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...care can be a gamble--and patients often don't understand the odds. University of California researchers aim to change that, with an interactive Web-based tool that they are calling the roulette wheel. This color-coded visual model uses a computer algorithm to help patients and their doctors assess the possible outcomes of different treatments. Take the prostate-specific-antigen (PSA) test for prostate cancer, for example. The wheel for PSA screening shows a typical patient the potential harm (incontinence, impotence, death) or benefit (no symptoms) that could result from treatment following a PSA test in which high levels...
...them to take steps that could help ward off the disease. Says Dr. John Eisman, who led the groundbreaking research at the Garvan Institute & of Medical Research in Sydney: "I envision a woman going in for a blood test, which will become as routine as a cholesterol check, to assess her bone density and risk for osteoporosis...
...Saris says the group was particularly interested in “how to assess follow-up on the visitation process...
...initiative. “I give a lot of credit to the students who worked with Dean Dingman and Chief Riley on this initiative,” Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross wrote in an e-mail.UC representatives will meet with Dingman throughout the academic year to assess the effects of the universal keycard access initiative. “If there is significant abuse of it, we would reevaluate it in some sense,” Sarafa said. The initiative follows College renovations to Yard basements, transforming what used to be student office space into communal social areas. Universal...
...representatives will meet with Dingman throughout the academic year to assess the effects of the universal keycard access initiative...