• 截肢病人容易出现幻肢心理

    10-09-26 After the loss of a limb, most patients experience the feeling of a phantom(幻觉的,幽灵的) limb the vivid illusion that the amputated(截肢) arm or leg is still present. Damage to the nervous system, such as stroke, may cause similar illusions i...

  • 可抑制口腔微生物的分子被发现

    10-09-26 A University of Oklahoma research team has uncovered a key to arresting the growth of thrush(画眉,鹅口疮) a type of oral yeast(酵母) infection that sickens patients with compromised immune systems, diabetes and newborns as well as healthy indiv...

  • 儿童吞下纽扣电池可造成严重伤害

    10-09-21 Severe injury to the esophagus(食管,食道) can occur after a child swallows a disc battery, according to a report in the September issue of Archives of OtolaryngologyHead Neck Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. A disc battery is an increa...

  • 囊胞性纤维症新疗法或将问世

    10-09-19 The lab of Kevin Foskett, PhD, the Isaac Ott Professor of Physiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, has found a possible new target for fighting cystic fibrosis ( CF囊胞性纤维症 ) that could compensate for the lack of a functi...

  • 世界首例远程麻醉手术成功实施

    10-09-12 Videoconferences(可视会议) may be known for putting people to sleep, but never like this. Dr. Thomas Hemmerling and his team of McGill's Department of Anesthesia(麻醉) achieved a world first on August 30, 2010, when they treated patients undergo...

  • 预防癌症患者出现静脉栓塞

    10-09-10 For cancer patients, who have an increased risk of developing venous thromboembolism ( VTE静脉血栓栓塞 ) due to a hyperactive(极度活跃的) blood coagulation system(血凝固) , there is now an enhanced risk model to predict their chance of developin...

  • 便携医疗器材可能影响对疾病的判断

    10-09-10 The widespread use of a simplified clinical tool to estimate future coronary(冠的) risk could lead to the classification of millions of Americans into different risk groups than when using the original, gold-standard tool. Millions of patients may...

  • 药物与心理综合治疗对早期精神分裂症患者有益

    10-09-07 Patients with early-stage schizophrenia(精神分裂症) who receive a combination of medication and a psychosocial(社会心理的) intervention appear less likely to discontinue treatment or relapse(复发) and may have improved insight, quality of life...

  • 某迷幻剂可提高晚期癌症患者的情绪

    10-09-07 In the first human study of its kind to be published in more than 35 years, researchers found psilocybin(墨西哥致幻菌素) , an hallucinogen(迷幻剂) which occurs naturally in magic mushrooms, can safely improve the moods of patients with advanced-...

  • 抗血凝剂不适用于某些病人

    10-08-30 New findings by McMaster University researchers contradict(反驳,否定) earlier reports that people with a certain genetic make-up don't benefit from the blood-thinner clopidogrel(氯吡格雷) , also known as Plavix. After researchers from the Unite...