Jan 17, 2020

Thoracic injury is common on the battlefield and in terrorist attacks, occurring in 10% to 70% of patients depending on the type of weapons used. Typical injuries seen include bullet, blast, and fra...

Jan 17, 2020

Despite evidence that low osmolar radiocontrast media is not associated with acute kidney injury, it is important to evaluate this association in critically ill patients with normal kidney function.Th...

Jan 17, 2020

Angiopoietin-1 (Ang-1) and 2 (Ang-2), high mobility group box 1 (HMGB1), soluble receptor for advanced glycation endproducts (sRAGE), soluble triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 1 (sTREM1),...

Jan 17, 2020

Currently, there are no reliable predictors of risk of development and severity of acute kidney injury (AKI) in septic patients. The surfactant protein D (SP-D) polymorphism rs721917C/T is associated ...

Jan 14, 2020

By Lisa Rapaport People who smoke or have recently quit have higher odds of being severely impaired after a stroke than their counterparts who never smoked, a new study su...

Jan 09, 2020

THURSDAY, Jan. 9, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- In a clinical practice guideline from the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Foundation, published online Jan. 7 in Otolaryngology-Head...

Jan 08, 2020

Significantly more patients treated with Ubrelvy versus placebo achieved pain freedom two hours post-treatment TUESDAY, Dec. 24, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Ubrelvy (ubrogepant) tablets have been ap...

Jan 07, 2020

Agency says it is still too early to know how severe this year's flu season will be. MONDAY, Dec. 30, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Flu continues to spread throughout the United States and has reached...

Jan 07, 2020

Percentage of critical care admissions and suicidal intent increased in each era. MONDAY, Dec. 30, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- The severity of pediatric admissions for acute opioid ingestions, especia...

Jan 02, 2020

Most peanut-allergic individuals could tolerate tree nuts, but many avoid them MONDAY, Dec. 30, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Individual tree nuts have unique characteristics in the context of peanut al...

Dec 30, 2019

New evidence demonstrates more clearly that it is possible to develop severe immediate hypersensitivity to macrogols, of which the most familiar form to most physicians is polyethylene glycol (PEG) 33...

Dec 27, 2019

The longer patients continue with buprenorphine treatment, the lower their risk of adverse outcomes.   THURSDAY, Dec. 26, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Buprenorphine treatment may be needed ...

Dec 19, 2019

A study has found that an updated risk calculator is a better discriminator of risk than other risk assessment strategies for patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension.   When manag...

Dec 09, 2019

Previous studies indicate that approximately half of Medicare spending is accounted for by those with four or more comorbidities, yet this group experiences poor outcomes including unmanaged symptoms ...

Dec 05, 2019

THURSDAY, Dec. 5, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Current and former electronic cigarette users have increased odds of depression compared with never users, according to a study published online Dec. 4 in JA...

Dec 04, 2019

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 4, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Deep learning models can be used for interpretation of chest radiographs, according to a study published online Dec. 3 in Radiology. Anna Majkowska, Ph.D.,...

Dec 03, 2019

TUESDAY, Nov. 26, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first tympanostomy tube delivery system that can be performed under local anesthesia in a physician's ...

Dec 03, 2019

TUESDAY, Dec. 3, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Exposure to ambient air pollution is associated with a higher risk for glaucoma and adverse structural characteristics of the disease, according to a study pu...

Dec 03, 2019

TUESDAY, Dec. 3, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Low clinical pretest probability (C-PTP) and a ᴅ-dimer of less than 1,000 ng/mL identify patients with a low risk for pulmonary embolism, according to a...

Dec 03, 2019

TUESDAY, Dec. 3, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- A digital sepsis alert is associated with improved outcomes, according to a study published online Nov. 20 in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics ...