Month: November 2010

Surgeons conducting the largest study yet of women who have cancer in one breast but have both removed have found that this option has grown rapidly despite a lack of evidence that it improves long-term life expectancy. Their findings were…

Severely injured patients should be transported directly from the scene of an accident to a trauma center, even if it means bypassing a closer hospital, according to new research that shows this results in a nearly 25% lower death rate.…

A third of breast cancer survivors who received the breast-conserving treatments lumpectomy and radiation rate the appearance of their post-treatment breast as only “fair” or “poor” in comparison to their untreated breast, according to a University of Pennsylvania School of…

The Chinese capital of Beijing has won the right to host the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) General Assembly in December. The General Assembly meets every 2 years and the decision to take the event to Beijing follows a detailed review…

In a project supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, researchers from Cornell University, University of Chicago and iRobot have bypassed traditional designs based around the human hand and fingers, and created a versatile gripper using ground coffee and…

    Wilfried Lemke Wilfried Lemke, the Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General on Sport for Development and Peace, has called on the worldwide media to give greater coverage to Paralympic sports and other sports for people with disabilities.…

Cali Overcast of Fountain, Colo., was only 4 years old when the 9/11 terrorist attacks took place, but she has never forgotten the impact it had on her young life. “I remember how badly I felt that all of those…

When he made the career move into pedorthics, Kevin Christel, CPed,
focused on one thing: Having an impact on others.

The application of business metrics, social mediamarketing and patient advocates can improve patient care and increase customerretention.

The Center for Injury Research and Policy at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has been awarded $38.6 million by the Peer Reviewed Orthopaedic Research Program (PRORP) of the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) to expand its Major…