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UBC researcher invents new method to analyze behavior change counseling sessions

Using a page from a coach's playbook, a UBC researcher has come up with a method to analyze behavior change counseling sessions and determine what makes them work.

29 Jan 2019

Public transportation use associated with lower obesity rates

Public transportation systems provide numerous economic benefits for a community. An added public health bonus provided by such systems may be lower obesity rates.

29 Jan 2019

Sleep, mood, and stress affect older adults' control beliefs

Psychology researchers have found another reason that sleep, mood and stress are important: they affect the extent to which older adults feel they have control over their lives.

29 Jan 2019

Hospital patients' poor food intake is putting their health and lives at risk, study shows

For the 36 million Americans hospitalized each year, adequate nutrition plays a critical role in their health and recovery. Yet research from nutritionDay in the U.S., in collaboration with Abbott, shows malnutrition is still an unaddressed and widespread problem in hospitals.

29 Jan 2019

CHOP physician-researchers analyze opioid prescription patterns in children

As the opioid epidemic continues to plague the United States, physician-researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia analyzed prescription patterns in children.

29 Jan 2019

Breast cancer patients at increased risk of atrial fibrillation

A new study has shown that patients with breast cancer may be at an increased risk of developing the heart condition atrial fibrillation (AF).

29 Jan 2019

New project will develop biomarker-based system to send personalized advice on dietary, lifestyle habits

The PREVENTOMICS European project will develop, from this November and for 3 years, personalized plans for nutrition and lifestyle habits to improve the health of people, based on individual traits such as physical and behavioral traits, lifestyle, genotype, preferences and physical condition.

29 Jan 2019

Community hospitals link arms with prestigious facilities to raise their profiles

After seven years of a vigorous fight, Jim Hart worried he was running out of options. Diagnosed with prostate cancer at age 60, Hart had undergone virtually every treatment — surgery, radiation and hormones — to eradicate it. But a blood test showed that his level of prostate-specific antigen, which should have been undetectable, kept rising ominously. And doctors couldn’t determine where the residual cancer was lurking.

29 Jan 2019

Sensyne collaborates with University of Oxford’s Big Data Institute to find solutions for chronic diseases

Sensyne Health plc. today announces a three-year collaboration with the University of Oxford to develop AI for chronic disease.

29 Jan 2019

Brexit could increase risk of cardiovascular disease

Brexit could contribute to thousands more deaths from heart attacks and strokes by 2030, new research has found.

29 Jan 2019

Study: Freestanding emergency departments charge more than urgent care centers

Freestanding emergency departments may charge more than urgent care centers (UCCs) to provide care for fewer patients who have similar characteristics and conditions, according to a study released in the Journal of Emergency Medicine.

29 Jan 2019

Study highlights the detrimental effect of prescription opioids on labor markets

Prescription opioids may be negatively affecting labor force participation and unemployment nationwide, according to findings in a new study co-authored by economists at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and published in The Journal of Human Resources.

29 Jan 2019

Common test for mental health understanding is deeply flawed, study reveals

How do clinicians rate how well a patient understands what other people are thinking and feeling? That is to say--how does the patient assess another person's mental state?

29 Jan 2019

Study shows why America needs more primary care doctors

The United States health care system is generally centered around hospitals and specialty care. The value of primary care, however, has remained unclear and debated, in part due to limited research.

29 Jan 2019

Alzheimer's Association grants more than $800,000 to support the SPRINT MIND Study

The Alzheimer's Association has awarded more than $800,000 to support the SPRINT MIND 2.0 Study, which will further investigate the impact of intensive blood pressure treatment on reducing risk of dementia.

29 Jan 2019

Review paper on transformative potential of precision and personalized medicine for cancer treatment

In a paper published in the September/December 2018 issue of TECHNOLOGY, a group of researchers from Rutgers University Department of Biomedicine Engineering have published a review paper on the transformative potential of precision and personalized medicine (PPM) for cancer treatment.

29 Jan 2019

The type of saturated fats we eat can affect our cardiovascular heath

The type of saturated fats we eat can affect our risk of a heart attack, according to a study published in the International Journal of Cardiology.

29 Jan 2019

Despite small pay gap, women faculty likely to accumulate less wealth over their lifetimes

Around the country, women physician researchers make 7 to 8 percent less per year than men. At the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, efforts to eliminate such a gender disparity have cut the difference in salaries from 2.6 percent in 2005 to a statistically insignificant 1.9 percent in 2016.

28 Jan 2019

Effective support network can help create health centaurs, half professionals, and half managers

If hospital doctors around the world often struggle to become those health centaurs, half professionals and half managers, that modern healthcare organizations need, the main responsibility is not their resistance to change, but the lack of effective support from the organization, according to a study by Marco Sartirana (CERGAS, Bocconi University), Graeme Currie (Warwick Business School), and Mirko Noordegraaf (Utrecht School of Governance), published by the Public Management Review.

28 Jan 2019

Injection of opioids may increase infective endocarditis risk

People who inject drugs are at a high risk for a number of health issues. In a new study from ICES, Lawson Health Research Institute and Western University, researchers discovered a significant rise in the risk of infective endocarditis, a serious heart infection, among Ontarians who inject drugs.

28 Jan 2019

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UBC researcher invents new method to analyze behavior change counseling sessions

Public transportation use associated with lower obesity rates

Sleep, mood, and stress affect older adults' control beliefs

Hospital patients' poor food intake is putting their health and lives at risk, study shows

CHOP physician-researchers analyze opioid prescription patterns in children

Breast cancer patients at increased risk of atrial fibrillation

New project will develop biomarker-based system to send personalized advice on dietary, lifestyle habits

Community hospitals link arms with prestigious facilities to raise their profiles

Sensyne collaborates with University of Oxford’s Big Data Institute to find solutions for chronic diseases

Brexit could increase risk of cardiovascular disease

Study: Freestanding emergency departments charge more than urgent care centers

Study highlights the detrimental effect of prescription opioids on labor markets

Common test for mental health understanding is deeply flawed, study reveals

Study shows why America needs more primary care doctors

Alzheimer's Association grants more than $800,000 to support the SPRINT MIND Study

Review paper on transformative potential of precision and personalized medicine for cancer treatment

The type of saturated fats we eat can affect our cardiovascular heath

Despite small pay gap, women faculty likely to accumulate less wealth over their lifetimes

Effective support network can help create health centaurs, half professionals, and half managers

Injection of opioids may increase infective endocarditis risk

Advancing Motor Neuron Disease Diagnosis with Non-Invasive Ultrasound and AI

How agentic AI is reshaping laboratory workflows

Fourier 80: bringing benchtop NMR systems to the laboratory

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