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More than ever before, quality of treatment has to orientate itself also towards economic requirements and standards and high priority is placed on prevention. As a result, investments for the prevention of additional complications and costs under the aspect of security and efficiency are a key issue for providing high quality treatment to dialysis patients. [more...]
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Although the German philosopher and psychologist William Stern (1871-1938) enjoyed wide renown in the early decades of the 20th century, very few contemporaries have any appreciable familiarity with his works. To the extent that his name is recognized at all, that is usually due to its historical connection with the concept of IQ, and this is all the more unfortunate because Stern's work in that particular domain was something from which he eventually sought to distance himself. [more...]
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While lower intelligence scores - as reflected by low results on written or oral tests of IQ - have been associated with a raised risk of cardiovascular disease, no study has so far compared the relative strength of this association with other established risk factors such as obesity, smoking and high blood pressure. Now, a large study funded by Britain's Medical Research Council, which set out to gauge the relative importance of IQ alongside other risk factors, has found that lower intelligence scores were associated with higher rates of cardiovascular disease and total mortality at a greater level of magnitude than found with any other risk factor except smoking. [more...]
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Next month, in the Norwegian town of Rena, 12,000 elite cross-country skiers will line up for this year's Birkebeiner ski marathon, an annual endurance race which will take them through 54 kilometres of snow-covered countryside to the winter sports resort of Lillehammer. The race has been run almost every year since 1932, and in 1976 almost 150 participants were invited to take part in a long-term study designed to discover the extent of latent heart disease in these elite cross-country skiers. Now, after some 30 years, the results of the follow-up study have been published and suggest that long-distance competition skiers - as well as other endurance athletes - are at an unusually high risk of atrial fibrillation, the most common abnormality of the heart's beating rhythm. [more...]
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Chronic pain management for major burn patients may pose a challenge for even the most experienced clinician as there is a constant struggle between creation of opioid treatment plans and the development of opioid tolerance due to this chronic therapy. Dr. P. Desocio and his co-workers at Fort Sam Houston (USA) have therefore designed a study to perform ultra rapid opioid detoxification (UROD) in severely burned service members using dexmedetomidine, ketamine and naloxone to reduce narcotic requirements of these patients by fifty percent. [more...]
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"Predictive autoantibodies will have multiple uses in the future years. They may be valuable adjuncts in predicting the likelihood of developing clinical disease before the diagnostic signs are evident. They will have value in teaching us about the natural history of disease, particularly in providing information about the length of the prodromal period when the immune-mediated destructive process is silently underway", Noel R. Rose (Johns Hopkins University Baltimore) notes. [more...]
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A body that is provided with food too often gets caught up in the maelstrom of a lack of exercise, obesity and ultimately diabetes. The trigger is a molecular switch that is controlled by insulin, a new study by scientists from ETH Zurich has revealed. [more...]
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Anticoagulation therapy for thromboembolism prophylaxis in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) still is a conundrum for many physicians. Age is the most cited argument to withhold anticoagulation, however, because of their higher risk of stroke, elderly patients would have a greater net benefit of antithrombotic therapy compared to younger patients. Dr. Leithäuser, Dr. Park (both Asklepios Clinik Harburg, Germany) and Dr. Jung (Center for Biomaterial Development and Berlin Brandenburg Center for Regnerative Therapies, Teltow, Germany) carried out a detailed and comprehensive review of the risks of cardioembolic stroke and bleeding in patients with AF with and without oral anticoagulation to clarify anticoagulation underuse in the elderly. [more...]
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Atrial fibrillation, one of the most common arrhythmias, is responsible for a high percentage of strokes. Efficacy of epicardial microwave (MW) ablation was investigated by a research group at the Heart Center Dresden (Dr. Knaut, Dr. Brose, Dr. Forker and Dr. Matschke) and Prof. Dr. Jung (Center for Biomaterial Development and Berlin Brandenburg Center for Regnerative Therapies, Teltow, Germany) and they recently presented their first clinical results of epicardial MW ablation as a concomitant procedure during cardiac surgery where opening of the left atrium was not required. [more...]
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Studies of the circle of Willis based on magnetic resonance angiography have revealed a huge amount of variants where certain connecting vessels are missing or hypo-plastic. State-of-the-art techniques have to be used to provide proper assessment of an individual’s vascular tree anatomy and function. Dr. Günther (mediri GmbH, Heidelberg and University Hospital Mannheim, Germany) has summarized recent developments in non-invasive measurement of macro-vascular blood flow and micro-vascular perfusion and has published some results on cerebral vasculature imaging in Applied Cardiopulmonary Pathophysiology 13 (issue 3-2009). [more...]
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Latest publications:
William Stern (1871-1938): A Brief Introduction to His Life and Works, by Lamiell, J. T.
Chronobiology and Chronopsychology, by Baudson, T.G., Seemüller, A., Dresler, M. (Eds.)
Old and New Policies, Theories, Research Methods and Drug Users Across Europe, by Demetrovics, T., Fountain, J., Kraus, L. (Eds.)
Mentally Disordered Persons in European Prison Systems, by Salize, H.-J., Dreßing, H.
Body Integrity Identity Disorder: Psychological, Neurobiological, Ethical and Legal Aspects, by Stirn, A., Thiel, A., Oddo, S. (Eds.)
Using Simulations for Education, Training and Research, by Dieckmann, P. (Ed.)
Assessment of Social and Auditory Intelligence – New Perspectives and Approaches, by Seidel, K.
Therapeutic Plasma Exchange and Selective Plasma Separation Methods, by R. Bambauer, R. Latza, M.R. Lentz
Private Corruption and its Actors – Insights into the Subjective Decision Making Processes, by Rabl, T.
Game-based learning – Discover the pleasure of learning, by Pivec, M., Moretti, M. (Eds.)
Autoanticuerpos en Enfermedades Autoinmunes Sistémicas – Guía Diagnóstica, by K. Conrad, W. Schößler, F. Hiepe, M. J. Fritzler
Haemophilia and Rare Bleeding Disorders, by Falko H. Herrmann (Ed.)
Cannabis in Europe: Dynamics in Perception, Policy and Markets, by Korf, D. J. (Ed.)
Reward Management - Facts and Trends in Europe, by Vartiainen, M., Antoni, C., Baeten, X., Hakonen, N., Lucas, R., Thierry, H. (Eds.)
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