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Obese patients who received robotic kidney transplants had fewer wound complications than patients who received traditional “open” transplant surgery, according to surgeons at the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System. [more...]
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Transplant researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine challenge a long-held assumption about how biologic pathways trigger immune system rejection of donor organs in a report published online today in the Journal of Clinical Investigation. Their study, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, suggests a different paradigm is needed to develop better anti-rejection therapies. [more...]
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Vijaya Knight M.D., Ph.D., National Jewish Health in Denver, is pictured working with blood vials. A growing number of patients are learning they are allergic to the metal used in knee or hip implants or to the bone cement used in surgery. A new study by National Jewish Health is touting the benefits of a blood test to help avoid painful complications. (National Jewish Health) |
Imagine what Paula Spurlock must have been going through. Shortly after having a hip replaced in 2011, the trouble started. "I had horrible itching, really bad migraines and intense pain throughout my body," she said. "I couldn't take it. Every single thing in me itched." [more...]
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Sporting events can bring a community together, such as when the Louisville Cardinals won the NCAA championship and University of Louisville campus was filled with camaraderie. They also can fuel bitter rivalries, such as the long-standing animosity between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Chicago Cubs. A University of Missouri study has found that testosterone levels during group competition are modulated depending on the relationships among the competitors and may be related to the formation of alliances in warfare. [more...]
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Nurses will use extreme measures to save patients and their parents. But they’d prefer less aggressive life-preserving methods for themselves, according to an international survey on nurses’ end-of-life preferences. [more...]
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A device commonly used to treat dangerous heart rhythms may cause more issues for patients than a simpler version of the same device. The implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) prevents sudden cardiac death by detecting irregularities and delivering an electrical jolt to restart the heart. [more...]
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UC Irvine Health researchers have helped discover that genes controlling circadian clock rhythms are profoundly altered in the brains of people with severe depression. These clock genes regulate 24-hour circadian rhythms affecting hormonal, body temperature, sleep and behavioral patterns. [more...]
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Affecting sexual fantasies of sex offenders is a difficult therapeutic issue. What makes a fantasy “deviant”? Do sex offenders fantasize more than the average citizen? And what role do sexual fantasies play as a risk factor in sexual abuse and recidivism? Sexual fantasies can be managed via therapeutic techniques Kris Vanhoeck and his colleagues at the I.T.E.R., Centrum voor Daderhulp, Brussels, say in the Journal “Sexual Offender Treatment”. Yet, what it takes beforehand is a careful screening of clients and a thorough need assessment. Sex offenders have to be motivated to say good-bye to their long loved “buddies”. [more...]
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Cancer patients’ mental health may benefit from avoidant attachment in the early phase of diagnosis and treatment, study finds. Sierra Winings, David L. Hall and Youngmee Kim, Department of Psychology, University of Miami, expanded attachment theory to the interpersonal level by including cancer patients’ attachment orientations, as well as differences between patients and their significant caregivers on the same attachment pattern. Avoidant attachment predicted better self-reported mental health in colorectal cancer patients 6 month after diagnosis - regardless of their caregivers’ avoidance orientation. In the Journal “Praxis Klinische Verhaltensmedizin und Rehabilitation” the researchers present their results. [more...]
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What makes decision makers in companies act corruptly? Which motivational, volitional, emotional and cognitive aspects play a role? How does their interplay lead to corrupt action? To answer these questions, Dr. Tanja Rabl (University Bayreuth/Germany) developed and empirically validated a model of corrupt action using an experimental simulation design combining a business game with a standardized questionnaire. [more...]
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The EULOD Project Living Organ Donation in Europe – Results and Recommendations, by Ambagtsheer, F.; Weimar, W. (Eds.)
Public Engagement in Organ Donation and Transplantation (from the ELPAT Public Issues Working Group), by Randhawa, Gurch; Schicktanz, Silke (Eds.)
The General Practice Guide to Autoimmune Diseases, by Y. Shoenfeld, P.L. Meroni (Eds.)
How to Write and Evaluate Psychological Reports, by Westhoff, Karl; Kluck, Marie-Luise
Task-Analysis-Tools (TAToo) – Step-by-Step Support for Successful Job and Work Analysis, by Koch, Anna; Westhoff, Karl
Markets, methods and messages. Dynamics in European drug research, by Fountain, Jane; Asmussen Frank, Vibeke; Korf, Dirk J (Eds.)
Hypertension and Cardiovascular Aspects of Dialysis Treatment, by Branko Braam, Kailash Jindal, Evert J. Dorhout Mees
Pay and Reward Systems in Organizations, by Antoni, Conny H.; Baeten, Xavier; Lucas, Rosemary; Perkins, Stephen; Vartiainen, Matti (Eds.)
Innate Alloimmunity: Part 1: Innate Immunity and Host Defense, by Walter G. Land
Innate Alloimmunity: Part 2: Innate Immunity and Allograft Rejection, by Walter G. Land
Seyffart's Directory of Drug Dosage in Kidney Disease, by G. Seyffart
Organ Transplantation: Ethical, Legal and Psychosocial Aspects. Expanding the European Platform, by W. Weimar, M. A. Bos, J. J. V. Busschbach (Eds.)
Migration, Integration, and Health: The Danube Region, by Traue, H.C., Johler, R., Jancovic Gavrilovic, J. (Eds.)
Spatial Structures and Visual Attention in Diagrammatic Reasoning, by Bertel, S.
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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