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Feeding human breast milk to very-low-birth-weight infants greatly reduces risk for sepsis and significantly lowers associated neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) costs, according to a study by Rush University Medical Center researchers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-breast-sepsis-intensive-very-low-birth-weight-infants.html Health Wed, 06 Feb 2013 16:47:59 EST news279391672 A simple, inexpensive blood test performed on trauma patients upon admission can help doctors easily identify patients at greatest risk of death, according to a new study by researchers at Intermountain Medical Center in Salt Lake City. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-simple-blood-trauma-patients-greatest.html Health Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:20:01 EST news277661804 A report released this week from the Association of American Medical Colleges shows that its member medical schools, teaching hospitals and healthcare systems had a combined economic impact of more than $587 billion in the United States in 2011. The firm Tripp Umbach conducted the economic measurements and analysis. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-academic-medicine-major-economic-impact.html Other Wed, 02 Jan 2013 09:34:18 EST news276341240 (AP)—The evacuation of some 320 patients during the catastrophic October storm known as Sandy was just the beginning for NYU Langone Medical Center. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-shuttered-sandy-nyc-hospital-partly.html Other Thu, 27 Dec 2012 13:44:54 EST news275838287 (AP)—The director of the Pumwani Maternity Hospital, located in a hardscrabble neighborhood of downtown Nairobi, freely acknowledges what he's accused of: detaining mothers who can't pay their bills. Lazarus Omondi says it's the only way he can keep his medical center running. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-kenya-hospital-imprisons-mothers-money.html Health Thu, 27 Dec 2012 13:41:22 EST news275838076 (HealthDay)—As temperatures fall during the winter months, the risk for heart attacks rises for people with heart conditions and those engaging in rigorous physical activity. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-winter-weather-shoveling-pose-heart.html Health Sun, 16 Dec 2012 15:50:01 EST news274893160 (AP)—The Supreme Court is questioning a monopoly on hospital services in southwestern Georgia. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-high-court-georgia-hospital-merger.html Health Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:32:45 EST news273169953 (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 First developed in the 1950s, beta blockers have been a mainstay in medicine for decades, used to treat everything from heart disease to stage fright to glaucoma. But some older classes of beta blockers are causing new concerns. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-expert-beta-blocker-habit.html Cardiology Mon, 12 Nov 2012 05:39:09 EST news271921135 A 30-minute brain injury education program taught in the hospital may increase children's use of bicycle helmets, Georgia Health Sciences University researchers report. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-inpatient-brain-injury-bike-helmet.html Health Thu, 08 Nov 2012 13:16:24 EST news271602976 Some heart attack patients end up back in the hospital just weeks after going home. It can happen for a variety of reasons, but doctors haven't had a reliable way to predict which patients will return—until now. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-tool-doctors-heart-patients-hospitalization.html Cardiology Mon, 05 Nov 2012 12:00:01 EST news271336986 (AP)—One of two New York hospitals that had to evacuate patients at the height of Superstorm Sandy is set to begin reopening. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-ny-hospital-evacuated-storm-reopen.html Health Sat, 03 Nov 2012 05:50:01 EST news271139641 (AP)—There are few places in the U.S. where hospitals have put as much thought and money into disaster planning as New York. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-nyc-hospitals-powerless.html Health Thu, 01 Nov 2012 19:04:05 EST news271015429 Language barriers and the immigration status of caregivers appear to impact the care of Hispanic children with cancer and affect the experience of the families within the medical system, according to data presented at the Fifth AACR Conference on The Science of Cancer Health Disparities. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-language-immigration-status-hispanic-caregivers.html Cancer Mon, 29 Oct 2012 03:20:01 EST news270697586 A simple, 10-minute stress reduction technique could help to relieve stress, improve sleep quality, and decrease fatigue. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-minute-tension-tamer-stress.html Health Mon, 22 Oct 2012 04:02:47 EST news270097353 (AP)—An Oregon man who nearly died from the plague in June has now lost his withered fingers and toes to the disease known as the Black Death. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-oregon-plague-victim-fingers-toes.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 19 Sep 2012 09:55:17 EST news267267311 (Medical Xpress)—If you end up with a rash on a new tattoo, you should probably think twice before brushing it off as an allergic reaction or a normal part of the healing process. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-rochester-tale-tainted-tattoos.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 06 Sep 2012 13:12:12 EST news266155912 Thousands of veterans and warfighters returning to the U.S. suffer with limb amputations, and for many, standard prosthetics are not an option. Skin issues or short remaining-limb length can cause amputees to forgo the typical socket-type attachment systems. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-utah-prosthetic-implant.html Medical research Fri, 27 Jul 2012 10:10:20 EST news262602612 An automated lung nodule matching program can improve radiologists' efficiency almost two-fold, a first of its kind study shows. