Aged 90 years but more alive than ever

Outcome of CABG in Patients Aged More Than 50 Years

Method: Sixty-one patients were included in the study, aged 14 and 89 years old. Forty-four patients were more than 50 years old and 17 young patients. All the patients had Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) from January 2009 to August 2010. Severity, risk factors, type of procedure, co-morbidities, recent myocardial infarction, unstable angina, and laboratory analysis were documented. Number ...

Now more than ever, nurses need resilience.

I have been heartened over recent weeks by the many nurses and healthcare staff who have led the care of those caught up in the terrorist attacks in London and Manchester, as well as the catastrophic fire in London's Grenfell Tower.

Replication: Needed Now More Than Ever.

[Generalists are needed more than ever].

15 If today you want to keep up with basic and clin‐ ical research, you need to concentrate on a very small field and reach tremendous depths in this very field. And, actually, life is too short to also accumulate the knowledge necessary to do mean‐ ingful scientific work even on closely related top‐ ics. Hence, specialization is inevitable not only in research; it was a prerequisite for the de...

Clostridium difficile--more difficult than ever.

Copyright © 2008 Massachusetts Medical Society. In 1935, Hall and O’Toole first isolated a gram-positive, cytotoxinproducing anaerobic bacterium from the stool of healthy neonates.1 They named it Bacillus difficilis to reflect the difficulties they encountered in its isolation and culture. We now face the opposite problem of being unable to contain the growth and spread of the same bacterium, n...