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Only 10% of patients found to access their medical records despite numerous benefits

Despite the numerous benefits associated with patients accessing their medical records, a study by a new Portland State University professor found only 10% of patients utilize the resource.

10 Dec 2019

Eating ice cream may cause you a headache

As opposed to making you happy, eating ice cream may cause you a headache. Cephalalgia, the official journal of the International Headache Society, published the article entitled "Prevalence and characteristics of headache attributed to ingestion or inhalation of a cold stimulus (HICS): A cross-sectional study", by Torsten Kraya and colleagues from the Department of Neurology, at Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, and St. Georg Hospital, Leipzig, Germany.

10 Dec 2019

New tech will allow patients in rural Africa to provide feedback on their care

Some problems are best solved with new tech or a flashy app. But sometimes adapting existing technology works best of all.

10 Dec 2019

Children in low resourced countries more likely to die after surgery

Children in low resourced countries are 100-200 times more likely to die after surgery than children in wealthy countries, according to a first-of-its-kind study published in Anesthesiology.

10 Dec 2019

Fresh red blood cell transfusions are no more beneficial than older ones to critically ill children

A new study led by the Sainte-Justine University Hospital Centre and the University of Montreal, along with the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has found that transfusions using fresh red blood cells--cells that have spent seven days or less in storage--are no more beneficial than older red blood cells in reducing the risk of organ failure or death in critically ill children.

10 Dec 2019

Study focuses on smoking cessation treatment for adolescents

Preventable deaths are those that can be stymied by public health intervention, and deaths related to tobacco use are at the top of that list in the United States as well as globally.

10 Dec 2019

'Advance Care Specialist Program' expands to 170 nursing homes across the country

A training program that helps nursing homes offer advance care planning support to residents with Alzheimer's disease and their family members is expanding to more than 170 nursing homes across the country.

10 Dec 2019

New grant to improve wellbeing of health professionals and patients

The largest initiative to improve hospital work environments to date has officially begun, with an award of 4 million Euros from the European Union's Horizon 2020 program. The grant will support the international partnership of some of the world's leading Universities led by KU Leuven and the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing's Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research.

10 Dec 2019

Study provides most detailed classification of acute myeloid leukemia, myelodysplastic syndrome

Results from a study conducted by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and the Munich Leukemia Laboratory were presented today as a late-breaking abstract at the American Society of Hematology annual meeting. The study integrates genomic and transcriptomic sequencing to provide the most detailed classification of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) to date.

10 Dec 2019

A network approach to explore the causes of IBD

Diseases of the gut are often notoriously difficult to diagnose, nevermind understand, which is where a network-based approach comes in.

10 Dec 2019

Researchers aim to exploit DNA mutations in the treatment of blood and bone marrow cancers

In a clinical trial led by Yale Cancer Center and Smilow Cancer Hospital, researchers aim to exploit DNA mutations in the treatment of two blood and bone marrow cancers, a different tacit than the more traditional approach of blunting or switching off genetic mutations linked to cancer.

10 Dec 2019

George Mason receives NIJ grant to advance research on bruise identification

Dr. Katherine Scafide received a $398,719 National Institute of Justice grant for her proposal entitled: Improving the Forensic Documentation of Injuries through Alternate Light: A Researcher-Practitioner Partnership.

10 Dec 2019

Yeasts derived from food can reduce multi-drug resistant fungal infections

A study by researchers in the United States and India has shown that probiotic yeasts derived from food are able to reduce the virulence of, and even prevent infections by, several types of fungi that are responsible for life-threatening infections in hospitalized and immune-compromised individuals, including the multi-drug resistant Candida auris, which was recently listed as an urgent threat by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control in its 2019 Antibiotic Resistance Threats report.

10 Dec 2019

Combination regimen shows promising results in preclinical models of triple negative breast cancer

Tumor volume in a preclinical model of triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) was reduced four times more when an experimental polo-like kinase 1 (PLK1) inhibitor was combined with a standard-of-care chemotherapeutic agent than when the agent was used alone.

10 Dec 2019

ERC promotes CRISPR research to better treat infections

Chase Beisel heads the "Synthetic Biology of RNA" research group at the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI) in Würzburg, a branch of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in Braunschweig and run in collaboration with the Julius-Maximilians-Universität in Würzburg.

10 Dec 2019

Study explores cost-effectiveness of transient elastography for detecting liver fibrosis

Non-alcoholic fatty liver diseases (NAFLD) and alcohol-related diseases (ALD) are currently the leading cause of chronic disease, cancer and mortality associated with this organ in developed countries.

10 Dec 2019

New free mobile app helps families keep their infants safe

Placing an infant to sleep safely can save lives. A new, free mobile app, Baby be Well, helps families keep their infants safe throughout the first year of life.

10 Dec 2019

Mitochondrial dysfunction may underlie prolonged muscle weakness after sepsis

Damage to energy-producing mitochondria may underlie prolonged muscle weakness following a sepsis-like condition in mice, according to a new study published today in eLife.

10 Dec 2019

Study finds that even light alcohol consumption may increase overall cancer risk

A new study suggests that even light-to-moderate alcohol consumption may increase overall cancer risk.

10 Dec 2019

$1 million international study aims to mend a broken heart

Every 40 seconds, a person dies from heart disease in the United States, making it the single leading cause of death in that country, as well as worldwide. But what if all those damaged hearts could be repaired with the flick of a switch? A $1 million international study led by the University of South Australia is hoping to do just that.

10 Dec 2019

Hospital News and Research

Only 10% of patients found to access their medical records despite numerous benefits

Eating ice cream may cause you a headache

New tech will allow patients in rural Africa to provide feedback on their care

Children in low resourced countries more likely to die after surgery

Fresh red blood cell transfusions are no more beneficial than older ones to critically ill children

Study focuses on smoking cessation treatment for adolescents

'Advance Care Specialist Program' expands to 170 nursing homes across the country

New grant to improve wellbeing of health professionals and patients

Study provides most detailed classification of acute myeloid leukemia, myelodysplastic syndrome

A network approach to explore the causes of IBD

Researchers aim to exploit DNA mutations in the treatment of blood and bone marrow cancers

George Mason receives NIJ grant to advance research on bruise identification

Yeasts derived from food can reduce multi-drug resistant fungal infections

Combination regimen shows promising results in preclinical models of triple negative breast cancer

ERC promotes CRISPR research to better treat infections

Study explores cost-effectiveness of transient elastography for detecting liver fibrosis

New free mobile app helps families keep their infants safe

Mitochondrial dysfunction may underlie prolonged muscle weakness after sepsis

Study finds that even light alcohol consumption may increase overall cancer risk

$1 million international study aims to mend a broken heart

Improving healthcare sustainability through carbon data

A New Approach to Preventing Bladder Cancer Recurrence

Bringing real-time analytics to downstream bioprocess monitoring

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