Global warning: Hotter days, increased hospitalizations for respiratory problems
High summer temperatures, pushed higher by global climate change, may bring with them a spike in hospitalizations for respiratory problems, according to an analysis of data from twelve European cities, from Dublin to Valencia. The data comes from the "Assessment and Prevention of Acute Health Effe...Home Care Tips for Reducing the Risk of Childhood Hospitalizations Due to Asthma
Visiting Nurse Service of New York Health Advisory NEW YORK, Feb. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Asthma attacks are the leading cause of hospitalizations for children in New York City, according to the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Why? Recent research suggest...Heart Failure Hospitalizations Up Sharply
Epidemic linked to hypertension, obesity, diabetes, study shows SUNDAY, Nov. 9 (HealthDay News) -- Hospitalization rates for heart failure among older Americans have increased dramatically in the past three decades, an epidemic that represents a mounting burden on the health-care syste...Prevalence of US osteoprotic hip fracture hospitalizations declines despite an aging population
Paris, France, Thursday 12 June 2008: The prevalence of hospitalisations for osteoporotic (non-traumatic) hip fractures in the USA declined significantly from 1988 to 2005, despite an increase in all-cause hospitalisations over the same period and a general ageing of the population, according to r...Fertility Treatment Twins More at Risk for Hospitalizations
Couples using assisted reproductive technology should be made aware, researcher says WEDNESDAY, May 20 (HealthDay News) -- Compared to naturally conceived twins, those conceived through assisted reproductive technology (ART) are more likely to be hospitalized and admitted to neonatal ...No Link Between Coarse Air Pollution, Hospitalizations
Finding might impact EPA's clean air regulations, researchers say TUESDAY, May 13 (HealthDay News) -- Exposure to coarse airborne-pollution particles, such as those found in windblown dust or stirred up by agricultural work and mechanical grinding, does not appear to be linked to hospi...Study shows physician judgement important in reducing RSV-related hospitalizations
HONOLULU, HI, May 5, 2008 MedImmune announced today that the company presented results from a retrospective chart review that evaluated the use of Synagis® (palivizumab) as a preventive measure against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) disease in high-risk infants. RSV is a leading cause of ...PTSD associated with more, longer hospitalizations
Boston, MAResearchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC) have found post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with more hospitalizations, longer hospitalizations and greater mental healthcare utilization in urban primary care patients. These...Burn Hospitalizations on the Rise
Hospital admissions for burns rose by nearly 22 percent between 2000 and 2004 – from 26,700 to 32,000 – according to the latest News and Numbers// from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The rise follows a decline of 44 percent during the previous seven years. AHRQ found that: ...Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma Announces Lurasidone Phase III Data in Patients With Schizophrenia
...s were male with a mean age of 39 years. The mean time since initial diagnosis was approximately 14 years, and patients had, on average, four or more hospitalizations prior to study entry. U.S. Placebo-Controlled Study Findings Lurasidone has been studied in three double-blind, placebo-controlled, six-w...FDA Advisory Committee Recommends Approval of Multaq(R) (dronedarone)
...ewing new drug applications. Atrial fibrillation is the leading cause of hospitalization for arrhythmia in the U.S. and represents one-third of hospitalizations for arrhythmia in Europe. Hospitalization due to AF has increased dramatically (two-to-three fold) in recent years in the U.S. Atrial fibrillation is ...ADA releases position paper on food and water safety
...s in the world, "yet food-related illnesses impose an increasingly important public health problem. It is estimated that 76 million illnesses, 325,000 hospitalizations and 5,000 deaths result from foodborne disease annually, with a cost of $23 billion. High-risk populations (the very young; elderly; pregnant; and imm...Bioterrorism and disaster preparedness explored in special issue of Medical Decision Making
...onal day needed to complete the campaign would result in as much as 3% more hospitalizations in the exposed population. Unsustainable levels of hospitalizations would result from delays in detecting and initiating response to large-scal...Early detection and quick response are key to defense against anthrax attack
...s -- a rate considered successful by the CDC. Each additional day needed to complete the campaign would result in an average of up to 2.9 percent more hospitalizations in the exposed population. And each extra day of delay to the start of the program beyond two days would result in up to 6.5 percent more hospitalizat...Tips from the journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...lanta, Georgia; and Novavax, Inc., Rockville, Maryland report their findings in the June 2009 issue of the Journal of Virology . More than 220,000 hospitalizations and approximately 36,000 deaths are attributed to influenza A viruses each year. Since the first confirmed human cases of avian influenza in 1997, mo...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- April 22, 2009
... more sensitive test for detecting the deadliest strain of Listeria food poisoning bacteria. That microbe causes hundreds of deaths and thousands of hospitalizations each year in the United States, particularly among people with weakened immune systems. Their study appears in the current issue of ACS' Analytical C...Vitamin D levels linked to asthma severity
... Serum levels of vitamin D in more than 600 Costa Rican children were inversely linked to several indicators of allergy and asthma severity, including hospitalizations for asthma, use of inhaled steroids and total IgE levels, according to a study that will appear in the first issue for May of the American Journal of...Research finds new cause of ozone wheezing and potential treatments
...Ozone has been estimated, in an Environmental Protection Agency analysis, to cost the United States $5 billion a year as a result of premature deaths, hospitalizations and school absences. Inhalation of ozone can lead to irritation of the airways and increased wheezing, particularly in children and adults who have as...UT Public Health researchers find link to severe Staph infections
...sistant USA300 CA MRSA strain is typically acquired by persons through contact with the bacteria. This Staph strain is not typically associated with hospitalizations or medical procedures. Eric Brown, Ph.D., assistant professor of infectious diseases at the UT School of Public Health and colleagues also tested ...Proactive care saves lives of seniors, study finds
...tronic tracking and care coordination systems reduce the rate of deaths and hospitalizations among chronically ill older adults? The answer based on a three-year stud... percent for controls; at two years it was 12.9 percent vs. 18.2 percent. hospitalizations were only slightly lower overall for CMP patients than for controls, but fo...Flu shot protects kids -- even during years with a bad vaccine match
... of Medicine and Dentistry and author of the paper published this month. "Conservatively, we can estimate that vaccination for flu could prevent 2,250 hospitalizations and between 270,000 and 650,000 doctor visits for children if half of U.S. children 6 months to 5 years old were vaccinated." The study, which was ...Palatin Technologies, Inc. Receives U.S. Patent Allowance for Heart Failure Drug Candidate
...000 new cases diagnosed each year. Despite the treatment of heart failure with multiple drugs, the prognosis remains poor. There were over 1.1 million hospitalizations for heart failure in 2006 in the United States, with estimated direct and indirect costs of heart failure in the United States for 2009 of $37.2 billi...PacificGMP and LigoCyte Pharmaceuticals Announce cGMP Manufacturing Collaboration
... a Phase I clinical trial. The vaccine is being developed for the prevention of norovirus gastroenteritis, an illness that causes an estimated 64,000 hospitalizations and 900,000 clinical visits among children annually in the U.S, according to the CDC. LigoCyte also has a novel influenza vaccine in preclinical devel...Synvista Therapeutics Announces Progress in Phase 2 Clinical Trial Program for Alagebrium
...art Association. The number of heart failure deaths has increased steadily despite advances in treatment. Heart failure results in more than 1 million hospitalizations at a cost of more than $15 billion annually in the U.S. alone. Most of the available treatments for heart failure are not aimed at the underlying...