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Americans’ Concern for Skin Infections, Flu, Spreads Across the Countr

...n the past, nearly all cases of MRSA were found in hospitalized patients, but now there is an increasing number of infections acquired outside hospitals and in the community. SDA’s recent survey of 1008 American adults found 74 percent were concerned about ensuring good hand hygiene practices in schools, given ...

From Six to Sixty, Everyone is Prone to Anorexia

...ight die.' Due to sudden loss of weight, she was hospitalized after which she stabilized a little and then developed Bulimia two years later. Rebecca, 23 developed Anorexia when she was 15. she says, 'I hated the hunger and the cold and the tiredness, but the feeling of being able to control what I ate was br...

Blood Transfusions Raise Heart Patients’ Infection and Death Ris

...iotics and infection control practices in patients hospitalized for a surgical procedure, says Rogers. The U-M team is investigating the issue further, including a new study funded by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation to extend the research into elderly patients who recently underwent bypass surgeri...

Hepatitis Scare at McDonald’

...d temporarily after a 19-year-old staff member was hospitalized because of the virus. SI...

Leave Us Alone

...heart failure and lung disease. These persons were hospitalized during the final two years of their life. The figures cover 1999 through 2003. Their results show that on an average people spent the most time in hospitals, during the last 6 months of their life. Most of them get aggressive treatments for th...

Most Hospital Performance Measures for Heart Failure Not Linked to Improved Patient Outcomes

...beta-blockers at discharge among eligible patients hospitalized with heart failure. During follow-up, 8.6 percent of the patients had died and the total death or rehospitalization rate was 36.2 percent. None of the current ACC/AHA performance measures was a significant independent predictor of death in the fir...

Obesity Surgeries Have Jumped Dramatically Since 1998

...oved greatly. The national death rate for patients hospitalized for bariatric surgery declined 78 percent, from 0.9 percent in 1998 to 0.2 percent in 2004. Certain procedures, known collectively as bariatric surgery, have been proven beneficial in obese persons who have tried and failed to lose excess weight by...

Pumps Someday May Allow Patients to Recover Their Own Hearts

...nd portability – some patients on VADs must remain hospitalized while others are able to live at home with the implanted devices and an accompanying power pack. Why so many? “We don’t have the perfect pump for every indication now. We use a variety of pumps for very different diagnoses,” Sun says. The pumps’ fu...

Relationship Between Delirium and Dementia

...ions, delirium develops in 14 to 56 percent of all hospitalized seniors, complicating hospital stays for over 2.5 ...cribes the results of a study examining a group of hospitalized patients, which shows that frontal or parietal cerebral perfusion abnormalities occur in cases of de...

Advantage, Obese Men!!

...a. According to this study, when obese men were hospitalized with heart attacks, they were able to recuperate better than thin men. This is said to be due to the presence of fat reserves in their body which is helping them fight their ailment especially at a time when their heart is pumping at a slower pace. ...

Reports of Unknown Disease ‘baseless

...e than a dozen people have taken ill and have been hospitalized in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong Province//, ... since January. He went on to say that most of the hospitalized were ailing from liver diseases, AIDS, or such other identifiable causes. <B...

Rapid Flu Testing Decreases Antibiotic Use in Hospitalized Adults

...iated with reductions in the use of antibiotics in hospitalized adults, according to a report.// The study was p... records of 166 patients with documented influenza hospitalized at their facility during four winters (1999 to 2003). Of these, 86 patients tested positive for infl...

Tuberculosis Case Alarms Health Officials

...tified the Department of Health that a student was hospitalized with an infectious form of the disease. Tuberculosis is a form of bacterial infection that can affect the lungs and other parts of the body. It is caused by germs that are spread from person to person through the air. Other than the lungs, the dise...

Intense Cessation Treatment Proves Successful in High-Risk Smokers

... cessation therapy was started while patients were hospitalized but continued after release,” said Dr. Mohiuddin, “making the outpatient portion of this program the most significant element.” All participants returned at 3, 6, 12, and 24 months, during which follow-up medical histories and expired carbon monox...

Delhi's Morbidity Rate Nearly One-sixth of National Average

...r thousand. Out of 253,000 people, 119,000 were hospitalized in government-run hospitals and 134,000 in private hospitals. In public hospitals, 89 percent were admitted in free wards and remaining in paying general wards or special wards. Whereas, in private hospitals, only 3 percent were in free wards and ...

Race May Play a Role in Children’s Asthma Car

...frican-Americans have a higher rate of asthma, are hospitalized more and face more disability due to the condition. Because of this, “we suspected they might also exhibit relatively more severe asthma symptoms at the time of hospitalization,” said Yu Bai, a doctoral candidate at Pennsylvania State University. B...

Children With Asthma Most Affected by Rhinovirus

...nly significant factor that distinguished children hospitalized with rhinoviruses from those with other viruses or no viruses. Of those hospitalized with a history of asthma or wheezing, rhinoviruses were found in 36 percent of children aged 0-2 yea...

Cholesterol in Stroke Patients Exceeds National Guidelines

...Academy of Neurology. The study of 1,040 people hospitalized for stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA) foun...that cholesterol levels should be tested in anyone hospitalized with a stroke or TIA, and any high levels should be treated, Smith said. “We can’t assume that peopl...

Vaccines Effective in Preterm Babies too

...ite of passage, the varicella virus killed 100 and hospitalized 11,000 people every year before the vaccine became available. Generally, the virus causes a rash, itching, fever and fatigue, but it can also cause severe skin infections, scars, pneumonia and brain damage. And a person who has had chicken pox can ...

Prescribing Off Label Drugs for Children may Be Hazardous

...pediatric study finds that nearly four out of five hospitalized children receive medications that have been tested...f drugs used off-label, and the characteristics of hospitalized children receiving those drugs." All previous studies of off-label drug use in hospitalized childr...

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