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- New research provides compelling evidence that long-term exposure to high blood pressure increases the risk of heart valve disease, with significant implications for clinical practice guidelines and…10/7/2019 -Media releaseentity:node19,752,782
- SYDNEY, SEPT 27 - Salt sold in supermarkets and salt shakers in restaurants should be required to carry a front-of-pack, tobacco-style health warning, according to The World Hypertension League and…14/10/2019 -Media releaseentity:node19,752,782
- Treat the snoring and you may be less likely to have a heart attack or stroke. This is the premise of an international study being coordinated by Australian researchers at the George Institute for…01/9/2010 -Media releaseentity:node19,737,178
- Sepsis is known as the silent killer and takes more lives than the annual road toll. Read the Stopping Sepsis: A National Action Plan (PDF 4.1MB) The George Institute for Global Health and the…20/2/2018 -Media releaseentity:node19,722,248
- People who have experienced a previous heart attack, stroke or other vascular disease are among those at highest risk of having a future cardiovascular event. Despite the availability of a number of…11/4/2013 -Projectentity:node19,712,514
- Around 17 million people suffer stroke each year and of the 11 million survivors, at least one third will remain dependent on others for direct personal care or supervision in their everyday…04/4/2013 -Projectentity:node19,712,514
- SYDNEY, DEC 10 - A nine-year analysis of Australian children hospitalised for burns has found Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children were admitted three times as frequently as non-Indigenous…09/12/2020 -Media releaseentity:node19,644,148
- On October 31, 2019, the first investigator meeting of Intensive Ambulance-delivered Blood Pressure Reduction in Hyper-Acute Stroke Trial (INTERACT4) was held in the Shanghai East Hospital of Tongji…14/11/2019 -Media releaseentity:node19,644,148
- The safety and potential benefit of a strategy to more intensively control blood pressure (BP) in patients who receive ‘clot-busting’ thrombolysis treatment for acute ischaemic stroke has been…08/2/2019 -Media releaseentity:node19,628,210
- People who have been treated with cholesterol- or blood pressure-lowering medications before a heart attack were nearly ten times more likely to still be taking them as prescribed 12 months after…07/3/2022 -Media releaseentity:node19,614,476
- SYDNEY, OCT 30 - A device that minimises bed sores by automatically monitoring and turning bedridden patients; a portable, ultra-efficient microscope for the rapid detection of communicable diseases…05/11/2019 -Media releaseentity:node19,603,952
- The current practice of intensively lowering blood glucose in critically ill patients increases the risk of death by 10%. Results of the largest trial of intensive glucose lowering in critically ill…24/3/2009 -Media releaseentity:node19,593,172
- The number of people with sepsis in Australian intensive care units (ICUs) is 50% higher than previously reported. The report from Royal North Shore Hospital and The George Institute for Global…09/9/2018 -Media releaseentity:node19,585,494
- A case study on ketamine reveals systemic barriers that prevent repurposing existing low-cost drugs like ketamine for treatment-resistant depression. Patients with treatment-resistant depression are…23/10/2023 -Media releaseentity:node19,581,542
- New research findings will have significant impact on the treatment of kidney failure patients in intensive care settings around the world. The largest study of its kind has shown that aggressive…22/10/2009 -Media releaseentity:node19,567,782
- SYDNEY, MAY 14 - A large international trial has confirmed previous findings that a commonly used antidepressant is not effective in supporting the recovery of patients who have had a stroke. The…14/5/2020 -Media releaseentity:node19,567,782
- A new meta-analysis shows sodium glucose co-transporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors reduce the risk of major adverse cardiovascular events in patients with either diabetes at high risk of atherosclerotic…08/4/2024 -Media releaseentity:node19,542,458
- Fluid resuscitation is a fundamental component of the haemodynamic management of critically ill patients and the choice of fluid is a longstanding issue of debate. Broadly, resuscitation fluids can…11/4/2013 -Projectentity:node19,487,196
- Sepsis, one of the most prevalent but misdiagnosed, deadly diseases has been established as a global priority by the World Health Assembly (WHA), the decision-making body of the World Health…29/5/2017 -Media releaseentity:node19,473,884
- A large international study on the effects of cooling the brain after a cardiac arrest shows that contrary to current treatment recommendations, it doesn’t actually improve survival or recovery. The…16/6/2021 -Media releaseentity:node19,441,816