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UMass Amherst biologist partners with Chinese scientist to develop novel drug platform

Margaret Riley, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and pioneer in fighting antibiotic-resistant bacteria, announced this week that she is partnering with a Chinese scientist to develop a new drug platform, pheromonicins. The Chinese government is committing $400 million per year to support the newly created Pheromonicin Institute of Beijing.

26 Feb 2015

Many physicians who test their breast-examination skills fail to detect masses deep in breast

Many physicians who tested their breast-examination skills on a new type of pressure-sensing breast model failed to detect masses deep in the breast because they were not pressing hard enough, a study has found.

24 Feb 2015

Geriatric consultation could improve care for elderly patients admitted for traumatic injuries

Elderly patients who are admitted to the hospital for monitoring and surgical treatment of traumatic injuries could have better geriatric care if medical teams took one extra step—offering geriatric consultation, according to new research findings from surgical and geriatric medicine teams at the Ronald Reagan University of California at Los Angeles Medical Center.

19 Feb 2015

Door-to-door campaing encourages people to get tested for hepatitis C and to get linked to care

In Philadelphia, as in many cities, neighborhoods with high rates of hepatitis C virus (HCV) often also have limited access to screening and treatment. A new study in the Journal of General Internal Medicine shows that when expert advocates made a focused effort in a medically underserved area, they were able to help vulnerable patients leap each of the many hurdles that often keep people out of care.

15 Feb 2015

OUP announces launch of new journal that focuses on worker aging and retirement

Oxford University Press is pleased to announce the launch of a new interdisciplinary journal, Work, Aging and Retirement, which is published in association with Lingnan (University) College of Sun Yat-sen University.

15 Feb 2015

Government of Canada finalizes new regulations to improve protection for workers

Today, the Government of Canada finalized new regulations related to the implementation of the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) for workplace hazardous chemicals.

12 Feb 2015

Innovative IV pole utilizing polycarbonate resin blend from Bayer enhances patient and health care worker safety

While health care and medical technology have made great strides over the years, there is one aspect of patient care that has not changed as rapidly: the IV pole.

11 Feb 2015

Velano Vascular announces FDA approval of new blood-draw technology

Velano Vascular today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted marketing clearance for a new technology that provides an innovative approach to one of the most common procedures in medicine – the in-hospital blood draw.

10 Feb 2015

Diagnosed US Navy veterans, shipyard workers provided instant access to top mesothelioma compensation lawyers

The Mesothelioma Compensation Center is, once again, stepping up for diagnosed victims of mesothelioma exposed to asbestos while serving in the US Navy or at a shipyard, by making them a top priority when it comes to providing instant access to the nation's most skilled compensation attorneys because it is these individuals who deserve the best possible compensation.

9 Feb 2015

Study gives better look at how parents experience stress

In stressful family circumstances, parenthood sometimes take a bigger toll on fathers' mental health.

6 Feb 2015

xG Health Solutions introduces learning solution to support care management, provider training

xG Health Solutions, a leading health care redesign and optimization company that is powered by intellectual property and expertise from Geisinger Health System, has successfully launched its learning solution, xG Health Learning, to support care management and provider training.

6 Feb 2015

OCC partners commend EU decision that supports disability protections for obesity

In a joint position statement, Obesity Care Continuum (OCC) partners agree with the premise behind a recent European Court of Justice ruling supporting disability protections for obesity under certain circumstances and call for these protections to be enacted in the United States.

29 Jan 2015

Low staff vaccination rates put vulnerable populations at risk of getting influenza

Influenza is associated with as many as 7,300 deaths annually in nursing home residents, but the vaccination rate for nursing home staff is only 54 percent, according to a study in the February issue of the American Journal of Infection Control, the official publication of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology.

28 Jan 2015

Upregulating heme-oxygenase with hemin helps improve pericardial adipocyte morphology, function

Scientists at the University of Saskatchewan College of Medicine, Department of Physiology, Saskatoon, Canada, led by Dr. Joseph Fomusi Ndisang have determined that upregulating heme-oxygenase with hemin improves pericardial adipocyte morphology and function.

27 Jan 2015

Researchers report that weight-reducing bariatric surgery fuels job discrimination

People say that they would be more likely to hire someone who has lost weight through exercise and dieting than through surgery. This is just one of the stigmas faced by obese people who undergo weight-reducing bariatric surgery, reports Robert Carels of East Carolina University in the US and his team of researchers.

8 Jan 2015

Kaiser Permanente's California mental health clinicians to launch week-long strike on January 12

Kaiser Permanente's 2,600 California mental health clinicians — psychologists, therapists, and social workers represented by the National Union of Healthcare Workers — will launch a statewide, week-long strike on Monday, January 12, to protest Kaiser's chronic failure to provide its members with timely, quality mental health care.

2 Jan 2015

Loyola Burn Center helps patient overcome life-threatening job injury

When an electric panel exploded on union electrician, Mike Sliwinski, it caused much more than a building power outage. It almost ended the life of the husband, father and beloved Franklin Park youth hockey coach.

23 Dec 2014

Physicians, social worker, dietitian constitute core hospital care team

Doctors and nurses are traditionally thought to be the primary caretakers of patients in a typical hospital setting.

22 Dec 2014

Real-time radiation-exposure feedback can help medical workers adopt safer radiation practices

It's a sound that saves. A "real-time" radiation monitor that alerts by beeping in response to radiation exposure during cardiac-catheterization procedures significantly reduces the amount of exposure that medical workers receive, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers found.

17 Dec 2014

New intervention combines social media with behavioral psychology to encourage more HIV testing

Social media such as Twitter and Facebook can be valuable in the fight against HIV in the United States, where research has demonstrated they can prompt high-risk populations to request at-home testing kits for the virus that causes AIDS, suggesting a way to potentially boost testing rates.