LAS VEGAS – Among 100 hip fracture patients at Salem (Ore.) Hospital, those fed within 24 hours left the hospital sooner, and fewer of them died. Other patients went up to a week without being...
LAS VEGAS – Among 100 hip fracture patients at Salem (Ore.) Hospital, those fed within 24 hours left the hospital sooner, and fewer of them died. Other patients went up to a week without being...
LAS VEGAS – Among 100 hip fracture patients at Salem (Ore.) Hospital, those fed within 24 hours left the hospital sooner, and fewer of them died. Other patients went up to a week without being...
HYATTSVILLE, MD. – Inhaled insulin will probably become available as a treatment option again, with a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel’s recommendation to approve an orally administered...
WASHINGTON – Early treatment with cardiac-resynchronization therapy with a defibrillator showed a significant survival benefit in patients with mild heart failure, left ventricular dysfunction, and...
WASHINGTON – The lack of detectable high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T in patients presenting with chest pain may be a marker of minimal risk of myocardial infarction within 30 days, according to...
Onein twenty-five hospitalized patients on any given day has an infection acquired from health care, and as many as one in nine of those will die.
At a press briefing, Dr. Michael Bell discussed...
Despite the overall decline in tuberculosis, there continues to be a large disparity in incidence between U.S.-born and foreign-born U.S. residents, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
Protocol-based resuscitation did not reduce sepsis deaths or morbidity, compared with usual care, in the Protocolized Care for Early Septic Shock study conducted at 31 U.S. academic hospitals.
Among...
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. – When patients on immunosuppressive therapies need surgery, the risks of disease flare and compromised postoperative recovery and rehabilitation must be weighed against the risk of...