Ulcers in Medical News

ConvaTec Launches Hydrofiber(R) Technology Web Site

... hospital stays for adults during which pressure ulcers were diagnosed increased by 79% from 1993 to ... including a diagnosis of pressure ulcers totaled $11 billion.(1) In addition, surgical ... Brief #64: Hospitalizations Related to Pressure ulcers Among Adults 18 Years and Older, 2006. ...

Drug Limits Stomach Trouble in Patients Taking Low-Dose Aspirin

... Study found famotidine effective at curtailing ulcers MONDAY, July 6 (HealthDay News) -- ... famotidine prevents stomach and upper-intestinal ulcers in people taking low-dose aspirin, often to ... underwent an endoscopic exam. Stomach ulcers were found in 3 percent of the patients taking ...

Maricopa Integrated Health System Reports 90 Percent Reduction in Pressure Ulcers

... products reduced the prevalence of pressure ulcers by 90 percent, according to data presented this ... following the inclusion of Stage 3 and 4 pressure ulcers acquired after admission to a healthcare facility ... significantly reducing the prevalence of pressure ulcers across our entire system, and improving patient ...

Herpes medication does not reduce risk of HIV transmission

... The HIV virus is also shed from genital herpes ulcers and individuals with such ulcers transmit HIV to others more efficiently. Five ... treatment reduced the frequency of genital ulcers by 73% and the average amount of HIV in the blood ...

Human stem cells promote healing of diabetic ulcers

... and socio-economic burden with diabetic foot ulcers alone costing the NHS 300 million a year. ... effectively be used to treat back leg ischaemic ulcers in a model of type 1 diabetes. The ... In humans, diabetic patients with ischaemic foot ulcers have the worst outcome of all chronic skin ...

JCR and Hill-Rom Name First Nurse Scholar-in-Residence

... and insights into the prevention of pressure ulcers OAK BROOK, Ill. and BATESVILLE, Ind., April ... patients are treated annually for pressure ulcers in acute care facilities in the United States, ... there were 503,000 hospital stays with pressure ulcers noted as a diagnosis, nearly an 80 percent ...

Wound Management Technologies Exhibits at Premier International Diabetic Foot Conference DFCon 09

... Evidence Based Study (Interim Data) in Human Leg ulcers . This abstract features Wound Care Innovations' ... the speed and efficacy of CellerateRx. Diabetic ulcers remain one of the biggest problems and challenges ... and interventional strategies for diabetic foot ulcers and amputation prevention. Featuring a ...

Maggots as Good as Gel in Leg Ulcer Treatments

... News) -- The use of maggots to treat leg ulcers is similar to standard hydrogel therapy in terms ... should be recommended for routine use on leg ulcers with dead tissue with the goal of speeding ... National Library of Medicine has more on skin ulcers . -- Robert ...

Clinical Intervention Eliminates Heel Ulcer Incidents in ICU

... - Texas medical center reduces heel ulcers to zero, saves nearly $2 million CARY, Ill., ... higher risk for the development of heel pressure ulcers and plantar flexion contractures, conditions that ... prevention of hospital-acquired heel pressure ulcers and plantar flexion contractures, according to ...

Tamaris Announces Foot and Leg Ulcers Pose Significant Health Threat

... they need, and in its most advanced form, skin ulcers begin to develop. At this stage of PAD, called ... be: 50 years of age or older with stable skin ulcers or non-infected gangrene on a foot or leg; ... If you or someone you know suffers with skin ulcers due to PAD at the stage of Critical Limb ...

Diabetics with previous foot ulcers may be able to participate in walking program

... (DM+PN), can cause individuals to develop foot ulcers and, in extreme cases, amputation might be ... pain, tingling or even total loss of feeling. ulcers might occur due to loss of muscle, which would ... at the end of the year, the number of lesions and ulcers in the intervention group had started to decrease ...

Introducing the Smith & Nephew Foam Dressing Kit

... types of wounds: Pressure ulcers Diabetic/neuropathic ulcers Venous insufficiency ulcers Traumatic wounds Post-operative ...

Horizon Therapeutics announces 2 pivotal HZT-501 Phase 3 trials meet primary endpoints

... upper gastrointestinal (gastric and/or duodenal) ulcers in patients with mild-to-moderate pain when ... taking NSAIDs experience gastrointestinal ulcers and a greater percent suffer from upper GI ... who develop endoscopically diagnosed gastric ulcers during the 24-week treatment period, as compared ...

