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Learning to Prevent Medical Mistakes in Caring for Stroke Patients

...l Hospital has improved its patient care, now uses safer equipment to deliver medications, and a variety of new procedures, including check sheets at the point of patient transfers to make sure no information is lost. “What this study represents is our hospital’s commitment to patient safety,” said Hollo...

Mothers Opting for C-Sections- Be Warned

...re's side effects, mistakenly believe C-section is safer and less painful than natural birth. In some places, doctors suggest C-sections as their profits get raised. Says Pan Junfeng, a gynecologist in Beijing's Haidian District Hospital of Maternity and Child Care:"C-sections can cause some serious sid...

Surgeons Develop Simpler Way to Cure Atrial Fibrillation

...but with the new device the procedure is also much safer because there's a much lower risk of bleeding." Atrial fibrillation affects more than 2.2 million people in the United States and can cause fatigue, shortness of breath, exercise intolerance and palpitations. Compared to those without atrial fibr...

Emerging Research Heralds New Era of Breast Cancer Management

...ant lesions. The use of nanotechnology may provide safer imaging that capitalizes on our growing knowledge of specific genes associated with cancer. In the area of systemic therapy, the timing of drug treatments is being altered to maximize cell death, "short-circuit" tumor growth, and minimize toxicity...

Drug Used in Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery may Increase Risk of Death

...going CABG surgery does not appear prudent because safer and less expensive alternatives (i.e., aminocaproic acid and tranexamic acid) are available," the authors conclude. Source-Eurekalert...

A New Plan to Restrict Cardiovascular Diseases in Scotland

... Previous studies show statins are several times safer than aspirin. "It is very difficult to reduce cholesterol by even 10 per cent with changes to your diet alone. But with statins it can fall by 30, 40 or 50 per cent." As per the new guidelines anyone with a 20 per cent risk of getting coronary hear...

Hormone Therapy: An Alternative To Estrogen For Menopause

A new Canadian-led trial finds a safer and equally effective alternative therapy for cont...t cancer or increase migraine headaches, making it safer than estrogen. Now, the researchers are doing a similar trial comparing the drug to the natural f...

Stomach Banding Surgery Effective for Adolescents

... “This study suggests that the lap band provides a safer and equally effective weight loss strategy compared to the gastric bypass,” said Evan Nadler, M.D., Director of Pediatric Minimally Invasive Surgery and Assistant Professor of Surgery at New York University School of Medicine, who is the lead author ...

New Approach Needed To Restore Faith in Pharmaceutical Industry

...rofecoxib) was introduced in 1999 as an effective, safer alternative to non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) for the treatment of pain associated with osteoarthritis. It was subsequently found that the drug increased the risk of cardiovascular disease (CV) and withdrawn from the worldwide market....

New AMA Tool Empowers Doctors to Work Safer Hours

...of doctors //suffering fatigue, and make hospitals safer for patients and doctors. The AMA’s new Fatigue Risk Assessment website allows doctors to track their work, on-call, recreational, and sleeping hours over a week, and determine whether their work arrangements are placing them at risk of serious fat...

Special Children Need to Be Taught Sexual Safety

...ions that perpetuate abuse. We need to know what a safer community that protects children from sexual abuse looks like. What conditions promote sexual abuse. And what conditions reduce the risks and give children the skills to protect themselves. Source-Bio - Bio Technology...

Drug Linked to Increase in Brain Hemorrhage Cases

...rs, these results may stimulate efforts to develop safer alternatives to warfarin and better treatments for people with brain hemorrhages.” Source-Newswise SRM...

Warfarin’s Anti-clotting Property May Cause Hemorrhagic Stroke

...d more research was needed to find anti-coagulants safer than warfarin to help patients who suffer from hemorrhagic strokes. All cases of intracerebral hemorrhage (bleeding inside the brain) in the Cincinnati area between 1988 and 1999 were examined by the study. The cases connected with the use of blood...

Allergic Reactions to Insulin Have Declined

... animals, and advanced purification now makes this safer to use. The gene for human insulin has been sequenced, and the sequence placed in bacteria. These modified organisms then produce the human insulin protein which can then be purified and used for therapy. Fewer people react to this 'recombinant insu...

Infant Car Seats Fail Crash Tests

...e always interested in making car seats better and safer but not more complicated and difficult for parents. We don't want consumers misled into thinking holding a child is better than putting it into a car seat." The magazine also reports that nine seats failed in some or all of the higher speed tests, ...

Smarter Kids may Turn into Safer Adults

London: Smarter children may end up being safer adults then children with lower intelligence, researchers found after comparing childhood intelligence with adult injury rates.// Debbie Lawlor of the University of Bristol in England and colleagues studied 11,282 people in Scotland who were part ...

Surfing Safer Than Soccer: Study

...staff support at contests and aid in the design of safer surfboards and protective equipment such as helmets," Nathanson adds. To reduce the risk of injury while surfing, Nathanson suggests good physical fitness, seeking local knowledge before paddling out to an unfamiliar break, and being realistic in t...

Medical Teams Are Key to Patient Safety

...t improvements to patient safety, and patients are safer in hospitals today, compared to 10 years ago,” Wenzel said. “It is reasonable for patients to take charge of their care to some extent. I tell my patients not to allow anyone to touch them or any catheter unless they first see them wash their hands a...

Medical Teams Are Key to Patient Safety

...t improvements to patient safety, and patients are safer in hospitals today, compared to 10 years ago,” Wenzel said. “It is reasonable for patients to take charge of their care to some extent. I tell my patients not to allow anyone to touch them or any catheter unless they first see them wash their hands a...

Mayo Researcher Discovers Target Site for Developing Mosquito Pesticides

...ted by further studies, the findings could offer a safer and more effective control of mosquito-borne disea...that a chemically stable molecule (to be used as a safer pesticide) could be made to react with the cysteine residue in the mosquito enzyme acetylcholinester...

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