Tag: Patients

Hearing tests may not detect common form of hearing loss

Traditional clinical hearing tests often fail to detect patients with a common form of inner ear damage that might otherwise be detected by more challenging behavioural tests, new research has found. Such tests may not be able to diagnose those facing problems in certain situations, like hearing speech in a noisy room, said the study …

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April 21, 2017

Stress may trigger seizure for epilepsy patients

For people suffering with epilepsy, facing stressful events such as the war, trauma or natural disaster, or the death of a loved one, may act as a common trigger for seizures, a study has found. Epilepsy is a disorder in which nerve cell activity in the brain is disturbed, causing seizures. The findings showed that …

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April 4, 2017

Patients, attendants at PGI shivers in cold

This year winter in Chandigarh is adding to the miseries of the patients and their attendants who are forced to sleep on the pavements in the open at Post Graduate Institute of Medical and Research (PGIMER). The patients are undergoing an agonising experience. With the entire north Indian region is under a spell of severe …

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January 20, 2017

20 UK hospitals declare ‘black alert’

More than 20 hospitals in England have declared a black alert this week after becoming so overcrowded that they could no longer guarantee patient safety and provide their full range of normal services. Unprecedented numbers of patients requiring care has led to at least 23 hospital trusts declaring they cannot cope since Monday, the Guardian …

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January 12, 2017

Patients operated on at night twice more likely to die

Patients who have surgery during the night are twice as likely to die compared to patients who are operated on during the day, a study has found. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between postoperative mortality and the time of the day of surgery. The researchers evaluated all surgical procedures for …

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August 30, 2016