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Mothers exposed to cigarette smoke stop breastfeeding sooner, shows study

Researchers have determined that new mothers exposed to cigarette smoke in their homes, stop breastfeeding sooner than women not exposed to second-hand smoke.

2 Aug 2018

Travel time has major impact on nurse staffing ratios in neurocritical care units

For specialist nurses on neurocritical care units, accompanying patients for imaging scans and other procedures has a major impact on nurse staffing ratios, reports a study in the Journal of Neuroscience Nursing, official journal of the American Association of Neuroscience Nurses.

2 Aug 2018

Researchers develop automatic alert system to help people quit smoking

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University are using wearable sensor technology to develop an automatic alert system to help people quit smoking.

1 Aug 2018

Gene linked to hair loss could be exploited to improve cancer immunotherapy

A gene that's associated with an autoimmune form of hair loss could be exploited to improve cancer immunotherapy, suggests a new mouse study by Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) researchers.

31 Jul 2018

Missed visits, uncontrolled pain and fraud: report says hospice lacks oversight

Elderly patients spent over two weeks in uncontrolled pain or respiratory distress. Acute care was rare on weekends. And recruiters went door to door pitching fraudulent schemes, luring healthy patients to sign up for hospice in exchange for free housecleaning and medicine.

31 Jul 2018

Study offers insight into factors influencing decision to perform C-sections

Fear of litigation and perceived safety concerns and are among the key factors influencing the decision to perform a cesarean section, according to a major international literature review conducted by researchers at the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin.

31 Jul 2018

Drinking or smoking while breastfeeding and affects later cognition in children

According to a new study published this week in the journal Pediatrics, quite a few breast feeding women are not abstaining from alcohol and are thus causing exposure of their babies to alcohol. They write in their study that children who are exposed to alcohol in the breast milk that they take are likely to have lower cognitive abilities.

31 Jul 2018

Video recordings reveal potential causes of communication failures between nurses and doctors

Communication breakdown among nurses and doctors is one of the primary reasons for patient care mistakes in the hospital.

30 Jul 2018

Mining a new data set to pinpoint critical staffing issues in skilled nursing facilities

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is not known for linguistic playfulness. Nonetheless, at least one person there must have been chuckling when it named its rich new data source for nursing home staffing levels the Payroll-Based Journal, or PBJ.

30 Jul 2018

Researchers discover how breast cells prevent cancer invasion

Researchers have shown that the cell layer surrounding breast milk ducts reaches out and engulfs cancerous cells to stop their spread.

30 Jul 2018

1,400 nursing homes get lower Medicare ratings because of staffing concerns

Medicare has lowered its star ratings for staffing levels in 1 in 11 of the nation's nursing homes — almost 1,400 of them — because they either had inadequate numbers of registered nurses or failed to provide payroll data that proved they had the required nursing coverage, federal records released last week show.

30 Jul 2018

ProMedica announces addition of HCR ManorCare operations to redefine care for seniors

ProMedica, a mission-based, not-for-profit healthcare system focused on improving health and well-being, today announced the finalization of the transaction that adds HCR ManorCare operations to the ProMedica organization.

27 Jul 2018

Therapy with L-Glutamine reduces pain in patients with sickle cell disease

UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland clinical researchers, in conjunction with other sickle cell centers and scientists at Emmaus Life Sciences, Inc., have demonstrated that therapy with L-Glutamine reduced the frequency of pain episodes in both pediatric and adult patients with sickle cell disease.

27 Jul 2018

Community frets as buyer for cherished rural hospital slips from view

Confusion is growing in the remote Surprise Valley region of northeastern California as locals wonder whether a Denver entrepreneur will make good on his pledge to save their bankrupt rural hospital.

27 Jul 2018

Mind-body therapies provide promising approach to tackle teen anxiety

Mind-body therapies – biofeedback, mindfulness, yoga, and hypnosis – provide a promising approach to the very common problem of anxiety in adolescents, according to a review in the March issue of The Nurse Practitioner.

26 Jul 2018

CNDA approves KEYTRUDA for treatment of advanced melanoma

Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today announced that KEYTRUDA, Merck's anti-PD-1 therapy, has been approved by the China National Drug Administration for the treatment of adult patients with unresectable or metastatic melanoma following failure of one prior line of therapy.

26 Jul 2018

No gaps in understanding: Here’s your primer on Medigap coverage

Every year, older adults can opt out of a Medicare Advantage plan and opt in to original Medicare during open enrollment season, which begins on Oct. 15.

26 Jul 2018

Artwork could be a low-cost way to improve patients' perceptions of hospital experience

Patients' perceptions of the hospital they're being treated in may be improved by the type of artwork hanging in hospital rooms, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers.

25 Jul 2018

Phase 3 study of KEYTRUDA monotherapy meets primary endpoint

Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, announced today that the pivotal Phase 3 KEYNOTE-048 trial investigating KEYTRUDA, Merck's anti-PD-1 therapy, for first-line treatment of recurrent or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, met a primary endpoint of overall survival as monotherapy in patients whose tumors expressed PD-L1.

25 Jul 2018

Scientists find abnormal gene copying in fruit fly models of tauopathies

It sounds like science fiction: Nefarious genes clone themselves and settle their rogue copies in distant outposts of the galaxy (namely, our DNA), causing disease.

24 Jul 2018