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TUESDAY, Feb. 2, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Black and Hispanic children who land in the emergency room are less likely than white kids to receive X-rays, CT scans and other imaging tests, a new study finds. Looking at more than 13 million ER visits to U.S. children’s hospitals, researchers foundContinue Reading

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TUESDAY, Feb. 2, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Dr. Lisa Iezzoni is all too familiar with the discrimination that patients who have a disability can face: Having lived with multiple sclerosis for more than four decades and now in a wheelchair, she has also studied health care experiences and outcomes forContinue Reading

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MONDAY, Jan. 25, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Full doses of blood thinners can benefit patients hospitalized with COVID-19, but the severity of their illness matters, researchers say. The new global analysis found that hospitalized patients with moderate COVID-19 may benefit from the drugs’ clot-preventing powers, but patients with illness soContinue Reading

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MONDAY, Jan. 25, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Electronic ‘early warning systems’ for kidney damage in hospital patients don’t improve outcomes, researchers say. These systems are meant to alert for acute kidney injury (AKI). AKI, a sudden decrease in the kidney’s filtration function, occurs in 15% of hospital patients and increasesContinue Reading

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WEDNESDAY, Jan. 20, 2021 (HealthDay News) — When intensive care units are swamped with COVID-19 patients, death rates may climb, a new study finds. Looking at data from 88 U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals, researchers found a pattern: COVID-19 patients were nearly twice as likely to die duringContinue Reading

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WEDNESDAY, Jan. 13, 2021 (HealthDay News) — It’s a woman’s worst nightmare: You’re having a C-section under anesthesia, but you suddenly become aware of what is happening during your surgery. Now, a new study shows that phenomenon, known as “accidental awareness,” is more common than believed. In fact, it mayContinue Reading

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TUESDAY, Jan. 12, 2021 (HealthDay News) — In a finding that highlights another health consequence of the coronavirus pandemic, researchers report that the risk of dying from heart disease increased during the coronavirus lockdowns last spring, likely because people were too scared to go to the hospital. But the dangersContinue Reading

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WEDNESDAY, Jan. 6, 2021 (HealthDay News) — A record-breaking 131,000 coronavirus hospitalizations were recorded in the United States on Tuesday. In hard-hit Los Angeles County, hospitals began running out of oxygen and paramedics were told not to bring patients to a hospital if they showed little hope of survival. “We’reContinue Reading

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TUESDAY, Oct. 13, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Black and Asian COVID-19 patients are more likely than white patients to have severe illness, a new British study finds. Researchers analyzed data from more than 1,800 adult COVID-19 patients admitted to King’s College Hospital in London between March 1 and June 2.Continue Reading