Saturday, November 5th, 2011
Healthcare workers who wear gloves while treating patients are much less likely to clean their hands before and after patient contact, according to a study published in the December issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, the journal of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. This failure of basic ...
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Saturday, October 29th, 2011
In some kidney diseases, patients have high blood levels of a protein that blocks blood vessel repair, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN). Inhibiting the protein may reduce patients' risk of developing kidney failure. Patients with an autoimmune ...
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Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
A new investigation published in the October 19 issue of JAMA revealed that hospitalizations related to heart-failure had declined considerably among Medicare patients between 1998 and 2008, although at a lower rate for black men. In addition, they also revealed that during this time one year mortality rates declined slightly, ...
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Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
Hospital stays for heart failure fell a remarkable 30 percent in Medicare patients over a decade, the first such decline in the United States and forceful evidence that the nation is making headway in reducing the billion-dollar burden of a common condition.
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Monday, October 17th, 2011
A Greek default could trigger a global economic shock on the scale of that suffered after Lehman Brother Holdings Inc.’s 2008 failure, said Nouriel Roubini, chairman and co-founder of Roubini Global Economics LLC.
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