ICU nurse working conditions linked to increase in patient infections
... A review of outcomes d...Difficulties of keeping the global food supply chain safe
... ... Investigators believe the chemical was added to rice-protein and wheat gluten supplements produced in China. Because purchasers of such imported products routinely measure nitrogen conte...Procedural changes may reduce cardiac arrests outside pediatric ICUs
WASHINGTON, May 10 A simple procedural change may significantly reduce cardiopulmonary arrests outside a pediatric hospital's intensive care unit, according to a study reported at the American Heart Association's 8th Scientific Forum on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research in Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke.... Cardiac arrests outside the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at Children's Me...Why predicting the next influenza pandemic is difficult and how scientists can best prepare
WHAT: In planning for a future influenza pandemic, most experts agree that two things are known for certainthere will be another pandemic someday, and nobody can predict when. In a commentary in the May 9, 2007 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, scientists at the National Institutes of Health discuss why predicting the next pandemic is so difficult and outline steps that c...Satellite images aid implementation of agricultural reforms
... Using very high resolution (VHR) satellite images for monitoring whether land is safeguarded in Good Agricultural and Environmental Condition (GAEC), as outlined within the cross-compliance framework, ensures subsidies are distributed in a fair and timely manner and helps fa...Combined imaging approach may provide better identification of difficult-to-diagnose brain clots
... James Leach, MD, reports these findings in the April issue of the American Journal of Neuroradiology. This is the first study to correlate the clinical importance of data gleaned from standard MRI scans and detailed contrast-enhanced imaging techniques in patients with ch...Connecticut's Hand to receive IADR Salivary Research Award
... Dr. Hand is regarded as one of the worlds pre-eminent experts on salivary gland ultrastructure, a subject on which he has published widely. He has applied his cytochemical and morphological expertise to a wide range of studies. Thus, Dr. Hand and his collaborators have made significant contributions to ou...Panel presents Agricultural Biosecurity & Sustainability Strategies at 2007 AAAS Meeting
... A panel of experts will discuss the status of...K-State National Agricultural Biosecurity Center director speaker at AAAS Biosecurity Symposium
... ... Because animal populations are now more concentrated than ever before and are transported more widely, even internat...Multiple organ failure and malignant tumors main causes of death in ICU and hospital
... Viktoria Mayr and colleagues from Innsbruck Medical University collaborated with colleag...Smoking cessation therapy may be harmful for ICU patients
... "In some critically ill patients, the development of nicotine...Study suggests menthol cigarette smokers may have more difficulty quitting smoking
... Cigarette smoking causes about 440,000 deaths in the United States each year, according to background information in the article. African Americans tend to smoke less than European Americans, but have disproportionately high rates of cancer, cardiovascular disease and other smoking-relat...Household levels of mold following Hurricane Katrina surpass some agricultural environments
... Following Hurricane Katrina, many New Orl...Journal of Evidence-Based Dental Practice joins the curriculum at NYU College of Dentistry
... Through special arrangement with world-leading scientific and medical publisher Elsevier, the College has arranged to provide subscriptions to JEBDP to all students and faculty. Elsevier's educational subscription program will provide online access to the full contents of each new issue of JEBDP...Consensus reached on new guidelines for ventricular arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death
BETHESDA, Aug. 21 The 2006 Guidelines for Management of Patients with Ventricular Arrhythmias and the Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death (SCD) were released today by the American College of Cardiology (ACC), American Heart Association (AHA), and the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) in collaboration with the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) and the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS). The p...Education, retraining reduce catheter-associated infections in ICUs
An education and retraining program that previously reduced catheter-associated infections in ICUs at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Missouri Baptist Medical Center has been successfully exported to five other medical centers across the nation, clinicians report in the July issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. ... Scientists found the program reduced by 21 percent serious bloodstream...The 'roulette wheel': A new tool to help patients make difficult treatment decisions
