Category Archives for Medical News
Higher Mortality Rate Post-Heart Surgery for Cancer Survivors
They’ve survived cancer only to be felled by heart problems years later. According to a recent study reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association, individuals having undergone radiation to treat cancer in the past may have a worse prognosis … Continue reading
Tags: American Heart Association, Cancer Patients
Is There Such Thing as “Too Much” Care?
Among the many dilemmas faced by physicians in today’s healthcare system, one of the trickiest is deciding how much care is enough – and how much is too much. Armed with ever evolving technology and treatment options, and without clear … Continue reading
Tags: healthcare accountability, Home Care, hospice, Hospitals, Long Term Care, Palliative care
Your “Off Day” May be the Day to Get to the ER
What can you do to detect a heart attack early on and prevent fatal results? Too Many symptoms of a heart attack go unrecognized or are often overlooked by the patient as an ‘off’ day. Innocuous looking symptoms include, indigestion, … Continue reading
Tags: exercise, health care, heart disease, Heat Attack, Hospitals, research, seniors
Stop Treating The MRI
The baby boomers have entered the orthopedic surgery stage, bringing the overall statistics of orthopedic surgery in America to a new level! In 2009 Americans ages 45 to 64 had approximately 116,000 hip replacements, and 97,000 knee replacements between 2004 … Continue reading
Tags: Aging, baby boomers, health care, knee replacement, Medical News, Medicare, MRI, New England Journal of Medicine, orthopedic surgery, seniors
PolyGel Portable Device for DVT Therapy Helps Patients Be Compliant After Surgery
Major surgical procedures are events where medical staff must be reminded that certain patients can be at higher risk for deep vein thrombosis and venous thromboembolism. Postphlebitic syndrome and pulmonary embolisms can occur in the hours, days, and weeks after … Continue reading
Tags: DVT therapy, Hospitals, nursing homes, PolyGel portable device, sequential compression devices, Vascular PRN
Long Surgeries Necessitate Better Therapeutic Surfaces for Patient Skin Integrity
A recent study in the Association of Perioperative Registered Nurses (AORN) Journal shows that patients can develop pressure ulcers when a surgery lasts more than three hours. How the patient is positioned, the table surface, and skin integrity all play … Continue reading
Tags: Air Loss Mattress, Decubitis Ulcers, lymphedema pumps, Pressure Ulcers, SCD boots, sequential compression devices, Skin IQ, Vascular PRN
It takes a Virtual Patient to Make a Healthy Village
So now there’s a new, safer way to test medical procedures by creating “virtual patients”, computerized realistic-looking models that are “serviced” by medical devices and procedures that can’t be tested in “vulnerable” patients, such as pregnant women. Dr. X. George … Continue reading
Tags: Dr. X. George Xu, health care, Medical News, radiation, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, research, virtual patients, Wall Street Journal
Old Age or B12?
A mind blowing discovery recently printed in the New York Times by Jane E. Brody, indicates that a B12 deficiency can show similar symptoms to someone with Alzheimer’s. She shares an evocative story of Mrs. Katz, who was diagnosed with … Continue reading
Tags: Aging, Alzheimers/Dementia, dementia, health care, Medical News, research
Hurray for this FDA Reversal..A Positive Note in Beating Melanoma
Doctors have had few tools in their fight to tackle melanoma, so here’s a toast to Mela Sciences, and its chief executive, Joseph Gulfo for pursuing a seven-year battle with the FDA. Undaunted by last year’s rejection of the MelaFind, … Continue reading
Tags: FDA, Joseph Gulfo, MelaFind, melanoma, Tom Burton
