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‘I feel like I’m in jail’: Hospital alarms torment patients

When Kea Turner’s 74-year-old grandmother checked into Virginia’s Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital with advanced lung cancer, she landed in the oncology unit where every patient was monitored by a bed alarm.

2 Dec 2019

Study: Most patients do not understand or recall information they receive before heart procedures

Most patients do not understand or recall information given to them before heart procedures. For example, many patients mistakenly believe that opening blocked arteries will cure them of heart disease.

28 Nov 2019

Hibernators reveal genetic clues to better understand and treat obesity, metabolic disorders

Hibernation is one of nature's strangest quirks, inducing bears and other mammals to pack on massive weight- amounts that would be unhealthy for humans - so they can survive months of slumber. Yet when these animals reemerge, they are as fit as ever.

27 Nov 2019

Research shows how gut microbes affect stomach flu

A new study shows that gut microbes can modulate the severity of norovirus infection (the stomach flu, or the winter vomiting bug), based on the gut location first affected. Published in the journal Nature Microbiology on November 25, 2019, the study indicates new possibilities to treat norovirus infection.

26 Nov 2019

Study reveals novel pathway to target colorectal cancer

While the emergence of precision medicine and immunotherapy has greatly improved outcomes for patients with colorectal cancer, new approaches are still needed for patients with late-stage disease who do not respond to these therapies.

26 Nov 2019

Discovery may provide clues for treatment of autism and schizophrenia

Researchers at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have identified that a gene critical to clearing up unnecessary proteins plays a role in brain development and contributes to the development of autism spectrum disorders and schizophrenia.

25 Nov 2019

Gut microbes can tamp down or boost the severity of norovirus infection

The highly contagious norovirus causes diarrhea and vomiting and is notorious for spreading rapidly through densely populated spaces, such as cruise ships, nursing homes, schools and day care centers. Each year, it is responsible for some 200,000 deaths, mostly in the developing world.

25 Nov 2019

Patients share experiences to provide insights into diabetes burnout

Essentially all patients living with type 1 diabetes experience "diabetes burnout" at some time or other.

25 Nov 2019

New antiviral drug drives treatment resistance in influenza viruses

On January 31, 2019, an 11-year old boy in Japan went to a medical clinic with a fever. The providers there diagnosed him with influenza, a strain called H3N2, and sent him home with a new medication called baloxavir.

25 Nov 2019

New hospital technology disrupts working practices, forces improvisation to deliver safe patient care

Doctors and nurses must adapt their routines and improvise their actions to ensure continued patient safety, and for their roles to be effective and to matter as new technology disrupts their working practices.

25 Nov 2019

Discovery may lead to possible treatments for autism spectrum disorders, schizophrenia

25 Nov 2019

Research shows how cilia and exocyst contribute to extracellular vesicle production

Although the cilium has been known to scientists for more than 100 years, it is only recently that it has been acknowledged to play important roles in physiology.

25 Nov 2019

New flu drug makes influenza viruses develop resistance

Researchers have discovered a mutation in strains of influenza treated with a drug that makes the virus resistant to treatment.

25 Nov 2019

Potent antimicrobial could combat antibiotic-resistant MRSA infections

Scientists have discovered a strong antimicrobial that is effective against some of the strongest infectious diseases.

25 Nov 2019

Not yesterday’s cocaine: Death toll rising from tainted drug

A pain pill prescription for nerve damage revived Gwendolyn Barton's long-dormant addiction last year, awakening fears she would slip back into smoking crack cocaine.

25 Nov 2019

UVA doctors decry aggressive billing practices by their own hospital

Prominent doctors at UVA Health System are expressing public outrage at their employer’s practices to collect unpaid medical debt from its patients.

23 Nov 2019

Using AI to determine which lung cancer patients will benefit from immunotherapy

Scientists from the Case Western Reserve University digital imaging lab, already pioneering the use of Artificial Intelligence to predict whether chemotherapy will be successful, can now determine which lung-cancer patients will benefit from expensive immunotherapy.

23 Nov 2019

Nursing News and Research

Latest Nursing News and Research

‘I feel like I’m in jail’: Hospital alarms torment patients

Study: Most patients do not understand or recall information they receive before heart procedures

Hibernators reveal genetic clues to better understand and treat obesity, metabolic disorders

Research shows how gut microbes affect stomach flu

Study reveals novel pathway to target colorectal cancer

Discovery may provide clues for treatment of autism and schizophrenia

Gut microbes can tamp down or boost the severity of norovirus infection

Patients share experiences to provide insights into diabetes burnout

New antiviral drug drives treatment resistance in influenza viruses

New hospital technology disrupts working practices, forces improvisation to deliver safe patient care

Discovery may lead to possible treatments for autism spectrum disorders, schizophrenia

Research shows how cilia and exocyst contribute to extracellular vesicle production

New flu drug makes influenza viruses develop resistance

Potent antimicrobial could combat antibiotic-resistant MRSA infections

Not yesterday’s cocaine: Death toll rising from tainted drug

UVA doctors decry aggressive billing practices by their own hospital

Using AI to determine which lung cancer patients will benefit from immunotherapy

FDA approves Ohio State-developed drug to treat patients with CLL and SCL

CU Anschutz to train students to prescribe buprenorphine products for opioid use disorder

UIC receives $1.8 million CDC grant for new breast cancer survivorship research

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