My Personal Biomedical Research Feed – Ralph Turchiano, CEO Alchepharma
One of the primary chlorine disinfectants currently being used to clean hospital scrubs and surfaces does not kill off the most common cause of antibiotic associated sickness in healthcare settings…
"researchers found that patients developing inpatient-onset STEMI had more than 3-fold greater in-hospital mortality than those with outpatient-onset STEMI" PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 16-Nov-2014 Prashant Kaul, M.D., of the University of…
An excessive intake of cured meats, such as salami, chorizo and bacon, can increase readmission to hospital for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to a study by…
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIsm2zvZbDg] Risk of death highest following surgery in afternoons, at weekends, and in February - In this first analysis of the data, a total of 218,758 patients were included.…
PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 31-May-2014 - Surgery at the weekend was associated with a 22% increased risk of death compared with surgery on weekdays New research presented at this year's Euroanaesthesia show…
Public release date: 7-Feb-2011 The safety implications of missed test results for hospitalized patients: A systematic review Up to three quarters of hospital tests are not being followed up, suggests…
Contact: Sarah Avery sarah.avery@duke.edu 919-660-1306 Duke University Medical Center DURHAM, N.C. – A targeted effort to help high-risk heart failure patients stay on their medications did improve adherence to drug…
Contact: Sarah Avery sarah.avery@duke.edu 919-660-1306 Duke University Medical Center Staying on medication may not translate to avoiding readmission DURHAM, N.C. – A targeted effort to help high-risk heart failure patients…
Dr Henry Singman and Beth Israel Medical Center were less dedicated to Huguette Clark's welfare than their own, says the new lawsuit Clark died at Beth Israel aged 104 in …
Hospitals have made “no improvement” since the Mid-Staffs scandal in ensuring patients are kept safe or treated with dignity, Care Quality Commission finds Inspections which focussed on the neglect of…
Published: May 15, 2013 at 10:25 PM WASHINGTON, May 15 (UPI) -- Admissions to U.S. hospital intensive care units jumped 50 percent from 2002 to 2009, but researchers are not…
By WILLIAM DOTINGA OAKLAND, Calif. (CN) - A nurse claims that Kaiser Permanente managers fired her after she complained about sub-standard conditions in the neonatal intensive care unit…
Friday, 04 January 2013 An Indiana hospital has fired eight employees, including at least three veteran nurses, after they refused mandatory flu shots, stirring up controversy over which should come…
2010 study posted for filing Contact: Jennifer Homa jeh9057@nyp.org 212-305-5587 New York- Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center NIH-funded, NEJM study is largest ever to look at nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, an obesity-related…
Forty-three hospital patients starved to death last year and 111 died of thirst while being treated on wards, new figures disclose today. There were 558 cases last year where doctors…
A series of hospitals have admitted using cheap secretarial agencies in India By Sophie Borland PUBLISHED:10:53 EST, 10 September 2012| UPDATED:19:25 EST, 10 September 2012 Hospitals are sending hundreds of…
Hospitals may be depriving elderly patients of food and drink to hasten their deaths as part of cost-cutting measures to free up bed space, leading doctors warn. By Stephen Adams,…
Public release date: 22-Feb-2010 Cost $8.1 billion to treat Washington D.C. – Two common conditions caused by hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) killed 48,000 people…
- 3 out of 5 hospital meals found to contain more salt than a Big Mac In an article published on bmj.com today, she says the government has wasted more…
Public release date: 27-Nov-2007 Hospital superbugs that can break down antibiotics are so widespread throughout Europe that doctors increasingly have to use the few remaining drugs that they reserve for…
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