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A new report made by researchers at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, and published early online, concluded that hospitalized children in the United States are more frequently becoming infected with the bacteria Clostridium difficile.The article explains that C. difficile c... |
4 January 2011
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Statistics in the United States show a worrying trend among pregnant women. As much as 33 percent of all pregnancies end with the women delivering their infants via cesarean section (C-section), rather than the old-fashioned way. The trend is not a positive one, experts say. In the decade between 1996 and 2007, it is... |
22 November 2010
02:35 GMT |
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According to a new report released by experts in the United Kingdom, it would appear that 40 percent of all deaths associated with drug overdose may have been avoided. The research uncovered that 4 in 10 patients brought to emergency or trauma rooms with symptoms of drug overdose receive sub-standard medical assistan... |
6 August 2010
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Competition among hospitals in Great Britain lowers the patients' death rate and their overall stay in hospital, says a new study carried out by researchers of the University of Bristol. They also found out that this phenomenon did not increase overall expenses.Hospitals belonging to the National Healthcare Syst... |
29 July 2010
10:12 GMT |
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Many healthcare experts and parents advocate the necessity of creating a viable feeding plan for premature babies, which involves giving the children food at regular, pre-determined intervals. But a new scientific study seems to indicate that infants could be discharged faster from the hospital if they are fed each t... |
18 February 2010
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Experts at the McMaster University believe that doctors and the general public may not be taking the threat of concussions very seriously. These common head injuries can lead to massive, negative side-effects, most of which can be prevented by a medical examination done on time. In the new investigation, it was deter... |
18 January 2010
03:42 GMT |
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According to a new report by experts from the Connecticut Children's Medical Center, in Hartford, Connecticut, severe-trauma patients who receive blood transfusions containing red blood cells older than one month have a twice as large chance of dying than similar patients who receive fresh blood. In keeping cons... |
22 September 2009
17:01 GMT |
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At this point, authorities admit, the situation in Scottish hospitals is not flawless. A recent online survey has found that almost 33 percent of the nurses who reported their concerns about the safety of their patients said that no action was taken after their complaint was filed. In addition, the vast majority of n... |
11 May 2009
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Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) believe that high-tech medical scanners, while perfectly fit to detect hidden diseases and tumors inside patients, could use some improvements, in terms of protecting the people that go in them from the harmful effects of too much radiation. Having already te... |
29 April 2009
10:25 GMT |
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Located at the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Bwindi region was one in which people died because of HIV infections and AIDS on a daily basis less than three years ago. Because the area is so underdeveloped, people living here didn't have any access to any kind of medical faciliti... |
13 April 2009
02:18 GMT |
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Designers at the Royal College of Art (RCA), in London, the United Kingdom, are currently at the forefront of emergency vehicle creation. The UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has been funding the Healthcare on the “Move: The Smart Pods Project” for about two years, and the fir... |
8 April 2009
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Magnetic resonance is one of the most commonly used medical techniques in modern hospitals, helping physicians diagnose conditions that would otherwise remain hidden even to the most well-prepared experts. First-stage cancers and tumors, in the body or in the brain are all revealed by MRI, and a spin-off of the techn... |
27 March 2009
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According to a new nation-wide study conducted in the US, very few of the country's hospitals have electronic record systems installed. Most health care institutions still keep all their sensitive medical data on paper files, stored in archives in the basement of the buildings. A measly 2 percent of them have el... |
26 March 2009
17:01 GMT |
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A new scientific study conducted in Europe has pointed out the fact that warm and humid days are very likely to trigger a spike in hospital admissions for people suffering from a wide range of respiratory diseases. The researchers in charge of the investigation, who have published their results in the American Journa... |
4 March 2009
06:58 GMT |
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According to a Thomson Reuters financial analysis of US hospitals, most of these institutions currently register no profits from their activities. Their median profit margins are at zero, and chances are that they will remain very low for the next period. In addition, of the 400 hospitals that have been surveyed, mor... |
3 March 2009
10:28 GMT |
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Music plays a very important role in the lives of many people. It can get you down or fill you with joy, and it can even influence your mood and perception of things. But patients in hospitals, apart from suffering from various illnesses, are also psychologically affected, as they are deprived of hearing soothing sou... |
26 February 2009
04:22 GMT |
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A woman from California surprised her doctors on Monday, when she gave birth to 8 infants, six boys and two girls. This is only the second recorded case of octuplets in the United States, and experts say that pregnancies such as the one that just ended are extremely rare and difficult to carry out. According to their... |
27 January 2009
02:09 GMT |
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A certain type of bacteria seems to be very effective in holding off other bacteria that would otherwise infest intubated patients in hospitals. When harmless bacteria from the mouth and throat reach the lungs, they regularly trigger a reaction, which comes as ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). This affliction ha... |
6 November 2008
07:02 GMT |
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