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. Survival rates from out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrest almost doubled when professional rescuers using cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) gave better chest compressions and minimized interruptions to them, according to research reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. http://www.physorg.com/news160674127.html Medicine & Health Mon, 04 May 2009 16:46:34 EST news160674127 Although most parents do not consider furniture and televisions to be dangerous, children are often injured when these items tip over. A recent study conducted by the Center for Injury Research and Policy of The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital found that from 1990-2007 an average of nearly 15,000 children younger than 18 years of age visited emergency departments annually for injuries received from furniture tip-overs. http://www.physorg.com/news160636445.html Medicine & Health Mon, 04 May 2009 06:15:42 EST news160636445 (AP) -- President Barack Obama voiced hope Friday that the swine flu virus will run its course "like ordinary flus" as the government reported more than two dozen new cases and Continental Airlines curtailed flights into more heavily ravaged Mexico. http://www.physorg.com/news160404467.html Medicine & Health Fri, 01 May 2009 13:48:18 EST news160404467 (AP) -- Concerns about a possible pandemic have sent people streaming into crowded emergency rooms and walk-in clinics - not with swine flu, but the swine flu jitters. http://www.physorg.com/news160374821.html Medicine & Health Fri, 01 May 2009 05:34:17 EST news160374821 (AP) -- President Barack Obama said Wednesday that wider school closings in the U.S. may be necessary in an escalating global health emergency that claimed the first death in the United States and swept Germany onto the roster of afflicted nations. Obama said local schools across America should consider temporarily shutting down if conditions worsen. http://www.physorg.com/news160222509.html Medicine & Health Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:15:35 EST news160222509 Turns out most Americans are all for moving to a comprehensive system of electronic medical records. They just don't think it's going to save us any money when it comes to health care. http://www.physorg.com/news160219155.html Medicine & Health Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:19:41 EST news160219155 General anesthesia (GA) is associated with an increased risk of infant intubation and low Apgar scores, relative to regional anesthesia. An analysis of 50,806 cesarean deliveries, published in the open access journal BMC Medicine, strongly supports guidelines that regional anesthesia is to be preferred over GA for most cesarean sections. http://www.physorg.com/news160213851.html Medicine & Health Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:51:40 EST news160213851 California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday declared a state of emergency to tackle the swine flu outbreak but stressed there was "no need for alarm." http://www.physorg.com/news160147777.html Medicine & Health Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:30:10 EST news160147777 Swine flu hit Europe with the first confirmed cases in Britain and Spain on Monday as governments and travel companies urged travellers to avoid Mexico where the virus has likely killed 149 people. http://www.physorg.com/news160070820.html Medicine & Health Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:07:37 EST news160070820 Physicians teaching at medical schools and doctors who have just completed their first year out of medical school disagree about which procedures are necessary to learn before graduating, according to a new survey done by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news160056379.html Medicine & Health Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:06:58 EST news160056379 (AP) -- President Barack Obama declared Monday that spreading swine flu infections were a concern but "not a cause for alarm," while customs agents began checking people coming into the United States by land and air. The World Health Organization said there were 40 confirmed cases in the U.S. but no deaths. http://www.physorg.com/news160054428.html Medicine & Health Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:34:10 EST news160054428 (AP) -- The Mexican government is trying to stem the spread of a deadly strain of swine flu as a new work week begins by urging people to stay home Monday if they have any symptoms of the virus believed to have killed more than 100 people. http://www.physorg.com/news160039263.html Medicine & Health Mon, 27 Apr 2009 08:23:17 EST news160039263 (AP) -- Esti Lamonaca's illness started with a high fever, a cough and achy bones, just a couple of days after she returned from a spring break trip on the beach in Cancun with friends. By the weekend, her voice was hoarse and she was wearing a surgical mask. http://www.physorg.com/news160030775.html Medicine & Health Mon, 27 Apr 2009 06:00:10 EST news160030775 Asian health officials went on alert Sunday as a flu strain that has killed dozens of people in Mexico appeared to have spread to New Zealand, underscoring warnings of a potential pandemic. http://www.physorg.com/news159946928.html Medicine & Health Sun, 26 Apr 2009 06:42:35 EST news159946928 (AP) -- Women's groups cheered the government's decision to allow 17-year-olds to buy the "morning-after" emergency contraceptive without a doctor's prescription, but conservatives denounced it as a blow to parental supervision of teens. http://www.physorg.com/news159643844.html Medicine & Health Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:31:34 EST news159643844 A drug currently under development at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine protects cells from the damaging effects of radiation exposure, a new study suggests. Results of the study, Abstract Number 3988, are being presented at the 100th annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), April 18 to 22 in Denver. http://www.physorg.com/news159634731.html Medicine & Health Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:59:43 EST news159634731 Computer engineers at Washington University in St. Louis are bringing the minimalist approach to medical care and computing by coupling USB-based ultrasound probe technology with a smartphone, enabling a compact, mobile computational platform and a medical imaging device that fits in the palm of a hand. http://www.physorg.com/news159537248.html Technology Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:54:43 EST news159537248 Taking herbal food supplements is certainly not free of risk. Since 2005, the poison emergency centers in the German cities of Freiburg and Göttingen have registered a total of 17 patients