Patients whose mean arterial blood pressure drops during bypass surgery may be at risk for early difficulties in thinking, learning and memory, according to an article posted online today that will appear in the August 2007 print issue of Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center have found that early palliative care interventions can reduce the length of stay for seriously ill patients in the medical intensive care unit (MICU) by more than seven days without impacting mortality rates.
A gene implicated in the development of cancer cells can be switched on using drugs, report researchers from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center. The finding could lead to a new class of targeted cancer therapies with potential to benefit many different cancer types.
Research to date has been inconclusive on whether drinking sugar-sweetened beverages between meals increases children?s risk of becoming overweight.
Refugees in Australia have relatively low rates of hospital use, but they may be experiencing barriers to accessing hospital-based health care, refugee health specialists said in the latest edition of the ‘Medical Journal of Australia’.
Students with symptoms of sleep disorders are more likely to receive bad grades in classes such as math, reading and writing than peers without symptoms of sleep disorders, according to a research abstract that will be presented Monday at SLEEP 2007, the 21st Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies (APSS).
The study investigating the claim was published in the June issue of Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health.
Recent studies published in the journal Cancer Science have disproved the common myth that consumption of red meat increases colorectal cancer risk.
Self-rated health is a strong predictor of functional decline and mortality for elderly people presenting to a hospital emergency department, according to a new study published in the latest issue of Emergency Medicine Australasia, the journal of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine.
For many patients, a visit to the primary care physician tends to be a one-sided conversation. Patients begin by stating one medical problem, and immediately the doctor takes over.