Tag Archives: Breakthrough

Coronavirus treatment breakthrough: Cheap hydrocortisone steroid drastically cuts deaths

Hydrocortisone, an anti-inflammatory drug, could save one in every 12 patients, according to new research conducted by Imperial College London and the Intensive Care National Audit & Research Centre. The researchers discovered that patients receiving intensive care who were treated with hydrocortisone for seven days had a 93 percent chance of a better recovery compared… Read More »

ONC’s Proposed Rule is a Breakthrough in Patient Empowerment

By ADRIAN GROPPER Imagine solving wicked problems of patient matching, consent, and a patient-centered longitudinal health record while also enabling a world of new healthcare services for patients and physicians to use. The long-awaited Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on information blocking from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) promises nothing less.… Read More »

Breakthrough Leukemia Treatment Backfires in a Rare Case

The patient who died had B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia that had relapsed several times after standard treatments, and was being treated at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. The university declined to say when he was treated, to protect patient privacy. But the study he joined enrolled patients from August 2011 until September 2016. Once he… Read More »