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Cleaning-product-related asthma concern for hospital workers

Research suggests that exposure to cleaning products, particularly those containing decalcifiers and ammonia, may increase the risk for asthma in female hospital workers.

3 Oct 2012

Structured deliberation improves neonatal decision-making process

The implementation of a structured multiprofessional medical ethical decision-making process could improve decision-making in neonatal intensive care units, show study results from the Netherlands.

3 Oct 2012

Antifungal resistance of Candida genital isolates on the increase

Resistance to antifungal therapy of genital-infection causing Candida species may be an increasing problem, suggests research presented at the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology annual congress in Prague, Czech Republic.

3 Oct 2012

Early bone graft plus rhinoplasty significantly improves facial esthetics in UCLP

The facial esthetic of children with unilateral cleft lip and palate is significantly improved with early alveolar bone grafting alongside rhinoplasty, versus leaving the procedure until the child is older, study findings show.

3 Oct 2012

Routine screening influences outcomes in prostate cancer after surgery

Men who undergo radical prostatectomy for a tumor that was detected by screening show better long-term outcomes than their peers who undergo the surgery after opportunistic diagnosis, study results show.

3 Oct 2012

Differentiating features of BD, early-onset ADHD identified

Research findings published in the Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology have identified differentiating features between early-onset bipolar disorder and combined attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

3 Oct 2012

Executive attention deficits identified in first-episode schizophrenia

Patients with first-episode schizophrenia have impairments in executive attention but not in alerting or orienting attention, suggest findings published in Bipolar Disorders.

3 Oct 2012

Foreign Accent Syndrome individuals overemphasize given information

Individuals with Foreign Accent Syndrome often place pitch accents on given information, instead of de-accenting such elements, and encounter problems in signaling the status of information, the results of a UK study indicate.

3 Oct 2012

Complement dysregulation underpins pre-eclampsia

Pre-eclampsia is associated with increased classical pathway activation and altered complement regulation, suggest Dutch results indicating that the extent of complement dysregulation may be related to the severity of pre-eclampsia.

3 Oct 2012

BMI concerns raised for childhood stem cell transplantation survivors

Childhood survivors of hematologic malignancies treated with allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation should undergo long-term monitoring of their body mass index and lean body mass, US researchers recommend.

3 Oct 2012

Alarms could be key to avoiding intraoperative awareness

Bispectral index monitoring is unlikely to be better than monitoring based on anesthetic concentrations for preventing intraoperative awareness, shows a randomized trial.

3 Oct 2012

Extended thrombolysis window has potential pitfall

The benefits gained from extending the window for thrombolysis in patients with stroke could be lost if the more generous deadline causes physicians to relax, a study suggests.

3 Oct 2012

Babies’ facial expressions after jab reveal pain type

Researchers have discerned seven distinct facial expressions in babies immediately after vaccination, which they say could signal different types of pain and aid communication of distress to caregivers.

3 Oct 2012

Haploidentical bone marrow transplants for sickle cell disease: an interview with Dr. Javier Bolaños Meade

Bone marrow transplant (also called stem cell transplant) is a medical intervention that allows a physician to deliver very high doses of chemotherapy (if needed) but more importantly, deliver a new immune system to the patient to fight a disease (such as cancer).

3 Oct 2012

First Edition: October 3, 2012

Kaiser Health News staff writer Jordan Rau reports: "Medicare's new readmission penalties for hospitals just got a bit tougher. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has discovered errors in its initial calculations in August. As a result, 1,422 hospitals with comparatively high readmission rates will lose slightly more money than they were expecting, according to a Kaiser Health News analysis of the revised penalties. Fifty-five hospitals will lose less than were previously told."

3 Oct 2012

New contact lenses can cure nearsightedness, slow progression rates in children

Nearsightedness, or myopia, affects more than 40 percent of people in the U.S. and up to 90 percent of children in some parts of Asia. The problem begins in childhood and often progresses with age.

3 Oct 2012

More access to video-EEG may reduce treatment gap for epilepsy and PNES

HIV prevention, vaccine research progressing

In a guest post on the Center for Global Health Policy's "Science Speaks" blog, Margaret McGlynn, president and CEO of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), and William Snow, director of the Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise, discuss the recent AIDS Vaccine 2012 Conference that was held in Boston.

3 Oct 2012

Adolescent and young cancer cost barriers: an interview with Anne Kirchhoff

According to the National Cancer Institute, almost 70,000 people ages 15-39 are diagnosed with cancer each year in the United States. Cancers in this adolescent and young adult (AYA) population differ quite a bit across this age span.

3 Oct 2012

Post office's retiree health benefits hole gets deeper

The Postal Service sank deeper into debt on Monday after the agency defaulted on a $5.6 billion payment due at the end of September, the second time it has missed a deadline this year to set aside money for its future retiree health benefits.

3 Oct 2012