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Study finds shortcomings in long-term care for heart failure patients in the UK

Management of people with heart failure in the UK has shortcomings in screening, continuity of care, and medication doses, which disproportionally impact women and older people, according to a study led by Nathalie Conrad and Kazem Rahimi of The George Institute for Global Health at the University of Oxford, UK, published May 21 in PLOS Medicine.

22 May 2019

New approach to waking up sleeping genes could help people with Prader-Willi syndrome

New funding is enabling Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researchers to develop new approaches to potentially help people with Prader-Willi syndrome, a devastating and incurable genetic condition.

21 May 2019

Gene linked to rare progressive brain disease causes new kind of congenital disorder

A new kind of congenital disorder caused by a group of mutations in a gene previously linked only to a rare progressive brain disease has been discovered by an international team co-led by Saudi investigators.

20 May 2019

Podcast: KHN’s ‘What the Health?’ States race to reverse ‘roe’

Alabama is the latest in a growing list of states passing bans on abortion in an attempt to get the Supreme Court to weaken or overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that legalized abortion nationwide. Unlike most of the other state laws that have passed this year, however, the Alabama law would completely ban abortion except when the woman's life was in danger from the pregnancy.

16 May 2019

Early contact with physiotherapist appears to provide superior benefits

Patients with muscle and joint pain are often at least as well served by seeing a physiotherapist as by consulting a doctor when they seek help at a primary health care centre. Over time, the health benefits of first going to a physiotherapist appear slightly superior, new research shows.

16 May 2019

National Endowment for the Humanities funds new Hastings Center project on disability and technology

People with disabilities are experts at navigating a world that is not built for them - often by turning to technologies such as voice recognition devices and cochlear implants.

16 May 2019

GW researchers lay groundwork for improving diagnostic utility of neonatal EEGs

Neonatal brain injury is a leading cause of lifelong disability. Researchers at the George Washington University are laying the groundwork for a future where health care providers can more accurately diagnose brain injury and dysfunction in newborns with the use of an inexpensive and non-invasive diagnostic tool -- electroencephalography.

15 May 2019

WHO releases guidelines for preventing dementia, and they don't include supplements

The WHO has released new guidelines advising that people can reduce their risk for dementia by reducing modifiable risk factors such as smoking and a lack of exercise.

15 May 2019

Implementation of new pathway for spatial neglect care

Spatial neglect remains a hidden disability despite the availability of effective tools for the diagnosis and treatment for this common complication of stroke.

15 May 2019

Study finds persistently high rate of long-term opioid prescribing for older cancer survivors

Using Medicare data, new findings from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston show for the first time that the rates of long term opiate therapy - a 90-day or more supply of opioids per year - for older cancer survivors remain high for at least five years in cancer survivors.

14 May 2019

Deaths from cardiovascular disease have risen by 4 percent in the last 5 years

The number of people dying prematurely from cardiovascular disease in the UK is on the rise for the first time in 50 years, according to a new analysis.

13 May 2019

Statins' potential to treat MS unrelated to the drug's cholesterol lowering effects

The widely prescribed statin, simvastatin, can medically help patients with secondary progressive Multiple Sclerosis - for reasons that might be unrelated to the drug's intended cholesterol lowering affects, a UCL study has found.

10 May 2019

New stroke treatment moves toward clinical trials

A stroke treatment developed by researcher Byron Ford at the University of California, Riverside, has moved toward clinical trials.

10 May 2019

Finnish study finds higher risk of PTSD in children with immigrant father

Children born in Finland who had an immigrant father were two times more likely to be diagnosed with PTSD than those with two Finnish parents, discovered researchers from the Research Centre for Child Psychiatry at the University of Turku in Finland.

9 May 2019

Adverse childhood experiences may contribute to poor health in adults with lupus

Adults with lupus who report having had adverse childhood experiences, such as abuse, neglect and household challenges, report higher disease activity, depression and poorer overall health compared to those without such experiences, according to a study by researchers at UC San Francisco.

9 May 2019

Disability News and Research

Study finds shortcomings in long-term care for heart failure patients in the UK

New approach to waking up sleeping genes could help people with Prader-Willi syndrome

Gene linked to rare progressive brain disease causes new kind of congenital disorder

Podcast: KHN’s ‘What the Health?’ States race to reverse ‘roe’

Early contact with physiotherapist appears to provide superior benefits

National Endowment for the Humanities funds new Hastings Center project on disability and technology

GW researchers lay groundwork for improving diagnostic utility of neonatal EEGs

WHO releases guidelines for preventing dementia, and they don't include supplements

Implementation of new pathway for spatial neglect care

Study finds persistently high rate of long-term opioid prescribing for older cancer survivors

Deaths from cardiovascular disease have risen by 4 percent in the last 5 years

Statins' potential to treat MS unrelated to the drug's cholesterol lowering effects

New stroke treatment moves toward clinical trials

Finnish study finds higher risk of PTSD in children with immigrant father

Adverse childhood experiences may contribute to poor health in adults with lupus

Discovery could change the way fibromyalgia and chronic pain are treated

Early clinical trial of new treatment for severe dry eye disease shows promising results

Drug reduces risk of relapse with neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder, study shows

Prolonged exposure to low-dose radiation linked with increased risk of hypertension

CoGEN Congress 2019: Speakers' overviews

Bringing real-time analytics to downstream bioprocess monitoring

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

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