1. Medtronic Introduces Every Patient First
(Company News/Medtronic)

... “Medtronic ’s vision is to improve overall access to life-saving therapies for everyone, regardless of age, gender, race, or ethnicity,” said H. James Dallas, senior vice president of Quality and Operations ...

2. Acc.10: Philips Simplifies Cardiology Care
(Company News/Philips Healthcare)

... ECG algorithm.  Additionally, it includes advanced ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) decision-support tools, as well as updated gender, age, and lead-specific STEMI criteria that ...

3. CT-scan Screening for LAM Cost-effective
(Communities/CT)

... patients for LAM. Using national representative data sources, researchers looked at rates of collapsed lung and prevalence of LAM in relation to age, gender and smoking status.   They compared the ...

4. Wolters Launches Medi-Span Clinical For CDSS
(Company News/Wolters Kluwer Health )

... and age and gender conflict checking, and drug to disease screening. "In addition to unprecedented interoperability, Medi-Span Clinical delivers advanced end-user controls over alerts and warnings that ...

5. Fallon Clinic Recognizes Nuances Dragon Medical
(Company News/Nuance Communications, Inc.)

... which they provided 10 diverse physicians – who ranged in specialty, computer and typing skills, age, gender and dictation use levels – with Dragon Medical. Physicians in the pilot program used Dragon ...

6. Childhood Cancer Radiation Therapy Affects Heart
(Modalities/Radiology )

... as likely to die as people of the same age and gender in the general populations of the UK and France. Thirty-two of the patients had died of heart-related causes, for a five-fold overall increased risk ...

7. Alternative of Ultrasound Detects Fetus Gender
(Communities/Ultrasound)

Study finds that a new blood test can imerge as an alternative to ultrasound to detect fetus gender. Parents who normally want to know the sex of their unborn child can usually find out through ultrasound ...

8. EMR System Built on CACHÉ Object Database
(EMR (Electronic Medical Records)/EMR)

... real-time decision support, automatic documentation of notes and screenings, drug-drug interaction and allergy alerts, electronic prescriptions and virtually any information tied to patient age, gender ...

9. Quantifying Cancer Risk from CT Scans
(Communities/CT)

... between Jan. 1 and May 30, 2008. Dr. Smith-Bindman computed a cancer risk based on type of scan, age and gender. For example, she estimated that one in 270 women who underwent CT coronary angiography ...

10. Research On Coronary Angiography By BMC
(Cardiology/Cardiology)

... Cox-proportional hazard models were developed, adjusting for age, gender, and socioeconomic status (SES), region, and urgency score, with greater hazard ratios (HR) indicating shorter wait times. To evaluate ...

11. Obesity Predicts Poorer Image Quality on CTA
(Communities/CT)

... wrote. Blacks also had significantly poorer image quality than whites, although the findings were not as strongly significant as expected because the population was small (OR 0.58, P=0.04). Gender, coronary ...

12. Excessive Physical Activity can cause Arthritis: RSNA 2009
(Radiology Conferences/RSNA 2009)

... Abnormalities were associated solely with activity levels and were not age or gender specific. "The prevalence of the knee abnormalities increased with the level of physical activity," Dr. Stehling said. ...

13. RSNA:Study Finds Adults May Respond Differently to Danger
(Radiology Conferences/RSNA 2009)

... required action, whereas women direct more attention to the feelings engendered by emotional stimuli," said Andrzej Urbanik, M.D., Ph.D., chair of Radiology at Jagiellonian University Hospital in Krakow, ...

14. Reduced Peripheral Arterial Blood Flow with Cardiac Output
(Communities/Cardiac Vasculature)

... and 13 age and gender matched healthy volunteers underwent a sophisticated battery of assessments including a) peak exercise oxygen consumption (peak VO2), b) physical function, c) cardiovascular magnetic ...

15. 2009 Winner of Women in Cardiology Mentoring
(Communities/Cardiac Vasculature)

... differences between the genders when it comes to heart disease symptoms and treatments. The Women in Cardiology Mentoring Award, initiated by the AHA Women in Cardiology Committee and sponsored by the ...

16. PET Scan After radiation For Non-small Cell Lung Cancer
(Communities/PET)

... months. Eight patients suffered local failure. Other factors significantly associated with increased local failure included female gender, stage IV disease and large tumor size. Source: Thomas Jefferson ...

17. PET Response a Predictive Factor after Thoracic Radiation
(Communities/PET)

... local failure. Other factors significantly associated with increased local failure included female gender, stage IV disease and large tumor size. Source: EurekAlert Discuss more about PET in our PET ...

18. Colon Cancer Screening More Effective Earlier in Day
(Communities/Cardiac Vasculature)

... including age, gender and history of polyps or cancer, as well as the skill level of the physician. Researchers added that colonoscopies performed in the morning may have better results partly due to ...

19. Conditions presented for Health care bills in Senate
(Healthcare Reform/Healthcare Reform)

... premiums allowed for pre-existing conditions or gender. Limits on higher premiums based on age. GOVERNMENT-RUN PLAN: A new public plan available through the insurance exchanges would be set up and run ...

20. New Advances and Insights in Gastroenterology at College's 74th Annual Meeting
(Radiology Conferences/Conference News)

... Researchers Evaluate New Bowel Prep Approaches Largest Cohort Study to-Date Examines Barrett's Esophagus Prevalence Among Latinos Racial and Gender Disparities in Colon Cancer About the American College ...