Gut Microflora Destroyed During Prolonged ICU Stays, Increasing Risk of Infection
Researchers at the University of Chicago have shown that after a long stay in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) only a handful of pathogenic...
U.S. Patent for Novel Solution to Antibiotic Resistance Problem
A chemist based at the University of Copenhagen has taken out a patent for a drug that can make previously multidrug-resistant bacteria once again...
New SARS-like virus poses medical mystery
Scientists are trying to unravel a medical mystery involving a new type of coronavirus, which come from that same large family of viruses that...
How to Stop Hospitals From Killing Us
Medical errors kill enough people to fill four jumbo jets a week. A surgeon with five simple ways to make health care safer.
When there...
Potentially Life-Saving Cooling Treatment Rarely Used for In-Hospital Cardiac Arrests
The brain-preserving cooling treatment known as therapeutic hypothermia is rarely being used in patients who suffer cardiac arrest while in the hospital, despite its...
