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Researchers to apply smartphone apps to manage anxiety, depression in breast cancer patients

Home sensors to monitor cancer patients' pain. A smartphone app to manage breast cancer patients' anxiety and depression. And $12 million in new grant funding to pay for even more health care advances, earned from just a $2 million initial investment.

23 Apr 2021

Contralateral esophagus sparing technique can prevent complication in lung cancer patients

For many patients with localized lung cancer (non-small-cell lung carcinoma and small cell lung carcinoma), high-dose radiation with concurrent chemotherapy is a potential cure. Yet this treatment can cause severe, acute inflammation of the esophagus (esophagitis) in about one in five patients, requiring hospitalization and placement of a feeding tube.

23 Apr 2021

COVID-19 survivors have increased risk of death for at least six months

As the COVID-19 pandemic has progressed, it has become clear that many survivors - even those who had mild cases - continue to manage a variety of health problems long after the initial infection should have resolved.

23 Apr 2021

Cognitive outcomes in survivors of childhood cancers have been largely understudied

In a new study led by Yale Cancer Center, researchers report many survivors of childhood cancers receive systemic therapies associated with cognitive effects and chronic health conditions that may impact long-term cognitive outcomes with downstream effects on education, employment, and income.

23 Apr 2021

Robotic platform offers safe and precise steering of surgical catheters

Traditionally, the success of a minimally-invasive surgical (MIS) procedure is dependent on the clinician's capabilities.

23 Apr 2021

Respiratory symptoms more likely to develop when people use both e-cigarettes and tobacco cigarettes

Exclusively using (or "vaping") e-cigarettes can help people quit smoking, but many people using e-cigarettes to quit smoking continue to smoke cigarettes.

22 Apr 2021

Clinical trial examines metabolic effects of natural compound NMN in people

A natural compound previously demonstrated to counteract aspects of aging and improve metabolic health in mice has clinically relevant effects in people, according to new research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

22 Apr 2021

Increased use of tourniquets has improved patient survival in Los Angeles County

Uncontrolled bleeding continues to be one of the most common causes of preventable death from a traumatic injury.

22 Apr 2021

University of Minnesota to host new Organ and Tissue Preservation Center

The University of Minnesota is one of two institutions in the United States to host a new center established by the Biostasis Research Institute aimed at creating human organ banks through the cryogenic storage of organs donated for transplantation.

22 Apr 2021

Study could lead to new ways of targeting harmful bacteria

Research has identified critical factors that enable dangerous bacteria to spread disease by surviving on surfaces in hospitals and kitchens.

22 Apr 2021

Repetitive subconcussive impacts trigger more changes in brain vital signs, research shows

Neuroscience researchers at Mayo Clinic Orthopedics and Sports Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota, U.S., the Health and Technology District and Simon Fraser University in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada have published the latest results of their ongoing multi-year hockey concussion study examining changes in subconcussive cognitive brain function in male youth ice hockey players.

22 Apr 2021

Experimental drug reverses key symptoms of Alzheimer's disease in mice

Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine have designed an experimental drug that reversed key symptoms of Alzheimer's disease in mice.

22 Apr 2021

Study finds higher mortality rate among pregnant women affected by COVID-19

In a worldwide study of 2,100 pregnant women, those who contracted COVID-19 during pregnancy were 20 times more likely to die than those who did not contract the virus.

22 Apr 2021

Less invasive retinal reattachment technique leads to better long-term integrity of photoreceptors

A minimally invasive retinal reattachment procedure that can be done in an ophthalmologist's office leads to better long-term integrity and structure of the retina's photoreceptors - cells that allow us to see - compared with more invasive operating room procedures, according to new research published April 22.

22 Apr 2021

Study identifies risk factors for delirium among hospitalized patients in Zambia

Severity of illness, history of stroke, and being divorced or widowed were independently predictive of delirium in hospitalized patients in Zambia, according to a study published in PLOS ONE.

22 Apr 2021

Developing nanoparticles to detect and kill multi-resistant pathogens

Multi-resistant pathogens are a serious and increasing problem in today's medicine. Where antibiotics are ineffective, these bacteria can cause life-threatening infections.

22 Apr 2021

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Picking up the pace of undoing Trump policies

The Biden administration is speeding up the pace of efforts to undo Trump administration health policies.

22 Apr 2021

New Phase 3 trial of therapeutics begins enrolling severely ill hospitalized COVID-19 patients

A new Phase 3 trial to test the safety and efficacy of therapeutics for COVID-19 has begun enrolling patients hospitalized with life-threatening cases of COVID-19, including those with acute respiratory failure.

22 Apr 2021

Drugs can help prevent progression of cardiac hypertrophy in hemodialysis patients

Patients with chronic kidney dysfunction frequently develop thickening of the heart muscle, so-called left ventricular hypertrophy. This is particularly pronounced in patients who are in the late stage of renal dysfunction, that is to say those requiring renal replacement therapy such as hemodialysis.

22 Apr 2021

How effective is the Pfizer-BioNTech (BNT162b2) COVID-19 vaccine? A real-world study in Sweden

Investigating a population in southern Sweden, a new study has found that a single dose of the vaccine is only about 42% effective in preventing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). But seven days after the second dose, the vaccine can prevent COVID-19 in 86% of the population.

22 Apr 2021

Hospital News and Research

Researchers to apply smartphone apps to manage anxiety, depression in breast cancer patients

Contralateral esophagus sparing technique can prevent complication in lung cancer patients

COVID-19 survivors have increased risk of death for at least six months

Cognitive outcomes in survivors of childhood cancers have been largely understudied

Robotic platform offers safe and precise steering of surgical catheters

Respiratory symptoms more likely to develop when people use both e-cigarettes and tobacco cigarettes

Clinical trial examines metabolic effects of natural compound NMN in people

Increased use of tourniquets has improved patient survival in Los Angeles County

University of Minnesota to host new Organ and Tissue Preservation Center

Study could lead to new ways of targeting harmful bacteria

Repetitive subconcussive impacts trigger more changes in brain vital signs, research shows

Experimental drug reverses key symptoms of Alzheimer's disease in mice

Study finds higher mortality rate among pregnant women affected by COVID-19

Less invasive retinal reattachment technique leads to better long-term integrity of photoreceptors

Study identifies risk factors for delirium among hospitalized patients in Zambia

Developing nanoparticles to detect and kill multi-resistant pathogens

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Picking up the pace of undoing Trump policies

New Phase 3 trial of therapeutics begins enrolling severely ill hospitalized COVID-19 patients

Drugs can help prevent progression of cardiac hypertrophy in hemodialysis patients

How effective is the Pfizer-BioNTech (BNT162b2) COVID-19 vaccine? A real-world study in Sweden

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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