Science news articles about 'medical challenges'

Hospital admissions for childhood malaria have fallen dramatically in the past five years on the Kenyan coast, leading to new medical challenges.

... selection of older patients for invasive management of heart disease remains a serious medical challenge, especially as the elderly are frequently underrepresented in or excluded from clinical trials ...

... ongoing and future research efforts evaluating both clotting and bleeding events will enable more balanced clinical decision making in this unique and medically challenging patient population."

... . As a center of orthopedic excellence, Mayo Clinic surgeons treated 105 of these surgically and medically challenging patients between 1996 and 2006. The patients had a mean BMI of 53.6, and ...

... as mechanical ventilators and feeding tubes, examines family functioning in the lives of children with medical challenges. She was interested in finding out why some families seem resilient in the ...

... of the pancreas or liver. "Babies in neonatal intensive care frequently are born with medically challenging birth defects. The present studies help unravel the complex genetic systems controlling ...