http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have found that informed adults can help families stave off complications associated with asthma. The findings, available online and in the December issue of Pediatrics, suggest that interventions by parent mentors - caregivers of asthmatic children who have received specialized topical training - can effectively reduce wheezing, asthma attacks, emergency room visits and missed adult workdays. http://www.physorg.com/news178786464.html Medicine & Health Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:10:02 EST news178786464 (AP) -- A new study suggests that a type of "super X-ray" can give a faster, cheaper way to tell whether a chest pain sufferer is really having a heart attack. http://www.physorg.com/news177773061.html Medicine & Health Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:50:08 EST news177773061 (AP) -- The number of students staying home sick with the flu is multiplying nationwide and normally quiet school nurses' offices suddenly look like big city emergency rooms, packed with students too ill to finish the day. http://www.physorg.com/news175974502.html Medicine & Health Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:58:57 EST news175974502 (AP) -- President Barack Obama declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency, giving his health chief the power to let hospitals move emergency rooms offsite to speed treatment and protect noninfected patients. http://www.physorg.com/news175692709.html Medicine & Health Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:32:10 EST news175692709 (PhysOrg.com) -- Halloween is supposed to be a spooky night, but parents don`t have to be scared about their kids` safety if they follow some simple safety tips from Safe Kids Dauphin County, led by the Penn State Hershey Children`s Hospital at the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. It`s essential for parents to prepare their children properly to stay safe while trick-or-treating. Roughly four times as many children aged 5-14 are killed while walking on Halloween evening compared with other evenings of the year. http://www.physorg.com/news175361257.html Medicine & Health Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:10:01 EST news175361257 (PhysOrg.com) -- African Americans enrolled in HMOs are far more likely to use the ER and to delay getting needed prescription drugs than HMO-insured members of other racial and ethnic groups, a new study has found. http://www.physorg.com/news174152410.html Medicine & Health Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:00:01 EST news174152410 (AP) -- Wondering if swine flu's bad enough to require a doctor's attention? An interactive Web site may help you decide, using the same type of triage calculations that doctors at Emory University use. http://www.physorg.com/news174138311.html Medicine & Health Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:45:54 EST news174138311 (PhysOrg.com) -- In a new study, Yale University researchers document a disturbing lack of consistency among U.S. hospitals in how quickly they treat patients in emergency rooms. Furthermore, some hospitals were least able to provide timely care to the sickest patients. The study appears online early in Annals of Emergency Medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news173637912.html Medicine & Health Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:00:06 EST news173637912 (AP) -- If a third of people wind up catching swine flu, 15 states could run out of hospital beds around the time the outbreak peaks, a new report warns Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news173618532.html Medicine & Health Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:22:58 EST news173618532 (AP) -- Fast-food places have them. Banks and pharmacies do, too. Now hospitals are opening drive-thrus and drive-up tent clinics to screen and treat a swelling tide of swine flu patients. http://www.physorg.com/news173458381.html Medicine & Health Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:53:38 EST news173458381 Swine flu is not a danger for what it is, the experts say. It's a danger for what it could be. That's why officials are pushing swine flu vaccine, which should start arriving as early as Oct. 6. http://www.physorg.com/news173379230.html Medicine & Health Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:20:01 EST news173379230 (PhysOrg.com) -- An 11year national analysis at Children's Hospital Boston shows that side effects or accidental overdoses of medications are a common complication of outpatient care in children, generating more than half a million additional visits per year, particularly in children age 4 and younger. Findings are reported in the October issue of Pediatrics. http://www.physorg.com/news173377334.html Medicine & Health Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:50:05 EST news173377334 (AP) -- More than half a million U.S. children yearly have bad reactions or side effects from widely used medicines that require medical treatment and sometimes hospitalization, new research shows. http://www.physorg.com/news173354731.html Medicine & Health Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:20:01 EST news173354731 (PhysOrg.com) -- You wake up a bit dizzy with a headache. By the time you dress and arrive at work, your throat is sore and your nose is runny. You're running a slight temperature. Could it be H1N1 flu? Should you rush to the emergency room? http://www.physorg.com/news172946284.html Medicine & Health Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:20:03 EST news172946284 In a small "proof of principle" study, stroke researchers at Johns Hopkins and the University of Illinois have found that a simple, one-minute eye movement exam performed at the bedside worked better than an MRI to distinguish new strokes from other less serious disorders in patients complaining of dizziness, nausea and spinning sensations. http://www.physorg.com/news172497547.html Medicine & Health Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:10:03 EST news172497547 (AP) -- When Dr. Robert Flaherty launched a private practice in 2001, he soon found himself cramming in as many patients as possible to make ends meet, leaving little time to discuss with them the steps they could take to prevent future health troubles. http://www.physorg.com/news172073718.html Medicine & Health Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:15:53 