The opioid epidemic has had an enormous impact on newborn care and our goal in this project; was to improve the care of opioid-exposed newborns at our hospital using quality improvement methods to adapt previously demonstrated; successful approaches that focused on three things; simplified assessment of newborns experiencing opioid withdrawal, engaging and educating families in…
A large study of postmenopausal women indicated that quitting cigarette smoking was associated with significantly reduced risk of bladder cancer. The most significant reduction in risk occurred in the first 10 years after quitting, with a modest but continued decline in later years. The study was published in Cancer Prevention Research. Although bladder cancer is a fairly…
Researchers have discovered a key clue into the development of the pancreas and brain by studying rare patients born without a pancreas. The study from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, the University of Exeter and collaborators also identify a previously unexpect pathway involve in the development of the human pancreas, and confirm. Publish today (18th April)…
In a special hour-long late-breaker presentation; Douglas compared the new data with those from a phase 2 trial that also showed a significant reduction in proptosis (eye bulging); with teprotumumab. Improvements in proptosis response (reduction of ≥ 2 mm); clinical activity scores (CAS) similar in both studies, he said. In the United States, about 15,000…
A recent research has discovered a surgical procedure that can improve walking ability in children with cerebral palsy. The procedure, known as selective dorsal rhizotomy; involves cutting some of the sensory nerves from the legs as they enter the spinal cord in order to relieve stiffness, improve mobility and reduce children’s pain levels. Reduce children’s…
Medically-induced loss of consciousness (mLOC) during anesthesia is associated with a break-down of brain connectivity at the anatomical macro scale across cortical areas – yet what role brain micro circuitry plays in LOC remains unclear. How does our brain generate our consciousness? And why do we lose it during anesthesia? Influential theories suggest that consciousness…
The test was successful in predicting whether chemotherapy would be beneficial for patients with the most common type of breast cancer (oestrogen-receptor positive; HER2-negative), thereby helping to direct patients with a high-risk of metastasis to chemotherapy, while allowing lower-risk patients to opt out of the treatment and its potential side effects. Approximately 85%t of breast…
Indian scientists have established that nanoparticles of zinc oxide (ZnO) can prevent fat accumulation in the liver and thereby prevent Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) that has become a common medical condition given currently prevalent food habits and lifestyle. A research team from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)Mandi and Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR)…
Ghana rolled out the world’s only proven malaria vaccine for infants as part of a landmark campaign against the deadly mosquito-borne disease, one week after Malawi became the first country to do so. Malaria kills hundreds of thousands of people each year; mainly in Africa and it is; hoped a vaccine will bring down the…
Health care- urinary tract infections (HAUTI) is a common complicating factor of urological practice. It is unclear what the appropriate empirical antibiotic choices are and how infection control policies (ICP) influence this. The aim of this study is to use probabilistic approaches towards the problem. That is to determine the chances of coverage of empirical…
Researchers from the Department of Pediatrics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital presented; results of a study that investigated whether there are any deleterious effects of prostaglandin E1 (PGE1); treatment on breathing and whether these effects would be prevented via pre-treatment with caffeine. Congenital heart…
Atrial fibrillation has overtaken heart failure and heart attacks as the leading cause of cardiovascular hospitalisation; so a South Australian study has find. Researchers analyse data collected over two decades by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare to establish the incidence and trends of common cardiovascular conditions between 1993 and 2013. Publish recently in…