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Three papers scheduled for publication in the January 2009 issue of the Journal of Hospital Infection suggest that copper might have a role in the fight against healthcare-associated infections (HAI, or more popularly known as “superbugs“).
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The first – and only – national clinical practice guideline to help healthcare practitioners identify and manage patients with hoarseness, also known as dysphonia, is being issued by The American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck...
The first – and only – national clinical practice guideline to help healthcare practitioners identify and manage patients with hoarseness, also known as dysphonia, is being issued by The American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck...
The oral contraceptives Yaz and Yasmin are the top-selling pharmaceutical line for Bayer HealthCare, largely as a result of marketing that presents them as much more than mere pregnancy prevention. But recently, the Yaz line’s image has been clouded...
ESCardio.org – Western societies are struggling to pay for their ever increasing medical budgets. In the US up to 393 billion US dollars were spent in 2005 for cardiovascular diseases alone. Based on epidemiologic studies in primary prevention it...
Summer’s brutal heat brings with it the dangers of skin-scorching sunburn, heartbreaking accidents and deadly dehydration. Summer is also the time when travel season peaks, as people journey to various locations for rest and relaxation, to enjoy water...
The injectable Melanotan has recently been the subject of an urgent warning by the Government’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency.
RSTechMedic.com - Dyna-Vision®, a new and patented Bluetooth-connected telemedicine device, can increase patient comfort and reduce hospital and healthcare cost by greatly expanding the ability of doctors to monitor patients’s health status in...
AHRQ.gov – Two new guides to help consumers and clinicians prevent and treat the dangerous blood clots known as deep vein thrombosis were released recently by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Agency for Healthcare Research and...
Elderly patients who are prescribed a conventional, or first-generation, antipsychotic medication are at an increased risk of death from cardiovascular or respiratory diseases as compared to those who take an atypical, or second-generation, antipsychotic...