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Healthcare System Delay May Increase Risk of Death for Heart Patients Receiving Reperfusion Therapy

For patients with a certain type of heart attack, delay in the time between first contact with emergency medical service to initiation of therapy such as balloon angioplasty is associated with an incr... Full Article

Prediction Model May Help Determine Risk of Critical Illness Following Out-of-Hospital Emergency Care

A prediction score that included such factors as age, blood pressure, heart and respiratory rate for patients who received out-of-hospital emergency care was associated with the development of critica... Full Article

MRSA

Hospitals vary in how they detect and treat drug-resistant staph infections, but most follow national guideline recommendations, according to researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Res... Full Article

Study to Examine New Treatment for West Nile Virus

Neurological and infectious disease experts at Rush University Medical Center are testing a new drug therapy for the treatment of individuals with West Nile fever or suspected central nervous system i... Full Article

Remember That Feeling of Finally Getting Your Drivers' License?

Remember that feeling of finally getting your drivers' license? That feeling of freedom and independence is also connected to reaching many of our day-to-day activities. Yet a disability, illness or... Full Article