Best Life: Healing patients from heart failure
Best Life: Healing patients from heart failure By Ivanhoe Broadcast News | February 4, 2021 at 6:23 AM CST - Updated February 4 at 8:22 AM
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah. (Ivanhoe Newswire)â More than six million Americans are suffering from heart failure right now. It happens when the heart canât pump enough blood and oxygen to other parts of the body. Itâs a serious condition. In fact, almost 400,000 will die from heart failure this year. But now doctors may be able to heal hearts that are dying.
Anne Binger is riding highâ enjoying every single minute she can. Just a few years ago, she could barely get out of bed. She was 40 and diagnosed with heart failure. Doctors put in a left ventricular assist device.
Decision-support tool may help clinicians to appropriately treat children with diarrhea
A decision-support tool that could be accessed via mobile devices may help clinicians in lower-resource settings avoid unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions for children with diarrhea, a study published today in
eLife shows.
The preliminary findings suggest that incorporating real-time environmental, epidemiologic, and clinical data into an easy-to-access, electronic tool could help clinicians appropriately treat children with diarrhea even when testing is not available. This could help avoid the overuse of antibiotics, which contributes to the emergence of drug-resistant bacteria.
Diarrhea is a common condition among children in low-resource settings. Antibiotics are often prescribed for it, despite the fact these medications will not help patients who have diarrhea caused by viruses. Helping clinicians determine if a case of diarrhea is likely caused by a virus or bacteria could help reduce
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Utah researchers launch worldâs largest gene-mapping study for kids, seek 50,000 volunteers
Doctors hope to find genetic markers to identify cancer, heart disease and other disorders.
(Photo courtesy of Intermountain Healthcare) Dr. John Bonkowsky, director of Intermountain Primary Childrenâs Hospitalâs Center for Personalized Medicine, is one of the researchers involved in Intermountain s HerediGene: Children s Study, the largest genetic mapping study of children ever. The study is seeking 50,000 volunteers.
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The largest genetic mapping study involving children is being launched in Utah, and researchers want 50,000 children and their parents to volunteer to take part.
âThe technical term, I believe, is humongous. This is huge. This is a game changer,â said Dr. Josh Bonkowsky, director of the Center for Personalized Medicine at Primary Childrenâs Hospital.
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A decision-support tool that could be accessed via mobile devices may help clinicians in lower-resource settings avoid unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions for children with diarrhoea, a study published today in
eLife shows.
The preliminary findings suggest that incorporating real-time environmental, epidemiologic, and clinical data into an easy-to-access, electronic tool could help clinicians appropriately treat children with diarrhoea even when testing is not available. This could help avoid the overuse of antibiotics, which contributes to the emergence of drug-resistant bacteria. Diarrhoea is a common condition among children in low-resource settings, explains lead author Benjamin Brintz, Research Associate at the Division of Epidemiology, University of Utah Health, Salt Lake City, US. Antibiotics are often prescribed for it, despite the fact these medications will not help patients who have diarrhoea caused by viruses. Helping clinicians determine if a case of di