(HealthDay)—Failure to use prophylactic laxatives in elderly congestive heart failure (CHF) patients who use laxatives at home is associated with a significantly longer hospital length of stay (LOS), according to a study ...
May 20, 2015
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Readmission of patients with chronic diseases is a growing problem, costing the U.S. health care system about $25 billion each year. Researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas developed a predictive analytics model ...
May 14, 2015
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There is conflicting evidence about whether digoxin, a drug that has been used worldwide for centuries to treat heart disease, might contribute to an increase in deaths in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) or congestive ...
May 4, 2015
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Chronic inflammation provokes a downward spiral in many diseases, including congestive heart failure, atherosclerosis and peripheral artery disease. A University of Alabama at Birmingham-led research team has now found that ...
Apr 29, 2015
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(HealthDay)—During the first six years of follow-up, geriatric patients with diabetes have a higher mortality risk after hyperglycemic crisis episode (HCE), according to a study published in the May issue of Diabetes Care.
Apr 28, 2015
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Earl Shook knew he was in trouble. He couldn't walk five feet without losing his breath and stopping to rest. He couldn't carry his dog's 35-pound bag of food without dropping it to the floor. And he couldn't cook for the ...
Apr 20, 2015
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Bristol-Myers Squibb, one of the world's largest drugmakers, will team up with a Dutch biotechnology company whose first approved drug could cost more than $1 million.
Apr 6, 2015
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Only a few U.S. nursing home residents who undergo lower extremity revascularization procedures are alive and ambulatory a year after surgery, according to UCSF researchers, and most patients still alive gained little, if ...
Apr 6, 2015
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Orthopedic surgeons from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have developed two new prediction tools aimed at identifying total hip and knee replacement patients who are at-risk of developing ...
Mar 26, 2015
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Patients who received the new drug Bendavia before undergoing angioplasty or receiving a stent to clear blocked arteries after a heart attack showed no significant reduction in scarring as compared to patients given a placebo, ...
Mar 16, 2015
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