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Tag: "hospital" at medical news

Lower surgical volume linked to higher death rate

...Cambridge, analysed voluntary surgical returns and hospital episode statistics relating to 12 hospitals carryi...from 1991 to 1995. Dr Spiegelhalter found that a hospital carrying out 120 open heart operations on children less than a year old had a mortality rate 25 per ...

An aide to cold

...were eventful in treating infections caused by the hospital superbug, MRSA. A total of 132 volunteers took part in the experiment, which was led by Peter Josling, director the Garlic Centre in East Sussex. Half took one capsule of Allimax, an allicin-containing garlic supplement, each day, while rest of the ...

New therapy for bone cancer

... a 30 minute period and the patient needs to be in hospital for about two days. After two weeks, the bone is free of radioactivity because the samarium has a half life of only two days....

Delirium linked to death

Researchers said that older hospital patients with delirium run a much higher risk of d...als frequently become delirious, leading to longer hospital stays and other health problems, yet the condition is often not diagnosed during hospital stays. The...

Tobacco and alcohol connected to larger health problems

Patients in hospital who smoke and have a history of alcohol problems have poorer general and mental health. Doctors surveyed almost 400 patients// to find if there was a link between health status and smoking habits. They classified them into four groups:current tobacco...

Lethal Heart Condition linked To Cocaine Use

...researchers noticed younger patients coming to the hospital with aortic dissection due to cocaine use. Cocai...cause the aorta to rupture. Researchers reviewed hospital charts looking for cases of aortic dissection. They recorded information on cocaine use and coronary...

The earlier the treatment, the more the benefit

...f the stroke, and most patients who make it to the hospital on time get the drugs within the last half hour before that deadline. Now, a new report finds that earlier treatment - in the first 90 minutes after symptoms begin - doubles the chances of full recovery compared with treatment that starts later. "I...

Heart Drug has grave side effects

...dition that sends about 1 million Americans to the hospital each year. Despite the poor results, it shows that such studies can and should be done on similar drugs. An accompanying editorial says the use of other drugs commonly used in worsening heart failure, dopamine and dobutamine, should be reconsidered ...

Interference helps Heart Patients

...se can help keep heart-failure patients out of the hospital and significantly lower their medical costs.// The...d offering advice. Calls began within five days of hospital discharge. Hospital readmission rates for heart failure were 30 percent lower among patients who re...

Liver transplant oversight urged

...sing an external regulator be appointed to certify hospital units to do the surgery.// According to a survey conducted at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, which was woefully inadequate post-surgical care, when a 57-year-old man died after donating 50 percent of his liver to his brother. In their proposa...

Acute Measles Supresses HIV Replication

...blood samples taken when they were admitted to the hospital for measles treatment. More samples were taken when the children were discharged from the hospital, and again 2 month later. They were compared with samples taken from HIV-infected children who did not have measles or other illnesses and with sample...

Young women prone to heart attack

...ents for two years after they were discharged from hospital after a heart attack. They found that 28.9 per cen...e less common among women, they may be admitted to hospital at a more acute stage of heart attack, and may therefore be less likely to survive in the long term ...

The hazards of using disinfectant hand gel

...sing disinfectant gels, rather than hand rubs, for hospital hand washing may lead to a decrease in hygiene. Ge...tient is thought to be a major advance in reducing hospital infections.// Soap and water is used in US, while in Europe, an alcohol-based rub is more common. Bo...

New methods to prevent injury of patients

...ecent approaches to road safety can help people in hospital too.// Doctors at the Hopkins University suggest that what's needed is an approach which concentrates on the context of injury and improving technology, rather than assigning blame to medical personnel. In road safety, automobile technology improve...

Blood Vessel Surgery Safe for Diabetics

...ata on 7,122 major vascular procedures at a single hospital over a 13-year period. The procedures included surgery to restore blood flow in the legs, surgery on the carotid arteries in the neck, or surgery on the aorta, the body's main artery. "We found that not only was diabetes not an independent predictor...

Anorexia in boys is common too

...the disorder. For example, during inpatient or day hospital treatment programs, male patients are usually surrounded by girls. Castro added that her findings demonstrate the importance of studying bone mass in boys, as well as girls, given that they can regain any losses while still in adolescence....

Exercise for patients with cancer

...se can improve fatigue, anemia, pain and length of hospital stays. Improvements in osteoporosis, depression, sleep, pain and functional status have also been documented. Dr. Roubenoff reports 60 percent of people over age 55 in the healthy American population don't exercise at all and 75 percent over age 65 ...

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 f...

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 breast cancer drug appears encouraging

...ients had a 40 per cent reduction in days spent in hospital with lung problems, and a 20 per cent reduction in the actual numbers of admissions to hospital. The study suggests that giving oxygen at home is a good way of alleviating the problems linked with lung disease....

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