European Commission approves Pfizer & #039;s EMBLAVEO ® for patients with multidrug-resistant infections and limited treatment options
Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) today announced that the European Commission (EC) has granted marketing authorization for EMBLAVEO® (aztreonam-avibactam) for the treatment of adult patients with complicated intra-abdominal infections (cIAI), hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP), including ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), and complicated urinary tract infections (cUTI), including pyelonephritis. It is also indicated for the treatment of infections due to aerobic Gram-negative organisms in adult patients with limited treatment options. (Source: World Pharma News)
Source: World Pharma News - April 22, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Featured Pfizer Business and Industry Source Type: news
Two more trusts get ‘mandated intensive support’ over deficits
Two large hospital trusts have been put into NHS England’s “recovery support programme” and placed on the lowest rung of its oversight ratings. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - April 22, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Meg Bennett, Soap Opera Actress and Writer, Dies at 75
Meg Bennett, the Daytime Emmy winner who did double duty as an actress and writer on the daytime soap operas The Young and the Restless, General Hospital and Santa Barbara, has died. She was 75. Bennett died April 11 after a battle with cancer, her family announced. Bennett portrayed Marty…#megbennett #santabarbara #martymaraschino #broadway #grease #lizawalton #kevinkline #morganfairchild #youngandrestless #julianewman (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 21, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Even doctors earning up to $350K/year are struggling to find homes in this wealthy part of New York
New York’s Long Island is a stretch of land in the Atlantic Ocean renowned for its sandy white beaches, award-winning vineyards — and its chronic housing shortage. It’s gotten so bad, in fact, that hospitals in the region are having trouble recruiting quality medical professionals. Even…#newyorks #longisland #atlanticocean #paulconnor #greenport #nonecommercial #walmartwholefoods #kroger #usfed #northfolk (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 21, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Medical device companies pay millions to NHS while pushing products, says study
Pharmaceutical equipment firms are funding NHS staff and training while promoting salesMedical device companies are paying millions of pounds to hospitals in the UK to fund staff places, as well as training and awareness campaigns, while pushing sales of their products, including implants, heart valves and diagnostic equipment, a new report reveals.An analysis of disclosures by medical device companies found that between 2017 and 2019 they reported €425m (£367m at today’s rates) in payments to healthcare organisations in Europe, according to the study in the journalHealth Policy and Technology.Continue reading... (Sou...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - April 21, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Jon Ungoed-Thomas, Shanti Das and Aneesa Ahmed Tags: Pharmaceuticals industry Business Medical research NHS Society Hospitals Health Technology Science Source Type: news
Patients with suspected bowel disease could refer themselves for scans, saving time on long waiting lists
Currently, patients with suspected Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis, known together as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), have to see a GP before they can be referred to hospital for a diagnosis. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 21, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Israeli airstrike in Rafah kills at least 9 Palestinians, including 6 children, hospital says
An Israeli airstrike on a house in Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah killed at least nine people, six of them children, hospital authorities said Saturday, as Israel pursued its nearly seven-month offensive in the besieged Palestinian territory. Israel’s war against the Islamic militant group…#israeli #gaza #israel #palestinian #islamic #hamas #middleeast #iran #telsultan #alnajjar (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 20, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Parents, Coaches: Help Young Athletes Avoid Summer Heat Hazards
SATURDAY, April 20, 2024 -- Another broiling summer looms, along with another season of kids ' summer sports.It ' s a potentially harmful, even lethal combination. But experts at Nationwide Children ' s Hospital (NCH) have advice for kids, parents and... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - April 20, 2024 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
He thinks his wife died in an understaffed hospital. Now he ’s trying to change the industry
For the past year, police Detective Tim Lillard has spent most of his waking hours unofficially investigating his wife’s death. The question has never been exactly how Ann Picha-Lillard died on Nov. 19, 2022: She succumbed to respiratory failure after an infection put too much strain on her…#detectivetimlillard #annpichalillard #timlillard #icu #cpr #oregon #michigan #maine #pennsylvania #annpichalillards (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 20, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Man sets himself on fire outside Trump trial courthouse in New York
A man set himself on fire Friday outside of the New York courthouse where a jury was being picked for the criminal hush money trial of former President Donald Trump. The unidentified man, whose condition was unknown, was taken to a local hospital. NBC News reported that the man was in an area…#donaldtrump (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 19, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Retrieve Medical Advances Healthcare Documentation in Louisiana with New Software Implementation
BEDMINSTER, N.J., April 19, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Retrieve Medical Holdings, Inc. RMHI is pleased to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary, Retrieve Medical, Inc., has successfully launched its innovative software solution, Retrieve Dx™, at two community hospitals within the Louisianan…#bedminster #retrievemedicalinc #retrievedx #emergencydepartment #cmi #smartapp #retrievemedical #epicsystems #oraclecerner (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 19, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Watch: Migrants Complain That New Yorkers Don't Learn African Languages
Watch: Migrants Complain That New Yorkers Don't Learn African Languages Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A hearing held earlier this week in New York by the Council’s immigration and hospital committees saw black migrants who have arrived in the city airing their grievances about…#migrantscomplain #stevewatson #council #newyorkers #congolese #africa #african #cityhall #guinea #westafrica (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 19, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
MR elastography effective for assessing liver stiffness in children
MR elastography (MRE) is an effective technique for noninvasive monitoring of liver stiffness -- a surrogate for fibrosis -- in children and young adults with autoimmune liver disease, researchers have reported.
A team led by first author Jonathan Dillman, MD, of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Center in Ohio found that MRE liver stiffness measurements were elevated in children and young adults with autoimmune liver disease. The results were published April 18 in the American Journal of Roentgenology.
“[As well, these measurements] were not significantly different between subsets of patients with primary sclerosing ch...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 19, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Kate Madden Yee Tags: MRI Pediatric Radiology Source Type: news
EDs Refused to Treat Pregnant Women, Leaving One to Miscarry in a Lobby Restroom
(MedPage Today) -- One woman miscarried in the restroom lobby of a Texas emergency department (ED) as front desk staff refused to admit her. Another woman learned that her fetus had no heartbeat at a Florida hospital, the day after a security guard... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - April 19, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Review Explores Cutaneous Manifestations of Myelodysplastic Syndrome
FRIDAY, April 19, 2024 -- Cutaneous manifestations of myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) are described in a perspective piece published in the April issue of Skin Health and Disease.
Xiang Li Tan, M.B.B.S., from St. George ' s University Hospitals NHS... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - April 19, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
