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New clinical trial may establish a standard of care for patients with oligometastatic kidney cancer

Kidney cancer encompasses a wide spectrum and can present with extensive metastases or just a handful. However, today all patients are treated the same. They all receive medication.

19 Aug 2022

Exploring a paralytic poliomyelitis case in an unvaccinated person

Researchers investigated the public health response to a paralytic poliomyelitis case in an unvaccinated person.

19 Aug 2022

SARS-CoV-2 prime and booster vaccinations found to improve pregnancy and birth outcomes

Researchers evaluated the impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) prime vaccination and booster vaccination during pregnancy on maternal and fetal health outcomes.

19 Aug 2022

COVID-19 pandemic has increased pregnancy complications and maternal death during delivery

Researchers investigate whether pregnancy-related complications and obstetric outcomes changed significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic.

18 Aug 2022

What is the association between COVID-19 and thrombotic events?

In a new study, researchers assessed the association of COVID-19 and influenza with thrombotic events among patients.

18 Aug 2022

Lower brain tissue oxygenation puts frailer older adults with multi-morbidity at risk of faints and falls

Researchers from Mercer's Institute for Successful Ageing (MISA) and the Department of Medical Physics at St James's Hospital and Trinity College Dublin have discovered that brain tissue oxygenation is lower in frailer older adults with multiple health conditions (multi-morbidity), putting them at risk of faints and falls. Brain oxygenation - the measure of oxygen in brain tissue - reflects the balance between oxygen delivery and consumption and is vital for the maintenance of normal brain function and tissue integrity.

18 Aug 2022

Nepal has the highest death rate from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, study reveals

Nepal has the world's highest age-adjusted death rate for chronic lung disease at 182.5 per 100,000 population, with more than 3,000 years lost to ill health or disability from the condition, according to an international study.

18 Aug 2022

New study advances the understanding of genetic basis of autism

A new study of genes underlying neurodevelopmental differences has uncovered more than 70 that are very strongly associated with autism and more than 250 with strong links to the condition.

18 Aug 2022

The QCOVID4 algorithm developed using data from the Omicron wave identifies those at highest risk of severe COVID-19 outcomes

A recent article illustrated the derivation and validation of the QCOVID4 risk determination algorithm for predicting COVID-19 hospitalization and death risk in England.

18 Aug 2022

Her brother landed in a nursing home. She was sued over his bill.

Lucille Brooks was stunned to discover a nursing home in Monroe County, New York, was suing her. She had never been a patient there. Nor had her husband. "I thought this was crazy," she said, figuring it had to be a mistake.

18 Aug 2022

Haunted for 13 years by debt from childbirth, then rescued by a nonprofit

Two months ahead of her due date with her second daughter, Terri Logan felt weighed down by stress. She was a high school math teacher in Union City, Georgia, and was ending her relationship with the baby's father.

18 Aug 2022

Some rural hospitals are in such bad shape, local governments are practically giving them away

Kyle Kopec gets a kick out of leading tours through the run-down hospitals his boss is snapping up, pointing out what he calls relics of poor management left by a revolving door of operators. But there's a point to exposing their state of disrepair — the company he works for, Braden Health, is buying buildings worth millions of dollars for next to nothing.

18 Aug 2022

Highly sensitive DNA test identifies neuroborreliosis in horses

A Rutgers scientist aiming to help heal a sick horse created an ultra-sensitive DNA test that could have applications for difficult-to-detect illnesses in humans such as Lyme disease.

18 Aug 2022

New strategies to enhance the survival of children with neuroblastoma

Neuroblastoma, a childhood cancer that develops from neural cells on the adrenal glands, accounts for 15% of childhood cancer deaths. Almost half of children with high-risk neuroblastoma harbor extra copies of the gene MYCN (MYCN amplified), the primary driver of neuroblastoma and its resistance to therapy.

18 Aug 2022

Study detects asymptomatic monkeypox virus infection

A new study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine aimed to assess the presence of MPVX in the anorectal samples of MSM who had undergone routine tests for sexually transmitted infections from 5th June to 11th July 2022.

17 Aug 2022

New collaborations aim to examine the impact of seizure clusters on patient and caregiver quality of life

UCB today announced three collaborations aimed at examining the impact of seizure clusters on patient and caregiver quality of life.

17 Aug 2022

Hackensack Meridian Health becomes second in the world to implant Impella Bridge-to-Recovery heart pump

Hackensack Meridian Health, Hackensack University Medical Center cardiac surgeon Yuriy Dudiy, M.D. became the second in the world to successfully implant the Impella Bridge-to-Recovery (BTR)™ heart pump for the technology's U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) early feasibility study (EFS) investigational device exemption (IDE).

17 Aug 2022

Hospital News and Research

New clinical trial may establish a standard of care for patients with oligometastatic kidney cancer

Exploring a paralytic poliomyelitis case in an unvaccinated person

SARS-CoV-2 prime and booster vaccinations found to improve pregnancy and birth outcomes

COVID-19 pandemic has increased pregnancy complications and maternal death during delivery

What is the association between COVID-19 and thrombotic events?

Lower brain tissue oxygenation puts frailer older adults with multi-morbidity at risk of faints and falls

Nepal has the highest death rate from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, study reveals

New study advances the understanding of genetic basis of autism

The QCOVID4 algorithm developed using data from the Omicron wave identifies those at highest risk of severe COVID-19 outcomes

Her brother landed in a nursing home. She was sued over his bill.

Haunted for 13 years by debt from childbirth, then rescued by a nonprofit

Some rural hospitals are in such bad shape, local governments are practically giving them away

Highly sensitive DNA test identifies neuroborreliosis in horses

New strategies to enhance the survival of children with neuroblastoma

Study detects asymptomatic monkeypox virus infection

New collaborations aim to examine the impact of seizure clusters on patient and caregiver quality of life

Hackensack Meridian Health becomes second in the world to implant Impella Bridge-to-Recovery heart pump

Research suggests a new model of how beige fat biogenesis is controlled

Study contributes to better understanding of the changes in kinase activity in renal cell carcinoma

UW cardiologists employ catheter-delivered device to retrieve a benign tumor from the heart

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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