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Stories from the dialysis comunity across the globe.
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Fresenius' Ulf Schneider talks about plans for global expansion, including china (video). |
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Wall Street Journal: Boss Talk. Fresenius on Growth. Fresenius SE & Co. Chairman Ulf M. Schneider on bringing Western-style health care to the developing world.
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Off-topic technology: Gaze control of devices may help subjects with impaired motor ability. |
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EurekAlert: To demonstrate the effectiveness of the eye-tracker, the researchers got subjects to play the video game Pong. In this game, the subject used his or her eyes to move a bat to hit a ball that was bouncing around the screen – a feat that is difficult to accomplish with other read-out mechanisms such as brain waves (EEG). Dr Aldo Faisal, Lecturer in Neurotechnology at Imperial's Department of Bioengineering and the Department of Computing, is confident in the ability to utilise eye movements given that six of the subjects, who had never used their eyes as a control input before, could still register a respectable score within 20 per cent of the able bodied users after just 10 minutes of using the device for the first time.
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In frail elderly, higher blood pressures associated with increased survival. |
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EurekAlert: Among the faster walkers, those with high blood pressure had a 35 percent greater risk of dying compared with those with normal blood pressure. In contrast, there was no association between high blood pressure and mortality in the slow walking group. Strikingly, those who were unable to complete the walking test had the opposite results – those with higher blood pressure had a 62 percent lower mortality rate.
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Adding vitamin B12 to hepatitis C treatment regimen improves cure rate. |
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EurekAlert: There was no difference between the two treatment approaches at 4 weeks, but there were significant differences in response at all the other time points, particularly 24 weeks after stopping treatment, which is the aim of HCV treatment and the closest it can be get to a cure. The effects were also significantly greater among those who carried the type 1 strain, which is particularly hard to treat, and those high levels of infection (high viral load) to begin with. Overall, adding vitamin B12 to standard therapy strengthened the rate of sustained viral response by 34%, the findings showed.
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NEJM op ed: Teaching physicians about costs of medical care. |
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NEJM (Rosenbaum and Lamas): Our profession has traditionally rewarded the broadest differential diagnosis and a patient care approach that uses resources as though they were unlimited. Good care, we believe, cannot be codified in dollar signs. But with health care costs threatening to bankrupt our country, the financial implications of medical decision making have become part of the national conversation.
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