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Heart Patients More At Risk Get Fewer Medicines

... rates. The patients for this study included 9,942 hospitalized patients with heart failure. The researchers evaluated 1,418 patients, aged 79 years or younger, with documented left ventricular ejection fraction (a measure of the heart's pumping ability) of 40 percent or less and with low-, average-, and high-pre...

45 People die in West Bengal due to Dengue and suspected Japanese Encephalitis

...Japanese Encephalitis has caused 45 deaths and has hospitalized more than 2000 people // in West Bengal. The confirmed death due to dengue is claimed to be at 20 in West Bengal and 25 cases of death is suspected to be caused by Japanese encephalitis. Japanese encephalitis infection is said to have occurred in th...

Small Kidney Malfunctions Can Increase The Risk Of Deaths

...ology. The researchers had analyzed data on 9,210 hospitalized patients who underwent serum creatinine measuremen...ely rare, modest AKI affects perhaps 13 percent of hospitalized adults. Patients with AKI are at increased risk of dying in the hospital and have a longer average l...

Improved parent-physician communication to prevent hospitalizations for childhood asthma

...as been estimated that nearly 196,000 children are hospitalized in the United States every year with asthma attacks. A considerable amount is being spent on the health issue that is associated with physical, emotional and financial constraints for the entire family. Thanks to the fervent efforts of scientists w...

Influenza Vaccination for children with neurological or neuromuscular disease

...isk for developing respiratory failure ,if they're hospitalized with influenza.// The results, which are report...ion, are based on a study of 745 children who were hospitalized for influenza at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia over four consecutive flu seasons. This ...

Japan planning Strategies to combat Bird flu

... priority with the first priority will be given to hospitalized flu patients followed by infants, elderly and diseased patients. The Stocks of Tamiflu with the Government will be able to provide treatment to 25 million people at a dosage of two tablets per day for three days....

Co-infection of Two genetic diseases makes them susceptible to malaria

...wer parasites and are 90 percent less likely to be hospitalized by a malaria infection than those without the trait. The protective effect increases with age. Meanwhile, Williams said researchers have long known that a genetic variation known as alpha thalassemia--which is common in sub-Saharan Africa but, unli...

Arjun Singh In Hospital After Chest Pains

...n Singh, the minister of human resources, has been hospitalized after he complained of chest pain.//The minister, who arrived in this twin capital of Punjab and Haryana Sunday evening, was admitted to the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) at night. Though he is still under obser...

Complication More in Women Having IVF Treatment

...ne in seven women who receives IVF treatment maybe hospitalized with complication that can be serious and sometimes life threatening. The study done by a Finnish group emphasized that this risk was double when compared to natural pregnancies. The complications include miscarriages, bleeding, ectopic pregnancy an...

Disparity In Survival Rates In US and Canadian heart Patients

...milarly aged patients in Ontario, Canada, who were hospitalized with heart failure from 1998 to 2001. The authors ... The authors conclude that heart failure patients hospitalized in the US had significantly better short-term mortality but equivalent long-term mortality compared ...

Choosing the Horoscope of Your Baby

...a day whereas in case of a caesarean she has to be hospitalized for a period of seven days spending 20,000-30,000. In some cases the family members put pressure on the doctor to deliver the baby on that particular date and time even if the patient can go in for a normal delivery because they believe that the b...

Health Care Disparities cause of inaccessibility to new technology

...h have greatly reduced the need for patients to be hospitalized with serious symptoms. Researchers have reported their study results in Journal of Medical Care. Health care disparities are differences in the incidence, prevalence, mortality, and burden of diseases and related adverse health conditions that exis...

China reports seventh bird flu victim

...r old women factory worker of Sanming City who was hospitalized after showing symptoms of fever and pneumonia, who had an initial H5N1 virus test negative. The Chinese health minister said that no bird flu virus strain was isolated from poultry in Sanming city and after this incident the city officials are monito...

Mystery over bird flu infection to Ms. Zhou – China’s 7th bird flu victm

...nth victim of bird flu infection in China, she was hospitalized after showing symptoms of fever and pneumonia. It is not yet known how she got the virus as it is said that she was no where in contact with poultry and moreover she did not take any chicken or duck meat. All the 66,172 poultry farms in the city of ...

Death Of Turkish Boy: Bird Flu Not The Culprit

...the cause of death of the Turkish boy. The boy was hospitalized along with his brother and three sisters. They were suffering from fever, heavy coughing and bleeding of the throats. When tested for H5N1 strain the children were negative. But the death of the boy still remains a mystery. The death cannot be...

Wild ducks infected with bird flu

...strain being H5N1. Currently another child is also hospitalized showing the same symptoms. Environment and Forestry Minister Osman Pepe prohibited the hunting of all the birds in Turkey, as they might be a carrier of the disease. He also said that this ban is for an indefinite period and is imposed on all win...

Parental Knowledge Of RSV Infections Is Vital

... Statistics show that about 125,000 children are hospitalized due to RSV infection every year in the US. The virus also causes pneumonia and bronchiolitis (a swelling of the small airways) and may be associated with wheezing. Out of these patients who has contracted RSV infection 500 children die every year bec...

A revision in iron and folic acid guidelines for children: Doctors urge

... supplements had a 12 percent higher risk of being hospitalized with severe illness than those in the placebo group. Iron deficiency anemia is the most common nutritional problem in the world. It affects 4-5 billion people, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). "Our findings indicate a potential ris...

Drug Name Confusion Makes Imports Dangerous: FDA

...ealizing it was digoxin and not diltiazem, and was hospitalized with life-threatening drug toxicity after his return to the U.S. the institute reported....

Cholera sneaks its way in to the prison

...en found that 18 inmates of the central prison are hospitalized after they showed symptoms like diarrhea, vomiting and food poisoning. // Doctors, health officials and the prison officials fear that this might result in a cholera endemic. Cholera is a water borne disease caused by the bacteria Vibrio cholerae...

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