Validate tool for pain assessment in cardiac surgery
How do you measure the pain of a patient who can’t communicate? A Rhode Island Hospital researcher studied an observational pain scale in cardiac surgery patients, and found… read more.
How do you measure the pain of a patient who can’t communicate? A Rhode Island Hospital researcher studied an observational pain scale in cardiac surgery patients, and found… read more.
Understanding the science behind pain, from a simple “ouch” to the chronic and excruciating, has been an elusive goal for centuries. But now, researchers are reporting a promising… read more.
A study by Dr. Jennifer Ligibel, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (pictured), shows exercise can reduce drug-related joint pain in breast cancer patients.
by Bruce Sylvester – A new analysis of over 1 million hospital admissions in US hospitals revealed that over half of all nonsurgical patients were prescribed opioids during… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester – A routine flu vaccine appears to lower the risk of heart attack or stroke by more than 50 per cent among persons who have… read more.
Patients with COPD have trouble pushing used air out of their lungs, making it difficult to take in healthy new air. Although there is no cure for COPD,… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester – Researchers report that an experimental cancer drug which has shown efficacy in treating melanoma also shows promise in treating non-small cell lung cancer, a… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester – taken from the BMJ – British Medical Journal – Patients prescribed the smoking cessation drugs varenicline and buproprian are not at an increased risk… read more.
Report by Esther Drain – Cetuximab resulted in a significant improvement in survival in TP53 WT, high-risk Rectal Cancer.
Investigators reported on Oct. 22 in the Journal of the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus (AAPOS) that treatment with adalimumab may be effective for patients with steroid-resistant… read more.
People with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) are more vulnerable to developing an addictive disorder.
World Psoriasis Day is 29 October 2013. World Psoriasis Day is held today with the theme “Global access to treatment” to highlight the fact that more than 125… read more.
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