Blood Test for Irritable Bowel Syndrome in the Works
A blood test for antibodies that target the vinculin protein could be used to determine if a condition is related to irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), researchers report. If confirmed, it would be the first serum-based diagnostic test for IBS. Continue Reading
Joint Commission Calls for Hospitals to Address Problem of Objects Left in Surgical Patients
The Joint Commission said hospitals and ambulatory-care centers must improve their counting procedures and other safeguards to reduce the number of objects left inside patients after a wound closure. The costs from the errors—including unreimbursed Medicare payments, plus legal and surgery fees—could range from $166,000 to more than $200,000 per incident. About 95% of the 772 cases of unintended retention of foreign objects, or URFO, logged between 2005 and 2012 resulted in extended hospitals stays or additional care, according to the alert. Those statistics came from volunteer reporting, and officials said the actual number of incidents are probably higher.Continue Reading
As Bacteria Become Increasingly Resistant, New More Effective Antimicrobials Might Rise From Old
By tinkering with their chemical structures, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have essentially re-invented a class of popular antimicrobial drugs, restoring and in some cases, expanding or improving, their effectiveness against drug-resistant pathogens in animal models.Read More
Rising Drug Resistance Threatens Global Progress Against TB
In its annual TB report, the Geneva-based World Health Organization (WHO) said the world is on track to meet U.N. goals for 2015 of reversing TB incidence and cutting the death rate by 50 percent compared to 1990. Yet around 3 million people with TB are being missed by health systems, and "superbug" drug-resistant strains of the bacterial infection are putting progress at risk.Read More
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