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Activists Urge Greater Medical Support for Gulf War Veterans Exposed to Sarin Gas

... raise further questions about the Pentagon's 2003 admission of having tested biological/chemical agents on 5,8...ting for compensation and recognition. Third, an admission of guilt would weaken the DoD's credibility regarding controversial programs today. For example, the...

Medical Admissions Test Integrity Under Threat

...reaten to undermine the integrity of undergraduate admission testing for entry into medical school. Media reports today suggest prospective medical students are paying as much as $1,700 to attend private training courses purported to increase their chances of scoring well on the Undergraduate Medical Admis...

Death from Exposure to WTC Dust Confirmed

...Zero to Cuba for treatment, comes an embarrassing admission from New Yorks civic authorities. City's chief medical examiner, Dr. Charles S. Hirsch, has confirmed that dust from the twin towers contributed to the death of Felicia Dunn-Jones, 42, a civil rights lawyer who was engulfed on Sept. 11 as she ran f...

Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle During Adulthood may Delay Old Age Disability

... is a predictor of future disability, nursing home admission and mortality. The researchers found that men and women who were obese at ages 25 years, 50 years and between 70 and 79 years had significantly lower scores of physical performance than those who were normal weight at these ages. Women who were ove...

Where is Our Soul, Asks Michael Moore

...r falls seriously ill but who said she was refused admission to a general hospital and instructed to go to a private one instead. By the time she got to the second hospital, it was too late to save the girl. One of the most controversial passages of the film, due to be released in the United States on June 2...

25,000 Needless Deaths Each Year Due to Failure to Tackle Blood Clots in Hospital

...ult should have a mandatory VTE risk assessment on admission to hospital and that core standards be set to ensure full compliance with these assessments. But despite the huge evidence base for preventative treatment, it remains poorly implemented in the UK, say the authors. A combination of factors may be...

Albuterol may Be Helpful for Infants Suffering from Bronchiolitis

...of infants. It is the commonest cause of hospital admission in this age group. There are two drugs in general use to treat this condition, epinephrine and albuterol, and there is some controversy and passion involved in the choice of medication. In a paper to be presented at the 2007 Society for Academi...

Blind Faith Dictates Use Of Herbal Supplements In Many

...tients about their use of herbs at every visit and admission to hospital, and inform patients about potential benefits and harm....

States' Spending may Help Keep Childless Seniors Independent

... on services would reduce the risk of nursing home admission among childless seniors by 35 percent. Using dat...s was associated with a lower risk of nursing home admission for the childless but not for those with children. "Our research suggests it is important to inves...

Majority of Herb Users Don't Follow Evidence-based Indications, Researchers Find

... herb use during every clinical visit and hospital admission to better inform patients about potential benefits and harm, agree the studys authors. Physicians, pharmacists and other health professionals should proactively educate consumers and advocate for public health policies that would disseminate eviden...

Oral Treatment as Effective as Injections in Treating Kids With Pneumonia

...e majority of children will still require hospital admission but for a shorter period, to ensure oral medication is tolerated, and temperature and respiratory distress are settling. Most importantly children will be spared the pain and distress that injections cause," they added. Funded by the British Lung F...

Patients With Alcohol Problem Need Mechanical Ventilation

... Wit, AUDs are very common in patients who require admission to the intensive-care unit. The rates of AUD are r...e of the six most common diagnoses associated with admission to the intensive-care unit pneumonia, sepsis (severe infections), gastrointestinal hemorrhage, asth...

SKorean University Seeks to Bar Smokers

...annot exactly tell smokers from non-smokers during admission interviews, we will ask students to sign an agreement that they will not smoke," Oh said, adding he would also try to foster a responsible drinking culture. An education ministry official said he was unsure whether the plan would cause legal or adm...

Colitis More Common in Hospitalized Patients

...on on patient demographics, socioeconomic factors, admission profiles, hospital profiles, state codes, discharg...on on patient demographics, socioeconomic factors, admission profiles, hospital profiles, state codes, discharge diagnoses, procedure codes, total charges and vi...

Poor Ventilation may Cause Lung Disorders Inn Inuit Children

...Nunavut have the highest reported rate of hospital admission because of severe respiratory syncytial virus lung infection in the world, with annualized rates of up to 306 per 1000 infants. The infections are unusually severe in these infants: 12% of those admitted to hospital in Iqaluit require intubation an...

Patients Taking Inhaled Steroids may Develop Pneumonia

.... In their report, the researchers noted that the admission rate for pneumonia increased with higher doses of inhaled steroids and that reduction in risk was observed once the medications were stopped. Among all patients taking inhaled steroids, there was a 53 percent increase in pneumonia deaths within 30 da...

Bed Side Robot Gets You Home Back Faster

...d from postoperative complications during the same admission were omitted from the study. The robotic assessment included real-time audio and visual communication with the patient, electronic chart review, and discussion with nursing staff regarding treatment. The six-foot-tall robot used in the telerounds...

Americas Best Hospital Reduced Heart Attack Rates

...op hospitals with respect to 30-day survival after admission for acute myocardial infarction and include a few hospitals that are actually in the lowest quartile of performance. (Arch Intern Med. 2007;167(13):1345-1351. Available pre-embargo to the media at www.jamamedia.org...

Hospital Rapped For Failing To Combat Superbug Infections

...t in cleaning the wards, screening patients before admission and our prudent antibiotic policy, the trust is winning the battle against hospital-acquired infections. The trust reported 74 new case of C. difficile in April and only 16 cases in June....

Singapore Firm Launches MBBS Programme in Eastern India

...e year of internship," Singh said, adding that the admission procedure will be according to the Medical Council...idelines. "We have also started a national-level admission test, as a pilot project, in Jharkhand this year. From next year the examination will be held across...

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