Falling Behind in Care
October 19, 2011 Tags: None
Americans die far more frequently than their counterparts in other countries as a result of preventable or treatable conditions, such as bacterial infections, screenable cancers, diabetes and complications from surgery.
In 2006-07, the U.S. recorded 96 preventable deaths per 100,000 people.
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More of a Marketing Tool?
October 17, 2011 Tags: None
Use of a robotic assistant called the Da Vinci Surgical System has quadrupled in the last four years, and the machine now helps with incisions and sutures in 2,000 hospitals around the world.
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Vanderbilt Setting the Record
October 13, 2011 Tags: None
People didn’t even have to stand in line Wednesday during Flulapalooza as Vanderbilt University set a new world record for flu vaccinations.
The 12,647 who bared their arms easily surpassed the existing record of 6,215 flu shots given in an eight-hour period, but the results still have to be certified by the Guinn
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The Mind's Eye
October 11, 2011 Tags: None
Often when a person loses vision because injury or disease, the broken component is either the detection device — the eyes — or the wiring that carries images detected by the eyes to the brain’s visual cortex.
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