Systolic blood pressure, a readily available vital sign taken at hospital admission, has been found to be a key factor in predicting mortality risk and revealing important disease characteristics for heart failure patients, according to a team of academic researchers.
A new UCLA study has found that physicians discuss cost and aspects of obtaining newly prescribed medications only about one-third of the time during patient/doctor interactions.
Statistics for Europe show an annual 325 fires for every million television sets compared with just six in the United States. The main reason for this is that TV housings on the old continent are still usually made from materials with little or no flame retardancy; in the United States, materials with the V-0 classification are used, in compliance with the U.S. fire safety standard UL94.
In a study published in a recent issue of Brain Injury, researchers at the University at Buffalo found that discharge sheets from 14 of 15 hospitals that were reviewed lacked at least one important sign of a possible hemorrhage. Ten of the hospitals were located in Western New York; five were located in southern Ontario, Canada.
Researchers have successfully tested two candidate vaccines that may eventually be used together to confer immunity against HIV infection. Their findings are published in the Dec. 15 issue of the Journal of Infectious Diseases, now available online.
Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and Federal University of Cear? in Brazil have joined forces to study if the gene believed to contribute to Alzheimer’s protects children from the developmental stresses of early childhood diarrhea.
Experts believe the world is overdue for influenza pandemic. However, unless effective action against pandemic flu is taken now, we are in “dire straits,” according to a paper published in the November 10 issue of Science. The articled titled, “Next Flu Pandemic: What to Do Until the Vaccine Arrives?,” calls for research during the regular season flu season to better understand the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions such as social distancing, hand washing, face masks, and the like.
Diabetes cases are increasing faster in Asia than in developed countries with people developing the metabolic disease at a younger age and suffering more complications, the Lancet said, citing researchers in South Korea.
In Australia, there is a debate over the future roll-out of the new cervical cancer vaccine, Gardasil.
Smoking women finds difficulties in getting pregnant because of some harmful effects on uterus. Smoking also cut the chances of IVF and success rate is low in them. New research finds that heavy smoking impairs women’s fertility by reducing the odds that a fetus will implant in the uterus.