Wound Management Technologies, Inc. Announces FDA Clearance of 510k

... of chronic and acute wounds and dermal ulcers including the management of: -- Pressure ulcers (Stages I-IV) -- Venous Stasis ulcers -- ...

Derma Sciences Enrolls First Patient in DSC127 Phase II Study

... have been shown to range from 39% to 68%. ulcers are present in 3% to 6% of all hospital stays in ... healthcare payers for the management of diabetic ulcers and associated amputations were over $10 ... investment we are making into DSC127 for diabetic ulcers speaks volumes to our commitment to help reduce ...

Medline's Pressure Ulcer Prevention Program Addresses New CMS Deadline of October 1, 2008

... to assist in reducing and preventing pressure ulcers and incontinence-associated skin conditions, ... FY2007, there were 257,412 preventable pressure ulcers reported as secondary diagnoses in hospitals. The ... stay. These figures are staggering, and pressure ulcers are about to have even graver implications for ...

Licorice extract provides new treatment option for canker sores

... - What common oral condition appears as shallow ulcers of different sizes, affects one in five ... referred to as canker sores, recurrent aphthous ulcers (RAU) now can be treated by an extract in ... was used as a prescribed treatment for gastric ulcers until the 1970s, according to the study. In its ...

Living Cell Treatment Heals Diabetic Foot Sores Fast

... substitute that is used to treat venous stasis ulcers and diabetic foot ulcers when conventional therapy does not work. Like ... he is still at risk for developing other foot ulcers but right now he is looking forward to getting ...

Scientists Isolate Organism That Causes Disfiguring Tropical Disease

... organism that causes devastating and disfiguring ulcers that primarily plague poorer populations in ... report. The study into the cause of Buruli ulcers also supports the idea that the organism, ... that sometimes produces massive, disfiguring skin ulcers and can have a huge social impact on the ....

California Study Offers New Perspective on Relationship Between Staffing Ratios and Patient Safety

... and/or hospital-acquired pressure ulcers from 2002 to 2006. On step-down units, the number of ulcers increased between 2002 and 2004 with a slight ... on step-down units with more severe pressure ulcers increased over the total time period. Even ...

Hospitals Could Improve Outcomes for Patients and Save Millions According to Hill-Rom 10th Annual Pressure Ulcer Survey

... to 1 million Medicare patients develop pressure ulcers costing the system more than $10 ... by half the incidence rate of pressure ulcers in acute care facilities and substantiate an ... to dramatically reduce hospital-acquired pressure ulcers through specially designed prevention programs. ...

Innocoll Agrees the Sale of its CollaRx(R) GENTAMICIN SURGICAL IMPLANT and European Sales and Marketing Infrastructure to EUSA Pharma

... IND. The lead indication is for the treatment of ulcers with a mild infection, where CollaRx ... also as a prophylactic treatment to prevent ulcers from becoming clinically infected. About ... and prevention of infected diabetic foot ulcers and Bupivacaine Implant for the management of ...

Paper Highlights Antimicrobial Effectiveness of Medical-Grade Honey in Topical Wound Care

... diabetic foot ulcers, venous stasis leg ulcers, arterial leg ulcers, leg ulcers of mixed etiology, pressure ulcers (I-IV), first and second degree burns, donor sites, traumatic and surgical ...

Wound Management Technologies, Inc Announces Conference Plans and Presentations on Advanced Wound Care Product

... of CellerateRx(R), particularly in diabetic wound care. Diabetic ulcers are one of the largest challenges in the health care industry today, both ... especially seeing great results with the use of CellerateRx(R) on diabetic ulcers and data continues to support this. We fully expect that these results ...

Institute for Aging Research finds modifiable hip fracture complications contribute to mortality

... at Hebrew SeniorLife. "Prevention strategies to reduce pressure ulcers and pneumonia may help reduce mortality in this frail population," says ... that marked variations in the incidence of both pneumonia and pressure ulcers exist between nursing home facilities, suggesting that these complications ...

Cardium Reports on New Excellarate(TM) Product Formulations to Expand Commercialization Potential Into Multiple Wound Healing Applications

... with optimal medical care. In the United States, for example, non-healing ulcers among diabetic patients are the leading cause of amputation, and even with ... and traumatic wounds, 2.5 million pressure ulcers, 3.6 million diabetic ulcers and 3.3 million venous stasis and arterial ulcers. The ability to ...

Commonly used ulcer drugs may offer treatment potential in Alzheimer's disease

... of British Columbia have discovered that drugs commonly used to treat ulcers have significant neuroprotective properties, which appear to be enhanced ... They are remarkably safe drugs which have so far been used only to treat ulcers and other conditions where there is excess gastric acidity. These include ...

