Article: Seven Days

Article: Patients in US 5 times more likely to spend last days in ...
NewsRx Health & Science;  November 15, 2009 ;     700+ words ...Patients who die in the hospital in the United States are almost five times as likely to have spent part of their last hospital stay in the ICU than patients in England. What's more, over the age of 85, ICU usage among terminal patients is eight times higher in the U.S. than in England, according

Article: Surgeons at Boston Medical Center offering new procedure for acid ...
NewsRx Health & Science;  November 15, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... GERD so frequent and severe that they experience symptoms every day. Normally, after swallowing, a valve between the esophagus ... are typically able to return home and to normal activities the day following the procedure," he added. Complications associated ...

Article: Emerging imaging modalities impact diagnosis of digestive ...
NewsRx Health & Science;  November 15, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... of the TER for increasing the diagnostic yield of colonoscopy. This preliminary analysis of 126 patients who underwent same-day back-to-back colonoscopy and colonoscopy with TER found that the relative risk of missing a lesion with colonoscopy versus ...

Article: Study finds delay in follow-up among African-American women ...
NewsRx Health & Science;  November 15, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... clinical exam and to complete a diagnostic follow-up (median time = 44 days for African Americans and 40 days for European Americans). When time was measured in the number of days between the mammogram and the date of final status, a significant ...

Article: Researchers find room design can enhance patient care.(Report)
NewsRx Health & Science;  November 15, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... Steelcase and Mayo Clinic, was conducted to understand the extent to which a consultation room designed to support present-day clinical encounters could affect the consultation between patients and clinicians. The results of this randomized trial, the ...

Article: Study shows how carbon nanotubes can affect lining of the lungs.
NewsRx Health & Science;  November 15, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... environmental and molecular toxicology at NC State and senior author of the study. The "unique reaction" began within one day of inhalation of the nanotubes, when clusters of immune cells (lymphocytes and monocytes) began collecting on the surface ...

Article: Rochester-led Parkinson's study pays off again, 2 decades later.
NewsRx Health & Science;  November 15, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... protect patients or simply serve as a marker of protection, the finding supports the idea that patients and doctors may one day be able to better predict the course of the illness. The study, led by scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital and the ...