Intrahospital transport of ICU patients a moment of risk
Credit: Photo by Malin Arnesson When bedbound intensive care patients are moved within a hospital, the single most common risk ...
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Injections are two-and-a-half times safer when nurses use revamped guidelines
Credit: Gustavo Fring The UK's National Health Service (NHS) is changing the way it writes its guidelines for giving injections ...
Charcoal a weapon to fight superoxide-induced disease, injury
Nanomaterials soak up radicals, could aid treatment of COVID-19Credit: Tour Group/Rice University HOUSTON - (July 1, 2020) - Artificial enzymes ...
American Journal of Roentgenology updates from new editor in chief, Andrew B. Rosenkrantz
Immediate changes to AJR, the world's longest continuously published general radiology journal, include author-centered peer review, rapid publication of Online ...
Next-generation sequencing to provide precision medicine for rare metabolic disorders
Credit: Image: Courtesy of A. V. Pandey An international team of scientists from Switzerland Spain, has studied the genetic basis ...
FCC grant to expand UVA Health’s COVID-19 telehealth care
More than $750,000 to support remote patient monitoring, virtual urgent careCredit: UVA Health The Federal Communications Commission awarded UVA Health ...
Nationwide EMS calls have dropped 26% since the start of the pandemic
Credit: ©2020 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine BUFFALO, N.Y. - Since early March and the start of the COVID-19 pandemic ...
New study looks at post-COVID-19 emerging disease in children
Credit: Radiological Society of North America OAK BROOK, Ill. (June 24, 2020) - In recent weeks, a multisystem hyperinflammatory condition ...
Study is first to identify potential therapeutic targets for COVID-19
Researchers profile the body's immune response in critically ill patientsCredit: Lawson Health Research Institute LONDON, ONTARIO - A team from ...
First COVID-19 vaccine trial in South Africa begins
The first participants in South Africa's first clinical trial for a vaccine against Covid-19 will be vaccinated this weekCredit: WITS ...
New article clarifies details of COVID-19 respiratory transmission
Credit: ATS June 22, 2020-- In a new article, scientists provide an exhaustive, evidence-based review of how COVID-19 droplets from ...
MRI test for football players that could detect CTE, developed by Ben-Gurion U. researcher
Credit: Ben-Gurion University BEER-SHEVA, Israel...June 19, 2020 - Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a neurodegenerative disease caused by repeated head injuries ...
Boston partnership leverages local manufacturing to quickly produce reusable face shields
Credit: Dr. James Rathmell Researchers at a major Boston academic medical center designed, fabricated, tested, and implemented a reusable face ...
COVID-19 collaboration reduces infections in long-term care facilities
Credit: UVA Health A collaborative program developed at UVA Health to work with local long-term care facilities control COVID-19 is ...