News articles tagged with 'acute'
New direction for epilepsy treatment
— 29 Mar 2011 16:31 | HealthIf common anticonvulsant drugs fail to manage epileptic seizures, then perhaps the anti-inflammatory route is the way to go. That's according to Mattia Maroso and colleagues from the…
UK stroke care is improving, but inequalities still exist
— 26 Feb 2011 16:27 | HealthThe quality of stroke care in the UK is improving, but significant inequalities still exist, warns a new study published on bmj.com today…
Viral infection not responsible for exacerbation of lung disease in most patients
— 26 Feb 2011 16:15 | HealthAcute viral infection does not appear to be a primary cause of acute exacerbation of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a progressive, deadly disease resulting in thickening and scarring…
Most stroke patients don't get clot-busting treatment in timely manner, study finds
— 11 Feb 2011 17:00 | HealthEvery minute counts after the onset of a stroke. The more time that elapses before a patient receives an intravenous drug to help break up the clot that is blocking a blood vessel in…
JPEG for the mind: How the brain compresses visual information
— 11 Feb 2011 16:36 | HealthMost of us are familiar with the idea of image compression in computers. File extensions like '.jpg' or '.png' signify that millions of pixel values have been compressed into a more…
Most stroke patients not getting clot-busting treatment in timely manner
— 11 Feb 2011 16:15 | HealthLess than one-third of acute stroke patients treated with intravenous tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) receive the clot-busting drug within 60 minutes of their hospital arrival, according…
Gene protects lung from damage due to pneumonia, sepsis, trauma, transplants
— 9 Feb 2011 16:47 | HealthLung injury is a common cause of death among patients with pneumonia, sepsis or trauma and in those who have had lung transplants. The damage often occurs suddenly and can cause life-threatening…
High-spending hospitals may save more lives
— 1 Feb 2011 20:45 | HealthStudies have shown that regions spending more on medical care, such as Miami, do not have better health outcomes than regions that spend relatively less, such as Minneapolis. However,…
After stroke, admission to designated stroke centre hospitals associated with reduced risk of death
— 26 Jan 2011 18:31 | HealthPatients who had an ischaemic stroke and were admitted to hospitals designated as primary stroke centres had a modestly lower risk of death at 30 days, compared to patients who were…
Seroprevalence of anti-HAV among patients with chronic viral liver disease
— 25 Jan 2011 19:20 | HealthHepatitis A virus (HAV) is an epidemiologically important virus with a worldwide distribution and causes acute hepatitis in humans. Acute HAV superinfection causes severe liver disease,…