with health problems after taking Chinese slimming capsules. The pharmacologist Dieter Müller and his coauthors describe the documented cases of poisoning in the current edition of Deutsches Ärzteblatt International. http://www.physorg.com/news158420527.html Medicine & Health Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:42:24 EST news158420527 (AP) -- Just nine people accounted for nearly 2,700 of the emergency room visits in the Austin area during the past six years at a cost of $3 million to taxpayers and others, according to a report. The patients went to hospital emergency rooms 2,678 times from 2003 through 2008, said the report from the nonprofit Integrated Care Collaboration, a group of health care providers who care for low-income and uninsured patients. http://www.physorg.com/news157829120.html Medicine & Health Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:26:10 EST news157829120 Older women who live alone are vulnerable to unwanted intrusions in their homes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Caregivers of older women often evaluate crime risk and home security, but fail to identify women's intentions to reduce intrusion risk. In a new study, a University of Missouri professor has found that in order to feel safe at home, older women need to recognize safety risks and perceive themselves as capable of preventing intrusions. http://www.physorg.com/news157734075.html Other Sciences Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:01:45 EST news157734075 People who suffer cardiac arrests and then receive coronary angiography are twice as likely to survive without significant brain damage compared with those who don't have the procedure, according to a study by University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine researchers. The study, published in the May/June issue of the Journal of Intensive Care Medicine and now available online, showed that patient outcomes improved with coronary angiography, an imaging procedure that shows how blood flows through the heart, regardless of certain clinical and demographic factors that influenced who received the procedure. http://www.physorg.com/news157726880.html Medicine & Health Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:02:09 EST news157726880 Most of the time, we use the stairs in buildings -especially in high-rise structures -only as a back-up for faster elevators and escalators, but during a fire or other emergency, stairs become our primary passage to survival. In a new study, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology examined what we know about how stairs work as an emergency evacuation route and found that the answer is -not nearly enough. http://www.physorg.com/news157207572.html Other Sciences Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:46:37 EST news157207572 Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), Boston Medical Center, Harvard University and the Cambridge Health Alliance found that more than 75 percent of emergency responder candidates for fire and ambulance services in Massachusetts are either overweight or obese. The findings, which appear online in the journal Obesity on March 19, have significant consequences for public health and safety. http://www.physorg.com/news156683687.html Medicine & Health Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:16:10 EST news156683687 (PHILADELPHIA) - Although most Americans live close to some type of emergency room, as many as one in four Americans are more than an hour away from the type of hospital that's most prepared to save their life during a time-sensitive medical emergency, according to a new University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine study published in the journal Annals of Emergency Medicine. Since little is known about which U.S. hospitals are best equipped and staffed to tackle emergent illnesses like stroke, cardiac arrest, heart attack and the severe bloodstream infection sepsis, many more Americans may be in peril because no system exists to transport them to the right hospital at the right time. http://www.physorg.com/news156512838.html Medicine & Health Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:47:54 EST news156512838 In new research published in the Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, New York University Professor Mitchell Moss explains that the cornerstone Federal disaster relief legislation, the Robert T. Stafford Act, is dangerously out of date, and must be reformed to provide for rapid relief after a catastrophe. http://www.physorg.com/news156177961.html Other Sciences Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:46:52 EST news156177961 A new study at Wake Forest University School of Medicine reveals that many N.C. high schools are not adequately prepared to handle the immediate medical needs of a student or employee who suffers a sudden cardiac arrest on campus. The findings were used to support a new statewide program to place automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in high schools. http://www.physorg.com/news155815091.html Medicine & Health Mon, 09 Mar 2009 10:58:43 EST news155815091 When Joyce Moss recently arrived at Loyola University Hospital with a life-threatening heart attack, it took just 42 minutes to perform an emergency balloon angioplasty. http://www.physorg.com/news155495792.html Medicine & Health Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:16:58 EST news155495792 Google is letting patients share electronic medical records with loved ones or care providers who may be needed to help in emergencies. http://www.physorg.com/news155495341.html Technology Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:09:23 EST news155495341 Many doctors don't offer emergency contraception pills to adolescents who may benefit from them during emergency department visits because of misinformation about how the medicine works, according to a study by The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. http://www.physorg.com/news155480396.html Medicine & Health Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:00:31 EST news155480396 Sick or injured African-American patients wait about an hour longer than patients of other races before being transferred to an inpatient hospital bed following emergency room visits, according to a new national study published in the journal Academic Emergency Medicine. The authors say the findings underscore the urgency to find equitable, cost-effective solutions to provide better care in the nation's emergency departments, which are already strained by unprecedented crowding and more visits from the nation's uninsured population, which is expected to balloon toward 55 million people in the next decade. http://www.physorg.com/news155474066.html Medicine & Health Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:15:07 EST news155474066