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2011 Human Development Report: Environmental trends threaten global progress for the poor PHOTO: ©UNDP/ARANTXA CEDILLO) 02 November 2011 Health, income advancement in developing countries jeopardized by inaction on climate change, habitat destruction, Report shows Wealth and gender disparities linked to environmental hazards Copenhagen—Development progress in the world’s poorest countries could be halted or even […]
Unique use of electronic medical records helps physicians at Packard Children’s select treatment for rare disease For the first time, aggregate patient data from electronic medical records has been used to help make a challenging, real-time decision in the care of a patient with a rare disease. A team at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford […]
UN human development rankings place Norway at the top and DR Congo last 02 November 2011 Norway, Australia and the Netherlands lead this year’s newly released Human Development Index (HDI) rankings, the annual United Nations measure of progress in human well-being, while the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Niger and Burundi are at the […]
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Conjoined twin toddlers successfully separated at Packard Children’s … Conjoined twins Angelina (left) and Angelica Sabuco at home in San Jose, Calif., shortly before their separation surgery … Angelica and Angelina Sabuco, twins who were born conjoined at the chest and abdomen, are now separate little girls. The 2-year-olds were separated Nov. 1 in a […]
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Conjoined twin press conference, Packard Children’s Hospital … … On November 1, 2011, surgeons at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford separated two-year-old conjoined twins Angelina and Angelica Sabuco. Surgeons Gary Hartman, MD, and H. Peter Lorenz, MD, meet the media. Previous publications: Conjoined twins’ separation – a complex feat Previous publications: Two separate girls! […]
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How Embrace infant warmers are saving lives in developing nations … … November 2th, 2011 As previously reported on Scope, a group of Stanford graduate students recently developed an inexpensive, portable incubator to keep premature babies warm and well in low-resource countries. The above video, posted on CNN today, takes a look at how the devices are […]
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Reforming the 2012 Farm Bill: Subsidies, Food Assistance and America’s Health … Reforming the 2012 Farm Bill: Subsidies, Food Assistance and America’s Health … In election year 2012, the U.S. Congress will be considering a new Farm Bill, the government’s primary means of setting food and agriculture policy. The current Farm Bill has been criticized […]
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Steve Jobs and the next big “intersection” “I just finished reading Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson. It’s a well-written, elegant and balanced book and I strongly recommend reading it. Jobs frequently mentioned two values that have always struck me as incredibly wise: First, that it is important to focus on promising technologies and bet long on those technologies. And, second, […]
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Prolonged use of nitroglycerin may increase severity of subsequent heart attacks A standard treatment for heart attack patients, nitroglycerin is typically prescribed to aid in opening vessels so blood can flow to the heart more easily. A typical regimen is for hospitalized heart attack patients to be cycled on and off the nitroglycerin, 16 hours on and […]
Continuous dose of nitroglycerin increases severity of heart attacks, study shows When given for hours as a continuous dose, the heart medication nitroglycerin backfires — increasing the severity of subsequent heart attacks, according to a study of the compound in rats by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. “Basically it’s a cautionary tale,” said […]
