Sentences with phrase «medical early warning»

Sequencing the whole genome of a fetus could provide a medical early warning on a previously unknown scale - but...

Sequencing the whole genome of a fetus could provide a medical early warning on a previously unknown scale - but it also brings dilemmas, says Harriet A. Washington

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Earlier this year, the Journal of the American Medical Association warned that the «safety, effectiveness, and accuracy» of child and baby health monitoring devices are not checked or approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

Because not all long - term implications are completely understood, follow - up visits with assessments of a baby as she grows can let the staff at the hospital, and indeed the whole medical community, better understand problems and their early warning signs.

It is not government that can counter the allegation; rather, the state Chairman of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Dr Augustine Umoh and the Secretary, Dr. Aniekan Peter have to retract the communiqué earlier issued by them where they publicly warned that their members were set to down tools on account of unpaid arrears of as much as 15 months salaries.

John Brownstein, chief innovation officer at Boston Children's Hospital and a Harvard Medical School professor, said during his presentation that his researchers have been collecting patient - generated information from alternative data sources and converting it into an early warning system for disease.

«These new findings allow disease early warning systems to provide warnings for upcoming epidemics with much longer lead time than before,» says Prasad Liyanage, doctoral student at Umeå University and Medical Officer for dengue control in Kalutara district at the Sri Lankan Ministry of Health.

The impact of student debt on career choice has been a concern of academic leaders since the early 1990s, when a series of commentaries published in medical journals warned of a serious drought in the physician - scientist pipeline unless something was done to help recruit and retain people on that career path.

According to Takao Someya, the leader of the research group, these could include sensors that record heartbeats and body temperature, for example, providing early warning of medical problems.

This research supports another study reported by Medical News Today earlier this year, which found a combination of health warning graphics and text on cigarette packets increased knowledge about the dangers of smoking among young adults, compared with text - only warnings.

The researchers applied technology and methodology from metabolomics, a relatively new field used principally in medical research to identify small biomolecules produced in metabolism that might serve as early warning signs of disease.

Other applications of rubber - graphene sensors could be in the automotive industry (to develop sensitive airbags); in robotics, in medical device development (to monitor bodily motion), as early warning systems for cot death in babies or sleep apnoea in adults.

Later the CDC under his direction unraveled the medical enigmas of toxic shock and Reyes syndrome and issued early warnings about the spread of AIDS.

However, J. Chad Teeters, MD, a cardiologist and assistant professor of clinical medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center, in New York, says that the study findings are the latest evidence that homocysteine is of little use as an early warning sign of heart attacks or heart disease.

Earlier in the year, the British Medical Journal warned that a «tsunami of obesity» threatened all nations equally if nothing is done.

You can track feline health with weight as it is an early warning system for any potential medical issues.

«As many as half of the aboriginal children who attended the early years of residential schools died of tuberculosis, despite repeated warnings to the federal government that overcrowding, poor sanitation and a lack of medical care were creating a toxic breeding ground for the rapid spread of the disease.»