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Barriers to Mental Health Care for Mental Health Professionals
How do we help the helpers?
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Shorter people fare worse in ICU, researchers unsure why
Shorter patients in hospital intensive care units, or ICUs, are more likely to die during treatment than taller ones, a new study suggests. Among more than 400,000 critically ill adults, the shortest patients (4 feet, 6 inches) were 29 percent (men) and 24 percent (women) more likely to die in the hospital than the tallest -- 6 feet, 6 inches, the study found.
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Worsening migraine due to neurocysticercosis
When a woman with a history of migraine had new symptoms, MRI revealed a tapeworm scolex in her brain.
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Majority of heart failure cases being missed by GPs as 'target culture' blamed for new 'medical emergency'
Two thirds of cases of deadly heart failure are being missed by GPs - amid warnings that an NHS target culture is fuelling a “medical emergency”. Leading cardiac experts said women and older patients were faring worst, amid “dangerous” failures to spot the life-threatening condition which can be treated with cheap pills.
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Teen accuses world-famous Mayo Clinic of 'medical kidnapping'
A dying teenager's parents begged for her to be sent to the Mayo Clinic. The family says the world-renowned hospital saved her life and then tried to "medically kidnap" her.
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Better blood test may spot heart attack faster.
A new blood test can help emergency room doctors more quickly determine whether patients with chest pain are having a heart attack. The test is a more sensitive version of one that emergency physicians have been using. The conventional troponin test takes three hours, the high-sensitivity version can give results in less than an hour. High-sensitivity troponin tests have been available in Europe and elsewhere for years. But the first such test in the United States was just approved last year.
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Selfie with a Bengal tiger turns up man wanted for homicide
Taking a selfie with a Bengal tiger proved to be costly in more ways than one for a casino owner in Mérida, Yucatán.
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Number of patients readmitted to hospital rises to 1.38m in a year
A growing number of patients are being readmitted to hospital as emergency cases within days of being discharged, raising fears that hospitals are so busy and understaffed that they are providing inadequate care. The number of patients who have to be taken back into hospital in England within 30 days rose 19.2% from 1.16 million in 2010-11 to 1.38 million in 2016-17, according to a report by the Nuffield Trust and Health Foundation thinktanks.
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Hospitals miss dementia even when already diagnosed
Dementia is being missed by hospital doctors in four in ten cases, research shows. The study by University College London found medical staff are routinely treating patients without realising that they had been diagnosed with dementia. Researchers said the failure to properly record their illness meant vulnerable elderly people were being discharged from hospital with instructions to take crucial medication, without medics realising that they were likely to be suffering from memory problems.
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Medicare will require hospitals to post prices online
Medicare says it plans to require hospitals to post their standard prices online and to make electronic medical records more readily available to patients. The head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Seema Verma, said Tuesday the initiative reflects the Trump administration's effort to encourage patients to become decision makers in their own care.
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HP releases new germicide-resistant computers for hospitals
HP announced a new line of laptops, displays, and all-in-one desktops resistant to intense cleaning materials for people who work in hospitals and doctors’ offices. There are three products. There’s HP’s EliteOne 800 Healthcare Edition All-in-One desktop, there’s the 27-inch HP Healthcare Edition Clinical Review Display, and there’s the EliteBook 840 Healthcare Edition notebook.
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Proposed merger would put the largest US health care provider under the direction of the Catholic Church
The news that two major Catholic health care systems, Ascension and Providence St. Joseph Health, are considering a merger that would create a nearly 200-hospital behemoth spanning 27 states raises questions about the expanded imposition of Catholic ethical norms on the health care system in the coming year. This article is reprinted with permission from Religion Dispatches. Follow RD on Facebook or Twitter for daily updates. In addition to the Ascension-Providence merger, two other large Catholic…
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Emergency rooms are monopolies. Patients pay the price.
New data shows how emergency rooms take advantage of their market share, at the expense of their patients.
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How One Las Vegas Emergency Department Saved Hundreds of Lives After the Worst Mass Shooting in U.S. History
The night that Stephen Paddock opened fire on thousands of people at a Las Vegas country music concert, nearby Sunrise Hospital received more than 200 penetrating gunshot wound victims. Dr. Kevin Menes was the attending in charge of the ED that night, and thanks to his experience supporting a local SWAT team, he’d thought ahead about how he might mobilize his department in the event of a mass casualty incident.
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Hospital ship empty as ill Puerto Ricans suffer
Sammy Rolon is living in a makeshift clinic set up at a school. He has cerebral palsy and epilepsy and is bedridden. He's waiting for surgery that was scheduled before Hurricane Maria smashed into Puerto Rico. Now, he can't even get the oxygen he needs. There is help available for the 18-year-old -- right offshore. A floating state-of-the-art hospital, the USNS Comfort, could provide critical care, his doctor says.
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Salt Lake police, nurses group develop new policy for hospital interactions
The Salt Lake City law enforcement officers will be following new written policies for dealing with hospitals across the valley, the police chief said Thursday. The new procedures are a direct response to a July 26 incident when a Salt Lake police officer roughly arrested University of Utah Hospital nurse Alex Wubbels after she refused to draw blood from an unconscious patient without a warrant.
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Doctors Want Sugar and 'Cancer-Causing' Foods Out of Hospitals
Hospitals should not serve the unhealthy foods that cause chronic health problems, a doctors' group says.
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Bled dry
Reckless management of Nye Regional Medical Center in Tonopah, Nev., left a community bereft of jobs, health care and peace of mind. By Miles Moffelt.
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Maybe It's a Bad Sign When Hospitals Come Out Against Your Healthcare Plan
But what do hospitals know about healthcare? Oh, right.
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New Kuwaiti hospital to refuse to treat migrant labourers
A new hospital in Kuwait will only treat citizens and not foreigners, officials have confirmed, in what has widely been seen as a discriminatory measure against the Gulf state’s millions of low-paid manual migrant workers. The new 304 million dinar (£802 million) Jaber Hospital, 20 minutes’ drive away from downtown Kuwait City, is the first public hospital to be built in country where public services are under pressure since 1984.
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