Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every year people get out their pressure washers to clean their homes and driveways and every year, people end up in the hospital ...

An estimated 2.5 million hospital-acquired pressure injuries occur annually in the US, extending hospital stays by 57%, and increasing 30-day readmissions by 22%. For patients with obesity, these ...

Household appliance maker SharkNinja is recalling roughly 1.8 million pressure cookers due to reports of burn injuries, according to a US Consumer Product Safety Commission notice posted Thursday. The ...

Hospital stays can be long and arduous; they can also cause serious complications. When a person lies in one position too long and begins to sweat, painful sores called pressure injuries (PIs) can ...

Fully 11% of older patients have pressure injuries when admitted to skilled nursing facilities for post-acute stroke rehabilitation, a new study finds. Certain factors make such a diagnosis more ...

A New York hospital was able to reduce the incidence of medical device-related pressure injuries (MDRPIs) following a tracheostomy to zero for four years, according to a study published in AACN ...