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New strategies to reduce hospital-aquired infections

The current goal to reduce sickness and death from infections that patients acquire in hospitals has created a renewed focus on identifying ways to reduce the problem at its source. Hospital water for drinking, bathing, showering, to make ice cubes or to rinse medical equipment is increasingly being recognized as a significant source of microbes that may contribute to many of these life-threateni...

Hospitalizations because of chicken pox down dramatically since implementation of vaccine

Since the introduction of the varicella (chicken pox) vaccine in 1995, hospitalizations and doctor visits because of chicken pox have dropped dramatically, according to a study in the August 17 issue of JAMA. Varicella vaccine is recommended for routine immunization of children aged 12 to 18 months and for older susceptible children and adults in the United States, according to background...

Bacteria can survive for weeks on hospital surfaces

A major cause of hospital-acquired infections can persist for days and even weeks on environmental surfaces found in healthcare settings, including bed linens, computer keyboard covers and acrylic fingernails, according to research presented today at the 105th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a major cause of ho...

One in 14 men having a heart attack drive themselves to hospital

Seven per cent of men having a heart attack drove themselves to hospital and only 60 per cent went by ambulance, according to research published in the latest Journal of Advanced Nursing. The study, which looked at 890 heart attack patients admitted to six major teaching hospitals in Dublin, Southern Ireland, also found that it took women five times as long as men to go to casualty depar...

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

Compared to white patients, black, Asian and Hispanic patients and those who are uninsured are less likely to undergo complex surgery at high-volume hospitals, which have been associated with better outcomes, according to a study in the October 25 issue of JAMA. Efforts to improve the quality of surgical care in the United States have led many organizations to advocate the use of high-vol...

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TeraMedica sells Evercore system to Indiana hospital

Evercore was introduced last November, the manager component this April. It keeps track of medica...

Childrens Medical Hospital of Wisconsin Goes Digital

MILWAUKEE, WI Its Saturday night. Your 4 year old has stomach pains, and you drive to the emergency room. You check in and provide all sorts of personal medical information including her medical history and your billing and insurance information. Meanwhile your child is in pain, and you try to remember if you told the person at the front desk everything. Then you wait; maybe an hour or two as th...

Portal to e-records boosts care at Children's Hospital

It recently shortened its name to the Joint Commission, but its recommenda...

CIO Leadership Series: Tanya Townsend, Saint Clare's Hospital

How many other information technology directors have an opportunity to start fresh with a new building, new network architecture, new people, and new processes? Not many, and when the still-to...

Hospital named for Madame Curie installs TomoTherapy system

The Madison-based medical imaging and device manufacturer has sold its Hi-Art system to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curie_...

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Oracle Corp. to help build world's first "Digital Hospital"

Oracle Corp. and Health South Corp. together will build the worlds first "all digital hospital", according to a release on Monday, issued by the out patient surgical rehabilitation chain. The digital hospital will feature inpatient beds with display screens connected to the Internet, electronic medical records storage, digital imaging and a wireless communications network permitting doctors and o...

Apollo Hospitals to consider listing on US Bourses in 2003

Health care major Apollo Hospitals announced on Thursday that plans are afoot to consider listing on US bourses in 2003. "We would consider listing on the US bourses after 2002," Pratap C Reddy, chairman of the Apollo Hospitals group said, adding it was a part of the business plan for the post-2002 period. Though further details are not available at the moment, Dr. Reddy added that plans...

The World Bank funds private Hospital in India

The World Bank, whose website (www.worldbank.org) declares "Our dream is a world free of poverty, 'is backing the construction of private hospital in Mumbai, India, a move which some health agencies fear sets a precedent for using development assistance for projects that will mainly benefit the rich. The bank has given the government of Maharashtra state an International Development Asso...

Greater volume hospitals better for stroke

Researchers at the University of Texas, have looked at data for treatment of sub-arachnoid haemorrhage (SAH) in the state during the 1990s. People with a stroke caused by bleeding into the brain do best in hospitals dealing with many such cases.// In SAH, a blood vessel bursts within the blood supply surrounding the brain's exterior. It can cause brain damage, coma and death. Data on...

Apollo Hospitals Collaborates With Histostem For Stem Cell Therapy

Apollo Hospital to set up Stem cell therapy centers through out India with collaboration from Histostem Inc.,// Histostem is an American Company Delaware Corporation. It has one of the largest public blood banks in the world with 55,000 umbilical cord blood stem cells, which is being used for various genetic treatments. The Apollo group of hospitals will train doctors and nurses with...

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Wills Hospital Utility Forceps - Wide

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Wills Hospital Utility Forceps

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Children's Hospital Hand Drill

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CHECK-FLO Performer Introducers CHILDRENS HOSPITAL BOSTON MODIFICATION

Description:Used to introduce balloon, electrode, closed or non-tapered end catheters and other devices for intervention....
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CHECK-FLO Performer Introducers CHILDRENS HOSPITAL BOSTON Modification

Description:Used to introduce balloon, electrode, closed or non-tapered end catheters and other devices for intervention....
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International ENDORSE Study Shows That the Majority of Hospitalized Patients Surveyed are at Risk for VTE and Many do not Receive Recommended VTE prophylaxis

- ENDORSE Global Findings Highlight the Need to UrgentlyImplement Hospital-Wide Strategies to Optimize VTE Management:Systematically Assess Patient Risk for VTE and Provide Appropriateprophylaxis to Prevent VTE Venous thromboembolism (VTE) risk is high among hospitalpatients and most of these at-risk patients are not pro...

Common Preterm Labor Drug Has More Side Effects Than Alternative, Finds Study from Packard Children's Hospital and Stanford

STANFORD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 29, 2007 - The drug mostcommonly used to arrest preterm labor, magnesium sulfate, is morelikely than another common treatment to cause mild to serious sideeffects in pregnant women, according to a study from researchers atLucile Packard Children's Hospital and Stanford University Schoolof Medicine. Their findings suggest that, since the effectivenessof...

Interim Data From RECORD Study Show No Significant Difference Between Avandia and Standard Therapy in Risk of Cardiovascular Hospitalization or Death

"Patients and physicians should find these data reassuring" PHILADELPHIA, June 05, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --GlaxoSmithKline said today that findings from an interim analysisof RECORD (Rosiglitazone Evaluated for Cardiac Outcomes andRegulation of glycemia in Diabetes), a prospective clinical trialdesigned specifically to determine cardiovascular outcomes in morethan 4,400 patients wit...

New Analysis of Data Shows Treatment With Abbott's Humira (Adalimumab) Significantly Reduced Disease-Related Hospitalization for Patients with Crohn's Disease

HUMIRA Data Showed 57 Percent Reduction in Risk of Hospitalizationfrom Crohn's Disease vs. Placebo at One Year ABBOTT PARK, Ill., May 22, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Abbotttoday announced results from a post-hoc analysis of a pivotal studypresented at the Digestive Disease Week annual meeting inWashington, D.C. showing patients with moderate to severely activeCrohn's disease treated wi...

Nektar Threraputics Announces Phase 2a Clinical Results Regarding the use of NKTR-061 (Inhaled Amikacin) to Treat Gram-Negative Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia Presented at the Annual American Thoracic Society International Conference

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 21, 2007 - Medicalprofessionals seeking to treat the serious and growing problem ofhospital-acquired gram-negative pneumonia may have a new weapon:NKTR-061 (inhaled-amikacin), which is a product candidate beingdeveloped by Nektar Therapeutics (Nasdaq:NKTR). Results of a Phase 2a clinical trial evaluating the use ofNKTR-061 (Inhaled Amikacin) to treat me...

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