stays 1 2

Tag: "stays" at medical news

Britons Believe In The Paranormal Phenomena

...powers was baseless. He said that as long as these stays as entertainment it is fine but when people start ruling their lives by it is of great concern....

Radiation Therapy Made More Compatible

...the healthy-tissue-sparing nature of the technique stays strong at a beam thickness that is within a range that could be produced by specialized x-ray tubes of extremely high voltage and current,’ Dilmanian said. Such x-ray sources may become available sometime in the future and may allow the implementatio...

Effect of Prolonged Stay in Space Studied Using Fruit Flies

...arch team. NASA's goal is to find out how extended stays in space, such as a trip to Mars, could affect the health of astronauts, von Kalm said. Fruit flies can help NASA move closer to that goal because certain aspects of the genetic makeup of their immune systems and humans' are similar. Also, a 12-day s...

Two-year-old Boy of Bihar Weighs 35 kg

...pite his weight, said his father Kanhal Singh, who stays in Muzaffarpur district, 70 km from Patna. "He loves to eat and is always demanding food," said Singh. Ayush was taken to Apollo Hospital in New Delhi where doctors said he was a normal child. They suggested that his food habits should be chang...

Personality Disorders Caused Army To Let Go Of 1,000 Soldiers

...associated with combat trauma, but is a trait that stays throughout life. He added that although soldiers may suffer with the disorder, they do continue to perform their duties....

New UCSD Program to Fight Drug-Resistant Bacteria

... organisms are more likely to have longer hospital stays and require treatment with second- or third-choice medicines that may be less effective, more toxic, and more expensive. Staphylococcus aureus or “staph” is the leading cause of human infections in the skin, deep tissues, bones and joints. Staph e...

Dental Grills harmful For Users

...ons and cavities, Messina said, "and the longer it stays in the mouth, the worse the problems are." Further stating that the grills should be cleaned daily as well, he said, "If someone brushed and flossed really well, put in a grill that fit well and was made of precious metals, kept it for an hour or t...

New Way to Open Cellular Ion Channels, Implications for Drug Design

...une, blood, and bone cells) whose membrane voltage stays largely constant, as opposed to the excitable cells whose membrane voltage constantly varies in a precisely controlled manner. How the activity of channels in non-excitable cells is regulated has been a long-standing biological mystery. This new find...

Center Launches New International Stem Cell Research Institute

...h and clinical studies in a way where the emphasis stays on trying to quickly translate research findings from the bench to the bedside to benefit patients,” said Benvenisty. “The institute will perform research on all types of stem cells, emphasizing integrity, innovation and collaboration in our approach...

Bugged about super bugs

...super bugs are more likely to have longer hospital stays and require multiple drug treatments to fight them off and even then, it's often too little, too late.” The study investigated nearly 4,000 samples taken from 19 intensive care units in Canadian hospitals. The examination revealed that 20 to 50 per...

Insight Into Tanning Process Suggests Novel Way to Prevent Skin Cancer

...te it strongly. The result is that cAMP production stays at low levels. Less cAMP means less red/blond pigment production, which results in fair skin. Many scientists have theorized that tanning occurs when ultraviolet radiation strikes the nuclei of melanocytes, causing DNA damage that prompts the melan...

ICU Rooms Home to Many Resistant Infections

...8,200 patients, average age 61, who totaled 11,528 stays at eight ICUs between 2003 and 2005. When admitted to ICU, 809 of these had MRSA, and 658 had VRE upon admittance to the ICU. Of the remaining patients, 14 percent stayed in rooms in which the prior occupant had MRSA, and 13 percent stayed in room...

Transmission of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Linked to Previous ICU Room Occupants

... a 20-month study of 8,203 patients who had 11,528 stays in eight ICUs between 2003 and 2005. As part of the hospitals’ normal protocols, cultures were obtained from all ICU patients when they arrived and every week they stayed to determine the presence of MRSA and VRE. Upon entering the ICU, 809 patient...

IBS Sufferers Benefited by Non-Absorbable Antibiotics

A non absorbable antibiotic which stays in the gut has been found to be an effective long-term treatment for irritable// bowel syndrome (IBS) according to researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. The study has been published in the October 17 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine I...

New Biomedical Device to Monitor Hip Implant Healing

... as its power source. When it isn’t being used, it stays dormant until a doctor asks it to start transmitting data. Careful monitoring of how the patient is healing will help patients recover as quickly as possible and resume normal activities with less chance of over stressing the fracture during recove...

Adhering to Clinical Guidelines Decreases Blood Clots in the Elderly

...ed to ensure the transition between short hospital stays and home when patients require specialized care or rehabilitation services.” Elodie Sellier, M.D., Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble, France, and colleagues studied 1,373 patients age 65 or older (66.9 percent women) enrolled in 33 post–acute car...

Fewer Women Having Inpatient Breast Cancer Surgery

...omen during the period, and the number of hospital stays for the disease declined from about 125,000 to 90,... was $6,500, and nearly 85 percent of all hospital stays were billed to private insurance and Medicare. These statistics are from the Nationwide Inpatient ...

Hope For Patients With Macular Degeneration From Manmade Protein

...he protein-making machinery of the cell so that it stays there and anything that binds with it, namely VEGF, stays there too. So it's a very specific way of down-regulating a target protein.' In May 2005, Dr. Amba...

Seniors More At Risk from Large Scale Weight-loss Surgery

...sk for adverse events and required longer hospital stays included chronic pulmonary disease, diabetes and depression. Common complications included gastrointestinal, respiratory and cardiac problems. Gastrointestinal problems were most common, occurring in about 30 percent of older patients who had comp...

Mentally-Ill Patients Get Re-Hospitalized More

...so found that the average length of their hospital stays were more than double the length of others. The ...ospitalization is necessary at times, but hospital stays themselves may create problems, the report observes. 'We found that mental illness and hospitaliza...

1 2 3 4