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'Good' bacteria could save patients from infection infection by deadlier ones

...tress on the use of antiseptics and antibiotics in hospitals is actually putting patients at a greater risk of ...gelman suggests experimenting with antibiotic-free hospitals in which harmless bacteria would be free to exist and there would be no environmental "incentive" fo...

Johns Hopkins flu expert calls for mandatory vaccination of health care workers

...cording to Perl, numerous staff surveys from other hospitals have shown that the most common reason cited for not getting a vaccination is a lack of time (47 percent). Surprisingly, a remarkably high number of staff, more than 30 percent, believed they could catch influenza from the vaccine itself, which is f...

Cord blood cells may widen treatment window for stroke

...recommended three-hour treatment criteria, smaller hospitals often lack ready access to a CT scan, a test needed to rule out a hemorrhagic stroke caused by a burst blood vessel. The drug can worsen this less common type of stroke. "New and more flexible treatments are needed to help more patients," Dr. Willin...

Is it Possible to Change Prescribing Habits?

...han 770,000 people are injured or die each year in hospitals from adverse drug events (ADEs), which can cost a ...ission costs $16,000 to $24,000 more. One way for hospitals to tackle the problem of medication errors is to install computerized monitoring systems, which can ...

Pillows - a hot bed of fungal spores

...in 25 patients who die in modern European teaching hospitals have the disease. Immuno-compromised patients such as transplantation, AIDS and steroid treatment patients are also frequently affected with life-threatening Aspergillus pneumonia and sinusitis. Fortunately, hospital pillows have plastic covers a...

HIV mortality in India drops with introduction of generic antiretroviral therapy

...tary counseling centers are being set up in public hospitals and in centers where persons with high risk for HIV seek medical attention," Dr. Kumarasamy said. Such centers offer pre- and post-test counseling, which includes medical counseling on HIV care, like ART. Making HIV-infected people aware of affordabl...

Chernobyl: The true scale of the accident

...us places to live. Even when pay is high, schools, hospitals and other essential public services are short of qualified specialists. What has been the impact on individuals? According to the Forum's report on health, "the mental health impact of Chernobyl is the largest public health problem unleashed by the...

Emerging staph strains found to be increasingly deadly and deceptive

...an more common S. aureus strains that originate in hospitals and other health-care settings. In a paper released today online in The Journal of Immunology, scientists from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, describe how community-acqui...

Researcher says flu responders can learn from 1918 epidemic

...thers get the care they need? What happens if the hospitals which traditionally serve the needs of the inner city begin to run out of beds? Do we think that people will sit pat in the projects and poor neighborhoods of our country and watch as their family and friends, their very communities, die? I don't se...

Agricultural antibiotic use contributes to 'super-bugs' in humans

...nown that a high rate of antibiotic prescribing in hospitals contributes to the emergence of drug resistant bacteria. But for some antibiotics, an even more important factor contributing to such emergence, argues a team of researchers in the open access international medical journal PLoS Medicine, is the use o...

Scientists discover genetic pathway responsible for breast cancer cell growth

...d health care are one of the strengths of academic hospitals like the MUHC." ...

Scientists discover gene that controls speed of tuberculosis development

...r of the Research Institute of the MUHC. "Academic hospitals such as the MUHC combine scientific research, technology and clinic expertise, enabling scientific breakthroughs to be developed into treatments and cures that directly benefit patients." ...

UF researchers kill resistant bugs one bandage at a time

...ic, such as antibiotic-resistant bugs occurring in hospitals across the world," said Christopher Batich, Ph.D., a UF professor of biomedical engineering and one of the coating's inventors. "This has the potential to be used widely." The coating also does what it was created to do - aids healing, Schultz said....

Quantum dots provide a faster, more sensitive method for detecting respiratory viral infections

...t is growing in the culture. This has caused many hospitals to switch to a technique called real time PCR, which is extremely sensitive but still takes 36 to 48 hours because of the need for a highly trained molecular biologist to conduct the test in a reference laboratory. There is also a third method, calle...

Scientists show that tick-borne flaviviruses use a novel mechanism to evade host defenses

...ally results in more than 10,000 patient visits to hospitals annually and has a fatality rate of up to 25 percent in some regions. Viruses that cause encephalitis lead to inflammation of the brain. Hemorrhagic fevers are viral infections that cause capillaries to burst, leading to unusual bleeding on or under ...

New defibrillator signals doctor of patient's irregular heartbeat or device malfunction

...p; World Report's annual survey of more than 6,000 hospitals nationwide. This is the third year in a row that Loyola has achieved the top spot for Heart Care and Heart Surgery in the state. Loyola opened its new 10,000-square-foot Center for Heart and Vascular Medicine on the Loyola University Medical Center...

Scalpel-free surgery could reduce risk of HIV and hepatitis exposure for health care workers

...tatus and increased substance use, most university hospitals in the United States are located in urban areas and serve a similar patient population, added Makary. Other authors on the report are Eric S. Weiss, Theresa Wang, Dora Syin, Peter Pronovost, David Chang and Edward Cornwell III. ...

Morphine for Chest Pain Increases Death Risk

...istry continually collects data from more than 400 hospitals on outcomes and on the use of proven drugs and pro... continuously gathers data from participating U.S. hospitals on treatments for patients with non-STEMI and provides quarterly feedback to hospitals with the ulti...

Two studies document rise of superbugs in the environment

... of MDR bacteria from patient to patient, often in hospitals or long-term care facilities like nursing homes. In the study, living in a long-term care facility, being 65 or older or taking antibiotics for two or more weeks were all factors that increased people's likelihood of carrying MDR bacteria upon admiss...

$5.1 billion would save 6 million children

...sed resources, which decrease costs since building hospitals and other fixed resources isn't necessary. It is our hope that policymakers, donors and governments will use our price estimates to strengthen their health systems. If they don't, 16,000 children will continue to die each day as a result," said Jenni...

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