Gut bacteria may affect obesity risk in youth

Gut bacteria may affect obesity risk in youth

Children and adolescents who are obese have different populations of gut microbes compared with youths of a normal weight, new research finds.... read more

7 Essential Clinical Application Downloads

7 Essential Clinical Application Downloads

Our clinical application article library contains a wide range of the most recent application notes, scientific posters, white papers and case studies. This article highlights seven of our most popular downloaded articles... read more

High Prevalence of Depression Following ICU Stays

High Prevalence of Depression Following ICU Stays

Research shows people discharged from intensive care are at a high risk for developing depression, and a new study suggests that number is as high as 1 in 3.... read more

Chlorhexidine bathing significantly more effective in reducing hospital-acquired infections

Chlorhexidine bathing significantly more effective in reducing hospital-acquired infections

A Houston Methodist team showed that chlorhexidine bathing of surgical ICU patients decreased the risk of hospital-acquired infections by more than 44 percent.... read more

Communication App Helps Patients Voice Their Needs

Communication App Helps Patients Voice Their Needs

An innovative tablet-based application offers intubated and ventilated intensive care unit (ICU) patients a way to converse with their medical staff.... read more

Supporting clinical research with an intensive-care database

Supporting clinical research with an intensive-care database

Crowdsourcing clinical data from some 40,000 patients could vastly improve research and critical-care decisions.... read more

Is SIRS dead? The new definition of sepsis.

Is SIRS dead? The new definition of sepsis.

To mark Sepsis Awareness Month in September, Prof Gando, Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Intensive Care, tells us more about the recent sepsis definitions, published earlier this year.... read more

N.J. hospitals work together to reduce sepsis deaths

N.J. hospitals work together to reduce sepsis deaths

Anyone can get sepsis. They can get it while perfectly healthy, after having a health issue or while hospitalized for a procedure or test.... read more

Greater collaboration between ICU nurses and ICU physicians may minimize VAP risk

Greater collaboration between ICU nurses and ICU physicians may minimize VAP risk

Greater collaboration between ICU nursing and medicine could help to minimize ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), according to a study presented at the ATS 2016 International Conference.... read more

Tapping into IV takes pain out of blood draws

Tapping into IV takes pain out of blood draws

The system allows nurses and doctors to draw blood from a patient by accessing his or her existing intravenous medication line, instead of repeatedly sticking the patient with a needle. “I’ve never in my career in medicine... read more

New biomarker test helps detect autoimmune-induced neuropsychiatric disorders

New biomarker test helps detect autoimmune-induced neuropsychiatric disorders

A research team from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, led by Madeleine Cunningham, Ph.D., in conjunction with the National Institute of Mental Health, has developed the first-of-its-kind biomarker test to... read more

Antibiotics: resist the resistance

Antibiotics: resist the resistance

European Pharmaceutical Review caught up with Destiny Pharma’s CEO, Dr Love, for an interview about the threat of bacterial resistance to antibiotics...... read more

Community-acquired pneumonia related to intracellular pathogens

Community-acquired pneumonia related to intracellular pathogens

Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is associated with high rates of morbidity and mortality worldwide; the annual incidence of CAP among adults in Europe has ranged from 1.5 to 1.7 per 1000 population.... read more

Review: Stem Cell Tx for Heart Failure Not Ready Yet

Review: Stem Cell Tx for Heart Failure Not Ready Yet

Heterogeneity in methods for trials of stem cell therapies for heart failure are a big reason for the inconsistent results seen to date, a review article suggested.... read more

Elevated HDL levels predict reduced lung function

Elevated HDL levels predict reduced lung function

Having an elevated level of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) is associated with an increased rate of lung function decline over time, according to results from a cohort analysis of more than 30,000 adults presented... read more

Memory of a heart attack is stored in our genes

Memory of a heart attack is stored in our genes

Both heredity and environmental factors influence our risk of cardiovascular disease. A new study shows now that the memory of a heart attack can be stored in our genes through epigenetic changes.... read more