EPG Health Media, developers of e-communication and clinical information solutions for the health sector, announced the launch of a new interactive Renal Anaemia Knowledge Centre within the web-based physician resource www.epgonline.

Sanctioned by the European Medical Association (EMA), EPG Online is a free service for HCPs dedicated to providing doctors with up to date access to best practice diagnosis and patient management guidance. This independent service provides access to a range ...

The eyes may or may not be windows to the soul, as the old adage goes, but scientists are reporting evidence that a peek into the eyes of cattle may become the basis for a long-sought test to detect infection with the agent that causes Mad Cow Disease. That test could help prevent the disease from spreading in the food supply. A study on using the tell-tale glow given off by eyes infected with the Mad Cow agent appears in ACS' semi-monthly journal Analytical Chemistry.

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Older Americans with high blood pressure and moderate to severe chronic kidney disease have a greater chance of developing heart disease than people with normal kidney function. This finding is one of three in a new paper published in the Feb. 7 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine.

The study also found these patients are at higher risk for developing heart disease than kidney failure (end stage renal disease). Lastly, it found for the first time that new types of drugs such as ACE...

Playing Pinball with Atoms

With nanotechnology yielding a burgeoning menagerie of microscopic pumps, motors, and other machines for potential use in medicine and industry, here is one good question: How will humans turn those devices on and off? In an advance toward giving humans that control, scientists in The Netherlands are reporting use of an external electrical signal to control an atomic-scale mechanical device that looks like the flippers on a pinball machine. Their report is sch...

Falls among the elderly cost one ambulance service an average of £145 on every occasion, and add up to two days of crew time a month, reveals a study in Emergency Medicine Journal.

Significant numbers of calls come from residential care and sheltered accommodation, suggesting that these facilities are relying on ambulance services inappropriately, suggest the authors.

The researchers monitored all calls for falls made to the ambulance service in North East England among people...

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