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Intensive Care Unit; Health systems are increasingly faced with financial and regulatory pressures to increase efficiency and decrease costs while maintaining high-quality, outcome driven patient care. One approach to improving overall health outcomes is providing patient-centered care, which enables patients and caregivers to assume an active role in managing their own health care. However, mounting…
By using titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles stimulating by microwaves to trigger the death of cancer cells without damaging the normal cells around them. The method is called microwave inducing radical therapy; which the team refering to as microdynamic therapy, or MDT. The use of TiO2 nanoparticles activated by light and ultrasound in cancer treatments has…
Sepsis occurs when the body’s immune response to infection triggers an inflammation chain reaction throughout the body; causing high heart rate, high fever, shortness of breath, and other issues. To diagnose sepsis, doctors traditionally rely on various diagnostic tools, including vital signs, blood tests, and other imaging and lab tests. The study finding protein biomarkers…
The rehearses find that the The maker of OxyContin has been cast as the chief villain in the nation’s opioid crisis. But newly released government figures suggest Purdue Pharma had plenty of help in flooding the U.S. with billions of pills even as overdose deaths were accelerating. Therefore Records kept by the federal Drug Enforcement…
The researches find that the The aim of this study was to illustrate the demographic characteristics of meningioma patients and observe the effect of adjuvant radiation therapy on survival by using the Surveillance, therefore Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database. More specifically; the authors aimed to answer the question of whether adjuvant radiotherapy following resection…
Exercise; With a kilometer to go, triathlete Sarah True was pulled from the 2019 Ironman European Championship in Frankfurt, Germany, due to heat exhaustion. She was in the lead by seven minutes after having swum, biked and run nearly 225 kilometres. The temperature was 38C. With summer comes longer days and sunnier skies. It’s an…
Recent years have brought landmark changes for the treatment of patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), though there are still many unanswered questions that remain, especially when it comes to frontline treatment strategies, according to Lecia V. Sequist, MD, MPH. One of the big clinical questions when you have a patient who is a…
This single-center case series is a retrospective study of consecutive FDG PET/CT scans performed on LVAD patients between September 2015 and February 2018 at the University of Michigan. Studies were identified through screening all cardiac FDG PET/CT scans protocol to assess for inflammation in this time frame. Inclusion criterion was LVAD device at the time…
As visceral leishmaniasis is the most severe form of leishmaniasis in human; and is potentially fatal if not diagnosing and treating. Accurate and timely diagnosis of the tropic disease visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is one of the pillars for reducing VL deaths. But currently available serological tests for diagnosing visceral leishmaniasis vary widely in their performance…
The study find that the a cancer patient receiving an immunotherapy developed encephalitis and died 18 months into treatment, researchers at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) investigated why the complication occurred, performing a molecular analysis of the disease’s pathology and mining data to determine the incidence of similar occurrences. The molecular analysis revealed the presence of…
National Health Protection Scheme is a centrally sponsoring scheme launching in 2018; under the Ayushman Bharat Mission of MoHFW in India. NHA De-empanels 250 hospitals after Ayushman health checkup. The patients charged for expensive procedures not conducted on them, multiple surgeries conducted on a single day late in the night; hysterectomies on men and fake…
Chronic kidney disease affects about 13.6 % of the US population and projected; to grow to 14.4 % in 2020 and 16.7 % by 2030. The condition leads to high morbidity and mortality when combined with end-stage renal disease (ESRD), as well as high care costs. UCSF researchers stated that according to the US Renal…