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Wednesday, 14 January 2009 at 4:18 pm Posted by smp

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Study: Basic checklist cut surgical deaths in half (AP)

Posted: 14 Jan 2009 04:57 PM CST

AP - Scrawl on the patient with a permanent marker to show where the surgeon should cut. Ask the person's name to make sure you have the right patient. Count sponges to make sure you didn't leave any inside the body. Doctors worldwide who followed a checklist of steps like these cut the death rate from surgery almost in half and complications by more than a third in a large international study of how to avoid blatant operating room mistakes.

Fewer clogged arteries may need stent treatment (AP)

Posted: 14 Jan 2009 04:12 PM CST

AP - A new study gives fresh evidence that many people with clogged heart arteries are being overtreated with stents, and that a simple blood-flow test might help prevent unnecessary care. Fewer deaths, heart attacks and repeat procedures occurred when doctors implanted fewer of these tiny artery props, using the blood-flow test to decide when they were truly needed, the study found.

Study finds heart risk in anti-psychotic drugs (AP)

Posted: 14 Jan 2009 04:13 PM CST

AP - Newer anti-psychotic drugs are no safer than older ones for the risk of suddenly dying from a heart problem, says a study that finds they roughly double that hazard. The older drugs had already been linked to an increased chance of sudden cardiac death, in which the heart loses its normal rhythm and can't pump blood normally.

Doctors call for halt to Gaza assault (AP)

Posted: 14 Jan 2009 04:30 PM CST

Wounded Israeli soldiers are rushed into Soroka Hospital in the southern Israeli town of Beersheba, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2009. Israel showed no signs of slowing its bruising 19-day offensive against Gaza's Hamas rulers, striking some 60 targets on Wednesday. Israel launched the onslaught on Dec. 27, seeking to punish the Hamas militant group for years of rocket attacks on southern Israel. The offensive has killed more than 940 Palestinians, half of them civilians, according to Palestinian hospital officials. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)AP - International doctors called for an end to the violence in Gaza, saying hospitals were scenes of "nightmarish havoc" in articles published Wednesday in The Lancet medical journal. In a special report detailing the human toll of the Gaza offensive, the Lancet said Gaza City's Al Shifa hospital asked for extra refrigeration equipment before the bodies of patients with severe wounds began decomposing.

Va. company recalls peanut butter nationwide (AP)

Posted: 14 Jan 2009 05:32 PM CST

AP - A peanut butter maker that sells bulk supplies to institutions issued a nationwide recall as officials on Wednesday reported two more deaths associated with a salmonella outbreak.

Clinical Trials Update: Jan. 14, 2009 (HealthDay)

Posted: 14 Jan 2009 06:03 PM CST

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of CenterWatch:

House gives Obama jump-start on health reform (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Jan 2009 06:08 PM CST

Salvador Rodriguez brings his 11-month-old son Mateh for a check-up at Venice Family Clinic in Los Angeles April 16, 2007. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters)Reuters - The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to expand a children's health program and raise cigarette taxes to pay for it, giving President-elect Barack Obama a jump-start on a campaign promise to insure more Americans.

Hard-to-Treat Leukemia Cell Subtype Identified (HealthDay)

Posted: 14 Jan 2009 06:03 PM CST

HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Jan. 14 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers say they may have identified a subtype of T-lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) in children that does not respond to standard intensive chemotherapy.

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