One in four older Americans covered by Medicare had some type of temporary or lasting harm during hospital stays before the COVID-19 pandemic, government investigators said in an oversight report published Thursday.
May 12, 2022
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More than four out of ten patients who received dental implants suffered complications within a nine-year period, these are the results of a thesis presented at the University of Gothenburg.
Jun 18, 2021
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Researchers found a striking association between BMI and risk for death among patients with a diagnosis of COVID-19. The association was independent of obesity-related comorbities and other potential confounders. Their findings ...
Aug 14, 2020
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Breakthrough COVID-19 cases resulting in infections, hospitalizations and deaths are significantly more likely in cancer and Alzheimer's patients, according to two new studies from researchers at the Case Western Reserve ...
May 23, 2022
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The source of the common hospital-acquired infection known as C. diff can be hard to pin down in a busy, sprawling hospital, where patients might pick up the bug in countless locations.
Jan 9, 2018
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Patients who took statins less than 70 percent of the time had a 20 percent increase in mortality compared with those taking them at least 90 percent of the time, a Stanford study found.
Feb 22, 2019
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Patients who contract COVID-19 face a higher risk of developing cardiovascular diseases and diabetes, particularly in the three months following infection, according to a new study by Emma Rezel-Potts, Martin Gulliford, and ...
Jul 19, 2022
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A trio of researchers working at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine has found that giving biologic agents to metastatic colorectal cancer patients improved survivability for black and white patients nearly equally. In ...
New research presented this week at ACR Convergence, the American College of Rheumatology's annual meeting, shows that statins are associated with reduced rates of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and mortality in people with ...
Nov 2, 2021
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Intellectual disability puts individuals at higher risk of dying earlier in life than the general population, for a variety of medical and institutional reasons. A new study from Jefferson Health examined how the COVID-19 ...
Mar 5, 2021
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