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Police shooting of AIDS protesters by South African police

AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) today expressed its profound outrage over the unprovoked attack -- including what is believed to be the first-ever police shooting of AIDS protesters anywhere worldwide -- by South African police on AIDS activists conducting a peaceful protest.

15 Jul 2005

Oral midazolam more effective than rectal diazepam for the emergency treatment of seizures in children

Administering a drug called midazolam via the mouth cavity is more effective than rectal diazepam for the emergency treatment of seizures in children, concludes a study published in this week’s issue of The Lancet.

14 Jul 2005

Small-bowel injuries are more common in abused children but can arise accidentally as a result of falls or road-traffic accidents

Published work on the cause of abdominal injury is limited. This paucity of data may make if difficult to distinguish between accidental injury and abuse at first referral, throughout clinical care, and in the courts.

14 Jul 2005

Distant prayer does not improve clinical outcome for patients undergoing coronary procedures

Praying for patients undergoing heart procedures off-site or giving them bedside therapy involving music, imagery, and touch (MIT) does not measurably improve their clinical outcome, suggests a study published in this week’s issue of The Lancet. However, the authors note that patients receiving MIT therapy did have a lower mortality rate at 6 months.

14 Jul 2005

Australian doctors must be involved in planning medical response to possible local terror attacks

Australian Medical Association (AMA) President, Dr Mukesh Haikerwal, said this week it is vitally important that the AMA takes a key coordinating role in planning the medical response to any disasters including terror attacks on Australian soil.

14 Jul 2005

Shocking revelation - thousands get infected in hospitals in Pennsylvania

A report by the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council has revealed that more than 11,000 people contacted some form of infection in Pennsylvania hospitals last year, and nearly 1,800 died from them.

14 Jul 2005

At the end of life hospices better option for the elderly than nursing homes

A new study has shown that straight talking elderly people, who are facing death in nursing homes, raises the likelihood of them agreeing to enter hospices in the last days of their life.

14 Jul 2005

Erlotinib increases survival in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer

An international clinical study led by Canadian researchers has demonstrated that a drug called erlotinib increases survival in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer who typically have no other treatment options.

13 Jul 2005

Emergency physicians' fear of malpractice in evaluating patients with possible acute cardiac ischemia

A new survey of emergency physicians finds those most concerned about lawsuits are more likely to admit patients with cardiac symptoms and to order more tests. The results will be published by Annals of Emergency Medicine as an early online release July 13 (Emergency Physicians' Fear of Malpractice In Evaluating Patients With Possible Acute Cardiac Ischemia).

13 Jul 2005

Transplanted neural stem cells may serve not only as replacement cells for tissue repair, but in some circumstances may also protect the brain from inflammation

Researchers at the San Raffaele Hospital (Milan, Italy) published unexpected results of studies in which immature nerve cells (adult mouse neural stem cells) injected into the blood of mice with MS-like disease were able to suppress the immune attacks that damage the brain and spinal cord tissues.

13 Jul 2005

Scientists have identified the first reported case in Asia of primate-to-human transmission of simian foamy virus

...a retrovirus found in macaques and other primates that so far has not been shown to cause disease in humans.

13 Jul 2005

A new study shows that the number of Americans who had weight-loss surgery quadrupled between 1998 and 2002

A new study shows that the number of Americans who had weight-loss surgery quadrupled between 1998 and 2002.

13 Jul 2005

Expert says newborn health screening inconsistent throughout the U.S.

According to the March of Dimes, although every state requires newborn babies to receive health checks, requirements vary widely among the individual states.

13 Jul 2005

Sisters hurt in London blast return to the U.S. for surgery

According to one of the surgeons involved in their treatment, Emily and Katie Benton, two Tennessee sisters who were injured in Thursday's terrorist attacks in London, underwent reconstructive surgery on Monday at Duke University's North Carolina Hospital.

13 Jul 2005

Blood testing links common foods and irritable bowel syndrome

Researchers using comparison trials determined that irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) patients have elevated food-specific IgG4 antibodies to common foods such as wheat, beef, pork, lamb, and soya bean. These findings are published in the July issue of The American Journal of Gastroenterology.

13 Jul 2005

Australian product promotes healing in venous stasis ulcers

Novogen has announced the results of a Phase II clinical trial of its investigational wound healing compound, Glucoprime, in venous stasis ulcers.

13 Jul 2005

New ventricular assist device called the PediPump

A new ventricular assist device (VAD) called the PediPump has been developed specifically for use in children. A status report on this new device appears in the July issue of the journal Artificial Organs.

13 Jul 2005

United States continues to spend significantly more on health care than any country in the world

In 2005, Americans spent 53 percent per capita more than the next highest country, Switzerland, and 140 percent above the median industrialized country, according to new research from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

13 Jul 2005

Researchers have pinpointed specific gene and protein over-production in metastatic melanoma

Gene amplification is a process that often happens in cancer cells when the normal DNA replication process is altered, causing many copies of the gene to be produced instead of a single copy of a region of a chromosome.

12 Jul 2005

Study focuses on peripheral arterial disease - availability of vascular surgeons impacts amputation rate

Patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD) are more likely to have a foot or leg amputated if they live in a region that has few vascular surgeons, according to a Rice University/Baylor College of Medicine study published in the July issue of the Journal of Vascular Surgery.

12 Jul 2005

Hospital News and Research

Police shooting of AIDS protesters by South African police

Oral midazolam more effective than rectal diazepam for the emergency treatment of seizures in children

Small-bowel injuries are more common in abused children but can arise accidentally as a result of falls or road-traffic accidents

Distant prayer does not improve clinical outcome for patients undergoing coronary procedures

Australian doctors must be involved in planning medical response to possible local terror attacks

Shocking revelation - thousands get infected in hospitals in Pennsylvania

At the end of life hospices better option for the elderly than nursing homes

Erlotinib increases survival in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer

Emergency physicians' fear of malpractice in evaluating patients with possible acute cardiac ischemia

Transplanted neural stem cells may serve not only as replacement cells for tissue repair, but in some circumstances may also protect the brain from inflammation

Scientists have identified the first reported case in Asia of primate-to-human transmission of simian foamy virus

A new study shows that the number of Americans who had weight-loss surgery quadrupled between 1998 and 2002

Expert says newborn health screening inconsistent throughout the U.S.

Sisters hurt in London blast return to the U.S. for surgery

Blood testing links common foods and irritable bowel syndrome

Australian product promotes healing in venous stasis ulcers

New ventricular assist device called the PediPump

United States continues to spend significantly more on health care than any country in the world

Researchers have pinpointed specific gene and protein over-production in metastatic melanoma

Study focuses on peripheral arterial disease - availability of vascular surgeons impacts amputation rate

Bringing real-time analytics to downstream bioprocess monitoring

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

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