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Decubitus, the much-feared bedsores that occur in extended rehabilitation, is a significant challenge for hospitals and rehab centres. At the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) 2007 in Vienna, radiologists from Frankfurt are now presenting special materials meant to prevent pressure ulcers from forming.Medically speaking, decubitus is a problem that originates in connective tissue. [click link for full article] (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

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Decubitus, the much-feared bedsores that occur in extended rehabilitation, is a significant challenge for hospitals and rehab centres. At the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) 2007 in Vienna, radiologists from Frankfurt are now presenting special materials meant to prevent pressure ulcers from forming.Medically speaking, decubitus is a problem that originates in connective tissue. [click link for full article] (Source: Medical Devices News From Medical News Today)

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Can an electrical current actually speed up the body's ability to heal itself? Well, the German physiologist Emil Du Bois-Reymond first proposed this theory over 150 years ago, and emerging research is supporting his ideas. The makers of the LifeWave™ BST device claim to use these same principles to drastically improve healing of the most severe bed sores. Leveraging the body's natural healing powers: After years of researching the neuropathophysiology of wound, LifeWave introduced an innovative electrical stimulation medical device. LifeWave™ BST (Bed Sore Treatment) is a sophisticated medical device designed to treat chronic wounds using unique technology that leverages the body's natural healing powers by stimulating "life signs" that renew blood flow in order to induce lo...

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Journal of Clinical Nursing Volume 16, Issue 3a, Page 35-43, Mar 2007. (Source: Journal of Clinical Nursing)

 

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Conclusions: Total hip replacement, partial hip replacement, and revision hip replacement are associated with different rates of postoperative complications and readmissions. Advanced age, comorbidities, and nonelective admissions are associated with inferior outcomes. Level of Evidence: Therapeutic Level III. See Instructions to Authors for a complete description of levels of evidence. (Source: JBJS [Am])

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We report on a young male with moderate mental retardation, dysmorphic features, and language delay who is deleted for 7q31.1-7q31.31. His full karyotype is 46,XY,der(7)del(7)(q31.1q31.31)ins(10;7)(q24.3;q31.1q31.31)mat. This child had language impairment, including developmental verbal dyspraxia, but did not meet criteria for autism according to standardized ADOS testing. Our patient's deletion, which is the smallest reported deletion including FOXP2, adds to the body of evidence that supports the role of FOXP2 in speech and language impairment, but not in autism. A reported association between autism and deletions of WNT2, a gene also deleted in our patient, is likewise not supported by our case. Previously, fine mapping with microsatellites markers within in a large three-generation fam...

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