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Posted by Rachael Lowe on September 2, 2010 · Leave a Comment
The next generation of SAGE Journals Online, SAGE's award-winning journal platform, is now live! To celebrate, free online access to must-have content back to 1999 is available until October 15, 2010. Experience the enhanced user-friendly features and functionality, including:
- Redesigned main portal page
- Expanded discipline search and browse across 50+ disciplines
- Abstract previews on tables of contents and search results
- Popular article lists for most-viewed and most-cited articles
- Feature hideaway options
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Posted by Rachael Lowe on August 31, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Solihull Hospital is one of the first in the region to install a Nintendo Wii in the physiotherapy gym, to help patients recovering from a stroke, or those with Parkinson’s disease. Since 2008 there have been investigations into the effect the Wii training would have on recovering patients. In Manchester, a boy suffering from extreme burns – after being struck by lightning – was put on a Wii…
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Posted by Rachael Lowe on August 31, 2010 · Leave a Comment
The initial treatment for spontaneous pneumothorax is a placement of a small-bore IV or pigtail catheter into the chest in the 2nd intercostal space at the mid-clavicular line, followed by aspiration of air from the pleural space. When up to 4 liters of air in adults are removed, the lung should re-expand itself. Cambridge Consultants think they can make this old process a little…
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Posted by Rachael Lowe on August 31, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Moving MRI images of the heart and other organs are nothing new. However, up until now these were always reconstructed afterwards by combining signals and images from the same cardiac phase acquired during breath-holding into the resulting images. Researchers at the Max Planck in Göttingen have now proven it is possible to acquire images in real-time with up to fifty frames per second. Previously it…
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Posted by Rachael Lowe on August 23, 2010 · Leave a Comment
The UK supermarket chain Sainsbury's is running a trial with two different drug vending machines in two of its West Sussex stores. Basically you can drop your prescription at the machine, the pharmacy will collect the prescriptions and deliver the medications which you can later pick up. As the machines are placed in stores with an in-store pharmacy service, the only benefit seems to be…
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Posted by Rachael Lowe on August 23, 2010 · Leave a Comment
It happens every day, the crutches thrown in the closet after the broken leg (caused by that gnarly jump on your BMX) healed when you were 12 are needed again in your 30s (caused by that embarrassing wipeout in the packaged meat section of the grocery). However, those so-called "adjustable" crutches don't get tall enough and the rubber cushions have severely degraded. As always, Yanko Designs points…
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Posted by Rachael Lowe on August 23, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Feeling like the world of spinal devices is moving too fast to keep up? The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (JB&JS) feels your pain and has published a free, easily readable primer on recent developments in spine surgery. They cover what devices are currently approved in the US and what evidence exists for use. Topics include:
What's New in the Treatment of the Cervical Spine
What's New in
Posted by Rachael Lowe on August 13, 2010 · Leave a Comment
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Health Professions Council (UK) are consulting on proposed changes to the generic standards of proficiency. The standards of proficiency are the standards that we consider necessary for the safe and effective practice of professions they regulate. The changes are being proposed to ensure that the generic standards are applicable to all the professions they regulate. There are consultations on a number of changes to…
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Posted by Rachael Lowe on August 11, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Researchers at the University of Jena, Germany have developed a prosthesis that may help reduce phantom limb pain. Phantom limb pain, which according to some studies may affect up to 80% of amputees, is an often intermittent, painful post-amputation sensation. This neuropathic pain is the result of a series of peripheral and central nervous system changes that follow amputation. It can be excruciating and is…
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Posted by Rachael Lowe on August 6, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Scientists have developed a material for bone grafts that could one day replace the 'gold standard' natural bone implants. A new study shows how particles of a ceramic called calcium phosphate have the ability to stimulate promising bone regrowth by attracting stem cells and 'growth factors' to promote healing and the integration of the grafted tissue. "The rate of bone repair we see with these…
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