Medical News
Blood management guidelines can reduce blood wastage and save millions of dollars
EurekAlert! - 17 Jul 2016 06:00
(American College of Surgeons) Improving the processes of ordering, transporting, and storing blood can save millions of dollars and drastically reduce blood wastage, reported a research team from one academic medical ce...
Many elderly people are receiving and using prescription medications inappropriately
EurekAlert! - 17 Jul 2016 06:00
(Wiley) A new study from Belgium indicates that the majority of community-dwelling elderly adults are taking prescription medications inappropriately. The study, which is published in the British Journal of Clinical Phar...
The architecture of audition
EurekAlert! - 17 Jul 2016 06:00
(Harvard University) The neural architecture in the auditory cortex -- the part of the brain that processes sound -- of profoundly deaf and hearing people is virtually identical, a new study has found. The study raises a...