Anesthesiology Research in the News

2011

NY Times - Disparities: In the E.R., the Elderly Get Less Pain Relief

Dr. Platts-Mills, a faculty member in the TRYUMPH Research Program and Emergency Medicine physician at UNC, describes evidence that elderly individuals are significantly less likely to receive pain medication in a 7-year nationwide study of emergency room patient data.

Anesthesiology News - Opioid Gene Variants Linked to Cancer Survival in Women

Dr. Andrey Bortsov explains an association found between the opioid receptor gene polymorphism A118G and breast cancer survival in a population-based study of 2039 women.

USA Today - One in 20 patients will contract a serious hospital infection

Dr. Tina Willis shows how a simple, inexpensive infection control adopted in U.S. hospitals may reduce thousands of preventable deaths and save billions of dollars.