8 clinical research findings to know this week

Here are eight articles on medical research study findings from the week of April 13.

1. One study found that when trained observers use remote video monitoring to watch patients, it can reduce patient falls by 35 percent.

2. Researchers discovered a spike in infections and pneumonia cases in the Joplin, Mo., area following a devastating EF5 tornado in 2011, meaning the natural disturbance may lead to people becoming ill.

3. Research out of the University of Cambridge and Imperial Collage in the U.K. showed that some canines can build an immune response to human norovirus, which suggests that the animals have been infected with the virus, which could mean they could pass it to humans.

4. Conventional approaches to treating bacterial infections frequently involve using large doses of a common antibiotic drug, but new study findings suggest that using a sequence of drugs — rather than a mixed drug cocktail — may be more effective.

5. Texas A&M Health Science Center research revealed that germ-zapping robots that use pulsed xenon ultraviolet light to clean hospital rooms do about as well as manual cleaning.

6. National health surveys that collect data on poisonings in the U.S. may underestimate poisoning incidence by 60 to 90 percent, according to recent research from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

7. Researchers who performed a national population-based cohort study of more than 2.4 million adults in Denmark found that people with comorbid type 2 diabetes and depression are at a higher risk of developing dementia than people with just one of the conditions.

8. Researchers determined three risk factors for recurrence of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae among patients presumed CRE-free in a recent case-control study.

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