Online publisher MedSmart Members has released a free report entitled Death-by-ICU: End-of-Life Care in America.

The expanded use of antiretrovirals, potent drugs used to treat retroviral infections such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), has been linked to significant decreases in hospital mortality rates among severely ill HIV-positive (HIV+) patients nationwide, primarily due to a decrease in opportunistic infections, according to a new study by researchers at Stanford University.

Researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, in Boston, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, have found that critically ill patients were more likely to die if they were taking the most commonly prescribed antidepressants when they were admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU).

ALISO VIEJO, Calif., May 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Critical Care Societies Collaborative (CCSC), in partnership with the U.S.

Women are more likely to suffer post-traumatic stress than men after leaving an intensive care unit (ICU).