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The wisdom of screening all hospital patients for MRSA in England is being questioned by a leading expert.

Drug-dispensing robots and smart medicine cabinets are helping to improve patient care.

A virus recently linked to prostate cancer is a new suspect in chronic fatigue syndrome. scientists tested blood from 101 patients and found two-thirds carried it. That doesn't mean the virus causes chronic fatigue, stressed the research published Thursday in the journal Science.

A new government study shows that one quarter of Americans who were sick enough to be hospitalized with swine flu last spring ...

Patients with the virus should be monitored for high blood pressure, expert says

Patients with moderate to severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) can benefit from triple therapy that includes a long-acting β-agonist (LABA), an inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) and an anti-muscarinic agent, according to researchers in Germany.

VOORHEES, N.J., Oct. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Systemic fungal infections are a serious complication of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) and are associated with significant mortality in HSCT recipients. It is critical for healthcare professionals to be aware of the risk factors for fungal infections in HSCT patients and apply optimal strategies for prevention and treatment in this population.

. Obsessed players may forget to eat or sleep . Patient, 23, treated with 12-step abstinence courseAddiction to online games is becoming more widespread among vulnerable young people, according to a treatment centre that has begun running abstinence courses in Britain.As games become more visually enticing and the recession leaves people at home in front of computer screens, therapists are encountering more cases of people obsessed with being online. In extreme circumstances game players can, they warn, become detached from normal existence and forget to eat or sleep as they interact with screen characters such as wizards and monsters. Youngsters can also develop posture problems.Broadway Lodge, a residential rehabilitation centre in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, that normally deals with alcoholics and drug addicts, has recently treated a 23-year-old for his obsession with online games.Brian Dudley, the centre's chief executive, said: 'He was staying online for seven or eight hours at a

Elderly cancer patients need a combination of treatments tailor-made to their specific needs to successfully combat the disease. The challenge is to boost their immune response to cancer vaccines, bec...

Patient has the worst time trying to use a bathroom in a haunted hospital.