MEDai Launches Patient-Specific Early Warning System for Hospitals

... that the cost avoidance for conditions like readmission and decubitus ulcers can range in the millions per hospital. "Payors and healthcare ... catheter- and vascular-associated urinary tract infections, decubitus ulcers and mediastinitis after coronary artery bypass graft. Such ...

MEDai Launches Patient-Specific Early Warning System for Hospitals

... that the cost avoidance for conditions like readmission and decubitus ulcers can range in the millions per hospital. "Payers and healthcare ... catheter- and vascular- associated urinary tract infections, decubitus ulcers and mediastinitis after coronary artery bypass graft. Such ...

New Yogurt May Ease Stomach Ulcers

... available in some Pacific Rim countries appears to help prevent and fight ulcers and gastritis, according to Japanese researchers. The finding came ... The National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse has more about ulcers and H. pylori . -- Kevin McKeever ...

Wound Be Gone: Quickly Gaining Strong Support from Clinician Experts in the Field of Wound Healing

... surgical wounds and chronic slow-healing wounds such as diabetic foot ulcers and venous ulcers. Wound Be Gone® has demonstrated excellent patient ... as well as chronic wounds such as venous ulcers, pressure ulcers, diabetic ulcers and post operative wounds. ### Read the full story at ...

Pexiganan Phase 3 Clinical Trials Results Published in December Issue of CID

... Experts assess likelihood of use to treat mildly infected diabetic foot ulcers based upon data from randomized, controlled, double-blinded multi-center ... a valuable treatment alternative for patients with mildly infected foot ulcers and we support continuation of clinical development to further demonstrate ...

Hospitals to Lose an Average $10,000 to $20,000 per Case on Common Cardiovascular Procedures Under Medicare's Value-based Purchasing Program

... (a deep infection of the chest) at nearly $70,000 and pressure ulcers at more than $40,000. Pressure ulcers also had the highest incremental length of stay for all five procedures ...

Wound Management Technologies, Inc. Announces Products to Be Registered in Taiwan

... on acute and chronic wounds which include but are not limited to pressure ulcers (stages I-IV), traumatic wounds, diabetic ulcers, surgical wounds, venous stasis ulcers, ulcers due to arterial insufficiency, superficial wounds, and 1st and 2nd ...

Stomach bug appears to protect kids from asthma, says NYU study

... has co-existed with humans for at least 50,000 years, may lead to peptic ulcers and stomach cancer. Yet, kids between the ages of 3 and 13 are nearly 59 ... The consequences may be both goodless likelihood of gastric cancer and ulcers later in lifeand bad: more asthma early in life." ...

UT Southwestern launches study of surgical option for treating diabetic and other neuropathies

... it, many develop ulcerations. About one out of every six patients with ulcers require amputations accounting for the nearly 100,000 amputations per ... it if they hit something with their foot it may decrease the amount of ulcers and eventual amputations in this high-risk population," Dr. Rozen said. ...

Herpes Suppression May Not Prevent HIV Infection

... 21 edition of The Lancet . In the aciclovir group, incidence of genital ulcers was reduced by 47 percent, and incidence of genital ulcers caused by HSV-2 was reduced by 63 percent. "Our results show that ...

New Study Shows the Use of MEDIHONEY(TM) Wound & Burn Dressing is Associated With Reduction in Wound Size

... for the article, the authors evaluated the progression of 20 non-healing ulcers of various etiologies following application of the dressings over a period ... caring for patients with wound infections, the diabetic foot, leg ulcers and chronic wounds. The Editorial Team represents the full spectrum of ...

Derma Sciences Announces Several Clinical Presentations on MEDIHONEY(TM) Wound & Burn Dressings at Upcoming APWCA Conference

... DPM, Brooklyn, NY "Favorable Treatment Outcomes of Chronic Leg ulcers with the Use of a New Leptospermum Honey Alginate Dressing", Dr. Paul A. ... case series related to the treatment of recalcitrant diabetic foot ulcers with MEDIHONEY(TM) dressings, first presented at the Clinical Symposium ...

Innocoll Receives 'Intends to Grant' Notices from the European Patent Office for Two European Patent Applications Related to Novel Wound Healing, Biosurgery and Drug Delivery Applications of its CollaRx(R) Technology

... and in a variety of acute and/or chronic dermal wounds, such as diabetic ulcers and pressure sores. The '648 patent describes a novel, fully ... Topical for the treatment and prevention of infected diabetic foot ulcers and CollaRx Bupivacaine Implant for the management of post-operative pain, ...