People 75 years old or older are less likely to receive pain medication in hospital emergency departments than people between the ages of 35 and 54, a new study shows.
And such differences were constant even after researchers took into account how much pain the patients were having, said lead study author Dr. Timothy Platts-Mills, an [...]
Several new studies show fecal microbiota transplants are an effective treatment for patients who have with recurring bouts of Clostridium difficile associated diarrhea.
Clostridium difficile is a bacterium that causes infection and leads to diarrhea. It is most often related to antibiotic use during medical treatment. A major cause of illness and increasing health care costs [...]
A new mini transplant stem cell procedure has helped surgeons to discover that age alone should not be a defining factor for older patients with blood cancer who are candidates for the procedure.
That is what surgeons have concluded after conducting the first study of long-term outcomes from a series of clinical trials of patients 60 [...]