http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Delayed transfer to the intensive care unit (ICU) in hospitalized patients significantly increases the risk of dying in the hospital, according to a new study from researchers in Chicago. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-icu-death-hospital-patients.html Other Tue, 21 May 2013 10:00:02 EST news288347150 With little evidence to guide them, many hospital intensive care units (ICUs) have been employing critical care physicians at night with the notion it would improve patients' outcomes. However, new results from a one-year randomized trial from researchers at Penn Medicine involving nearly 1,600 patients admitted to the Hospital of the University Pennsylvania (HUP) Medical ICU suggest otherwise: Having a nighttime intensivist had no clear benefit on length of stay or mortality for these patients, not even patients admitted at night or those with the most critical illnesses at the time of admission. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-nighttime-critical-physician-icu-doesnt.html Health Mon, 20 May 2013 14:00:09 EST news288273702 (HealthDay)—Physicians do not order fewer imaging tests if they are aware of the costs, according to a study published online Jan. 2 in the Journal of the American College of Radiology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-imaging-doesnt.html Health Fri, 01 Feb 2013 12:50:01 EST news278943981 (AP)—A Dutch academic hospital is taking the lead in a major international investigation into the illegal trafficking in human organs for transplants. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-dutch-hospital-trafficking-probe.html Other Thu, 15 Nov 2012 05:50:34 EST news272181020 (HealthDay)—Patients with gastric and gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) cancer who survive for longer than three years after diagnosis seem to have distinct demographic and pathologic characteristics, compared with those who do not survive, according to research published online Sept. 4 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-characteristics-long-term-gastric-cancer-survivors.html Cancer Fri, 07 Sep 2012 12:04:41 EST news266238272 Health officials in South Africa's Eastern Cape region Monday voiced concern at the increased number of children born with rare deformities. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-rare-birth-defects-africa-health.html Pediatrics Mon, 25 Jun 2012 16:30:01 EST news259858873 A new study shows that natural language processing programs can "read" dictated reports and provide information to allow measurement of colonoscopy quality in an inexpensive, automated and efficient manner. The quality variation observed in the study within a single academic hospital system reinforces the need for routine quality measurement. The study appears in the June issue of GIE: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, the monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-natural-language-tool-electronic-health.html Other Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:28:25 EST news259504088 Imaging has been identified as one of the key drivers of increased healthcare costs. A new study from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School has found significant variation in the use of head computed tomography (CT), even within a single emergency department. Strategies to reduce such variation in head CT use may reduce cost and improve quality of care. The study appears online in advance of publication in the April issue of The American Journal of Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-evidence-based-unnecessary-imaging.html Health Fri, 09 Mar 2012 04:41:06 EST news250490456 Suriname health authorities confirmed Wednesday that a dengue epidemic has taken hold here, resulting in numerous of people being hospitalized over the past month. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-suriname-dengue-epidemic-health-ministry.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:57:10 EST news246718617