A new tool to assess acute pain in non-communicative patients has been developed by researchers at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. The tool is the product of four small-scale research projects in several locations over many years. It consists of two standardized forms for nurses and other care providers to score values of behavioral and physical indicators or signs from the patient.
Now serving more than 1.8 million federal workers annually, FOH was created in August 1946 when President Truman signed an amendment to the Public Health Service Act.
In findings involving 2,564 people, scientists said those who drank diet soda every day had a 61 percent higher risk of vascular events than those who reported no soda drinking.
The March 15 meeting in Silver Spring, Md., is part on a planned strengthening of the Center for Devices and Radiological Health’s 510(k) premarket notification process, which is currently used to clear new AEDs for the marketplace.
Radiology images taken in the hospital or physician’s office are compressed for secure network transfer then sent to the appropriate portable wireless device via software called Mobile MIM.
Third-party violence and harassment affect up to 20 percent of European workers, but most managers have not taken steps to prevent it, the agency said in a new report.
Roughly 3.4 million emergency department visits--an average of 9,400 a day--were specifically for back problems at U.S. hospitals in 2008, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Illicit drugs like marijuana, cocaine and heroin have always been a parent’s nightmare. But perfectly legal and easily accessible prescription medications are now the recreational drugs of choice for many teenagers, prompting physicians at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center to urge pediatricians to screen specifically for their abuse during routine visits.
The March 2 meeting will help applicants prepare new drug applications or abbreviated new drug applications for fludeoxyglucose 18 injection, ammonia N 13 injection, and sodium fluoride F 18 injection.
New research shows limited school closures are ineffective and only significant, widespread school closures would have real impact on the spread of an epidemic and the strain placed on hospitals' intensive care units.
Following a recent recall of potentially contaminated non-sterile alcohol prep pads, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration today reminded health care professionals about the safe use of non-sterile alcohol prep pads to clean and disinfect the surface of the skin.
This year's conference season includes many exciting stops, starting with AAOHN's national conference in Atlanta. The National Safety Congress opens in Philadelphia just in time for Halloween.
OSHA issued seven citations to The Acadia Hospital in Bangor but said its inspection found at least 115 instances between 2008 and 2010 where employees of the psychiatric hospital and clinic were assaulted by patients.
Available remotely via Live Meeting, the March 29 event will focus on PPE for health care, mining, agriculture, and public safety. Workshops will follow on March 30.
An energy-efficient house that can send alerts if its residents are ill has been developed by researchers at the University of Hertfordshire.
The Jan. 27 signing of a document committing them to work jointly for polio's global eradication is a major step in what some are calling "a final push."
Currently, 1 in 3 Americans (36.9 percent) have some form of heart disease, including high blood pressure, coronary heart disease, heart failure, stroke, and other conditions, according to the American Heart Association.
Both companies released fourth-quarter 2010 results Tuesday and raised their 2011 earnings expectations, saying sales increased across their business segments last year.
The vast majority of already published and relevant clinical trials of a given drug, device or procedure are routinely ignored by scientists conducting new research on the same topic, a new Johns Hopkins study suggests.