Category: Regulations
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Premature Infant Respiratory Support Guidelines Tested
Medical researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston tested a gentle form of respiratory support for premature infants instead of a mechanical ventilator and found more favorable outcomes, as well as lower treatment costs. Their results appear in the online issue of the journal Pediatrics (paid subscription required). A team led by Bernadette Levesque of Children’s Hospital…
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Oak Ridge Lab Develops Web 2.0 System for HazMat Tracking
Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee is developing a system for tracking hazardous materials that lets stakeholders use their own technology and protocols for keeping track of these shipments. The Tracking 2.0 system, that employs a Web-based social media approach to HazMat tracking, was funded by the Office of Science in the Department of Energy…
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Researchers to Study Blood Transfusion Risk in the U.K.
Researchers in the U.K. will examine the risks and benefits of receiving blood or blood products, including the need for patients to give informed consent before receiving blood. The study will be a collaboration between Helen Busby at the University of Leicester, Julie Kent at University of the West of England in Bristol, and Anne-Maree…
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Pavement Affects Weather, Aids Build Up of Urban Pollutants
A team from the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado found the intense commercial development in Houston, Texas can change weather patterns in that city, which makes it easier for pollutants to accumulate during warm summer weather instead of being blown out to sea. Their findings will appear in an upcoming issue of…
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Stem Cell Bandage Approved for Clinical Trial
The U.K.’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency approved for clinical trial a new type of stem cell bandage to treat torn knee cartilage. The experimental bandage is made by Azellon Ltd, a spin-off company from University of Bristol in the U.K. The bandage developed by Azellon repairs torn meniscal cartilage in the knee, a…
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NIH Approves Two Human Embryonic Stem Cell Lines
BioTime Inc., a biotechnology company in Alameda, California, says that two human embryonic stem (hES) cell lines developed by a subsidiary have been approved by National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the NIH Human Embryonic Stem Cell Registry. Approval by NIH allows the use of these cell lines in federally funded research; only hES cell…
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Noisy ORs Associated with Infections After Surgery
Medical researchers and psychologists from Neuchâtel and Berne universities in Switzerland found that surgical patients are more likely to suffer surgical site infections (SSIs) if the operating room is noisy. The team published their findings in the July issue of the British Journal of Surgery. The researchers studied 35 patients who underwent planned, major abdominal…
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Patients’ Mobile Phones Found to Carry Resistant Bacteria
Researchers at Inonu University in Turkey found many mobile phones used by hospital patients and visitors to carry potentially dangerous bacteria, with some of those bacteria considered resistant to antibiotics. Their findings appear in the June issue of the American Journal of Infection Control (paid subscription required). Inonu University’s Mehmet Sait Tekerekoglu and six colleagues…
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Adverse Effects Found with Permanent Hair Dye, Moisturizers
The Norwegian Institute of Public Health issued its first report of adverse effects from cosmetic products and found permanent hair dyes and face and body moisturizers to register the most severe or highest number of reports from health professionals. The institute defines cosmetic products as “all products that are applied to the external parts of…
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Injections No Better than Oral Steroids for Sudden Deafness
A large clinical trial over six years shows the more expensive injected steroids no better or worse as a treatment for sudden deafness than oral steroids. The findings appear in the 25 May 2011 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. The multicenter clinical trial was funded by the National Institute on Deafness…