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Researchers implement automated program to screen for malnutrition in hospitalized children

A team of clinicians, dietitians and researchers has created an automated program to screen for malnutrition in hospitalized children, providing daily alerts to healthcare providers so they can quickly intervene with appropriate treatment.

10 Oct 2018

Groundbreaking at-home robotic rehabilitation system for stroke patients

Researchers in Houston and elsewhere have shown that robotic systems controlled by the user's own brain activity can help patients recovering from stroke and other disabling injuries.

9 Oct 2018

Study: Mastectomy does not completely eliminate need for future breast imaging

The proportion of breast cancer patients who are eligible for breast conservation therapy, yet opt for mastectomy, is increasing, for reasons that include the desire to eliminate future screening and/or biopsy of the remaining breast tissue.

9 Oct 2018

New DNA test can predict adult heart attack risk much earlier in life

People at high risk of a heart attack in adulthood could be spotted much earlier in life with a one-off DNA test, according to new research part-funded by the British Heart Foundation and published today in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

9 Oct 2018

$Thesis sheds new light on women with vertebral compression fractures$

Thesis sheds new light on women with vertebral compression fractures

Older women who suffer vertebral fractures rarely attract the attention of health care providers. A dissertation at Sahlgrenska Academy, Sweden, throws new light on a group of individuals with chronic pain as a constant companion.

9 Oct 2018

New project aims to improve long-term patient monitoring through remote assessment

Under conventional medical practice, monitoring long-term patients is done in the clinic or hospital, assessing such things as treatment effects, adverse events and disease course.

9 Oct 2018

King's College researchers awarded £2.3 million for new trial to treat liver disease

Dr Mark McPhail from the Department of Inflammation Biology, School of Immunology & Microbial Sciences and Dr Vishal Patel from the Institute of Liver Studies at King's College Hospital have been awarded £2.3 million by the National Institute of Health Research Health Technology Assessment to lead a new UK wide multi-centre trial to treat liver disease.

9 Oct 2018

Study links scoliosis to essential dietary mineral

Nobody knows why some children's backs start to curve to one side just as they hit puberty. Most children diagnosed with scoliosis, or curvature of the spine, have no known risk factors.

9 Oct 2018

Spurred by convenience, millennials often spurn the ‘family doctor’ model

Calvin Brown doesn’t have a primary care doctor — and the peripatetic 23-year-old doesn’t want one.

9 Oct 2018

Children with asthma have higher risk of obesity

Toddlers with asthma are more likely to become obese children, according to an international study led by USC scientists.

9 Oct 2018

Massively parallel single-nucleus RNA sequencing reveals insights into heart disease

Scientists using a powerful new technology that sequences RNA in 20,000 individual cell nuclei have uncovered new insights into biological events in heart disease.

9 Oct 2018

Liva Healthcare appoints Dr Roger Henderson to tackle Type 2 diabetes

Liva Healthcare, the digital health platform designed to tackle Type 2 diabetes, has appointed Dr Roger Henderson as UK medical director.

From Liva Healthcare UK 9 Oct 2018

New report reveals concerning inadequacies in care for diabetes inpatients

Diabetes UK’s ‘Making Hospitals Safe for People with Diabetes’ report, released today (08/10/2018), has revealed concerning inadequacies in care for diabetes inpatients.

9 Oct 2018

Cutting-edge precision medicine spreading from specialist cancer units to community setting

Nearly 1 in 4 patients with advanced cancer, treated at Comprehensive Cancer Care Network centers in the US, are receiving innovative drugs matched to DNA mutations in their tumors.

8 Oct 2018

Regular use of party drug GHB associated with brain changes

Scientists have discovered that regular use of the party drug GHB, and especially unconsciousness following GHB use, is associated with brain changes including negative effects on long-term memory, working memory, IQ, and higher levels of stress and anxiety.

8 Oct 2018

Lyra Therapeutics announces presentation of Phase 1 clinical data for LYR-210 in CRS patients

Lyra Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing medicines precisely designed to target ear, nose and throat diseases, today announced the presentation of Phase 1 clinical data for the company's lead therapeutic, LYR-210, for chronic rhinosinusitis, a debilitating disease caused by inflammation of the paranasal sinus tissues that affects approximately 27 million people, or 11% of the adult population in the U.S.

8 Oct 2018

Researchers use CRISPR-Cas9 to prevent congenital disease in utero

Researchers have successfully used prenatal gene editing (CRISPR-Cas9) to prevent a fatal metabolic disorder in an animal model.

8 Oct 2018

Medicare Advantage plans shift their financial risk to doctors

Dr. Christopher Rao jumped out of his office chair. He'd just learned an elderly patient at high risk of falling was resisting his advice to go to an inpatient rehabilitation facility following a hip fracture.

8 Oct 2018

CPEN honors Penn Medicine's OncoLink with 2018 Excellence in Patient Education Award

The Cancer Patient Education Network (CPEN) honored the Patient Education Team from Penn Medicine's OncoLink with the 2018 Excellence in Patient Education Award.

8 Oct 2018

New blood test may detect early-stage lung cancer when surgical intervention is not possible

Non-small-cell lung carcinoma is often fatal because most cases are not diagnosed until they are so advanced that surgical intervention is no longer possible. To improve outcomes researchers are developing a blood test to detect lung cancer earlier in the disease.

8 Oct 2018

Hospital News and Research

Researchers implement automated program to screen for malnutrition in hospitalized children

Groundbreaking at-home robotic rehabilitation system for stroke patients

Study: Mastectomy does not completely eliminate need for future breast imaging

New DNA test can predict adult heart attack risk much earlier in life

Thesis sheds new light on women with vertebral compression fractures

New project aims to improve long-term patient monitoring through remote assessment

King's College researchers awarded £2.3 million for new trial to treat liver disease

Study links scoliosis to essential dietary mineral

Spurred by convenience, millennials often spurn the ‘family doctor’ model

Children with asthma have higher risk of obesity

Massively parallel single-nucleus RNA sequencing reveals insights into heart disease

Liva Healthcare appoints Dr Roger Henderson to tackle Type 2 diabetes

New report reveals concerning inadequacies in care for diabetes inpatients

Cutting-edge precision medicine spreading from specialist cancer units to community setting

Regular use of party drug GHB associated with brain changes

Lyra Therapeutics announces presentation of Phase 1 clinical data for LYR-210 in CRS patients

Researchers use CRISPR-Cas9 to prevent congenital disease in utero

Medicare Advantage plans shift their financial risk to doctors

CPEN honors Penn Medicine's OncoLink with 2018 Excellence in Patient Education Award

New blood test may detect early-stage lung cancer when surgical intervention is not possible

Managing vibration in IVF laboratories

Improving healthcare sustainability through carbon data

A New Approach to Preventing Bladder Cancer Recurrence

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