Tenth Birthday Of Life-saving TAVI Heart Implant - UK Lags Behind Europe In Patient Use

Over the span of a lifetime, the human heart beats more than two billion times. With each beat, flexible valves within the heart's chambers open and shut to prevent blood flowing backwards. With advancing age these valves can start to fail; the opening can become narrowed or the valve may leak. Narrowing of the aortic valve - known as aortic stenosis - is one of the most common forms of heart disease...
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Hospital Bedsores May Predict Patient Mortality

A new clinical study spearheaded by the dean of UCLA's School of Nursing has found a direct correlation between pressure ulcers - commonly known as bedsores - and patient mortality and increased hospitalization. The research is believed to be the first of its kind to use data directly from medical records to assess the impact of hospital-acquired pressure ulcers on Medicare patients at national and state levels...
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