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New Modality in Migraine Management

...He also said that he had taught the doctors in his hospital how to use it and he is confident in implementing the same modality to the comfort level of use. May this be a good find to wind up the miseries for those migraine sufferers....

New test for heart attack

...his test may take several hours and maybe a formal hospital admission in order to find out the cause.// According to Doctors in Texas, a new and more rapid way of diagnosing a heart attack is very effective and is to be implemented. They do a blood test for three cardiac enzymes - troponin 1, creatine kinase...

The cocaine danger

...presenting with chest pains are beginning to drain hospital resources. One drug abuse expert at St Mary's Hosp...suspected up to 10 per cent of people reporting to hospital with chest pains had used cocaine....

Surgery a safety in senility

...e cardiac event - death, non-fatal heart attack or hospital admission for worsening angina.// A total of 305 patients with chronic angina were selected for the study.They were randomly assigned to be given either medication or revascularisation. Revascularisation involves doctors carrying out an angioplasty...

Antidepressants increase gastric bleeding

...8 were monitored to see if they'd been admitted to hospital with bleeding from the stomach or any other part of the gastrointestinal system.There were 974 bleeds in the study and they were more common with SSRI's than with other antidepressants - especially in older patients. The risk was particularly high fo...

New pancreatic surgery

...ores because there is no big scar and less time in hospital after the operation. Non-invasive surgery involves...re were very few problems, and a decreased stay in hospital for all of them. And there are ways of reducing complications - using different methods to heal the ...

Surgeons implant second artificial heart

...tensive care at Jewish Hospital in Louisville, the hospital said in a statement. // The self-contained mechanical heart, made by Abiomed Inc. of Danvers, Massachusetts, is the first major advance in the development of an artificial replacement heart in nearly two decades. The surgeons have said previously t...

New Drug PP188 Helps Sickle Cell Disease

... the result is often pain severe enough to require hospital admission. // Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill studied more than 250 patients with sickle cell disease. Half of the patients received a drug known as purified poloxamer 188 (PP188), while the other half received a pl...

Morning sickness maybe pronounced

...chance of mothers-to-be of girls being admitted to hospital suffering from hyperemesis gravidarum - serious na...nths of pregnancy.// The female to male ratio of hospital admissions was 56:44, according to the research carried out by Dr Johan Askling at Stockholm's Karol...

Pioneering artificial heart patient dies

...t fully self-contained artificial heart, died at a hospital in Louisville, Ken., after suffering a series of setbacks. TOOLS, 59, died of complications after severe abdominal bleeding. He began bleeding and his organs began failing later, said Drs. Laman Gray Jr. and Robert Dowling, who implanted the experime...

Depression a possible danger in elderly

...chers in Switzerland, studied over 300 patients on hospital admission, tested then for depression and then fol...rlying physical illness that leads to the need for hospital re-admission. Whatever the reason, it could certainly be worthwhile diagnosing and treating depressi...

Night borns' risk

... born around 9am, which may be partly explained by hospital staff shift changes. The research found the hours between 5pm and 1am are high risk periods for neonatal care.The observations confirm previous reports that infants born at night have a higher chance of early death//, in the first six days, than tho...

Bar Codes For Prescribed Drugs

...es that could be matched to bar codes on patients' hospital identification bracelets to prevent giving the wrong dose or the wrong medicine. The bar codes would include such information as a unique product code number, a lot number and an expiration date. Such information would not only facilitate matching,...

Low cholestrol,low behaviour

...ital, Dublin, compared 75 patients admitted to the hospital with self-attained injuries, including drug overdoses, with psychiatric patients and patients not suffering from any mental health problems. The patients were rated on their level of depression, impulsivity and suicidal intent. It was found that ch...

Depression increases heart attacks

... in 712 people after they were discharged from the hospital following a recent heart attack. Heart rate variability was significantly worse (as measured by a lower HRV index) in those who were depressed than in those who were not depressed. People with poor HRV are more likely to die after a heart attack, a...

Recovery from lung injury

...They found that 50 per cent of those under 60 left hospital alive within 160 days, but the figure fell to 20 per cent for those over 60. The older patients needed more time on the ventilator and longer in intensive care. And the survival rate tended to decrease with each decade of age. The researchers conclud...

Infection linked with heart attack

... attack death. The tested 400 patients admitted to hospital with chest pain or heart attack for eight different infective organisms. Four were viruses - two types of herpes, cytomegalovirus (a serious problem in those with compromised immunity) and Epstein-Barr virus. The four bacteria tested for were: Haemop...

Robots craft medical history

...our's time and the patient was discharged from the hospital 48 hours later....

Babies Need Vaccination

... vaccinated against hepatitis B before leaving the hospital to protect against possible disease from infected mothers.Previously, giving the shots in the hospital was recommended only for newborns// whose mothers were known to be infected or whose disease status ...

Older Men Surviving Coronary Bypasses

... In the new study, Scottish researchers compared hospital records for 25,229 coronary artery bypass operations performed in Scottish hospitals between 1981 and 1996. Of those surgeries, 78 percent were performed on men and 22 percent on women. "Overall, the total number of operations increased over the peri...

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