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Genetics may Play Role in Heart Health

...sed. And each year, more than 6 million people are hospitalized in America because of cardiovascular disease. The financial cost is estimated at about $403 billion, including medical expenses and lost work. LDS Hospital researchers hope to unravel some of the mysteries of heart attack and early-onset coronary-a...

Work Absence Due to Headaches Has a Substantial Socio-economic Effect

...r because of a headache and three percent had been hospitalized because of headache."Although the general population results are predictably lower than our specialist sample, the figures do indicate that headaches can have quite an impact on the work environment" says Vinding. "For example, 90 per cent of our e...

Stroke Patients With High BMI Less Likely to Be Discharged After Hospitalization

...tegories." "In summary, this study suggests that hospitalized obese individuals may have poorer discharge clinical outcomes than their leaner counterparts," the authors conclude. "Future studies are required to confirm these results and to identify the pathophysiologic mechanisms at play. In the interim, our st...

Transcendental Meditation Can Help

...n men and women, average age 64, who were recently hospitalized with New York Heart Association class II or III congestive heart failure. Participants were randomized to either the Transcendental Meditation ? (TM) technique or health education – in addition to standard medical treatment. Researchers measured ch...

Jogi Hospitalized With Chest Pain After Arrest

...Former Chhattisgarh's chief minister Ajit Jogi was hospitalized here with chest pain early Monday, hours after he was arrested in connection// with the murder of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) treasurer Ramavatar Jaggi. "He (Jogi) was brought to Raipur at 4.10 a.m. Monday and admitted to Escorts Hospital as h...

Baby Affected by H9N2 in Hong Kong

...d that the baby had fever from March 4 and she was hospitalized on the 6th of March. Subsequently she recovered on March 9. Her family members did not show any sign or symptom of Avian influenza. The initial routine tests revealed that the baby is infected with H9N2 strain of the Avian influenza virus. Tsang ad...

Atherothrombosis Patients at High Risk for CV Events

... event (CV death, heart attack, and stroke) or was hospitalized for a CV event or revascularization procedure within a year of enrollment. Patients with established arterial disease experienced 2 to 3 times higher event rates than patients with multiple risk factors only. The overall combined CV death, heart at...

Rapid Spread of TB Among Prisoners Causes Concern

...is microbe and annually about 9 million people are hospitalized affected by active tuberculosis. PRI...

Patients Own Dental Plaque may Cause Ventilator-associated Pneumonia

...uired disease, taking care of teeth and gums while hospitalized might be especially important." Source-Eurekalert<BRPRI...

Atherothrombosis Associated With High Rates of Cardiovascular Events

... event (CV death, heart attack, and stroke) or was hospitalized for a CV event or revascularization procedure within a year of enrollment. Patients with established arterial disease experienced 2 to 3 times higher event rates than patients with multiple risk factors only. The overall combined CV death, heart a...

Low-dose Aspirin Beats High-dose After Cardiac Surgery

...04 to identify nearly 22,000 patients who had been hospitalized due to a heart attack and survived more than 30 days after discharge. These patients were followed from the index date (30 days after discharge) until they died or until the end of the study period. Of the 21,848 patients in the study, about half ...

Heart Failure Medication Provides Some Symptom Relief

... and the risk of death remains high among patients hospitalized with HF, according to background information in th...m clinical status studies, included 4,133 patients hospitalized with heart failure at 359 North American, South American, and European sites between October 2003 an...

Statins Linked to Lower Risk of Infection

...taking statins had a 41 in a 1,000 chance of being hospitalized for sepsis, while the other group not taking statins had a 110 out of 1,000 risk. Although the overall absolute risk is relatively small, the statin group’s risk is dramatically lower,” says Rajesh Gupta M.D., the study’s lead author, who was a senio...

One Fourth of Hospital Patients Admitted for Mental Health or Drug Abuse Disorder

...f the 7.6 million stays were for patients who were hospitalized primarily because of a mental health or substance ... and alcohol abuse. In addition, 240,000 women hospitalized for childbirth or pregnancy also had mental health or substance abuse problems. Four of every 10 of ...

Doctors Encouraged to Say, “I’m Sorry,” to Patients inUS

...eport in 1999 said mistakes kill as many as 98,000 hospitalized Americans each year. SRM/B...

‘Land Of Dreams’ Staggers Under The Weight Of Neuroses And Substance Abue

...f the 7.6 million stays were for patients who were hospitalized mainly because of a mental health or substance abu...ol abuse. It was also seen that 240,000 women hospitalized for childbirth or pregnancy were diagnosed as having mental health or substance abuse problems. Almo...

Rotavirus can Spread Beyond the Intestine

...icine, Houston Texas, tested samples obtained from hospitalized children with gastroenteritis and compared them with samples taken from children admitted with bronchiolitis or noninfectious, nonchronic conditions and healthy adults. Rotavirus antigen was detected in the blood of 51 of 57 of children with rotav...

Johns Hopkins Begins Aggressive Screening for 'superbugs' in Children

...creening in efforts to slow spread of the germs in hospitalized children. The study compared the effectiveness ...f the bacteria that cause infections for 2 million hospitalized Americans each year are resistant to at least one of the drugs most commonly used to treat them. ...

E Coli Outbreak Forces Large-scale Recall of Beef Products

...five reporting// symptoms of the disease have been hospitalized so far. E. coli, or Escherichia coli, is a commo...unties from March 24 to March 29. None of the four hospitalized have developed kidney failure, they said. "Because the number of cases is small and the exposure p...

Hearts Saved As Doctors Put Cutting Edge Discoveries to Use

...e last six years, death rates and heart failure in hospitalized heart attack patients have fallen// sharply- most ... to have another attack within six months of being hospitalized when compared to the patients treated six years earlier - a sure sign that the more aggressive effor...

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