Critically ill patients often develop anemia in the hospital, whether their hemoglobin levels are considered low upon admission or fall during their stay. Although seemingly minor compared to their other health issues, the blood loss is directly tied to a variety of poor patient outcomes.

Alcohol-related liver disease (ALD) is characterized by hepatocellular injury, oxidative stress, inflammation and extracellular matrix remodeling, yet effective therapies remain limited. New research in The American Journal of Pathology, found that a single dose of liver matrix-bound nanovesicles (MBVs) derived from healthy porcine tissue reduced liver injury, fat accumulation and oxidative stress in alcohol-fed mice, pointing to a possible new therapeutic strategy for ALD.

The medical profiles of adults diagnosed with autism have changed since 2010, finds a study of medical records in the U.K. and Sweden, published in the online journal BMJ Mental Health.

Neither local case mix, primary care provision nor geography explains the large differences in hospital admission rates, ranging from less than 10% to more than 40%, from emergency departments across England, finds research published online in Emergency Medicine Journal.

Among the various viruses that sicken your gut, some at least leave behind a tiny path of cellular destruction as they replicate, implicating the guilty pathogen. Both rotavirus and norovirus invade the small intestine, multiply there and can break through the organ’s outer lining as one way of proliferating in the body.