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Stop blaming Tuskegee, critics say. It’s not an ‘excuse’ for current medical racism.

For months, journalists, politicians and health officials — including New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Dr. Anthony Fauci — have invoked the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study to explain why Black Americans are more hesitant than white Americans to get the coronavirus vaccine.

25 Mar 2021

Inmates’ distrust of prison health care fuels distrust of Covid vaccines

One November night in a Missouri prison, Charles Graham woke his cellmate of more than a dozen years, Frank Flanders, saying he couldn't breathe. Flanders pressed the call button. No one answered, so he kicked the door until a guard came.

25 Mar 2021

Research project examines the use of context-sensitive data glasses in daily clinical practice

The Else Kröner Fresenius Center (EKFZ) for Digital Health of the TU Dresden and the University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus is researching the use of context-sensitive data glasses in everyday clinical practice in cooperation with tooz technologies.

25 Mar 2021

World-first treatment for oral cancer

Professor Mark McGurk speaks to News-Medical about his groundbreaking research that has led to the discovery of a world-first treatment for oral cancer.

25 Mar 2021

Anabolic-androgenic steroids can have deleterious effects on the brain

Anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS), a synthetic version of the male sex hormone testosterone, are sometimes used as a medical treatment for hormone imbalance. But the vast majority of AAS is used to enhance athletic performance or build muscle because when paired with strength training.

25 Mar 2021

New recommendations to improve “mother's own milk” for premature infants

For premature infants who can't breastfeed on their own, "mother's own milk" (MOM) is by far the best nutrition. There's an urgent need for effective ways to increase the relatively low rates of MOM feeding for preterm infants born to Black and Hispanic mothers.

25 Mar 2021

Researchers are testing wearable devices to detect early Alzheimer's, other neurodegenerative diseases

The development of a wearable to detect early Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases years before symptoms show has taken a step closer to reality today, as UK charity Alzheimer's Research UK announces a partnership with Boston University that will see the first digital data flowing into its global Early Detection of Neurodegenerative diseases (EDoN) initiative.

25 Mar 2021

Study finds persistent colonization of probiotic B. infantis in breast milk-fed babies' gut

Probiotics -- those bacteria that are good for your digestive tract -- are short-lived, rarely taking residence or colonizing the gut.

24 Mar 2021

Repurposed heart and flu drugs that protect platelets improve survival of septic mice

Despite continued improvements in antibiotics and hospital intensive care, staph sepsis - a bloodstream infection caused by Staphylococcus aureus bacteria - still causes severe illness or death in 20 to 30 percent of patients who contract it.

24 Mar 2021

Survey finds a steady increase in acceptance of COVID-19 vaccines among healthcare workers

A survey of Geisinger employees conducted over two weeks in December 2020 found a steady increase in intent among healthcare workers to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.

24 Mar 2021

School-based telehealth could help improve access to care for underserved children

Many children of low-income families across the country do not have access to quality health care. Lack of health care can have a domino effect, affecting educational outcomes in the classroom.

24 Mar 2021

Researchers discover a novel marker of adult human neural stem cells

The mammalian center for learning and memory, hippocampus, has a remarkable capacity to generate new neurons throughout life. Newborn neurons are produced by neural stem cells (NSCs) and they are crucial for forming neural circuits required for learning and memory, and mood control.

24 Mar 2021

Tobacco smoke-exposed children more often use emergent health services

Tobacco smoke-exposed children utilize emergency and urgent care services more often than unexposed children, which contributes to a large toll on the nation's health care system, says research led by the University of Cincinnati.

24 Mar 2021

Long-term complications are common among COVID-19 recovered individuals

A team of scientists from the United Kingdom has recently conducted a multicenter, prospective cohort study to investigate long-term consequences of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).

24 Mar 2021

Tempus’ ECG Analysis Platform receives Breakthrough Device Designation

Tempus, a leader in artificial intelligence and precision medicine, today announced that the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has granted the company Breakthrough Device Designation for its ECG Analysis Platform, developed in collaboration with Geisinger.

24 Mar 2021

High throughput screening for COVID-19 with the VOYAGER pipette

The COVID-19 pandemic has slowed down research in many scientific areas, but for the Jain Lab in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Florida, the pandemic has created an exciting opportunity to repurpose their work.

From INTEGRA Biosciences 24 Mar 2021

Living guidelines for stroke management can guide clinical practice, improve patient outcomes

Clear guidelines about effective rehabilitation techniques for leg and arm weakness after stroke have been introduced, providing greater direction for health professional and improved patient outcomes.

24 Mar 2021

Delays in TB diagnosis often exceed WHO’s recommendations, shows study

Tuberculosis remains a rare disease in the United States, but when it does occur, delays in diagnosing it often exceed recommendations by the World Health Organization, according to a new report by Harvard Medical School researchers published March 22 in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

24 Mar 2021

Survey of surge capacity managers captures pandemic preparedness status of the U.S. health care system

A University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine-led survey of dozens of surge capacity managers at hospitals nationwide captures the U.S. health care system's pandemic preparedness status in the months before the first COVID-19 cases were identified in China.

24 Mar 2021

Researchers develop “Crisis Standards of Care” policy to address ethical issues

During a public health crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. hospitals need to allocate scarce medical resources in an equitable manner, according to clinicians and ethicists at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

24 Mar 2021

Hospital News and Research

Stop blaming Tuskegee, critics say. It’s not an ‘excuse’ for current medical racism.

Inmates’ distrust of prison health care fuels distrust of Covid vaccines

Research project examines the use of context-sensitive data glasses in daily clinical practice

World-first treatment for oral cancer

Anabolic-androgenic steroids can have deleterious effects on the brain

New recommendations to improve “mother's own milk” for premature infants

Researchers are testing wearable devices to detect early Alzheimer's, other neurodegenerative diseases

Study finds persistent colonization of probiotic B. infantis in breast milk-fed babies' gut

Repurposed heart and flu drugs that protect platelets improve survival of septic mice

Survey finds a steady increase in acceptance of COVID-19 vaccines among healthcare workers

School-based telehealth could help improve access to care for underserved children

Researchers discover a novel marker of adult human neural stem cells

Tobacco smoke-exposed children more often use emergent health services

Long-term complications are common among COVID-19 recovered individuals

Tempus’ ECG Analysis Platform receives Breakthrough Device Designation

High throughput screening for COVID-19 with the VOYAGER pipette

Living guidelines for stroke management can guide clinical practice, improve patient outcomes

Delays in TB diagnosis often exceed WHO’s recommendations, shows study

Survey of surge capacity managers captures pandemic preparedness status of the U.S. health care system

Researchers develop “Crisis Standards of Care” policy to address ethical issues

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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