The Centre for Trauma Sciences, based at Queen Mary University of London, aims to reduce deaths from severe bleeding after major trauma.
Oct 12, 2023
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The pandemic exacerbated many mental health problems, and eating disorders are no exception: Emergency room visits for girls suffering from anorexia and bulimia were twice as high in January of this year as they were three ...
Aug 16, 2022
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Accountable Care Organizations—or ACOs—formed for the first time in 2011, designed to combat rising medical costs and provide more coordinated care to Medicare patients. But the savings have been inconsistent nationwide.
Feb 14, 2020
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Since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, there were questions about how people in active cancer treatment would fare if they became infected with SARS-CoV-2. The worries were due, in large part, to the effects that ...
Jun 10, 2021
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The pain from a heart attack is so bad that—if you can imagine—it can feel like an elephant sitting on you. Patients with sickle cell disease, a genetic condition affecting the red blood cells, report that this kind of ...
Sep 18, 2023
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(HealthDay)—A new device meant to help surgeons determine in the operating room if they have removed all cancerous breast cancer tissue may help reduce repeat surgeries after lumpectomy without compromising cosmetic effects, ...
Sep 12, 2012
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Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have found that quality of care for pediatric patients who experience cardiac arrest outside of the hospital is lower compared with adults, prompting an urgent call to action ...
Jan 16, 2024
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As a physician, I have seen firsthand the mental health toll that the novel coronavirus is playing on patients hospitalized with the disease. Here I present the problem and a potential way to mitigate the damaging effects ...
Jun 11, 2020
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Postoperative pain can pose a number of challenges for surgical patients and their care providers. A common method to treat pain has been to administer opioids. However, opioids come with a number of different, often intolerable, ...
Jul 2, 2020
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Emergency department physicians have long navigated challenging ethical and legal situations to care for "anyone, with anything, at any time," and the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act has required them to do so since ...
Sep 8, 2022
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