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The importance of support networks to mediate the impact of pregnancy loss and minimise the risk of disenfranchised grief has been highlighted in new research undertaken by Trinity College's School of Social Work and Social Policy. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-tcd-pregnancy-loss-rural-ireland.html Health Fri, 31 May 2013 06:19:08 EST news289199908 (AP)—Alabama health officials say a mysterious respiratory illness has left five people hospitalized and two dead in the southeastern part of the state. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-mysterious-illness-southeast-alabama.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 22 May 2013 07:00:01 EST news288423763 (Medical Xpress)—Medical researchers urge vaccination this flu season as new research shows that hospital-acquired, or nosocomial, influenza is relatively uncommon, but can be severe. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-hospital-acquired-influenza-rare.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 15 Apr 2013 06:40:01 EST news285226651 (AP)—Cuba is eliminating longstanding restrictions on health care professionals' overseas travel as part of a broader migration reform that takes effect next week, an island doctor told The Associated Press on Monday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-cuba-free-doctors-onerous.html Other Mon, 07 Jan 2013 17:36:16 EST news276802568 Over recent years, hospital-acquired Clostridium difficile infections have been a significant problem in UK hospitals and globally. There have been concerns that infections may be due to transmission between symptomatic patients, either directly, or indirectly via hospital staff; these concerns were strengthened when enhanced infection control was introduced in England in 2007, and the incidence of C. difficile infection declined. A recent study published in the open access journal Genome Biology, published by BioMed Central, took a genomics approach to assess the incidence of patient-to-patient transmission of C. difficile. The study was supported by the National Institute of Heath Research Oxford Biomedical Research Centre – a collaboration between Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust and Oxford University. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-microevolutionary-analysis-clostridium-difficile-genomes.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 20 Dec 2012 19:00:04 EST news275246707 More pediatric hospital physicians are communicating through cell phone text messaging, rather than the traditional pager method, according to research presented Oct. 21 at the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) National Conference and Exhibition in New Orleans. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-pediatric-hospitalists-text-messaging.html Pediatrics Sun, 21 Oct 2012 05:02:28 EST news270014532 An Indonesian cruise ship crew member died of meningitis on Tuesday, nine days after being hospitalised with three colleagues in the western Italian port city of Livorno, health sources said. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-cruise-ship-crew-member-dies.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 17 Oct 2012 03:55:36 EST news269664930 Older black patients are three times more likely than older white patients to suffer poorer outcomes after surgery, including death, when cared for by nurses with higher workloads, reports research from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. The large-scale study showed higher nurse workloads negatively affected older surgical patients generally and that the rate was more significant in older black individuals. When the patient-to-nurse ratio increased above 5:1, the odds of patient death increased by 3 percent per additional patient among whites and by 10 percent per additional patient among blacks. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-nursing-workloads-likelihood-death-black.html Health Tue, 16 Oct 2012 13:51:51 EST news269614256 (Medical Xpress)—Hospital superbugs can float on air currents and contaminate surfaces far from infected patients' beds, according to University of Leeds researchers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-superbugs-air-hospital-wards.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 11 Oct 2012 07:04:48 EST news269157874 An individual hospital's infection control efforts have a ripple effect on the prevalence of a deadly and highly infectious bacterium in hospitals throughout its surrounding region, a multi-center research group led by the University of Pittsburgh demonstrated in a computer simulation-based study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-hospitals-cooperate-infection-fare.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 09 Oct 2012 16:33:33 EST news269018988 Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have identified reliable predictors of pain by surveying patients throughout their hospital stays about the severity of their pain and their levels of satisfaction with how their pain was managed by hospital staff. Using this data, interdisciplinary teams treating patients were able to identify patients at higher risk for pain prior to, or immediately upon, their admission to the hospital, and create and implement intervention plans resulting in patients reporting lower levels of pain and higher levels of satisfaction with their pain management. The study is published online in the American Journal of Medical Quality. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-predictors-inpatient-pain.html Health Fri, 21 Sep 2012 11:46:41 EST news267446793 A team led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute and Crucell Vaccine Institute in the Netherlands describes three human antibodies that provide broad protection against Influenza B virus strains. The same team had previously reported finding broadly neutralizing antibodies against Influenza A strains. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-universal-vaccine-scientists-antibodies-large.html Medical research Thu, 09 Aug 2012 14:00:01 EST news263736323 A better way to improve organizations using overlooked employee talent has taken a top award from a notable management group. Marguerite Schneider, an associate professor in NJIT School of Management, is the co-author of "Leadership a Complex Adaptive System: Insights from Positive Deviance." Curt Lindberg, of Complexity Partners, Bordentown, NJ, was her co-author. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-hospital-employees-msra-infection.html Other Wed, 13 Jun 2012 13:38:07 EST news258813476 A digital pen equipped with a small camera that can automatically transfer patient information to a computer database will radically improve the way hospital staff care for their patients. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-pen-paper-healthcare.html Other Wed, 11 Apr 2012 08:10:55 EST news253350575 A 2010 outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in Wisconsin has been linked to a decorative fountain in a hospital lobby, according to a study published in the February issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, the journal of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-legionnaires-disease-outbreak-linked-hospital.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:32:09 EST news245341915 Orthopaedic surgeons face a steep learning curve to get used to new prostheses, and the instruments and methods that go with them, before new total knee replacement procedures are as safe and effective as conventional methods. Patients who undergo the first 15 operations using a new device in a hospital are 48 percent more likely to need early revision surgery, than patients undergoing an operation to fit a prosthesis previously used in the hospital. The work by Mikko Peltola from the National Institute for Health and Welfare in Finland, and colleagues, is published online in Springer's journal, Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-patients-knee-joint-complications-technology.html Other Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:25:23 EST news243080715 Women hospital staff working night shifts may be compromising their own health as they try to improve the health of patients, Dr. Joan Tranmer told the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress 2011, co-hosted by the Heart and Stroke Foundation and the Canadian Cardiovascular Society. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-female-shift-workers-higher-heart.html Cardiology Sun, 23 Oct 2011 06:36:53 EST news238570604 A new study demonstrates how text mining of electronic health records can be used to create medical term profiles of patients, which can be used both to identify co-occurrence of diseases and to cluster patients into groups with highly similar clinical features. The study, carried out in Denmark by a multi-disciplinary group of bioinformaticians, systems biologists and clinicians, will be published in the open-access journal PLoS Computational Biology on 25th August 2011. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-electronic-patient.html Other Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:50:27 EST news233513406