Bo Frith

According to an article on Medical News Today, several children’s’ hospitals are implementing safety procedures used by the aviation industry to reduce errors in their hospitals. LifeWings is the largest provider of CRM (Crew Resource Management) based systems in the United States. Life Wings is implementing the program at Vanderbilt…

An article on MSN Health concludes there is a correlation between elderly people who take anti-psychotic drugs and earlier deaths. Elderly people are often given anti-psychotic drugs when their behavior problems become too much for doctors or family members to handle. Anti-psychotics have been used since the 1950s to treat…

Researchers have found that certain anti-cancer drugs improved the long term memory of mice. These drugs, called histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors are hoped to strengthen connectors in the brain and improve long term memory in people with Alzheimers and other brain diseases. One of the co-authors of the study, Marcelo…

According to this article, a woman in Charleston, West Virginia has filed suit against Sunbridge Care and Rehabilitation Center in Dunbar, West Virginia. Tammy Rae Combs filed the suit alleging the nursing home was negligent and that as a result her father, Ray Combs, suffered from pneumonia, dehydration, pressure sores,…

At today’s annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), researchers announced the results of a clinical trial of Nexavar. The drug, made by Bayer, was used in a clinical trial which was stopped early due to the overwhelmingly good response. The liver cancer patients who took Nexavar…

That is the title of an article on MSNBC. Dr. Robin Herbert is the co-director of a program that monitors the health of ground zero workers. The World Trade Center Medical Monitoring Program is based at Mount Sinai Medical Center and monitors people who worked at ground zero for health…

HealthGrades has released their “Fourth Annual Patient Safety in American Hospitals Study.” HealthGrades researches and reports information on patient safety in hospitals throughout the United States. They use the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) Patient Safety Indicators to “identify the patient safety incident rates for every non-federal hospital…

Sermo, a company out of Cambridge, Massachusetts, has partnered with the American Medical Association (AMA) to create a forum that encourages doctors to swap ideas and information over the internet. While the company set this up as a tool for investment firms, the doctors seem to like the sense of…

I saw in an article today in USA Today, a man with drug-resistant TB decided to take a trip a couple of weeks ago and now at least two countries are scrambling to locate people who might have traveled near him. Health officials want to alert those individuals that they…

Researchers have announced they found six new sites of variation on the genome that increase the risk of breast cancer. The discovery means “a sizable fraction of the overall genetic risk of breast cancer may now have been accounted for, and much of the rest could be captured in a…