When someone develops an infection at a hospital or other patient care facility that they did not have prior to treatment, this is referred to as a Healthcare-Associated (sometimes hospital-acquired) Infection (HAI).
Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs) are a global crisis affecting both patients and healthcare workers.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), at any point in time, 1.4 million people worldwide suffer from infections acquired in hospitals.
A new research involving patient of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) found that tiotropium therapy (a drug that stops the nerve reaction that blocks the breathing route) can improve the lung function and thus improving the quality of life for its patients.
A study called UPLIFT (Understanding Potential Long-term Impacts on Function with Tiotropium) has been carried out involving 5,993 patients in 37 countries around the world.
Depression actually is a common disease and more common than hypertension or diabetes.What is depression?
Corneal defect in children is also known as congenital cataract condition in medical language. Congenital cataract is a condition where the eye lens which is originally clear and translucent turned muddy and this situation was traced after the birth.
Eye lens function is to focus light that enters into the eye and create the image onto the retina. Cataract disease prevents the light from entering the eye and causing blurred image produced on the retina of the eye.
