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Advanced digital platform aims to improve outcomes for people with Angelman syndrome

An advanced open-source digital platform developed by QUT researchers is being used to build a patient registry aimed at improving outcomes and health service provision for children and adults around the world living with the rare disease Angelman syndrome.

3 Sep 2020

Study: Partnership between long-term care organizations can improve quality of care for residents

A study published in the Journal of the Medical Directors Association demonstrated that a partnership between long-term care organizations in two countries working in collaboration with researchers and national health care organizations can generate changes that improve quality of care for residents.

3 Sep 2020

Study identifies subtypes and developmental process of novel immune T cells

There are memory cells that remember previously encountered pathogens and help to react quickly and strongly when exposed to them again.

2 Sep 2020

Study shows unprecedented impact of COVID-19 on surgical care in Ontario

The estimated time to clear surgeries postponed in Ontario because of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is 84 weeks, with a target of 717 surgeries per week, according to a new modelling study in CMAJ.

1 Sep 2020

Health expert warns of the increasing threat of animal-to-human coronaviruses

The coronavirus outbreaks, including the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), and the currently spreading coronavirus disease (COVID-19), all came via animal-to-human transmission or zoonosis.

1 Sep 2020

New dual CAR T cell immunotherapy shows enhanced therapeutic potency to fight HIV

A recent study published in the journal Nature Medicine, led by researchers Todd Allen, PhD, a professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and group leader at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard, and Jim Riley, PhD, a professor of Microbiology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, describes a new Dual CAR T cell immunotherapy that can help fight HIV infection.

31 Aug 2020

Clinicians may have to look beyond opioids to tackle nation’s substance use epidemic

Overcoming the nation's opioid epidemic will require clinicians to look beyond opioids, new research from Oregon Health & Science University suggests.

28 Aug 2020

Universal health coverage study reveals that the world likely to fall short of WHO goal

A new study projects that 3.1 billion people will still lack effective health service coverage in 2023, with 968 million of those residing in South Asia.

28 Aug 2020

COVID + influenza: This is a good year to get a flu shot, experts advise

Flu season will look different this year, as the country grapples with a coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 172,000 people. Many Americans are reluctant to visit a doctor's office and public health officials worry people will shy away from being immunized.

28 Aug 2020

MedAxiom release its eighth annual cardiovascular provider compensation and production survey

MedAxiom, an American College of Cardiology Company and the premier source for cardiovascular organizational performance solutions, has released its eighth annual Cardiovascular Provider Compensation and Production Survey.

28 Aug 2020

WHO and partner organizations call for massive scale-up in investment in mental health

Mental health is one of the most neglected areas of public health. Close to 1 billion people are living with a mental disorder, 3 million people die every year from the harmful use of alcohol and one person dies every 40 seconds by suicide.

28 Aug 2020

WHO announces new approach to improve access to life-saving data

Today, as part of its commitment to strengthening health information systems and improving health, especially in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, WHO announced a new approach to improving access to life-saving data: the SCORE for Health Data Technical Package.

27 Aug 2020

WHO African Region now certified as wild polio-free after four years

Today, the Africa Regional Certification Commission certified the WHO African Region as wild polio-free after four years without a case. With this historic milestone, five of the six WHO regions – representing over 90% of the world's population – are now free of the wild poliovirus, moving the world closer to achieving global polio eradication.

26 Aug 2020

Africa meets certification criteria for wild polio eradication

The independent Africa Regional Certification Commission for Polio Eradication officially declared on Tuesday that the World Health Organization African Region is free of wild poliovirus.

26 Aug 2020

Online health technology can close the gap on racial disparities

New research from Boston Medical Center highlights the benefits of using health technology to engage African American and Black women earlier in preconception care in an effort to close the gap on racial disparities in birth outcomes and maternal mortality.

26 Aug 2020

Sub-seasonal rainfall and temperature forecasts can be used to predict dengue outbreaks

A new study demonstrates for the first time that subseasonal rainfall and temperature forecasts can be used to predict outbreaks of dengue fever by estimating mosquito abundance.

25 Aug 2020

UVA-designed nasopharyngeal swabs to support high-priority COVID-19 testing across Virginia

The Commonwealth of Virginia will receive 60,000 nasopharyngeal swabs weekly to support high-priority COVID-19 testing across the state, thanks to a collaboration led by University of Virginia faculty to design this key testing supply.

25 Aug 2020

Researchers find a new way to slow colon cancer metastasis

When cancer metastasizes and spreads throughout the body, it can severely change the prognosis of the disease. It is estimated that metastasis is responsible for 90 percent of cancer deaths.

24 Aug 2020

New project analyzes key lessons about health systems' responses to COVID-19 pandemic

Led by researchers in the Nossal Institute for Global Heath at the University of Melbourne, the project is analyzing the stories and collating key lessons about health systems' responses to the pandemic across a range of places and over different time periods.

24 Aug 2020

Women surgeons earn a disproportionate share of NIH research grants

Women are underrepresented in the field of academic surgery, but women surgeons are earning a disproportionate share of research grants from the National Institutes of Health, a new study has found.

21 Aug 2020

Health Systems News and Research

Advanced digital platform aims to improve outcomes for people with Angelman syndrome

Study: Partnership between long-term care organizations can improve quality of care for residents

Study identifies subtypes and developmental process of novel immune T cells

Study shows unprecedented impact of COVID-19 on surgical care in Ontario

Health expert warns of the increasing threat of animal-to-human coronaviruses

New dual CAR T cell immunotherapy shows enhanced therapeutic potency to fight HIV

Clinicians may have to look beyond opioids to tackle nation’s substance use epidemic

Universal health coverage study reveals that the world likely to fall short of WHO goal

COVID + influenza: This is a good year to get a flu shot, experts advise

MedAxiom release its eighth annual cardiovascular provider compensation and production survey

WHO and partner organizations call for massive scale-up in investment in mental health

WHO announces new approach to improve access to life-saving data

WHO African Region now certified as wild polio-free after four years

Africa meets certification criteria for wild polio eradication

Online health technology can close the gap on racial disparities

Sub-seasonal rainfall and temperature forecasts can be used to predict dengue outbreaks

UVA-designed nasopharyngeal swabs to support high-priority COVID-19 testing across Virginia

Researchers find a new way to slow colon cancer metastasis

New project analyzes key lessons about health systems' responses to COVID-19 pandemic

Women surgeons earn a disproportionate share of NIH research grants

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