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Empowering communities: Penn Medicine's annual mammogram event and health fair

Penn Medicine will once again join with community partners and Siemens Healthineers to host a free mammogram clinic and community health fair in June, giving the West Philadelphia and Upper Darby communities convenient access to health screenings right in their neighborhoods.

13 Jun 2024

Low-sodium alternatives could have a positive impact on the Indonesian health

Excess sodium intake and a lack of potassium are major contributing factors towards high blood pressure in Indonesia, prompting calls for low-sodium potassium-rich salt substitutes (LSSS) to be readily available to improve health and curb health costs.

13 Jun 2024

New armored CAR T cell therapy boosts response in Relapsed non-Hodgkin lymphoma patients

While CAR T cell therapy has revolutionized treatment for many blood cancers, including non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), many patients who receive CAR T cell therapy do not experience a long-term remission.

13 Jun 2024

Researchers discover new mechanisms in the development of stroke

A group of researchers from the University of Tartu and international scientists discovered new mechanisms of how stroke occurs by studying changes in mouse and human cells.

13 Jun 2024

Nature and exercise: A combined approach to improving health outcomes

Health practitioners and fitness buffs have long known that regular physical activity offers numerous health benefits, including the prevention of chronic conditions such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, some cancers and osteoporosis.

13 Jun 2024

AI-driven alerts improve patient care escalation and survival rates in hospitals

Deploying and evaluating a machine learning intervention to improve clinical care and patient outcomes is a key step in moving clinical deterioration models from byte to bedside, according to a June 13 editorial in Critical Care Medicine that comments on a Mount Sinai study published in the same issue.

13 Jun 2024

AHA selects five innovators for the Heart and Brain Health Accelerator program The Amer...

The American Heart Association, through its Center for Health Technology and Innovation (the Center), has selected five companies to participate in the American Heart Association Heart and Brain Health Accelerator.

13 Jun 2024

Revolutionary platform unveils detailed human brain architecture at multiple scales

A new platform enables simultaneous capture of protein expression, cellular morphology, neural projection, and synapse distribution in large-scale human brain tissues at multiple scales, researchers report.

13 Jun 2024

Study: Out-of-pocket costs impact naloxone access

Patients are less likely to fill prescriptions for naloxone when they face increases in out-of-pocket costs, according to research by the University of Michigan.

13 Jun 2024

Study sheds light on pediatric DIPG tumor mechanisms

Researchers at the University of Michigan Health Rogel Cancer Center are one step closer to understanding how pediatric DIPG tumors work.

13 Jun 2024

Study advocates for liberal blood transfusions in TBI intensive care

Increased use of blood transfusions after major traumatic brain injury could help people hospitalized in intensive care units regain greater functional independence and a better quality of life.

13 Jun 2024

UC San Diego's initiative for combating the opioid crisis with AI

Opioids are a broad group of effective pain-relieving medicines that can become highly addictive in some individuals. According to government sources, nearly 40 million people are addicted to illicit drugs worldwide.

13 Jun 2024

Study highlights benefits of ADHD medications for pregnant patients with opioid use disorder

Opioid overdoses for pregnant patients are at an all-time high in the United States, even as overall numbers are improving.

13 Jun 2024

CHOP implements effective adolescent health questionnaire across Primary Care Network

While doctors understand that adolescents have certain unique health questions and concerns, several challenges prevent this critical information from being collected in a systematic way and providing appropriate referrals across a wide group of patients.

13 Jun 2024

Medicine News and Research

Empowering communities: Penn Medicine's annual mammogram event and health fair

Low-sodium alternatives could have a positive impact on the Indonesian health

New armored CAR T cell therapy boosts response in Relapsed non-Hodgkin lymphoma patients

Researchers discover new mechanisms in the development of stroke

Nature and exercise: A combined approach to improving health outcomes

AI-driven alerts improve patient care escalation and survival rates in hospitals

AHA selects five innovators for the Heart and Brain Health Accelerator program The Amer...

Revolutionary platform unveils detailed human brain architecture at multiple scales

Study: Out-of-pocket costs impact naloxone access

Study sheds light on pediatric DIPG tumor mechanisms

Study advocates for liberal blood transfusions in TBI intensive care

UC San Diego's initiative for combating the opioid crisis with AI

Study highlights benefits of ADHD medications for pregnant patients with opioid use disorder

CHOP implements effective adolescent health questionnaire across Primary Care Network

Study shows increase in mandatory flu vaccinations for hospital staff

Rising drug-related infant mortality in the United States linked to COVID-19 pandemic

Research points to a potential approach to mitigating diabetes risk from antipsychotic medications

Study links balanced neural activity to enhanced cognitive abilities in youth

New research finds a way to delay vitamin B6 degradation

Noninvasive ventilation halves hypoxemia risk in emergency intubations: PREOXI trial findings

Industry Focus eBook - Cell & Gene Therapy (1st Edition) eBook

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

Expanding access to NMR with the Fourier 80 Duo

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