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Increase in Diabetic Related Hospital Admissions

...tes these results partly to the fact that hospital admission rates are higher for those from more remote locations. She said, "That is certainly one factor that may be at play in explaining these patterns and we do know that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people do have a higher prevalence of diabetes....

Inordinately Long Waiting Times at A&E Infirmary

...an four hours between arriving at the A&E unit and admission to hospital, discharge or transfer. The new NHS statistics show that during the seven-day April survey, just under 2000 patients were seen by the doctors at ERI. Among these 1012 minor cases and 946 were serious medical problems. 80 per cent of the...

Sexual Harassment on the Rise in Aligarh Muslim University

...ants Shareef axed. She alleges she is being denied admission to a PhD course. In the last six months, three c...llege, told IANS: "Asma suspects she was not given admission because she lodged a complaint. That is not true." Asked when Asma's case will be heard, Amina sa...

A.Q. Khan Admitted in Hospital for Cancer Surgery

...y and tests were carried out immediately after his admission to hospital Thursday evening. Media reports said Khan, clad in a safari suit, looked cheerful and arrived with his family members and a posse of bodyguards and officials. Khan has been lodged in room number PW 13, where Pakistan Rangers personnel...

Kalam's Intervention Brings Hope to Orissa Student

...n his graduation in social work. He managed to get admission at the National Institute of Social Work and Social Science here to pursue postgraduate studies. Alli, the son of a class four government employee, however found it difficult to arrange Rs.100,000 for the course fee and his living expenses in the s...

E.coli grips Wisconsin

... said that 15 of the 30 cases have needed hospital admission and four of them are battling severe infection. Majority of the patients are women. The places affected are Green Lake counties and Outagamie counties....

This World Heart Day, Be Proactive, Get the Facts

...ntive cardiac care. This is an outpatient with no admission needed", added Dr Emmanuel. According to the World Health Organization, cardiovascular diseases, such as heart disease and stroke, are the leading cause of death globally, killing more than 17 million people in 2005. Each year, 3.8 million men and...

No-smoking laws may reduce Heart attacks

...an 18-month period," Bartecchi said."Each hospital admission for a heart attack costs an average of $20,000 here in Pueblo," he said. "So in addition to saving lives, non-smoking ordinances also save a lot of money." GYT...

Child-Proof: Brain Mapping Safer for Children than Previously Thought

... in the brain that the patient had suffered before admission to the hospital, the Hopkins team said. None of the patients developed blood clots in the groin, a common and potentially dangerous complication of puncturing the femoral artery, and none reported leg pain, difficulty walking or limping during an ave...

Widely Prescribed Diabetes Drug Falls Short of Promise, Says New Review

...ilure — including heart failure requiring hospital admission — among patients taking the drug. The review appears in the current issue of The Cochrane Library, a publication of The Cochrane Collaboration, an international organization that evaluates medical research. Systematic reviews draw evidence-based co...

Orissa Confirms First Dengue Case

...His blood platelet count was 90,000 at the time of admission but went down to 70,000. Seeing the intensity of the headache and decreasing platelets in his blood, we wanted more pathological tests," said Jena. "Since the immunoglobulin (IG) test facility is not available in the state, we sent his blood sampl...

Major causes of death in ICUs and Hospitals

...tal after discharged from the ICU and a year after admission to the ICU. According to the results, acute and ... the patients discharged from the ICU a year after admission to the ICU, malignant tumour is responsible for death in over 1/3rds of them. 19.4% of the deaths af...

Deaths due to heavy drinking has doubled in 15 years

...latively young ages." The NHS data revealed that admission to hospital for alcoholic liver disease has reached record level of 35,400 in 2004-2005. The number of deaths due to the same condition has risen by 37% in the past decade. The alcoholic poisoning admissions has risen from 13,600 to 21,700 during the...

High Blood Pressure -A Life Line

...through his research found that during the time of admission if a patient with heart failure continues to have a high blood pressure for a period of a few hours then this could indicate that the patient’s heart is strong and he is hence less likely to die. Hence having high blood pressure is not necessarily ...

Pregnant Women With Lupus Are At Greater Risk

... she added, the study relied on analyzing hospital admission and discharge data, rather than on analyzing individual patient records or on examining the patients themselves. Source-Eurekalert SR...

Norovirus outbreak results in hospital visit restrictions

... out patient appointments as well as those due for admission have been asked to exercise caution and inform the clinic concerned regarding the symptoms if observed. All visitors are also being asked to apply hand gel on entering and while leaving the hospital. MST...

A Boon to Neonates-“National Cot Locator” Developed by UK Hospitas

...eonates on time. The// system aims to speed up the admission and treatment of the babies, hence helps in saving lives of many. Previously in the case of an emergency calls had to be made to arrange for a cot, which delayed the treatment process. But with the help of this government funded computer based progr...

Large Variations in Cost Has No Effect on Length of Stay or Mortality

...retionary costs varied by 43 percent or $1,003 per admission between the intensivists who spent the most and those who spent the least. “In this single ICU, we demonstrated large differences in resource use that are attributable to differences in physicians’ practice styles,” said Dr. Garland. “Higher-spend...

Clinical Guidelines Help Identify Which Children at Risk of Bacterial Meningitis

...tor or who are younger than 2 months, they suggest admission to the hospital and administration of parenteral (ad ministered intravenously or by injection) antibiotics. 'In the conjugate H influenzae type b and pneumococcal vaccines era, bacterial meningitis has become an uncommon disease in U.S. children. T...

High Hospital House Staff Workload Associated With Worse Patient Outcomes

...heavier workload for hospital residents on patient admission days was associated with increased length of hospi...between house staff workload on a patient’s day of admission or on subsequent hospital days and patient outcomes. They analyzed data on 5,742 adults who were adm...

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