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...tment lasted about 10 days; most patients were not hospitalized during that time. The infusions produced significant relief in patients whose pain did not respond to more conventional drugs such as morphine.Pain relief was moderate to complete in 53 percent of ziconotide patients, compared with about 18 percent...The After Effects Of Pneumonia
...ors of death in the two to three years after being hospitalized for pneumonia. In addition, patients with poorly ...386 community-acquired pneumonia patients who were hospitalized . After discharge, 125 patients died. Thus researchers conclude saying that although the natural c...The Usage Of Anti-Inflammatory Drugs Questioned
...nown as VIOXX, had an 80-percent increase in being hospitalized for heart failure compared to non-NSAIDs users and those on non-selective NSAIDs had a 40-percent increased risk of going into the hospital for heart failure. However, those who were taking celecoxib had the same rate of heart failure as the people w...Pain-Free Heart Attacks Often Misdiagnosed
...,881 patients from 14 countries. All patients were hospitalized with a variety of heart conditions. Researchers found that 1,763 of the patients did not have chest pain and 13 percent of them died in the hospital compared to 4 percent of those who experienced chest pain. Researchers observed that most often wh...The Options For Relieving Chest Pain In the Elderly Questioned
...o experienced more non-fatal events, such as being hospitalized again for chronic chest pain that failed to respond to medication. Nearly half of all medically treated patients continued to experience chronic chest pain and had one of the invasive procedures, usually within the first six months of the study. Acc...New Drug That Might Help Congestive Heart Failure Patients
...th congestive heart failure. Patients are usually hospitalized because of fluid retention, which occurs when the body overcompensates for a weak heart. When the heart struggles to beat efficiently, the brain produces a hormone called vasopressin, which constricts blood vessels and causes fluid retention. Researc...The Effectiveness Of Inhaled Corticosteroids Studied
...rt in the study died, and nearly 660 patients were hospitalized for COPD symptoms. Although results from the study contradict prior research, researchers say the difference in results can be attributed to statistical biases in previous studies....The Effectiveness Of Inhaled Corticosteroids Studied
...rt in the study died, and nearly 660 patients were hospitalized for COPD symptoms. Although results from the study contradict prior research, researchers say the difference in results can be attributed to statistical biases in previous studies....A New Evaluation Tool That Could Predict Death Risk in Heart Patients
...on tool can predict the mortality risk in patients hospitalized with heart failure say researchers based on findin...lizations. The overall mortality risk for patients hospitalized with acute heart failure was about 4 percent. The model determined mortality risk levels starting fr...The Use Of Invasive Treatment For Life Threatening Heart Conditions Questioned
...not necessarily improve survival rate for patients hospitalized for life-threatening heart conditions.// Researc...more than 28,000 patients in 14 countries who were hospitalized for acute coronary syndrome between April 1999 and March 2003. Most patients were admitted to hospit...Computer System To Predict Deep Vein Thrombosis
...e able to reduce the frequency of the condition in hospitalized patients. Deep-vein thrombosis or the formation ...gram linked to patient database that will identify hospitalized patients at a risk of this condition. The physicians then need to take preventive steps for the high...Promised Drug Doesn't Help Acute Heart Failure
...gnificant breathing problem, for the two groups of hospitalized patients over 24 hours. After a week, there was also no difference between the placebo group and group receiving tezosentan in incidence of death or worsening of heart failure. After six months, no difference was observed in overall mortality....Depression medication can cause gastrointestinal bleedings
...searchers had reviewed the records of 549 patients hospitalized for acute gastrointestinal bleeding and compared the data with 939 patients admitted in hospitals during the same time. The researchers found the patients with gastrointestinal bleedings were been administerd at least one of the medications like SSRI...Increasing risk of heart failure for ageing population
...vealed that of the total patients studied who were hospitalized for possible heart failure 5.1 % of them had died from decompensated heart failure during acute hospitalization. Patients who were at increased risk from death due to heart failure were suffering from higher concentrations of blood urea nitrogen, ser...Heart Patients Use Alternative Medicine
...ta. The study involved 100 patients who had been hospitalized for heart attack or angina within the past six months before being surveyed by phone last year. Seventy-four percent of the patients used complementary-alternative therapy, with 50 percent using supplements, vitamins or herbs and 35 percent using min...Metapneumovirus - a common cause of adults' colds, kids' illness
... from McGill University looked at elderly patients hospitalized with pneumonia or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The metapneumovirus was found in 2 percent, which was the same as influenza A. ? A team from Hadassah University in Jerusalem looked for signs of metapneumovirus infection in children. They fo...Myth Of Childhood Vaccinations Linked To Increased Hospitalization Busted
... had received multiple vaccinations may have to be hospitalized more often for other diseases, is a myth and nothing else. The research report was published in the latest issue of JAMA. During the last 2 decades, more vaccinations have become available and routine vaccination schedules// have become increasingl...Researchers Bring New Insight To Asthma And SABA Fills
...on on the same day. The figure dropped to 2.1% for hospitalized individuals. Male steroid users had a 3.4 times greater odds of filling a prescription on the day they had an ED or hospital visit, when compared to a day they did not have an ED/hospital visit, while this figure was 2.9 for women. For non-steroid us...Women and Black Patients have less chances to survive a Heart Attack
...nfarction-3 and -4, a registry of 589,911 patients hospitalized for heart attacks throughout the United States between 1994 and 2002, sponsored by the Genentech, Inc. The team evaluated whether race and sex differences in treatment that had been previously reported in heart attack care had changed in subsequent y...Children With Epilepsy Can Be Treated With Nerve Stimulation
...ces, and family stressors relating to caring for a hospitalized child. The VNS is implanted in the left side of a patient's neck and works by sending signals to the brain to decrease the electrical activity that leads to seizures. It was approved for intractable partial epilepsy (epilepsy that does not improve ...