Child heart deaths at Bristol fall below national average
Child heart deaths at the Bristol Royal Infirmary have fallen markedly, to below the national average, finds a study in this week's BMJ....... The Bristol inquiry between 1991 and 1995 showed that Bristol had a much higher death rate for open heart surgery in children aged under 1 year than other major centres. Since then, there have been major changes in the child cardiac surgery service..........Deaths at Bristol not explained by low volume of operations
Mortality and volume of cases in paediatric cardiac surgery: retrospective study based on routinely collected data BMJ Volume 324, pp 261-4... ...Deaths among young children undergoing heart surgery are lower in hospitals that carry out a high number of these operations, even when data from Bristol Royal Infirmary are excluded, confirms a study in this week's BMJ. However, this does not explain...Bristol-Meyers Squibb submits NDA for new formulation of once daily videx(R)(didanosine)
. .(Princeton, NJ, January 31, 2000) -- Bristol-Myers Squibb announced today that it has submitted a New Drug Application (NDA) with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a new formulation of VIDEX (R), also known as ddI. The new capsules contain enteric coated VIDEX beadlets designed to protect the essential medicine in VIDEX from degrading until it has passed through the stomac...