For hematologic malignancy (HM) patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU), survival is 49 percent at seven days and 21 percent at 12 months, according to a study published online March 11 in Intensive Care Medicine.
Mar 21, 2024
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When clinicians are discussing long-term health with a patient, we often find ourselves struggling with how a patient's race may inform their risk for cardiovascular disease, which claims more than 2,500 lives per day in ...
Mar 13, 2024
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Americans will not be able to order free at-home COVID tests after Friday, U.S. health officials announced Tuesday.
Mar 6, 2024
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More than one billion people around the world are now suffering from obesity with the number having more than quadrupled since 1990, according to a study released by The Lancet medical journal.
Mar 3, 2024
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Millions of Medi-Cal beneficiaries can now save for a rainy day, keep an inheritance, or hold on to a modest nest egg, without losing coverage, thanks to an eligibility change phased in over the past year and a half. It also ...
Feb 19, 2024
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New findings from one of the few studies reporting long-term health outcomes for children with severe malnutrition were published on February 15, 2024, in The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health. The paper is titled "Long-term ...
Feb 16, 2024
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Organophosphate esters, commonly used as substitutes for brominated flame retardants, are increasingly present in various environmental media due to their use in consumer products. Humans are exposed to these chemicals through ...
Jan 18, 2024
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Nurse home visits to disadvantaged mothers can significantly reduce their rates of hypertension and their daughters' likelihood of obesity, finds a new reanalysis of health data by a team led by a UCL researcher.
Jan 18, 2024
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In an outbreak of Salmonella illness tied to cantaloupes that began last month, 302 people in 42 states have now fallen ill. As of Dec. 15, four people had died and 129 had been hospitalized, according to the U.S. Food and ...
Dec 20, 2023
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Long-term care facilities that scheduled part-time Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs) with more hours and more consistently with the same co-workers had reduced turnover, according to research led by Washington State University. ...
Dec 18, 2023
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