Researchers at the University of California have developed an innovative new visual tool to help patients decide among different treatment options....... The new tool, described in PLoS Medicine, presents the risks and benefits of these different options in the form of a roulette wheel. The patient spins the wheel, and can then directly visualize the chances of a particular treatment leading to...Drug ads aimed at cancer patients difficult to read, make more appeals to effectiveness than safety
ATLANTA--Oncology drug advertisements that ran in patient-focused cancer magazines presented the drugs' benefits differently -- earlier in the advertisement text and in larger type size -- than their side effects or risks, according to an analysis by researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. The findings will be presented the American Society of Clinical Oncology's annual meeting in...Passive TV viewing related to children's sleeping difficulties
A recent Finnish randomized population-based study shows that TV-viewing, and particularly exposure to adult-targeted programs, such as current affairs programs, TV series and police series and movies, markedly increases the risk of sleeping difficulties in 5-6 year old children. Also passive exposure to TV increases sleeping difficulties. ...... Questionnaires concerning TV viewing, sleep dist...HHS report indicates two thirds of ICU patients receive suboptimal care
WHO:... ... ... ... ... ... ... WHAT: ... Press Conference at ATS 2006: In response to the impending critical care crisis, the Critical Care Workforce Partnership, comprised of the American College of C...Particular treatments effective for alcohol dependence
Medical management combined with the drug naltrexone or with a specialized behavioral therapy can be effective treatments for alcohol dependence, according to a study in the May 3 issue of JAMA. ...... About 8 million individuals in the U.S. currently meet diagnostic criteria for alcohol dependence (also called alcoholism), a leading preventable cause of illness and death and a major contributor...Maternal difficulties may increase risk of behavior problems in children
Children whose mothers report difficulties with mental health, substance use and domestic violence one year after delivery appear more likely to have behavior problems at age 3 years, according to an article in the May issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals....... A mother's mood and anxiety disorders, smoking, problem drinking, drug use and exposure to domesti...Reducing fine particulate air pollution cuts mortality risk
Investigators who extended the Harvard Six Cities fine particulate air pollution study by eight years found that reduced levels of tiny particle pollution during this period lowered mortality risk for participants....... The results appear in the second issue for March 2006 of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, published by the American Thoracic Society....... The fin...Better communication between families, health care providers can reduce cost, length of stay in ICU
CLEVELAND A growing population of chronically critically ill (CCI) patients use approximately half of all hospital intensive care unit (ICU) resources at a cost of an estimated $50 billion annually. In turn, health care providers pass those costs onto the consumer. But researchers at Case Western Reserve University's Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing are testing a relatively simple communic...Preemies defy odds and overcome difficulties by adulthood: Study
Hamilton, ON (February 7) Look around, can you tell who among your friends were tiny, preemie babies?...... As young adults, the majority of extremely low birth-weight infants are attaining similar levels of education, employment and independence as normal birth-weight infants, according to a study by researchers at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster University in the Februar...Children with asthma more likely to have behavior difficulties
City children with asthma are more likely to have problems with behavior than children without the chronic respiratory problems, according to a University of Rochester Medical Center study in this month's Pediatrics....... Children with the worst asthma symptoms often have more than one behavior issue, such as being nervous and having trouble focusing on tasks. All of these behavior problems can...Stressed-out moms think their children are more difficult
Mothers who experience stress from parenting are more likely to perceive their babies as temperamentally difficult, according to a new study by researchers at Bradley Hospital, Brown Medical School and Women & Infants' Hospital. ... ...Researchers studied a group of mothers some of whom had used cocaine during pregnancy and measured their babies' behavior (using cry analysis, and reaction to st...Difficulty in treating older hepatitis C patients with combination therapy
A new study in Japan examining the effects of combination therapy on older patients with hepatitis C found more adverse effects necessitating discontinuation of treatment, lowering of dosages, and lower long-term benefits in this age group.... ...The results of this study appear in the January 2006 issue of Hepatology, the official journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseas...Pediatric oncologists should help with difficult decisions
