Tag: "ill" at medical news

Space research leads to needle-free blood tests

...pplications of near infrared will be for seriously ill people, where multiple samples are needed and perhaps in researching the science of sport. But one day we may all be able to use the needle-free approach for routine blood tests....

Sun burns treated with creams

...t radiation from the sun is known to have numerous ill effects on the skin, leading not only to the typical signs of aging, but also to skin cancer. Tazarotene has been shown in several studies to reduce these effects, but none have tested the treatment for longer than six months. These researchers measu...

Bridge to liver transplant looks encouraging

...lling them out of the blood. So far, 20 critically ill patients have used the device - and 11 of them survived long enough for a transplant or even recovered. Trials are ongoing at other US hospitals. The Michigan researchers will soon start to trial an even more advanced liver support system, called the...

Need for Blood Transfusions reduced

The need for blood transfusions among critically ill patients may now be reduced by a new substance. A study showed that patients in intensive care with a lowered need for transfusion were the ones who had received weekly administration //of the man-made protein. Researchers examined the effectiveness...

Machines take over the battle against hospital bugs

...s threat to patients in the ICU who are critically ill and whose body defences are weakened. Acinetobacter can cause infections of the lung (pneumonia), blood stream (septicaemia) and infections of surgical wounds and burns as well as urine infections which are difficult to treat as many strains of the b...

New way to control hospital infection

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

Women who care for sick spouse risk heart disease

...y have found that women who care for a disabled or ill spouse have an increased risk of coronary heart disease. The findings were reported from a long-running Nurses' Health Study, which had collected data on caregiving and coronary heart disease from 54,412 women aged between 46 and 71. They found that ...

SARS necessitates medical masks

...ss. Some studies have found that if the masks are ill fitting people hesitate to turn up to their work place . When the mask has to be discarded , it is found that most people reuse it . This practice can be counterproductive. With the outbreak of SARS in Asia there is a need to learn how to use ma...

Liver diseases: The enemy with an accomplice

...ver, 65% of the patients got to know that they are ill with hepatitis only during their last hospitalization. In two cases this diagnosis was made posthumously. In some cases the disease was caused by the virus of hepatitis B; there have also been cases when there was a combination of both viruses. Some...

Reviving the Immune System

...ilize. "Given that this was a very advanced, very ill population of patients, the responses that we saw were very encouraging for using this technique," says researchers. "With what I was diagnosed with 10 to 15 years ago, I would not have had a chance," says Bauter. Not only is he alive, he's gettin...

3 die, 500 sickened in nation's largest hepatitis A outbreak Associated Press

... ate at a Chi-Chi's Mexican restaurant have fallen ill in the biggest known outbreak of hepatitis A in U.S.// history, making people so scared they are lining up by the thousands for vaccinations and no longer eating out. Health investigators are focusing on whether contaminated produce - perhaps scall...

Green Onions Blamed in Outbreak

...as an isolated incident. Hundreds of people fell ill with Hepatitis A after eating at Chi-Chi's Beaver Valley, Pennsylvania, restaurant. "There is currently no industry-accepted means of testing produce for Hepatitis A virus. And there is no effective way to wash Hepatitis A off of green onions, as t...

Blood Sugar Linked to Deaths in ICU

...yperglycemia, is a common problem among critically ill patients, regardless of whether they are diabetic ...gement in a heterogeneous population of critically ill patients.” <BR...

Link Between Hyperglycemia & Hospital Mortality

...yperglycemia, is a common problem among critically ill patients, regardless of whether they are diabetic ...gement in a heterogeneous population of critically ill patients.” ...

New Hope for Kidney Failure

...hers say it is a major cause of death in seriously ill patients. They explain acute renal failure -- or kidney failure -- occurs because of renal tubule cell death. When the researchers examined the kidneys of the genetically modified mice, they discovered the high level of HGF actually protected the ren...

Hope for Patients With Kidney Failure

...t is one of the major causes of death in seriously ill patients. // A recently discovered molecule may have the potential to protect the kidneys from failing after injury, according to new research.For the study, mice were genetically engineered to express higher-than-normal levels of the natural molec...

Ultrasound Screening Could Improve The Outcome Of Critically ill Patients

... but could also improve the outcomes of critically ill patients. ...

Vision Loss Due To Diabetic Retinopathy a Major Cause Of Concern

...ops below 20/40, many patients begin to experience ill effects. A recent study compared lifestyle restrictions for 45 patients with diabetic retinopathy with an average age of about 67. Nearly 70 percent had worse than 20/60 vision in the better eye and the rest had worse than 20/40. All filled out sta...

Drugs Taken During Pregnancy Found To Affect Unborn Babies

...nfants exposed to SSRIs in the womb have shown few ill effects, so most doctors believe these drugs can be safely prescribed for pregnant women. However, most of these studies have only compared major outcomes, such as physical growth and complications evident on the medical record. In a recent study re...

Blood Clots Could Be Very Fatal

... DVT. Recent studies have shown that in critically ill patients , a small pulmonary embolism, which might be of minimal clinical importance in less ill patients, might have severe or fatal consequence. After surveying nearly 70 physicians, researcher...

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