Science news articles about 'hospitals'

South Korea's first astronaut has been hospitalized.

... "The use of telemedicine allows the pediatric specialists from the regional children's hospitals to help in the evaluation, treatment and planning for when, or if, critically ill children should be ...

An assault on a nurse at a Charlottetown hospital earlier this year has highlighted the need for better security at P.E.I. hospitals, a nurses union president said.

... the program improved their heart failure control and helped them stay out of the hospital. All participating patients said the equipment was easy to use. Ninety-five percent believed they were ...

SAN FRANCISCO, May 3 (UPI) -- A security breach may have exposed patients at a California university hospital to medical identity theft, an expert on privacy issues says.

... three flu seasons (2003-2006), the researchers found that 90 percent of the highest-cost hospitalizations for children were linked to influenza, or flu with a co-infection of the respiratory tract. ...

Hospital patients on P.E.I. will soon be informed if they've been the victim of a mistake, under a new policy being put together by the Department of Health.

Faced with chronic staffing shortages, hospitals and clinics in Gatineau are trying to lure retired health care professionals back to work for a few hours a week.

Researchers say blood poisoning due to bug known as Steno is on the rise, and affects weakest hospital patients

The children's hospital for the Maritimes cancelled all elective surgeries Wednesday after asbestos was discovered in some ductwork.

Dr. Eric Fombonne, from the Research Institute of the MUHC at the Montreal Children’s Hospital, is involved in a multi-site consortium to gather DNA samples from 2,000 autism patients and their ...

... issues have grown dramatically, Siemens (NYSE: SI) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that they will work together to help community hospitals reduce their operating costs and energy consumption...

Hospitals in Ontario will be ordered to report any outbreaks of C. difficile after a Burlington hospital reported that dozens of people died following an outbreak of the bacteria.

... track these sales. In addition, Ontario keeps detailed computerized medical records of people hospitalized as a result of violent assault. The researchers identified 3,212 people aged over 13 years ...

... windblown dust and mechanical grinding is not statistically significantly associated with emergency hospital admissions for respiratory and cardiovascular diseases among Medicare patients, according ...