Every year, a third of people over 65 living in the UK will experience a fall. This not only causes considerable emotional distress and physical harm, but also costs an already over-stretched health system over £1 billion each year. ...
Tags: Older Adult, BU research, Preventative Exercise, hospital admission
Pregnant women who have a bacterial infection that's diagnosed during hospitalization may be at greater risk of delivering a child with autism, a new study suggests. These infections -- usually of the genitals, urinary tract or amniotic ...
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Doctors who would choose hospice care for themselves if they were dying from cancer are more likely to discuss such care with patients in that situation, a new study finds. And while the majority of doctors in the study said they would ...
Aviva has announced significant improvements to its International Solutions private medical insurance from 1st February 2014. The improvements will provide new and existing customers with enhanced standard benefits and wider geographic ...
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Giving adult trauma patients transfusions of plasma or red blood cells en route to the hospital improves outcomes, U.S. researchers say. A study, led by Dr. John Holcomb of the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, found ...
Kinetic Concepts has launched its new V.A.C. VeraFlo large dressing for larger wounds and wounds requiring additional c. VeraFlo large dressing is designed for easy application of V.A.C. VeraFlo instillation therapy. With this ...
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Medical technology company Kinetic Concepts (KCI) has initiated patient enrollment in a multi-center clinical study that will assess the advantages of negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) with intermittent instillation therapy with a ...
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Computerworld Hong Kong-Like technologies deployed in a corporate environment,those used in healthcare are meant to improve services and productivity.On its new clinical management system(CMS 3),the Hospital Authority aims to create new ...
Tags: Patients, Staff, Tech, healthcare