Edwin Ernest Salpeter. 3 December 1924 — 26 November 2008

Radiology Rounds - November/December 2008 - Uterine Artery Embolization

Smptomatic uterine fibroids are estimated to occur in 25-50% of women of reproductive age, causing severe menstrual cramps, menorrhagia (which can result in anemia), reduced fertility, and/or symptoms of pressure, such as urinary frequency, a feeling of heaviness or bloating, or pain due to nerve compression. There are several treatment options for symptomatic fibroids, including myomectomy, hy...

Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, ISDA 2008, 26-28 November 2008, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 3 Volumes

November 26, 2006

On the morning of Oct. 5, President Bush and his education secretary, Margaret Spellings, paid a visit, along with camera crews from CNN and Fox News, to Friendship-Woodridge Elementary and Middle Campus, a charter public school in Washington. The president dropped in on two classrooms, where he asked the students, almost all of whom were African-American and poor, if they were planning to go t...

AIM December 2008 Text.qxd

During the last five years a large number of randomised controlled clinical trials (RCTs) have been published on the efficacy of acupuncture in different conditions. In most of these studies verum is compared with sham acupuncture. In general both verum and sham have been found to be effective, and often with little reported difference in outcome. This has repeatedly led to the conclusion that ...

AIM December 2008 Text.qxd

Background Studies by individual acupuncture practitioners have given an indication that offering acupuncture in primary care may reduce the need for referral to secondary care and reduce the costs of prescriptions. It would be informative to find out whether these findings can be supported by data from other practices. The aim of this study was to test the feasibility of surveying national dat...