Most people don't know it, but hard evidence as to which medical treatments actually work best is in awfully short supply here in the U.S. The growing scandal over the expensive cholesterol drug Vytorin, which appears to be no more effective than older, cheaper statin drugs, is just the latest...
Mastered the art of multitasking? Check. Read the rules of office politics? Check. Figured out how to tame your boss? Check. Conquered your biological clock? Huh… ? Yes, ladies, in your quest to climb the corporate ladder, this is one skill you'd better acquire...
Nowadays survey of 54 micro-econometric studies reveals that exporting firms are more productive than non-exporters. On the other hand, previous empirical studies show that exporting does not necessarily improve productivity. One possible reason for this result is that most previous studies are restricted to analysing the relationship between a firm's...
A number of different types of ecosystems have been created for wastewater treatment including microbial reactors, algal tanks and scrubbers and constructed wetlands. Treatment is performed by these ecosystems through physical/chemical processes such as soil absorption and through metabolic processes such as denitrification. A set of constructed ecosystems that is...
The indications for continuous oral anticoagulant treatment, the target interval and the procedures for withdrawing treatment have changed in the last 10 years. Patients on continuous oral anticoagulant treatment at the Outpatient Anticoagulant Clinic at Umea University Hospital in 2002 were included in a descriptive study (n=900). In patients on...
Results of randomized clinical trials are the preferred "Evidence" for establishing the benefits and safety of medical treatments. This paper presents evidence suggesting that the conventional approach to reporting clinical trials has fundamental flaws that can result in overlooking identifiable subgroups harmed by a treatment while underestimating benefits to others....
Bright white light has been successfully used for the treatment of depression. There is interest in identifying which spectral colors of light are the most efficient in the treatment of depression. It is theorized that green light could decrease the intensity duration of exposure needed. Late Wake Treatment LWT, sleep...
Pathological Gambling PG is an impulse control disorder often comorbid with other psychopathology, particularly bipolar spectrum disorders, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder OCD and substance abuse. This paper reviews the published literature on the pharmacological management of PG, highlighting how clinical and subclinical comorbid psychopathology influences the choice of pharmacological...
Ethics consultations have been shown to reduce the use of "nonbeneficial treatments," defined as life-sustaining treatments delivered to patients who ultimately did not survive to hospital discharge, when treatment conflicts occurred in the adult intensive care unit. The paper estimates the costs of nonbeneficial treatment using the results from a...
Two disputed cases about withholding life support Terri Schiavo and Son Hudson call for greater public discussion. Confusion arises from intermixing three kinds of cases: those in which demanded treatment is physiologically futile, involving competition for scarce resources, and in which the treatment would likely achieve the patient's goals although...
The introduction of balloon angioplasty in the 1970s revolutionized the treatment of coronary and peripheral vascular disease PVD. Since this major breakthrough, the diagnosis and treatment of PVD has generally been performed in the Vascular Radiology suite and coronary angioplasty in the Cardiac Catheterization Lab. The influx of cardiologists into...
Obesity is the most common health problem in developed countries. Recently, several physicians' organizations have issued recommendations for treating obesity to family physicians, including instructions in nutrition, physical activity and medications. The aim of this study was to examine if effective weight-reducing treatment can be given by a family physician....
This white paper uses detailed data on prescription drug and other services from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey MEPS to examine recent trends in mental health and substance abuse (MH/SA) treatment between 1996 and 2001. While use of ambulatory services remained constant, prescription drug use increased rapidly, with the result...
An advanced wastewater treatment plant was commissioned in 1992 for the City of Kalispell, which is located in northwest Montana and discharging to a sensitive Rocky Mountain watershed. The plant featured a Biological Nutrient Removal BNR process and primary sludge fermentation to ensure complete Biological Phosphorus (Bio-P) removal. BioWin modeling...
The Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant WWTP, located in the Town of New Tecumseth, Ontario, is required to meet a stringent future effluent total phosphorus limit concentration of less than 0.07 mg/L. This total phosphorus limit is typically not achieved using traditional forms of phosphorus removal in an activated sludge system...
Increased baseline left ventricular LV mass predicts cardiovascular CV complications of hypertension, but the relation between lower LV mass and outcome during treatment for hypertension is uncertain. This article determines whether reduction of LV mass during antihypertensive treatment modifies risk of major CV events independent of blood pressure change.
This paper aim to tests the hypothesis that lesser severity of electro-cardiographic LVH during antihypertensive treatment is associated with decreased CV morbidity and mortality, independent of blood pressure levels and reduction and treatment modality. Electro-cardiographic left ventricular hypertrophy LVH is a strong predictor of cardiovascular CV morbidity and mortality. However,...
The paper cites that polymer-gel water-shutoff WSO treatments are highly reservoir-, well- and problem-specific. In order to successfully apply a polymer-gel WSO treatment, the underlying problem must be correctly identified or deduced and be amenable to polymer-gel WSO treatments. Then an appropriate polymer-gel system must be properly selected, sized and...
Treatment is something done to help with a health problem. There are many kinds of treatment?for example, taking medicine or having surgery. Sometimes a health problem can be treated in more than one way. If people need treatment for a health problem, this paper can help them take part in...
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