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This spring, the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) will begin to conduct routine not-for-cause audits of institutions and IRBs that are affiliated with Veterans Affairs (VA) research.
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Experts offer these suggestions on how to recruit and retain community IRB members.
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Attend any major IRB conference and one common complaint is that IRBs are having difficulty recruiting and retaining community members.
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Techniques for accurately measuring the rates of brain atrophy from serial MRI images have improved significantly in recent years. A few of these techniques have been implemented in a partially or fully automated fashion, which is arguably a necessary precondition to their being applied clinically.
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Cerebral sinus thrombosis most commonly affects the superior sagittal sinus (up to 80%) or the transverse and sigmoid sinuses (70%), with concomitant involvement of the cortical veins in up to 40% of cases. Women are more commonly affected, reflecting their unique risk factors, including pregnancy, the puerperium, and oral contraceptive medication. Other risk factors include surgery, head and neck infections, head injury, malignancy, dehydration, and connective tissue diseases.
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This paper examined the risk of Bells palsy after introduction of an inactivated intranasal influenza vaccine in Switzerland. Mutsch and associates used a matched case-control study and a case-series analysis.
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While the greatest amount of growth in cosmetic procedures was seen in noninvasive techniques such as Botox and microdermabrasion, results of the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgerys (AACS) 2003 Procedural Survey show that invasive procedures such as liposuction and breast augmentation continue to grow as well.
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A portable robot may be available later this year that can stand in for a scrub nurse. Penelope (Manufacturer: Robotic Surgical Tech in New York City) can hand instruments to surgeons during basic general surgeries such as hernias. The robot is awaiting approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
