In a first-of-its-kind study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, researchers calculated that infectious diseases account for 13.5 percent of emergency room (ER) visits involving older adults—a higher ...
Feb 1, 2016
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A potentially revolutionary new technology - that could saves thousands of lives in Intensive Care Units around the world - is being trialled in a UK study co-led by Queen's University Belfast.
Nov 26, 2015
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Short people have several health advantages over tall people, including lower risk for cancer and heart disease, and longer life expectancy. But there's at least one health-related downside to being small: the odds of getting ...
Nov 16, 2015
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A relatively new, easier to implement, and better-tolerated method to provide supplemental oxygen to patients at risk of respiratory failure after surgery did not result in a worse rate of treatment failure compared to a ...
May 17, 2015
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The intensive care unit is a last frontier for physical therapy: It's hard to exercise patients hooked to ventilators.
Mar 30, 2015
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Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a congenital disease which causes muscle degeneration and eventual death in teenagers. Recently, researchers from Bern developed an active substance, which they together with an international ...
Feb 3, 2015
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Among children undergoing mechanical ventilation for acute respiratory failure, the use of a nurse-implemented, goaldirected sedation protocol compared with usual care did not reduce the duration of mechanical ventilation, ...
Jan 20, 2015
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(HealthDay)—In the world of infectious diseases, one worrisome phenomenon is when an illness that originated in animals jumps over into people.
Dec 16, 2014
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Weekend admission to the hospital for pediatric patients newly diagnosed with leukemia was associated with a longer length of stay, slightly longer wait to start chemotherapy and higher risk for respiratory failure but weekend ...
Aug 25, 2014
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Heavy drinking damages the body in many ways. In addition to liver failure, alcoholics are at a much greater risk of developing pneumonia and life threatening acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), for which there is ...
Jun 30, 2014
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