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Better hospital nurse staffing could save lives, prevent readmissions and reduce costs

A new study published in The Lancet Global Health showed that establishing safe nurse staffing standards in hospitals in Chile could save lives, prevent readmissions, shorten hospital stays, and reduce costs.

6 Jul 2021

Rural ambulance services are in jeopardy as volunteers age and expenses mount

Vern Greyn was standing in the raised bucket of a tractor, trimming dead branches off a tree, when he lost his balance. He fell 12 feet and struck his head on the concrete patio outside his house in this small farming town on the central Montana plains.

6 Jul 2021

Scientists identify breakthrough cases of SARS-CoV-2’s delta variant in fully vaccinated individuals

In a recent study conducted at the Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA, scientists have identified six vaccine breakthrough cases caused by the delta variant of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).

5 Jul 2021

What are predictive biomarkers of COVID-19 disease severity in pregnant women?

In a paper recently published in the Nature journal Scientific Reports, a retrospective cohort study on inflammatory biomarkers in pregnant women with COVID-19 reveals key differences that could better allow an accurate COVID-19 prognosis to be attained in pregnant women.

5 Jul 2021

Viennese scientists awarded grant to find ways for improving and personalizing dialysis care

Patients with malfunctioning kidneys often need dialysis to rid their blood of unwanted molecules and excess water.

5 Jul 2021

Risk-based computational models can predict spontaneous preterm childbirth

A new model could help predict the risk of impending preterm birth, avoiding the adverse and costly effects of overtreatment or misdiagnosis.

5 Jul 2021

Researchers seek to find a cure for the deadliest solid tumor in children

Australian researchers and oncologists have been awarded $2.4 million to investigate the causes and treatments for neuroblastoma, the deadliest and most common solid tumor in children under the age of five.

5 Jul 2021

New clinical and prognostic characteristics discovered in solid organ recipients with COVID-19

Researchers from 12 Spanish hospitals took part with the aim of uncovering clinical and prognostic characteristics in solid organ recipients with COVID-19. The conclusions underscore the need for strict preventive measures in the initial period after transplantation.

2 Jul 2021

Structure-guided T cell vaccine design could offer broad protection SARS-CoV-2 variants

Gaurav Gaiha, MD, DPhil, a member of the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard, studies HIV, one of the fastest-mutating viruses known to humankind.

2 Jul 2021

Medical journal articles published by women have fewer citations than those written by men

While more women are entering the field of academic medicine than ever before, they are less likely to be recognized as experts and leaders; they are less likely to receive prestigious awards, be promoted to full professorships, hold leadership roles, or author original research or commentaries in major journals.

2 Jul 2021

Most states did not use health equity committees to assist with COVID-19 vaccine distribution planning

During the large second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in fall 2020, pulmonologist and critical care provider Juan C. Rojas, MD, reflected on how disproportionately members of minority populations were being affected by the disease.

2 Jul 2021

Repurposing existing medications to reduce the severity of sleep apnea

In an Australian world-first, researchers have successfully repurposed two existing medications to reduce the severity of sleep apnea in people by at least 30 per cent.

2 Jul 2021

What role did the SARS-CoV-2 delta variant play in India’s devastating second wave?

A detailed report, available on the preprint server medRxiv*, describes the various facets of the second wave that set it apart from the first. The report also contains the findings of an extended SIR model that explored the potential effects of intervention at various time points in the second wave.

2 Jul 2021

Monash expert can discuss the significance of R number in COVID-19 infections

A Monash University expert is available to discuss the significance of rate of virus speed (R number), and how the delta variant R number differs from other COVID-19 strains.

2 Jul 2021

High omega 3 diet associated with reduction of headaches

Eating a diet rich in omega 3 (n-3) fatty acids reduces the frequency of headaches compared with a diet with normal intake of omega 3 and omega 6 (n-6) fatty acids, finds a study published by The BMJ today.

2 Jul 2021

Stool transplant may be worth exploring as treatment option for COVID-19

It might be worth exploring stool transplant to treat COVID-19 infection, suggest doctors in a letter published online in the journal Gut, after they used the procedure in two patients to prevent the recurrence of another bacterial infection.

2 Jul 2021

Hospital prices must now be transparent. For many consumers, They’re still anyone’s guess.

A colonoscopy might cost you or your insurer a few hundred dollars — or several thousand, depending on which hospital or insurer you use.

2 Jul 2021

California lawmakers push feds to allow a therapy that pays meth users to abstain

In his multiple attempts to overcome a methamphetamine addiction that ground through two decades of his life, Tyrone Clifford Jr. remembers well the closest he came. "The most success I had," he said, "is when my dealer was in jail."

2 Jul 2021

Study evaluates the difference in weight loss caused by two antidiabetic medications

Patients with Type 2 diabetes who were prescribed SGLT2 inhibitors lost more weight than patients who received GLP-1 receptor agonists, according to a University at Buffalo-led study.

2 Jul 2021

Vaccines grown in eggs can lead to an off-target antibody response

Over years of studying antibody responses against the flu in the Wilson lab at the University of Chicago, researchers kept coming up with a strange finding: antibodies that seemed to bind not only to the flu virus but to every virus the lab could throw at them.

2 Jul 2021

Hospital News and Research

Better hospital nurse staffing could save lives, prevent readmissions and reduce costs

Rural ambulance services are in jeopardy as volunteers age and expenses mount

Scientists identify breakthrough cases of SARS-CoV-2’s delta variant in fully vaccinated individuals

What are predictive biomarkers of COVID-19 disease severity in pregnant women?

Viennese scientists awarded grant to find ways for improving and personalizing dialysis care

Risk-based computational models can predict spontaneous preterm childbirth

Researchers seek to find a cure for the deadliest solid tumor in children

New clinical and prognostic characteristics discovered in solid organ recipients with COVID-19

Structure-guided T cell vaccine design could offer broad protection SARS-CoV-2 variants

Medical journal articles published by women have fewer citations than those written by men

Most states did not use health equity committees to assist with COVID-19 vaccine distribution planning

Repurposing existing medications to reduce the severity of sleep apnea

What role did the SARS-CoV-2 delta variant play in India’s devastating second wave?

Monash expert can discuss the significance of R number in COVID-19 infections

High omega 3 diet associated with reduction of headaches

Stool transplant may be worth exploring as treatment option for COVID-19

Hospital prices must now be transparent. For many consumers, They’re still anyone’s guess.

California lawmakers push feds to allow a therapy that pays meth users to abstain

Study evaluates the difference in weight loss caused by two antidiabetic medications

Vaccines grown in eggs can lead to an off-target antibody response

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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