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Adolescent Female Blood Donors At Risk For Iron Deficiency And Associated Anemia
Female adolescent blood donors are more likely to have low iron stores and iron deficiency anemia than adult female blood donors and nondonors, which could have significant ne...Full Article
Does A Severe Infection Put You At Greater Risk Of Heart Disease And Death?
Physician-scientists from the University of Alabama at Birmingham have recently assessed the incidence, or new onset, of cardiovascular disease and in-hospital deaths in patie...Full Article
Navigating Life 'Outside The Gate'
With 1.3 million active duty military personnel nationwide, coordinating and finding accessible healthcare and social services for their 1.7 million family members is a major ...Full Article
Rutgers Promotes Safe Patient Handling Practices To Reduce Health Care Worker Injuries
Nurses, nurse aids, orderlies, emergency medical technicians and physical and occupational therapists have some of the highest numbers of nonfatal occupational injuries. Chron...Full Article
Common Acid Reflux Medications Linked To Increased Kidney Disease Risk
Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), which include well-known brand names Prilosec, Nexium and Prevacid, are among the most commonly prescribed medications in the world. Approximate...Full Article
Asthma Pill Targets Airway Muscles To Decrease Attacks
Results from a phase II clinical trial, experimental work on cells and computational modelling have together shown why the first pill for asthma in 20 years can help reduce as...Full Article
Electronic Tool Has Potential To Improve Asthma Care, Study Finds
A new electronic decision support tool for managing asthma has the potential to improve the quality of asthma care in primary care settings, suggests a study led by St. Michae...Full Article
Parkinson's Foundation Hosts Professional Education Training in Iowa City
The Parkinson's Foundation announced the location of its signature professional education program course, Allied Team Training for Parkinson's, ATTP®, for health care professi...Full Article
Hypnosis Through Virtual Reality AIDS In Medical Recovery
Anesthesiologists at UT Southwestern Medical Center are helping to explore the use of hypnosis through virtual reality to lessen postoperative pain and anxiety in children. T...Full Article
Can We Repair The Brain? The Promise Of Stem Cell Technologies For Treating Parkinson's Disease
Cell replacement may play an increasing role in alleviating the motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD) in future. Writing in a special supplement to the Journal of Parkins...Full Article
New Tool For Documenting Injuries May Provide Better Evidence For Elder Abuse Cases
An estimated 10 percent of older adults experience some form of abuse each year. However, the link between injuries and possible elder abuse may take months or years to establ...Full Article
Does Herpes Cause Alzheimer's?
What causes Alzheimer's disease? The answer could be right under our noses, says leading expert Professor Ruth Itzhaki. Her latest paper presents a lifetime of research eviden...Full Article
The Medical Minute: Helping Caregivers Address Mental Health Concerns
Caregiver jobs often come loaded with pressures. In fact, caregivers face a higher risk of developing a mental health disorder because of the stress that can accompany taking ...Full Article
“They Made Me Feel Like A Person”: Palliative Care Counseling Changes Lives For Patients, Families
The patients are not the only ones who receive care at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Counseling for the patients and their family members is an integral part of the...Full Article
Customized Drug Interaction Alerts Address Alert Fatigue, Protect Patients
For anyone who regularly uses a computer, the experience of clicking through multipage user agreements is a shared frustration. Being bombarded with too much information can l...Full Article
URI Nursing Study Shows Benefits Of Delayed Umbilical Cord Clamping On Brain Development In Healthy Babies
A five-minute delay in the clamping of healthy infants’ umbilical cords results in increased iron stores and brain myelin in areas important for early-life functional developm...Full Article
Noninvasive Liquid Biopsies Rapidly, Accurately Determine Response To Cancer Treatment
Results of two clinical studies have added to evidence that blood-based liquid biopsies can accurately track lung cancer treatment responses by measuring circulating tumor DNA...Full Article
Sensitive Sensor Detects Down Syndrome DNA
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Down syndrome is the most common birth defect, occurring once in every 700 births. However, traditional non-invasi...Full Article
Fractures, Head Injuries Common In E-Scooter Collisions, According To UCLA Research
UCLA researchers have found that people involved in electric scooter accidents are sometimes injured badly enough — from fractures, dislocated joints and head injuries — to re...Full Article
PTSD Alone Didn't Increase Heart Disease Risk In Veterans With PTSD
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) by itself does not explain the increased risk of cardiovascular disease in veterans with this condition. A combination of physical disord...Full Article
Even As Hospitals Cut Risky Antibiotic Use In-House, Patients Often Go Home with Them
Even as hospitals try to cut back on prescribing powerful but risky antibiotics for their patients, a new study shows that many of those patients still head home with prescrip...Full Article
New Mexico Proposed Legislation Jeopardizes Safety Of Patients Bill Would Replace Physicians With Nurses For Anesthesia Care
The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) and the New Mexico Society of Anesthesiologists (NMSA) strongly oppose SB 222, which will remove physician involvement from ane...Full Article
Gallbladder Removal Operation During Pregnancy Associated With Adverse Maternal Outcomes
Pregnant women produce extra progesterone, which puts them at greater risk for gallstones. When the stones become problematic, causing painful attacks, a surgeon may recommend...Full Article
German Researchers Discover How Sleep Can Fight An Infection
Researchers in Germany have discovered why sleep can sometimes be the best medicine. Sleep improves the potential ability of some of the body’s immune cells to attach to their...Full Article
Some Primary Care Doctors Not Prepared To Help With Cancer Treatment Decisions
The idea of team-based cancer care most often focuses on involving primary care physicians in the care of cancer survivors. But research has shown patients are discussing init...Full Article