Archive: 20/09/2016

Hospitals increasingly employing doctors, effects on care uncertain

(HealthDay)—Hospitals are increasingly switching to an employment relationship with physicians, but switching has had no impact on primary composite quality metrics, according to a study published online Sept. 20 in the ...

Sep 20, 2016

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Art therapy, clown visits cut children's preoperative anxiety

(HealthDay)—An intervention based on art therapy and clown visits can reduce children's anxiety at preoperative separation from parents, according to a study published online Sept. 14 in the Journal of Clinical Nursing.

Sep 20, 2016

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Diabetes ups risk of amputation in critical limb ischemia

(HealthDay)—For patients with critical limb ischemia (CLI), those with diabetes mellitus (DM) are at increased risk of major amputation, according to a study published online Sept. 9 in Diabetes Care.

Sep 20, 2016

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Misoprostol doesn't cut risk of postpartum hemorrhage

(HealthDay)—For women in the third stage of labor, misoprostol administered with routine oxytocin does not reduce the rate of postpartum hemorrhage, according to a study published online Sept. 5 in Obstetrics & Gynecology.

Sep 20, 2016

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Key steps can help patients recover from a stay in the ICU

Your 80-something-year-old dad has just been admitted to the hospital's intensive care unit after a stroke or a heart attack. Now, he's surrounded by blinking monitors, with tubes in his arms and alarms going off around him.

Sep 20, 2016

Gemigliptin, metformin combo beats monotherapy in T2DM

(HealthDay)—Gemigliptin combined with metformin is superior to monotherapy with either drug for patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), according to a study published online Sept. 13 in Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism.

Sep 20, 2016

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Drop in use of digital rectal examination, PSA testing

(HealthDay)—Following U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommendations against routine prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening, there has been a decrease in utilization of digital rectal examination and PSA ...

Sep 20, 2016

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FDA wants an app to match opioid overdose victims with rescue drug

Hoping to reduce the death toll in the nation's epidemic of opioid drug use, the Food and Drug Administration is calling for the development of a cellphone app that could quickly bring lifesaving medication to the rescue ...

Sep 20, 2016