_ Cosmetic Surgery Medical Care Complications After Thigh Lift Surgery Common By article A procedure called medial thigh lift, performed as part of body contouring procedures in patients with massive weight loss ,carries … Read More→
_ Medical Care Too Few Patients Are Having Gallbladder Removed By article Although gallbladder removal is a fairly common operation among older adults, a new study shows that many people who could … Read More→
_ Medical Care Patients Don't Want Their Doctors to Know Everything About Their Health By article Many patients withhold sensitive health information from their doctors, according to the first real-world trial of the impact of patient-controlled … Read More→
_ Cancer Center Medical Care On the Road to Personalized Cancer Treatments By article Researchers from the University of Michigan have developed a way to grow some cancer cells outside the body ΓÇô and … Read More→
_ Medical Care Study: Shorter Doctors' Hours Don't Affect Patient Outcomes By Jane Farrell article A new study has found that there is no difference in the rate of death or rehospitalization of Medicare patients … Read More→
_ Medical Care When Are Computers Better Than Doctors? By Jane Farrell article A computer system did better than doctors when it came to collecting and reporting information about patients, according to a … Read More→
_ Medical Care The Wrong Kind of Monitoring in Hospitals? By Jane Farrell article Millions of physiological alarms in hospitals are triggered each month, and the technology needs to be improved to avoid further … Read More→
Medical Care Prompt Care for Dislocated Shoulder Prevents Repeat Dislocations By Jane Farrell article Prompt and appropriate treatment of a dislocated shoulderΓÇöwhen the head of the upper arm bone (humerus) is completely knocked out … Read More→
Medical Care New approach to treating ALS By Jane Farrell article Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a neurodegenerative disease that primarily kills motor neurons, leading … Read More→
_ Medical Care Nanobodies: A Smaller Weapon in Fighting Disease By Jane Farrell article A new system developed by researchers at Rockefeller University promises to make nanobodies, proteins that flag diseased cells for destruction, … Read More→
Caregiving Medical Care Caregiver Involvement in Hospital Discharge Is Beneficial By Jane Farrell article Results of a study published in November 2014 in The American Journal of Managed Care show that the presence of … Read More→
_ Medical Care New Drug Therapy Helps Tinnitus Patients By Jane Farrell article A new treatment for tinnitus appears to help patients cope better with the perceived ringing in their ears, thus improving … Read More→
_ Medical Care A Better Way to Manage Medications By Jane Farrell article Medication non-adherence ΓÇô the lack of consistency in taking prescription drugs ΓÇô may be the most underestimated health-related issue today. … Read More→
_ Medical Care Development of Ebola Training Module By Jane Farrell article Johns Hopkins Medicine has been tasked by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to lead a group and to … Read More→
_ Medical Care Pill-Only Regimens Cure Hep C By Jane Farrell article Two new pill-only regimens that rapidly cure most patients with genotype 1 hepatitis C (HCV), the most difficult to treat … Read More→
Medical Care Reducing Wait Time in DoctorsΓÇÖ Offices By Jane Farrell article Using a pain clinic as a testing ground, researchers at Johns Hopkins have shown that a management process first popularized … Read More→
_ Medical Care An Effective Treatment for Ebola By Sondra Forsyth article A leading Ebola researcher from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston has gone on record stating that a blend of three monoclonal antibodies can completely protect monkeys against a lethal dose of Ebola virus up to five days after infection, at a time when the disease is severe.
_ Healthy Diet & Nutrition Medical Care Change in Tube Feeding Boosts Nutrition By Sondra Forsyth article While the importance of enteral nutrition (EN), or feeding patients through a tube, in an intensive care unit is well understood, underfeeding is still common. A practice of a certain amount of feeding per hour can be interrupted by tests, procedures, or emergencies. Changing to a volume-based system, which calls for a certain nutrition volume per day, could reduce underfeeding, according to a quality improvement audit published in the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition's (A.S.P.E.N.) Nutrition in Clinical Practice journal on August 26th 2014.