http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Removing a child's ruptured appendix sooner rather than later significantly lowers hospital costs and charges, according to a recently published study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-crucial-appendectomies.html Pediatrics Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:50:03 EST news255003279 Patients with infective endocarditis involving implanted cardiac devices experience a high rate of complications such as valve infections, heart failure, and persistent bacteremia, and high in-hospital and 1-year mortality rates, particularly if there is valve involvement, according to a study in the April 25 issue of JAMA. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-heart-infection-involving-icd-high.html Cardiology Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:44:41 EST news254504670 Pediatric surgeons can lower health care costs if they remove a young patient's perforated appendix sooner rather than later, according to new study results published in the April issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-surgery-outcomes-children-perforated-appendicitis.html Surgery Mon, 02 Apr 2012 12:03:43 EST news252586993 Because of care advances, more infants and children with previously lethal health problems are surviving. Many, however, are left with lifelong neurologic impairment. A Children's Hospital Boston study of more than 25 million pediatric hospitalizations in the U.S. now shows that neurologically impaired children, though still a relatively small part of the overall population, account for increasing hospital resources, particularly within children's hospitals. Their analysis, based on data from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Kids' Inpatient Database (KID), was published online January 17th in PLoS Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-neurologically-impaired-children-hospitals.html Health Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:36:18 EST news246044170