treatment within the first year after diagnosis, according to a report ...
May 17, 2010 |
not rated yet |
0
Magnitude of overdiagnosis in cancer indicates need for strategies to address the problem
Many cancers detected by screening tests are not destined to cause symptoms or death and therefore represent a phenomenon known as overdiagnosis. And because overdiagnosis leads to unnecessary treatment and other harms, ...
Apr 22, 2010 |
1 / 5 (1) |
0
The medicalization of life
Here's a question that's not being asked in the health-care debate: How much medical care do we want in our lives? It's something we should be discussing.
Mar 16, 2010 |
4.8 / 5 (4) |
5
Surgical errors remain a challenge in and out of the operating room
Despite a national focus on reducing surgical errors, surgery-related adverse events continue to occur both inside and outside the operating room, according to an analysis of events at Veterans Health Administration Medical ...
Nov 16, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
IG: Improvements in VA endoscopic equipment use
(AP) -- Inspections show that Veterans Department medical facilities have made significant progress on fixing endoscopic procedure problems that potentially exposed thousands to HIV and other infections.
Sep 18, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
Gov't considers 7 states for mercury site
(AP) -- The federal government is trying to find a location to store the nation's excess mercury deposits, with seven states being considered. But the government is quickly finding out that very few people ...
Jul 24, 2009 |
4 / 5 (2) |
4
Findings challenge common practice regarding glucose control for critically ill patients
An analysis of randomized trials indicates that for critically ill adults, tight glucose control is not associated with a significantly reduced risk of death in the hospital, but is associated with an increased risk of hypoglycemia, ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 26, 2008 |
5 / 5 (2) |
0
Researchers update risk-of-death charts
Researchers have updated charts that show an American's risk of dying from a given cause over the next ten years, based on age, sex, and smoking status. The charts will be published online June 10 in the Journal of the Na ...
Jun 10, 2008 |
3.4 / 5 (5) |
1
List of search results for white river junction