The oncologist should be the primary decision maker in some pediatric cancer situations, say researchers at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) in Houston in an article appearing today in the Journal of Clinical Oncology....... "The conventional wisdom is that the patient (or parents) should always make the decision because that is their right and duty. We believe that is too simplistic; parents exp...Agricultural workers at increased risk for infection with animal flu viruses
Farmers, veterinarians and meat processors who routinely come into contact with pigs in their jobs have a markedly increased risk of infection with flu viruses that infect pigs, according to a study funded in part by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). While the findings are not entirely unexpected, the strikingly high...Vaccine for follicular lymphoma
... .........A team of researchers has demonstrated the clinical efficacy and benefits of a vaccine for a type of blood cancer, follicular lymphoma, amongst first time relapse patients. Specialists from two University of Navarre centres the University Hospital and the Research Centre for Applied Medicine (CIMA) - have worked jointly since 2001 on the research. ...... According to Dr. Maurizio B...Fatherhood possible for many testicular cancer survivors, study finds
The overall rate of fatherhood after treatment for testicular cancer is high, but the ability to conceive and the time to conception are influenced by the type and intensity of treatment, according to a new study in the November 2 issue of the .... ...Testicular cancer, the most common cancer among men ages 20 to 40, has a high cure rate: 95% of patients are cured through treatment. Because many...Married women have more sexual difficulties than single women or married men
Married women are more likely to have sexual difficulties than either single women or married men, suggest the findings of a national survey in Sexually Transmitted Infections....... The nationally representative survey (Natsal 2000) involved over 11,000 men and women between the ages of 16 and 44, who were asked about their sex lives between 1999 and 2001....... Older age was associated with rep...Single dose of chemotherapy is as effective as radiotherapy for testicular cancer
One-day treatment with the anticancer drug carboplatin is as effective and less toxic than three weeks radiation therapy for a type of testicular cancer, according to a report published in this week's issue of THE LANCET. ...... For the last 50 years standard care for stage 1 seminoma--a cancer of the testes--has been surgical removal of the cancerous testicle (hemi-castration) followed by three...HUP becomes first in region to implant a HeartMate II Left Ventricular Assist System into a patient
(Philadelphia, PA) - Cardiothoracic surgeons at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) are helping to pave the way for new implantable pump devices to treat end-stage heart disease. As part of a nationwide clinical trial, HUP cardiothoracic surgeons have became the first in the region to implant a HeartMate II Left Ventricular Assist System into a patient for ongoing, permanent supp...Reconstructive technique provides option for difficult nasal plastic surgery
CHICAGO A surgical technique that requires the removal, restructure and re-implantation of the nasal septum (the partition of the nose between the nostrils) appears to be a useful option for repairing the hard-to-treat severely deviated septum, according to an article in the July/August issue of Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. ......Severe nasal septal devi...Greater risk of death for cardiac surgery patients with long ICU stay
A recent study determined that patients who underwent recent cardiac surgical procedures and had prolonged stay in the intensive care unit had lower survival rates and lower quality of life. ...... Dr. Vinayak Bapat atSt. Thomas' Hospital, London and his team looked at a study group of 89 patients who had undergone various cardiac procedures and survived the following 30 days, and a control grou...Testicular cancer gene in mice may offer clues to origins of cancer in men
HOUSTON - Researchers have located a gene dubbed dead end that when mutated or lost, causes testicular tumors in mice. They say their study, published in the online journal Nature, on May 18, 2005 will likely offer future insights into the genetic causes of the disease in humans because the cancer originates from the same cell type, the primordial germ cell, in both mice and men. ......If that no...Magnetic stimulation treatment for depression helping difficult-to-treat cases at UT Southwestern
DALLAS May 10, 2005 Barbara Baas ran away from home and tried to kill herself as a teenager. As an adult, she has tried more than 15 varieties of antidepressants. But, thanks to a new weapon, she has finally reached a truce in a 45-year battle. ... Mrs. Baas says a new treatment for depression is changing her life so much so that she's willing to drive 115 miles five days a week from Decatur...Testicular cancer in Australia is spreading faster than the cane toad since 1970, its incidence in Australian blokes has doubled, while rates of other types of cancer have stayed the same. ...... This is alarming news for thousands of young Australian men under the age of 35 who are most commonly affected by this type of cancer. ...... However, scientists at The University of Queensland's Instit...