Hospitals

A new study finds that hospital disinfectants, including high-concentration bleach, are ineffective against C. diff spores, a leading cause of antibiotic-associated sickness. This discovery, highlighting the urgency for new disinfection methods, comes amid increasing concerns about antimicrobial resistance and the global impact of C. diff infections.Research conducted during World Antimicrobial Awareness Week examines the effects of employing suggested chlorine-based chemicals to combat Clostridioides difficile, the…

X Corp will donate all of its revenue it makes from ad sales on X to hospitals in Gaza and Israel, Elon Musk has announced. To ensure the funds reach where they are supposed to and not to Hamas, X Corp will track how funds are spent…

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November 15, 20234 min readMost hospitals typically test people for drugs that drove overdoses 15 to 20 years ago. We need a national system for expanded testing to help patients get the treatment they need todayBy Eric D. Wish, Amy Billing & Erin Artigiani Hospitals link people to treatment in their time of greatest need. That includes drug overdoses, which now kill more than 100,000 people in the U.S. every year.However, the standard hospital urine drug tests often do not detect fentanyl, which today is the leading…

She sits before me in tears, a positive pregnancy test on the counter in front of us. It’s not that my patient doesn’t want a fourth child. But she is haunted by memories of her third cesarean section (C-section). Hours after her baby was delivered, she hemorrhaged and fell unconscious. Waking in the ICU, she learned she had been transfused several units of blood. Severe anemia and debilitating postoperative pain complicated her postpartum recovery. Now, she is terrified of another C-section—the delivery of a child…

Institutions are closing unprofitable services and selling assets to avoid default on debts after a push to raise wages during the pandemic. Institutions are closing unprofitable services and selling assets to avoid default on debts after a push to raise wages during the pandemic. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks…

There are lots of horror movies themed around psychiatric hospitals—be they fully functional facilities, like A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 3: Dream Warriors, or abandoned, like Session 9. Regular medical hospitals don’t pop up nearly as often—but as these 10 films show, leaning into what’s already an unsettling…Read more... There are lots of horror movies themed around psychiatric hospitals—be they fully functional facilities, like A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 3: Dream Warriors, or abandoned, like Session 9.…

HealthHealth providers struggle to hire nurses from abroad as staffing problems worsen HealthHealth providers struggle to hire nurses from abroad as staffing problems worsen FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their authors. If you are the owner of the content and do not…

Since 2017, ophthalmology has been the busiest of all the medical specialties in the UK’s National Health Service in terms of clinical appointments. Nearly 10 percent of all NHS outpatient appointments are related to eye problems. That’s nearly 10 million appointments per year, and that number has risen by more than a third in the past five years.Between the ages of 18 and 65, the main cause of blindness is diabetic eye disease. But the population is getting older, and we’re also seeing an increasing prevalence of…

Highly reliable systems have built-in redundancy. For instance, with public services like water, when we turn a tap on, we fully expect water to flow. We’d be quite indignant if that wasn’t the case, and we’d expect swift investment in reservoirs and repairs of leaks that would add redundancy to the system and restore normal service. The same is expected in the aviation industry: While a plane can fly on one engine, all commercial jets have two or even four engines to ensure there isn’t a devastating failure.Somehow,…