Archive: 21/05/2018

One in 10 parents say their child has gotten sick from spoiled or contaminated food

No parent wants to come home from a picnic or restaurant with a little one whose stomachache turns into much worse.

May 21, 2018

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Inpatient opioid use and insufficient weaning pre-discharge may increase outpatient opioid prescript

According to the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine scientists who conducted the study, theirs is the first large-scale evaluation of the impact of in-hospital opioid prescribing on post-discharge opioid use.

May 21, 2018

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Infection blood test of limited value in reducing antibiotic use

Overall antibiotic use was not curbed by giving physicians the results of biomarker tests in patients with suspected lower respiratory tract infections, according to findings from the Procalcitonin Antibiotic Consensus Trial ...

May 21, 2018

In utero exposure to carbon monoxide increases infants' risk of poor lung function

While household air pollution from solid fuel stoves has previously been associated with child mortality, this is the first study to investigate the association between household air pollution and lung development beginning ...

May 21, 2018

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CPAP may reduce resting heart rate in prediabetic patients

People with prediabetes have blood sugar levels higher than normal but below Type 2 diabetes levels. People with OSA experience times during sleep when air is obstructed from flowing normally into the lungs. CPAP is considered ...

May 21, 2018

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Multidisciplinary lung health clinic helps low-income patients

"Beyond our own institution's walls, we have demonstrated that creating an interdisciplinary learning health care clinic can lead to improved structure, process and patient outcomes," said lead author Lisa C. Cicutto, Ph.D., ...

May 21, 2018

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Ozone exposure at birth increases risk of asthma development

A long-term study of the health of Canadian children has found that exposure to ozone (O3), a common air pollutant, at birth was associated with an 82 percent increased risk of developing asthma by age three. The study, which ...

May 21, 2018

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Larger waistlines are linked to higher risk of vitamin D deficiency

Higher levels of belly fat are associated with lower vitamin D levels in obese individuals, according to data presented in Barcelona at the European Society of Endocrinology annual meeting, ECE 2018. The study reports that ...

May 21, 2018

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