Medical research
Inpatient blood draws are often performed during sleep hours, patient-care study finds
The sleep of hospitalized patients may be often interrupted due to non-urgent blood draws, a new Yale study has found.
Jan 23, 2023
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News tagged with modern medicine
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Chinese turn to traditional remedies to fight COVID
As COVID-19 rips through China's vast population, making millions sick and fuelling a shortage of drugs, many are turning to old-school traditional medicines to battle the aches and pains of the virus.
Jan 20, 2023
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Health
How clean hospitals can reduce antibiotic resistance and save lives
A new paper in Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health indicates that antibiotic resistance may result from poor hygiene practices in hospitals or other medical facilities.
Jan 17, 2023
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Cardiology
Time essential when treating cardiac arrest in athletes
For minutes that seemed to drag on endlessly on Jan. 2, tens of thousands of NFL fans at Paycor Stadium in Cincinnati and millions more watching on television around the globe held their collective breath. After falling to ...
Jan 9, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Superbugs on the rise: WHO report signals increase in antibiotic resistance
A new World Health Organization (WHO) report reveals high levels of resistance in bacteria, causing life-threatening bloodstream infections, as well as increasing resistance to treatment in several bacteria causing common ...
Dec 9, 2022
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Genetics
Genetic causes of bone tumors discovered in 1,000-year-old Irish skeletons
Two men buried long ago in a medieval graveyard in Co. Donegal had a genetic condition called multiple osteochondromas, which causes benign bone tumors. One of the disease mutations is a new discovery, so this is the first ...
Dec 5, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Zimbabwe says measles outbreak has killed 700 children
The death toll from a measles outbreak in Zimbabwe has risen to almost 700 children, the country's health ministry has said.
Sep 5, 2022
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Medications
Nature is the world's original pharmacy. Returning to medicine's roots could help fill drug discovery gaps
While humans evolved over a period of approximately 6 million years, breakthroughs in modern medicine as we know it today got going only in the 19th and 20th centuries. So how did humans successfully survive through millions ...
Jul 27, 2022
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Medical research
Biomarker-guided therapy for fungal sepsis produces no better outcomes
The CandiSep trial at Jena University Hospital tested (1,3)-β-D-glucan as biomarker for invasive fungal infection in critically ill patients. The biomarker led to earlier and more frequent antifungal therapy but could not ...
Jul 21, 2022
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Medical economics
The price physicians charge for every surgery, checkup or other procedure has a precise formula behind it
Modern medicine is remarkable. Conditions like HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C were once virtual death sentences. Both can now be treated easily and effectively.
Jul 7, 2022
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