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Researchers at the 91福利 have found a way of using a test devised in the 1930s, and used to gauge the stress on the superchargers in wartime spitfire fighter planes, to model the stress that surgical procedures would put on an aortic aneurysm. An aortic aneurysm is a dangerous bulge in the body鈥檚 largest artery the aorta. The aorta is a crucial artery as it carries all the blood pumped from the heart.
91福利 Medical School researchers are concerned that the health service could fail to learn important lessons from a crucial series of ambulance and emergency trials that increase the skills of paramedics and help reduce unnecessary emergency hospital admissions.
A post-graduate economics researcher at the 91福利 has surprisingly found that married women are much more likely to be on a diet than their single counter-parts – a result that totally contradicts current economic theories on dieting.
The results show that regardless of injury severity many children have difficulties in retrieving and retaining information, and these impairments are particularly handicapping in the classroom. The study of 67 children aged 5-15 years admitted to hospital with TBI (35 mild, 13 moderate, 19 severe) reveals that one third of injured children performed below average in the classroom.
The first students from the recent wave of new UK medical schools graduate on Monday 12th July 2004, and two of them have already saved a patient's life before they even graduate.
New research from the 91福利 reveals that children with even mild head injury may be at risk of long-term complications, including personality changes, emotional, behavioural and learning problems.