In an interview for NBC News, Vin Gupta, MD, MPA, MSc, affiliate assistant professor of Health Metrics Sciences at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at…
Dileep R. Yavagal, MD, Professor of Neurology & Neurosurgery and Chief Interventional Neurologist at the University of Miami – Miller School of Medicine, describes a treatment that has…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – About 1% of outpatient endoscopies require a subsequent visit to the emergency room for related complications, but fewer than a quarter of these…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The hope of finding a way to quickly measure carboxyhemoglobin levels in suspected carbon monoxide poisoning is still unfulfilled, it seems. The Rad-57…
Jonathan Sackier, MD, a Visiting Professor of Surgery at the University of Virginia, discusses the steps needed to reduce the incidence of catheter related blood stream infection (CRBSI).…
Jonathan Sackier, MD, a Visiting Professor of Surgery at the University of Virginia, discusses the complicated issue of calculating the cost of catheter related blood stream infections. (CRBSI).…
Jonathan Sackier, MD, a Visiting Professor of Surgery at the University of Virginia, discusses the incidence and costs of catheter related blood stream infections (CRBSI) in hospitals in…
Jonathan Sackier, MD, a Visiting Professor of Surgery at the University of Virginia, discusses the ongoing problem of Catheter Related Blood Stream Infections in hospitals in the United…
Jeff Donnell, President of NoMoreClipboard speaks about the impact of Personal Health Records on doctor-patient communication, patient adherence, decreased medical costs, and improved health outcomes. Jeff Donnell will…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients incurring traumatic brain injury do not fare any better if they are given hypertonic fluids before reaching the hospital, according to a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Trauma patients transfused with ABO-compatible plasma have a higher rate of complications such as sepsis and renal failure than patients given ABO-identical plasma,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Whether appendectomy for acute appendicitis is performed within 6 hours or more than 12 hours after admission has no clinically meaningful effect on…