EST news172073718 A key statistic that consumer groups and the media often use when compiling hospital report cards and national rankings can be misleading, researchers report in a new study. http://www.physorg.com/news171636544.html Medicine & Health Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:00:02 EST news171636544 (AP) -- Janie Johnson has no health insurance, so when she cut her toe while giving herself a pedicure, she limped to the emergency room at one of Chicago's safety net hospitals and waited her turn. http://www.physorg.com/news171611082.html Medicine & Health Tue, 08 Sep 2009 06:45:27 EST news171611082 A one-year evaluation at Group Health Cooperative is the first to demonstrate the measurable benefit to both patients and staff when a primary care practice adopts a "patient-centered medical home" model. This model gives patients more time with doctors, more preventive care, and improved collaboration among caregivers. The September 2009 American Journal of Managed Care will publish the results -which include significantly fewer emergency room visits and hospitalizations. http://www.physorg.com/news171048521.html Medicine & Health Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:30:02 EST news171048521 (AP) -- Calls to poison control centers about teens abusing attention-deficit drugs soared 76 percent over eight years, sobering evidence about the dangerous consequences of prescription misuse, a study shows. http://www.physorg.com/news170307731.html Medicine & Health Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:00:01 EST news170307731 (PhysOrg.com) -- Chris and Lindsey Deems know firsthand how dangerous beach fire pits can be to children. Their daughter Delaney, 2, suffered second- and third-degree burns to her feet when she stepped into a sand-covered fire pit July 18 at Doheny State Beach in Dana Point. http://www.physorg.com/news169148166.html Medicine & Health Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:00:02 EST news169148166 The nation's sickest and most expensive patients need fewer health care resources and cost insurers less when they are closely supported by a nurse-physician primary care team that tracks their health and offers regular support, according to a study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The research, published in the American Journal of Managed Care, found that in the first eight months of a randomized controlled trial, patients in a primary care enhancement program called "Guided Care" spent less time in hospitals and skilled nursing facilities and had fewer emergency room visits and home health episodes. http://www.physorg.com/news168843872.html Medicine & Health Fri, 07 Aug 2009 07:10:01 EST news168843872 Johns Hopkins experts in applied physics, computer engineering, infectious diseases, emergency medicine, microbiology, pathology and surgery have unveiled a 7-foot-tall, $10,000 shower-cubicle-shaped device that automatically sanitizes in 30 minutes all sorts of hard-to-clean equipment in the highly trafficked hospital emergency department. The novel device can sanitize and disinfect equipment of all shapes and sizes, from intravenous line poles and blood pressure cuffs, to pulse oximeter wires and electrocardiogram (EKG) wires, to computer keyboards and cellphones. http://www.physorg.com/news168252568.html Medicine & Health Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:50:50 EST news168252568 Dialysis treatments do not affect the heart health of kidney disease patients who have had a heart attack, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN). Since cardiovascular disease is the most common cause of death in kidney disease patients, the findings are good news for individuals who need the treatments. http://www.physorg.com/news166379457.html Medicine & Health Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:50:01 EST news166379457 The use of cardiac CT for low-risk chest pain patients in the emergency department, instead of the traditional standard of care (SOC) workup, may reduce a patient`s length of stay and hospital charges, according to a study performed at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA. The SOC workup, which is timely and expensive, consists of a series of cardiac enzyme tests, ECGs and nuclear stress testing. http://www.physorg.com/news166357274.html Medicine & Health Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:22:10 EST news166357274 (AP) -- Baby Riley Matthews wheezed noisily on the exam table. "He's belly-breathing," the emergency-room doctor said worriedly - Riley's little abdomen was markedly rising and falling with each breath, a sign of respiratory distress. http://www.physorg.com/news166164064.html Medicine & Health Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:30:01 EST news166164064 (AP) -- Government experts called for sweeping safety restrictions Tuesday on the most widely used painkiller, including reducing the maximum dose of Tylenol and eliminating prescription drugs such as Vicodin and Percocet. http://www.physorg.com/news165598861.html Medicine & Health Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:41:30 EST news165598861 (AP) -- Government experts are scheduled to vote on whether Nyquil and other combination cold medications should be pulled from the market to help curb deadly overdoses. http://www.physorg.com/news165555611.html Medicine & Health Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:40:01 EST news165555611 (AP) -- Health officials say more than 47,000 elderly Americans end up in emergency rooms each year from falls involving walkers and canes. http://www.physorg.com/news165498833.html Medicine & Health Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:30:01 EST news165498833 (AP) -- Tylenol, Excedrin, NyQuil. These household brands and others have come to symbolize safe, convenient relief from the aches and pains of everyday life. But this week the Food and Drug Administration is focusing on a seldom-discussed side effect of the medications: severe liver damage. Since the drugs first became widely available in the 1950s, the FDA has tried to minimize the risks of acetaminophen - the pain-relieving, fever-reducing ingredient in Tylenol and dozens of other prescription and over-the-counter medications. http://www.physorg.com/news165488167.html Medicine & Health Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:56:42 EST news165488167