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Mass vaccination unnecessary in the event of a large bioterrorist US smallpox attack

..., prompt containment of victims and vaccination of hospital workers and close contacts would be sufficient to ...cination of the general public, pre-vaccination of hospital personnel, vaccination of the target community and closure of schools after a smallpox release would...

World-wide warning of highly drug-resistant tuberculosis

...ong 536 cases of tuberculosis confirmed at a rural hospital in South Africa earlier this year, 41% were multi-...ws particularly rapid spread of the disease within hospital settings and the community. Dr Lawn says several responses to this problem are required includi...

High tech help to prevent further heart disease

...s have to make regular follow up visits to special hospital outpatient facilities or private clinics for these services,?said Professor Mummery. “Those who live in the bush or outlying areas throughout Queensland can’t make it because they live too far away. Others choose not to go or drop out after one or tw...

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

...ician visits for influenza treatment, 796,743 less hospital admissions and 68,537 fewer influenza related deaths for all EU-25 countries Implementing a 100% vaccination rate programme for all risk groups in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and UK would require an additional 1.52 billion Euro but this would re...

Hospital-acquired infections -- Inevitable?

...als and patients ?that acquiring infections in the hospital is unavoidable. This concern is addressed in a sp...h over 1,500 additional deaths, 205,000 additional hospital days, and nearly $2 billion in extra hospital charges. While many healthcare professionals believe t...

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

...ins healthier, and greatly lessens the chance of a hospital stay. The initial application for this technology is expected to involve pharmaceutical companies, which could use the biological chips to test potential drugs in the lab more quickly and accurately. In later generations, the chip ultimately could ...

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

...lood infection that is a leading cause of death in hospital intensive care units. The illness unleashes a powe... College of Surgeons. "If someone came into the hospital with a cough and had a working diagnosis of pneumonia or someone came in with abdominal pain with a ...

For super-obese patients, duodenal switch beats gastric bypass

..., patients who had a duodenal switch stayed in the hospital one day longer, four days instead of three. About 24 percent of DS patients stayed more than four days and about 20 percent of RYGB patients stayed more than three days. There was one death among the 198 duodenal-switch patients within 30 days of t...

Gene therapy study takes aim at prostate cancer

...atients will be monitored in a special unit of the hospital for 23 hours to make sure there are no side effects. After that, they come to the unit for a check-up once a week." After about 30 days, the subjects undergo their surgery, which has already been scheduled, he said. He said the hope is that the gen...

Second opinion yields treatment changes for half of patients

...lready had a treatment recommendation from another hospital or care provider. Overall, 52 percent of the patients evaluated had one or more changes in their recommendations for surgery. The changes were a result of breast imaging specialists reading a mammogram differently or breast pathologists interpreti...

Pure carbon nanotubes pass first in vivo test

...progress and offered daily guidance, even from his hospital bed at M.D. Anderson," Cherukuri said. “Up to his very last day, he was simultaneously fighting his own battle with cancer and developing new ways to treat the disease that ultimately took his life. These new results are simply the first fruits of hi...

Inheriting a tendency to brain infection

...ic neurologist Marc Tardieu of the Kremlin-Bicêtre hospital in Paris and genetic epidemiologist Laurent Abel of the Necker Medical School, revealed that a significant proportion of patients with herpes simplex encephalitis had parents who were blood relatives --often first or second cousins--and were therefor...

MRSA vaccine shows promise in mouse study

...annually," an estimated 2.7 million days in excess hospital length of stay, and $9.5 billion in excess charges. Physicians are particularly concerned about S. aureus because of its ability to survive in the presence of antibiotics designed to kill it. In 1972, according to the Centers for Disease Control, o...

Clot-busting drug helps revive cardiac arrest patients

...Four percent survived and were discharged from the hospital and had normal brain function. In the group of 113 patients who received ACLS alone, 12 percent were revived, but none lived long enough to leave the hospital. The patients who were treated with tenecteplase had been receiving ACLS measures for a m...

Large-scale genomics project will hunt genes behind common childhood diseases

...es. Children's Hospital will be the only pediatric hospital to have this technology entirely at its disposal." The Center plans to analyze blood samples from over 100,000 children over the next three years. Patients from the Children's Hospital network will be asked to contribute blood samples. For those who...

MUHC announces a transplant first in Quebec

...ebec. "At this point we knew the MUHC was the only hospital where we could transfer our patient for this lifesaving surgery." The speed and ease at which this patient transfer occurred demonstrates the level of collaboration and teamwork that exists between hospitals within Quebec. "The patient made a rapid...

Quitting smoking improves lung function considerably

...rticularly high rates of acute asthmatics visiting hospital emergency rooms. The smokers with asthma recruited for this study were aged 18 to 60 and had lung function score results of less than 85 percent of their predicted level. They all had a cigarette history of over 10-pack-years and smoked more than ...

Combined treatment extends life expectancy for lung cancer patients

... four weeks. Rhode Island Hospital may be the only hospital in the world to administer this combined treatment. The recurrence rate was much lower with the combined treatment. With radiation therapy alone, about 50 percent of tumors recur within six to 12 months. By the end of this study, 24 percent of pati...

Radiation-armed robot rapidly destroys human lung tumors

... each lasting about 15 minutes but requiring 20-30 hospital visits. In a single treatment, Cyberknife blasts a lung tumor from all sides by delivering typically 100-150 intense, focused x-ray beams, causing the tumor to absorb approximately 10 times more radiation than in a conventional radiotherapy sessio...

Epidemic of unneeded amputations

...c." Of note: --The number of diabetes-related LEA hospital discharges increased by 240 percent between 1980 (...ound healing, often enabling patients to leave the hospital the next day. CLiRpath has been the subject of rigorous clinical trials, with limb salvage observed ...

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