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-lung-nodule-software-radiologists-efficiency.html Cancer Tue, 26 Jun 2012 13:37:20 EST news259936632 The Mount Sinai Medical Center is the first institution in New York State to use in the clinical setting a newly approved imaging technique to detect Alzheimer's disease (AD) in people who are cognitively impaired. Until now, physicians have been limited in their ability to diagnose AD, guided almost exclusively by a patient's mental and behavioral symptoms and family history. The innovative technique—recently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), is not only expected to play a critical role in the diagnosis of AD, but in drug research, and the design of clinical trials leading to a cure. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-mount-sinai-york-state-alzheimer.html Alzheimer's disease & dementia Wed, 20 Jun 2012 04:08:16 EST news259384087 A new generation of devices could significantly improve care for patients who have some of the most devastating types of strokes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-game-changer-docs.html Cardiology Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:00:02 EST news253270040 Treating pregnant women with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) appears to be associated with fewer depressive symptoms, reduced fetal head growth and a higher risk for preterm birth, but not with a delay in fetal body growth, according to a report published Online First by Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-maternal-ssris-depressive-symptoms-fetal.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 05 Mar 2012 16:00:30 EST news250167446 Researchers at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona, in collaboration with Amgen Inc. and several academic institutions, have discovered a way to block the body's response to cold using a drug. This finding could have significant implications in treating conditions such as stroke and cardiac arrest. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-block-body-response-cold.html Neuroscience Thu, 01 Mar 2012 10:16:08 EST news249819363 A team of global scientists, led by researchers at Intermountain Medical Center in Salt Lake City, has developed a safer and more accurate way to administer warfarin, one of the most commonly prescribed but also potentially dangerous medications in the United States. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-safer-common-potentially-dangerous-medication.html Medical research Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:12:22 EST news249732726 UT Southwestern Medical Center has installed a new system to deliver extremely precise and individualized radiation treatment, assuring that cancer patients in the region have access to the latest advances in radiation oncology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-latest-advance-precise-treatment-powerful.html Cancer Tue, 14 Feb 2012 04:30:01 EST news248415371 At NYU Langone Medical Center the focus on quality, patient safety and patient experience are not just broad stroke initiatives – but measureable, quantifiable and concrete. Patients and health care professionals can learn about this commitment to world-class care and operational transparency in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery's recently published "2012 Quality and Outcomes Report," which is now available online as well as in hard copy at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) meeting taking place this week in San Francisco. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-orthopaedic-surgery-transparency-patient-safety.html Surgery Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:25:14 EST news248091907 Farmers markets at medical centers may contribute to greater wellness in surrounding communities while adding public health value to a market's mission, say Penn State College of Medicine researchers who have developed and evaluated a market created at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-medical-center-based-farmers-health.html Health Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:10:01 EST news248014787 Scientists working with Professor Bernd Kaina of the Institute of Toxicology at the Medical Center of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz have demonstrated for the first time that certain cells circulating in human blood – so-called monocytes – are extremely sensitive to reactive oxygen species (ROS). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-human-immune-cells-react-sensitively.html Medical research Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:00:23 EST news247399213 A new study published online today in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons finds hospitals participating in a regional collaborative of the American College of Surgeon's National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP®), achieved substantial improvements in surgical outcomes, such as reducing the rates of acute renal failure and surgical site infections. The collaborative also saved $2,197,543 per 10,000 general and vascular surgery cases when comparing results from 2010 with results from 2009. ACS NSQIP is the leading nationally validated, risk-adjusted, outcomes-based program to measure and improve the quality of surgical care in the private sector. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-regional-surgical-quality-collaborative-significantly.html Other Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:25:02 EST news246547493 Patients with gynecologic cancer have new hope in a novel technology now offered at the Seidman Cancer Center at University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center. A team of cancer specialists, led by Robert DeBernardo, MD, is among the first in the nation to launch a dedicated program using Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy (HIPEC) to treat ovarian, endometrial and select other cancers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-uh-case-medical-center-therapy.html Cancer Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:51:04 EST news246304256