http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. 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 Standard head movements made while exposed to one of the three electromagnetic fields produced by a heavy duty MRI scanner seem to temporarily lower concentration and visuospatial awareness, shows an experimental study published online in Occupational and Environmental Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-mri-scanners-affect-visuospatial-awareness.html Medical research Wed, 29 Aug 2012 18:30:03 EST news265479313 A few days ago, Hazem left his wife and 11-month-old son in England and flew to Turkey with another Syrian-born doctor from Manchester to offer help on the front line in Aleppo. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-diaspora-doctors-heed-homeland-aleppo.html Other Fri, 17 Aug 2012 07:55:10 EST news264408900 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 Older people who have experienced episodes of delirium are significantly more likely to develop dementia, according to new research. The study is published in the journal Brain today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-delirium-dementia-eight-fold-older-patients.html Alzheimer's disease & dementia Wed, 08 Aug 2012 19:00:02 EST news263661195 Medical staff struggle to spot problem drinking in their patients unless they are already intoxicated, according to research by the University of Leicester. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-clinicians-overlook-alcohol-problems-patients.html Addiction Wed, 01 Aug 2012 11:04:06 EST news263037838 A system of care focused on the detection and systematic assessment of patients with clinical instability can yield similar outcomes as rapid response teams staffed with trained intensive care specialists, a Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center study has found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-triggers-regular-staff-icu-specialists.html Other Tue, 17 Jul 2012 10:42:44 EST news261740516 In the Lancet paper, "Paralympic medicine," Nick Webborn of the British Paralympic Association and Peter Van de Vliet of the International Paralympic Committee Medical and Scientific Department, outline some of the issues that arise for health-care professionals when maintaining health in elite athletes with a variety of impairments. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-rewards-paralympic-medicine.html Health Thu, 05 Jul 2012 18:30:01 EST news260713442 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 The drowsiness experienced by medical staff who have been on night duty can make their driving dangerous, French researchers have found. The first study to use simulated driving tests on medical staff returning home after a night shift showed that, under the monotonous driving conditions similar to those experienced on autoroutes (motorways or highways), it was more difficult for them to hold a straight line while driving than it was when they had not been working overnight. They also had greater difficulty in controlling their speed when driving in monotonous conditions. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-sleepy-medical-staff-accidents-home.html Other Sat, 09 Jun 2012 05:56:40 EST news258440098 Nursing homes that used a multicomponent intervention that included staff training and supportive materials for staff, residents and relatives had a lower rate of use of physical restraints such as bilateral bed rails and belts, according to a study in the May 23/30 issue of JAMA. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-multicomponent-intervention-linked-decrease-physical.html Health Tue, 22 May 2012 16:00:02 EST news256904931 In wealthy countries, antiretroviral therapy (ART) has transformed AIDS into an often-manageable chronic condition, as patients can receive both the therapeutics and the constant monitoring that ensures the therapies remain effective. Developing nations, however, frequently need to balance expansion of treatment access versus the economic resources to sustain the routine blood testing that ART requires. At a time when global funding commitments for AIDS therapy programs are being cut, there is a great need to find new strategies to maximize available resources. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-biostatistics-resource-aids-treatment-poor.html HIV & AIDS Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:00:09 EST news253890648 (Medical Xpress) -- Despite the well-documented benefits of walking after surgery, some patients are reluctant to make an attempt even with the encouragement of medical staff. Loyola University Health System researchers reported these findings at the prestigious 38th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society of Gynecologic Surgeons in Baltimore. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-patients-surgery.html Surgery Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:05:00 EST news253879493 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 The ambulance service response to emergency calls for elderly falls patients varies widely across the UK, reveals research published online in Emergency Medicine Journal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-wide-variation-emergency-response-elderly.html Health Tue, 27 Mar 2012 04:06:50 EST news252039992 Inadequate training or supervision of clinical staff and the absence of, or failure to follow clinical protocols were more important than a shortage of equipment or staff as causing harm to hospitalised patients in the developing world, claims a study published in the British Medical Journal today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-health-poses-significant-hospital-patients.html Health Tue, 13 Mar 2012 18:30:02 EST news250875820 Post-partum haemorrhage (PPH; excessive bleeding) immediately after giving birth is a major killer of women in developing countries, responsible for a third of maternal deaths in Africa and Asia. Results of an international trial published Online First in The Lancet are the first to show that omitting controlled cord traction has little effect on the risk of severe bleeding, indicating that effective prevention of PPH could be accomplished with just a uterotonic agent (e.g. oxytocin). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-approach-post-birth-safe-effective.html Health Mon, 05 Mar 2012 18:30:02 EST news250174567 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 A study from Rhode Island Hospital examined how the perception of roles among emergency department staff can impact patient satisfaction. Through a web survey with embedded interventions, the researchers were able to determine where gaps exist in key indicators of patient satisfaction, while staff reported changing or reconsidering how these factors play into their roles. The paper was published in the European Journal of Emergency Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-staff-perceptions-roles-impact-patients.html Other Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:30:57 EST news239365850 Surgeons at UK HealthCare recently became the first ever to perform two specific procedures together as a bridge to lung transplantation. Wanda Craig, of Lexington, Ky., is the first patient in history to receive these procedures, and at the age of 68, she is also the oldest living human to be bridged to transplant using an artificial lung device, also known as an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-uk-healthcare-surgeons-procedures-prior.html Other Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:26:33 EST news239275587 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 Lying on a hospital bed in her laced violet nightgown, Derya Sert is the first woman in the world to receive a womb from a deceased donor, raising hopes for millions of women to bear a child. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-turkish-womb-transplant-women.html Other Sat, 01 Oct 2011 04:50:00 EST news236663388 "Being gay is not a sickness or a choice." This is just one of the uncompromising messages in a bold poster campaign being rolled out by the newly launched Ukwazana Programme which works in the sprawling townships around Cape Town. Another of its messages reads: "We are all men, we are all African, some of us love other men." http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-homophobia-south-africa.html HIV & AIDS Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:16:24 EST news236427378 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 A new study highlights the need for more awareness among health professionals of the experiences of HIV-positive black African migrants and refugees living in New Zealand who feel stigmatized. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-highlights-aids-stigma-nzs-black.html HIV & AIDS Mon, 08 Aug 2011 11:10:22 EST news232018950 (AP) -- British police are investigating whether three hospital patients died as a result of receiving saline solution contaminated with insulin. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-die-uk-hospital-saline-contaminated.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sun, 17 Jul 2011 11:05:34 EST news230119513 More needs to be done to improve the care that older adults with cognitive impairment - including dementia and delirium - receive when they visit hospital emergency departments, according to a research review in the July issue of the Journal of Advanced Nursing. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-emergency-departments-older-adults-cognitive.html Health Wed, 06 Jul 2011 09:39:12 EST news229163936 When Kathleen Coleman of Oak Park was first diagnosed with cardiac disease at the age of 65, her husband and adult children united with her to wage war on the illness. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-goodbye-dignity-grace.html Health Wed, 15 Jun 2011 09:35:27 EST news227349304