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A hidden truth: Hospital faucets are often home to slime and biofilm

27.06.2019 Health Problems

Hand hygiene is a critical component of infection prevention in hospitals, but the unintended consequences include water splashing out of a sink to spread contaminants from dirty faucets according to new research presented last week in Philadelphia at the 46th Annual Conference of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC). Researchers at the University of Michigan Health […]

Peripherally inserted central catheters often used in CKD

04.06.2019 Health Problems

(HealthDay)—Peripherally inserted central catheters (PICCs) are frequently used in hospitalized patients with stage 3b or greater chronic kidney disease (estimated glomerular filtration rate [eGFR],

Things your husband wishes you would do less often

30.08.2018 Kids Health

People often say marriage is hard work. According to Dr. Stephen Mentz, a leading authority on families, children, youth, and the life course, attributed marriage difficulty to four main reasons — all of which have to do with tension. Couples battle tension between commitment and self-fulfillment, tension between the modern view of marriage not only as an “emotional bond” but […]

Having a severe mental illness often means dying before your time

02.05.2018 Health Problems

People with severe mental illness have at least a two-and-a-half times higher risk of dying than the general population. In essence, people with severe mental illness are dying for the same sorts of reasons as the rest of the us – but there are more of them and they are dying younger. We examined the causes of deaths of almost […]