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New HIV statistics indicate increasing toll of AIDS on African American community

.... Expand proven HIV prevention, diagnosis and care programs. ?Far too many African Americans lack acc... individuals are not receiving life-saving medical care and may unknowingly transmit HIV to sex- and needle-sharing partners. In addition, African-American...

Jefferson scientists find high glucose before surgery raises risk of dangerous complications

...l complications for hospital patients in intensive care or cardiac care units. Tightening glucose control dramatically cuts those risks, as well as reduces hospital stays. ...

World-wide warning of highly drug-resistant tuberculosis

...o tuberculosis results largely from poorly managed care and control of the disease. Poor prescribing pr...ne the presence of drug-resistance at the point of care are needed as are new drug treatments."...

First-time analysis reveals millions of Europeans left at risk from influenza

...ases of 7.22 million, 1.96 million reduced primary care physician visits for influenza treatment, 796,743 ...d savings of 39.45 million Euro of reduced primary care visits and a further saving of 1.59 billion Euro in reduced hospitalisations. "This analysis confi...

Hospital-acquired infections -- Inevitable?

...sive belief. In 2004, Pennsylvania's general acute care hospitals reported nearly 12,000 hospital-acquired...y add to the risk and it's actually the process of care that drives the current epidemic. "Despite all of our hard work, medical care can never be error f...

Cardiologist's 'living chip' changes science of disease monitoring

...ro said. "The key to personalizing an individual's care is to improve the manner in which one can detect abnormalities in chemical signals or physiologic activity in real-time using technology that is minimally invasive. We are on the road to doing this." Promising technology Physiologic Communications,...

Planning ahead: Having the healthiest baby possible

...r. The Supplement provides everything that health care specialists and the public need to know about the importance of women's health and health care before pregnancy. Dr. Jennifer L. Howse, president of the March of Dimes and a co-author of the lea...

Highly concentrated botulinum preparation for cosmetic injections can result in severe illness

...recognition of botulism, treatment in an intensive care setting, provision of mechanical ventilation when indicated, and rapid administration of antitoxin (optimally within 12 hours of presentation) have been associated with improved clinical outcome. Suspected cases of botulism should be reported immedia...

Gene chip technology shows potential for identifying life-threatening blood infection

... is a leading cause of death in hospital intensive care units. The illness unleashes a powerful inflammato... Such a test could not only be used in intensive care units but also in emergency rooms and other settings where a timely diagnosis of infection is import...

'Nymph of the sea' reveals remarkable brood

...s an unequivocal and unique view of parental brood care in the invertebrate fossil record, it allows gender to be determined in an animal as old as the Silurian period of geological time, and indicates a remarkably conserved egg brooding reproductive strategy."...

Very low birth weight linked to reduced quality of life in pre-school children

...ommunication. Longer stays in neonatal intensive care units were also linked to reduced social function....delivery, length of stay in the neonatal intensive care unit and the educational level of the primary caregiver." Children ranging from 36 to 53 mon...

Other patients bear the real cost of Herceptin

... save £1.9m by cutting chemotherapy and palliative care treatments. The sum of £1.9m would enable us to treat 75 patients with Herceptin, but at four times the cost of the adjuvant treatments, they say. These treatments have been proved to be clinically effective and their estimated cost effectiveness ...

A human taste for rarity spells disaster for endangered species

...y collectors, pet owners, and ecotourists actually care about biodiversity, the authors hope that education may go a long way toward curbing these human activities. Education could even mitigate the damage of trophy hunting and luxury consumption if society stigmatized activities responsible for driving a...

Mayo Clinic collaboration mining of ancient herbal text leads to potential new anti-bacterial drug

...y and powerfully, so that one should use them with care in dysentery cases, because that illness or affliction should not be halted too quickly; and some considered this medicament a great secret, and relied on it completely."...

Minorities, uninsured less likely to receive care at high-volume hospitals

...JAMA. Efforts to improve the quality of surgical care in the United States have led many organizations t...l and socioeconomic status of patients who receive care at high- and low-volume hospitals, according to background information in the article. These differe...

Second opinion yields treatment changes for half of patients

... treatment recommendation from another hospital or care provider. Overall, 52 percent of the patients e...ablished one of the first multidisciplinary breast care centers in 1985 to provide comprehensive diagnosis and treatment for women with benign or malignant ...

Resistant bacteria increasing source of muscle infection

... infection can exist," she said. "They should seek care from their child's primary physician if there are symptoms of such an infection, such as a child limping or if there is redness or swelling in an extremity." Houston, in particular, has a high rate of MRSA infections. More than 75 percent of commun...

Report highlights change in Canada's forests

... of the forest industry will depend on how well we care for this resource, how efficient we are in its use, and how forward-looking we are at identifying product and market opportunities," said Minister Lunn. "Canada's New Government is committed to helping the Canadian forest industry build a stronger fu...

AIDS study challenges conventional treatment guidelines for HIV patients

... Systems (CNICS), a database of real-time clinical care and laboratory data; b) the San Francisco Men's Health Study (SFMHS) and the Research in Access to Care for the Homeless Cohort (REACH). This cohort included approximately 12% female and 35% non- Caucasian participants. The second cohort, which the i...

Inheriting a tendency to brain infection

...und." Soon, children who come into the intensive care unit with herpes simplex encephalitis may be treated with both the standard antiviral, acyclovir, and with type I interferon, to replace the interferon they lack if they have the mutation, said Casanova. That hasn't happened yet, although patients su...

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