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Children! Protecting them from medical mistakes

...s related to prescription medicines, surgeries and hospital stays. The fact sheet advises doctors and parents to discuss medication dosages, potential side effects, and limits on food, drink or activities that might be necessary when a child is prescribed a particular medicine. The fact sheet will be distribu...

New way to control hospital infection

...y often, patients land up becoming more ill in the hospital due to infections that they contract during their ...D., University of Michigan Health System said that hospital born infections are common, costly and harmful, but they are preventable. Every year thousands die f...

Baby with white blood!

A hospital in Kolkatta, India recently received a patient, a ...ren. Doctors said that the baby was brought to the hospital with complaints of blood in stool. On detection the baby, a boy child, was found to have lipemic blo...

Miscarriage during pregnancy and heart disease linked

...s. Then, during 1981 to 1999, the researchers used hospital discharge and death data to determine the risk of death// or hospital admission due to heart disease. Researchers found that those who had had miscarriages were 1.4 times...

Medicines on the move

... be of help if you have to see a doctor or go to a hospital while you are travelling. This will give the medical staff an idea of your health condition. 3. How to carry the medicines? - All medications should be carried in your hand luggage irrespective of whether the trip is long or short. This way you can ...

Second SARS suspect fuels worry in India

...-old software worker was immediately admitted to a hospital after he arrived from Australia via Singapore. He had symptoms of high fever, cough and cold similar to those of the deadly SARS virus.// Airport authorities in Delhi said they planned to segregate flights coming in from east and southeast Asia, whe...

An Indian Bride with signs of SARS

...d in the Indonesian capital, admitted himself to a hospital in Pune four days after he developed symptoms. He was tested positive for SARS after two tests, and doctors were studying whether he could have spread the disease to anyone because of the delay in reporting the symptoms. Within hours on monday, his ...

Treatment for Sars patients refused

...k if they developed symptoms of the disease. //The hospital staff were panic striken for treating patients. A private hospital in Pune shut itself down to remain in isolation. Doctors in India have complained that authorities...

Avoid travel to Toronto - WHO

... the challenge of keeping SARS from racing through hospital wards, among family members of the sick, and then gradually spilling into the population at large. Many are beginning to conclude that no quarantine system can be foolproof for a disease that is hard to detect and easily confused with other ailments ...

When Man Bites Man

...nd Neck Surgery. Their review of 10 years worth of hospital records in Galveston, Texas, identified several key areas they believe can form a standard protocol to follow when man bites man. The study uncovered 40 human bites between 1990 and 2000. The average victim was a young adult male.// About two-thirds ...

S. Africa AIDS in 'death phase'

... King Edward in Durban, an estimated 90 percent of hospital patients were HIV positive....

Common Plant Triggers Asthma

...mmon European plant pollens trigger more emergency hospital admissions than average. The research was conducte... Madrid. During this time, researchers tracked all hospital admissions for respiratory illnesses. They also collected data on pollen levels from trees and plant...

Angioplasty Should be the Standard

...t of choice for heart attack patients, even if the hospital they initially //go to doesn't offer angioplasty s... admitted or treatment with angioplasty at another hospital that offered the service, if they could be transferred to the new hospital within two hours. Resear...

Reducing Medication Errors

...rug events, resulting in nearly 180,000 additional hospital days. Thus researchers say, "After the introduction of the computerized physician order entry (CPOE), the medication error rate was 40-percent lower on the intervention than on the control wards." They say there are definitely fewer medication error...

Music soothes labour pain

...ic and listened to it for the first three hours in hospital after their active labour started. The women in the second group received standard care during labour. Standard care at the two hospitals was to not give analgesic medication to women in labour because of its effect on the infants. Much less pain a...

Teen dies after complications from abortion pill

...as unable to walk, her boyfriend rushed her to the hospital the following evening, where she was given painkil...said he learned from an attending physician at the hospital that she had died after a massive infection caused by fragments of the fetus left inside her uterus ...

World's oldest turns 116 in Japan

...e snack. Hongo, who is now bedridden and shares a hospital room with her 77-year-old daughter, has not had an easy life. Hospital officials said she was taken to her home Tuesday for a birthday celebration, and was awake and in good spirits.Raised on a small, rural island on Japan's southern fringe, she grew...

ICU Survival can be improved by Antibiotic use

...ents even after they were transferred to a regular hospital unit. Researchers noted a hospital death rate of 24 percent among patients who received the drugs, compared with 31 percent among those...

Air Pollution Tied to Stroke Risk

...a study to compare air pollution levels and stroke hospital admissions. Researchers collected data on 23,179 hospital stroke admissions from 1997 to 2000 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. It is the second largest city on the islan...

Steroid Treatment for Wheezing Questioned

...o in reducing respiratory symptoms or the need for hospital admission. Researchers in England compared the o...lso found no difference in the symptoms or rate of hospital admission between children with high or low levels of wheezing. Surprisingly, study authors say more...

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