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Study highlights disparity in providing mental health services across EU countries

Access to inpatient care for young people with mental health issues varies significantly across Europe, with mental health services providing up to fifty times more beds depending upon the country you live in.

29 Apr 2019

Is insulin’s high cost keeping diabetes patients from taking their medicine?

High prescription drug prices are fast becoming a leading political topic, with medications like insulin emerging as a poster child for the issue.

29 Apr 2019

Study finds lesser HPV vaccine coverage than other infant vaccines

Despite the increasing trends in uptake, the human papillomavirus vaccine coverage is far behind other infant vaccines in many states, according to a new study, which describes the trends in HPV vaccine uptake in children in the U.S.

27 Apr 2019

Unmanned aircraft delivers donor kidney to surgeons at UMMC for transplantation

In a first-ever advancement in human medicine and aviation technology, a University of Maryland unmanned aircraft has delivered a donor kidney to surgeons at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) in Baltimore for successful transplantation into a patient with kidney failure.

27 Apr 2019

Peppermint oil helps people with non-cardiac chest pain and difficulty swallowing

Imagine that while eating a delicious meal at your favorite restaurant, your joy is cut short because of difficulty swallowing your food, followed by chest pain.

27 Apr 2019

Klobuchar wants to stop ‘pay-for-delay’ deals that keep drug prices high

Washington's recent fixation with lowering drug costs has introduced Americans to once-insider terms like "pharmacy benefit managers" and "list prices."

26 Apr 2019

Study finds significant delays in reporting human cases of West Nile virus

Mount Sinai researchers found significant delays in reporting human cases of West Nile virus, hampering real-time forecasting of the potentially deadly mosquito-borne disease, according to a study in the JAMA Network Open in April.

26 Apr 2019

UA College partners with Space Tango to develop an easy way to test astronauts' health in space

Researchers at the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix are partnering with Space Tango, a private aerospace company that designs, builds and operates facilities on the International Space Station, to develop an easy way to test astronauts' health in space.

26 Apr 2019

Hospitals chafe under Medicare’s new payment rule for off-campus clinics

Eric Lewis' plans for expansion have derailed. As chief executive officer of Olympic Medical Center, he oversees efforts to provide care to roughly 75,000 people in Clallam County, in the isolated, rural northwestern corner of Washington state.

26 Apr 2019

Quality improvement programs in the NHS show no difference in patient survival

Researchers from Queen Mary University of London studied the effectiveness of one of the largest ever national quality improvement programs in the National Health Service and found no improvement in patient survival.

26 Apr 2019

New findings about aggressive blood cancer may help develop drugs with less harmful side effects

New findings about a fatal form of blood cancer could aid the development of new drugs with significantly less harmful side effects than existing chemotherapy.

26 Apr 2019

Predicting whether a patient will benefit from chemotherapy

Case Western Reserve University researchers and partners, including a collaborator at Cleveland Clinic, are pushing the boundaries of how "smart" diagnostic-imaging machines identify cancers--and uncovering clues outside the tumor to tell whether a patient will respond well to chemotherapy.

25 Apr 2019

Using blood thinners in heart failure patients associated with reduced risk of thromboembolic events

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine found that using blood thinners in patients with worsening heart failure, coronary artery disease or irregular heart rhythms was associated with a 17 percent reduced risk of thromboembolic events, such as stroke and heart attack.

25 Apr 2019

Physicians turning to antibiotic alternatives for long-term acne treatment

Physicians are scaling back on prescribing antibiotics for long-term acne treatment in favor of a combinations of therapies, according to Rutgers researchers.

25 Apr 2019

Cellular communication in emotion-processing brain region motivates us to keep eating tasty food

When you eat something super tasty, ever wonder why you really don't want to stop even though you know you've eaten enough? Scientists at the UNC School of Medicine may have found the reason.

25 Apr 2019

Integrator complex proteins are crucial for healthy brain development in fruit flies, study finds

A study by Duke-NUS Medical School has found that members of the multiprotein 'Integrator complex', known for its role in gene regulation, are crucial for healthy brain development in fruit flies.

24 Apr 2019

New mobile phone game can detect people at risk of Alzheimer's

A specially designed mobile phone game can detect people at risk of Alzheimer's - according to new research from the University of East Anglia.

24 Apr 2019

Traditional and e-cigarette users may be more receptive to smoking cessation interventions

A study by MassGeneral Hospital for Children researchers finds that parents who use both traditional cigarettes and e-cigarettes may be more receptive to smoking cessation interventions than parents who only smoke traditional cigarettes.

23 Apr 2019

Older kidney disease patients starting dialysis die at higher rates than previously thought

Older adults with end-stage kidney disease who start dialysis--a treatment that keeps their blood free of toxins--appear to die at higher rates than previously thought, according to findings of a new study by researchers at Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, among other institutions.

23 Apr 2019

Researchers identify circulating proteins associated with progression of diabetic kidney disease

In a breakthrough study published today in Nature Medicine, researchers at Joslin Diabetes Center have identified a group of 17 circulating inflammatory proteins that are consistently associated with the development and progression of diabetic kidney disease.

23 Apr 2019

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Study highlights disparity in providing mental health services across EU countries

Is insulin’s high cost keeping diabetes patients from taking their medicine?

Study finds lesser HPV vaccine coverage than other infant vaccines

Unmanned aircraft delivers donor kidney to surgeons at UMMC for transplantation

Peppermint oil helps people with non-cardiac chest pain and difficulty swallowing

Klobuchar wants to stop ‘pay-for-delay’ deals that keep drug prices high

Study finds significant delays in reporting human cases of West Nile virus

UA College partners with Space Tango to develop an easy way to test astronauts' health in space

Hospitals chafe under Medicare’s new payment rule for off-campus clinics

Quality improvement programs in the NHS show no difference in patient survival

New findings about aggressive blood cancer may help develop drugs with less harmful side effects

Predicting whether a patient will benefit from chemotherapy

Using blood thinners in heart failure patients associated with reduced risk of thromboembolic events

Physicians turning to antibiotic alternatives for long-term acne treatment

Cellular communication in emotion-processing brain region motivates us to keep eating tasty food

Integrator complex proteins are crucial for healthy brain development in fruit flies, study finds

New mobile phone game can detect people at risk of Alzheimer's

Traditional and e-cigarette users may be more receptive to smoking cessation interventions

Older kidney disease patients starting dialysis die at higher rates than previously thought

Researchers identify circulating proteins associated with progression of diabetic kidney disease

A New Approach to Preventing Bladder Cancer Recurrence

Bringing real-time analytics to downstream bioprocess monitoring

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

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