Patient Care
Sound Pollution May Cause Medical Errors
A recent research project, by acoustics experts Ilene Busch-Vishniac and James E. West, acoustical engineers at Johns Hopkins University Hospital, showed that noise disturbs patients and staff members, raises the risk of medical errors, and hinders efforts to modernize hospitals with speech-recognition systems. More...30 Nov -0001
Serotonin Receptors Affect Reaction to Stress
How individuals react to stressful situations and difficult situation could be partly caused by the dominance of one cell-surface marker over another in a brain region involved in controlling emotional responses and behaviors, suggest findings from a new study. More...30 Nov -0001
New Treatments for Prostate Cancer
New research presented different treatment alternatives and new therapies for prostate cancer demonstrated that treating prostate cancer patients with higher doses of radiotherapy considerably improved patient outcome and treatment over a five-year period. More...30 Nov -0001
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