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Hot water contamination in hospital taps threatens patient safety

New research finds significantly higher levels of infectious pathogens in water from faucet taps with aerators compared to water from deeper in the plumbing system. Contaminated water poses an increased risk for infection in immunocompromised patients.

22 Jan 2014

Basic hospice strategies can make last days of dying inpatients more comfortable and dignified

There is much value in training hospital and nursing home staff in the basics of palliative care to make the last days of a dying patient's life as comfortable and dignified as possible.

22 Jan 2014

Study: CIEDs used by physicians today were approved as supplements to premarket approved models

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ensures that high-risk medical devices, such as implantable cardioverter-defibrillators and pacemakers, are safe and effective through its premarket approval (PMA) pathway, during which manufacturers must collect preclinical and clinical data before the device is approved.

From Medtronic 22 Jan 2014

Brain imaging via MRI scans may be useful biomarker for early detection of subtle developmental abnormalities

Researchers at Penn Medicine have generated a brain development index from MRI scans that captures the complex patterns of maturation during normal brain development.

22 Jan 2014

Houston Methodist sports medicine experts discuss important facts about mouthguards

After every play, we all see the athletes adjusting their mouthguards, but what do they actually protect? Houston Methodist sports medicine experts discuss important facts about mouthguards.

22 Jan 2014

Patients who arrive at hospital during off-hours are more likely to die

More people die and emergency hospital treatment takes longer for heart attack victims who arrive at the hospital during off-hours (nights and weekends), compared with patients who arrive during regular daily hours, according to a Mayo Clinic study published online in the British Medical Journal on Jan. 21.

22 Jan 2014

Parkin and PINK1 function in vesicular trafficking pathway regulates mitochon-drial quality control

Scientists from the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital in Canada have discovered that two genes linked to hereditary Parkinson's disease are involved in the early-stage quality control of mitochondria.

22 Jan 2014

Viewpoints: High Court's scrutiny of home health workers law; patient 'dumping' on LA's skid row; hospital fund raising

On Tuesday the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Harris v. Quinn, ... It was brought by the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation (NRTW), whose mission is to use "strategic litigation" to "eliminate coercive union power and compulsory unionism abuses," in this case on behalf of several personal assistants who provide in-home services to persons with disabilities under Illinois's Medicaid program.

22 Jan 2014

Scientists showcase HDL nanotherapy that may provide solution to repeat heart attacks

Up to 30 percent of heart attack patients suffer a new heart attack because cardiologists are unable to control inflammation inside heart arteries - the process that leads to clots rupturing and causing myocardial infarction or stroke.

22 Jan 2014

Scientists to decode intestinal disease bacteria using genome sequencing technologies

The University of Liverpool is to decipher the genomes of the UK's main bacterial cause of food poisoning which results in over 21,000 hospital admissions and 100 deaths each year.

22 Jan 2014

Genetic counseling delivered over telephone as effective as face-to-face counseling, says study

Genetic counseling delivered over the telephone is as effective as face-to-face counseling, finds the largest randomized study to date comparing the two methods. The multi-center study, led by researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, was reported today in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

22 Jan 2014

Social cognitive deficits contribute to perpetuation of cocaine addiction, say scientists

In Europe as well as worldwide, cocaine is the second most frequently used drug after cannabis. Chronic cocaine users display worse memory performance, concentration difficulties, and attentional deficits but also their social skills are affected as previous studies at the Psychiatric Hospital of the University of Zurich suggested.

22 Jan 2014

Diagnostic microRNA panels in blood may help in early detection of pancreatic cancer

Researchers have identified diagnostic microRNA panels in whole blood that had the ability to distinguish, to some degree, patients with and without pancreatic cancer, according to a study in the January 22/29 issue of JAMA.

21 Jan 2014

Magnetoencephalography can be used to control and train specific targeted brain regions

A new brain-imaging technique enables people to 'watch' their own brain activity in real time and to control or adjust function in pre-determined brain regions. The study from the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital - The Neuro, McGill University and the McGill University Health Centre, published in NeuroImage, is the first to demonstrate that magnetoencephalography can be used as a potential therapeutic tool to control and train specific targeted brain regions.

21 Jan 2014

Hospital News and Research

Hot water contamination in hospital taps threatens patient safety

Basic hospice strategies can make last days of dying inpatients more comfortable and dignified

Study: CIEDs used by physicians today were approved as supplements to premarket approved models

Brain imaging via MRI scans may be useful biomarker for early detection of subtle developmental abnormalities

Houston Methodist sports medicine experts discuss important facts about mouthguards

Patients who arrive at hospital during off-hours are more likely to die

Parkin and PINK1 function in vesicular trafficking pathway regulates mitochon-drial quality control

Viewpoints: High Court's scrutiny of home health workers law; patient 'dumping' on LA's skid row; hospital fund raising

Scientists showcase HDL nanotherapy that may provide solution to repeat heart attacks

Scientists to decode intestinal disease bacteria using genome sequencing technologies

Genetic counseling delivered over telephone as effective as face-to-face counseling, says study

Social cognitive deficits contribute to perpetuation of cocaine addiction, say scientists

Diagnostic microRNA panels in blood may help in early detection of pancreatic cancer

Magnetoencephalography can be used to control and train specific targeted brain regions

New guidance recommends prevention of healthcare-associated infections transmitted through HCP attire

Mesothelioma patients treated with radiation before surgery experience speedier recovery

Nursing researchers come up with answer for effectively adopting evidence-based care

Study finds that heart attacks are more deadly at night, on weekends

Role of folate in development, progression of breast cancer highly controversial

Studies providing mixed news on effects of health law

How Omics Technologies Are Transforming Biological Research and Drug Discovery

How microplastics and bacteria interact to drive antibiotic resistance

Single-cell proteomics: Revealing proteome diversity from cellular heterogeneity to non-canonical biology

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