Difficulties in the heart’s ability to fill with blood are common causes of heart failure — and appear to be as significant in placing a heart patient at risk of death as are deficiencies in the heart’s ability to pump blood, new research from Mayo Clinic shows.
Previous reports have greatly underestimated the number of children injured on school buses. The study, “School Bus-Related Injuries Among Children and Teenagers in the United States, 2001-2003,” is the first to analyze non-fatal school bus injuries using a national sample. It found more than 51,000 children – or 17,000 annually – through age 19 were treated in U.S. hospital emergency departments during the 3-year period.
Evidence suggests that the stress of heating and cooling costs may adversely impact the health and nutritional status of children and other vulnerable individuals.
Parental rules and monitoring of children’s movie viewing may have a protective influence on children’s risk for smoking and drinking, over and above parental monitoring of nonmedia-related behaviors.
Does use of poison control centers reduce the number of hospitalizations in rural areas? The study, “The Potential Impact of Poison Control Centers on Rural Hospitalization Rates for Poisoning,” found a direct correlation between the use of poison control centers (PCCs) and reduced rates of hospitalization.
Neath Port Talbot Hospital?s excellent record of providing quality care for the people and communities it serves has been recognised by the awarding of its third successive Charter Mark.
The article ?Doctors: let us kill disabled babies’ (Sunday Times, 5 November 2006) reveals the concerns of the medical, scientific and lay communities regarding the survival of severely premature newborns.
Exposure to industrial chemicals in the womb or early in life can impair brain development but only a handful are controlled to protect children, researchers said on Wednesday.
A gene variant associated with mental illness goes hand-in-hand with enlargement of a brain region that handles negative emotions, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center and the Central Texas Veterans Health Care System have found.
The American Thoracic Society (ATS) has published a new statement on the pathogenesis, prevention and treatment of liver damage caused by anti-tuberculosis (TB) medications. The statement, which appeared in the October 15 issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, gives a review of current national and international literature on drug-induced liver injury (DILI) or hepatotoxicity, a potential side effect of more than 700 drugs approved for use in the United States.