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Few tips to remove a tick and prevent future bites

As tick populations grow and spread across the country, their prevalence is increasing the public's risk for some troubling diseases. Of these diseases, say dermatologists from the American Academy of Dermatology, Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Powassan virus and alpha-gal syndrome- a mysterious red meat allergy- are among the most serious.

19 Sep 2017

Online toolkit helps health professionals to integrate genomics into patient care

Nurses and other health professionals looking to integrate genomics into patient care now have access to an online toolkit with more than 100 resources, part of a new website launched by the National Human Genome Research Institute.

19 Sep 2017

Bemoaning budget cuts, navigators say feds don’t appreciate scope of the job

The Trump administration says many of the organizations that help people enroll in health plans on the federal insurance marketplaces don’t provide enough bang for the buck, sometimes costing thousands of dollars to sign up each customer.

19 Sep 2017

New research links wireless food stamp transactions to healthy shopping

New research links the equipping of mobile fruit and vegetable stands with wireless banking devices programmed to accept food stamps to the buying of more healthy foods by people with low incomes.

19 Sep 2017

As care shifts from hospital to home, guarding against infection falls to families

Angela Cooper arrived home from work to discover her daughter’s temperature had spiked to 102 degrees — a sign that the teenager, who has cancer, had a potentially deadly bloodstream infection.

19 Sep 2017

VTT creates new portable device that measures inflammation levels quickly in home environment

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed a portable device for measuring inflammation levels quickly in home environment.

19 Sep 2017

Researchers explore older adults' awareness of drug-related health risks

Geriatrics experts know that certain medications may have risks for older adults that outweigh their benefits, especially when safer alternatives are available.

19 Sep 2017

New research reveals changing aspects of teenage parenthood

The US birth rate hasn't changed for two generations of teenage girls, but other aspects of young parenthood are shifting, especially regarding young fathers, according to new Indiana University research.

19 Sep 2017

Study identifies ‘caregiver burden’ in owners of severely ill pets

A study conducted at the Kent State University, Ohio, indicates that owners of seriously ill pets are at a risk of anxiety, stress, and depressive symptoms.

19 Sep 2017

Study investigates depression treatment among older people with dementia

A high prevalence of depression among older individuals with dementia is prompting researchers at the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy and Banner Alzheimer's Institute to investigate depression treatment among this population.

19 Sep 2017

Make Sense campaign aims to promote better quality of life for head and neck cancer survivors

On the advent of the 2017 Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week, the European Cancer Patient Coalition invited patients and policy makers to gather at the European Parliament to promote better quality of life for cancer patients and survivors as part of the Make Sense Campaign.

19 Sep 2017

New study reveals how personal data can be stolen from Fitbit devices

The University of Edinburgh have released results from a new study that reveals how personal information can be stolen from Fitbit fitness bands.

19 Sep 2017

$Study compares missed nursing care in NICUs for high and low fractions of black infants$

Study compares missed nursing care in NICUs for high and low fractions of black infants

Everybody wants a healthy life for their baby. Black babies are more likely to be born prematurely, which puts them at risk for death and developmental problems. In fact, a third of all infant deaths are preterm-related.

18 Sep 2017

Conference to tackle sensitive subjects in dementia care

Every 66 seconds, someone is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Frank LaFerla, dean of UCI's Francisco J. Ayala School of Biological Sciences, says that with more than 76 million aging baby boomers in the U.S., the memory-impairing condition is "the most important medical problem of our time – and one that's going to intensify greatly over the next 20 years."

18 Sep 2017

Hospital design and effective decontamination can prevent spread of antibiotic-resistant infections

Hospitals should design premises and adapt their infection control routines to a society that no longer has effective antibiotics, and that is vulnerable to fast-spreading global pandemics. This is argued in a new dissertation from Lund University in Sweden.

18 Sep 2017

Trump’s deadline on ‘dreamers’ reverberates through health industries

Karla Ornelas said she has “always had the idea of being a doctor, I've never seen myself doing anything else.” The third-year pre-medical student at the University of California-Davis said she plans to become a family medicine physician and work in California’s Central Valley, where there is a great need for doctors and especially bilingual doctors.

18 Sep 2017

Reducing mental health disparities through online therapy

For many years, I was a psychologist at a very large US university mental health center and we constantly had more people seeking help than we could possibly accommodate. That is a ubiquitous problem across lots of sectors, including community mental health and private practice in any rural area.

18 Sep 2017

Hamilton BiOS automated storage system selected for use in BIOM-Mass project

Hamilton Storage announces that their Hamilton BiOS automated storage system was selected for use in the Biobank for Microbiome Research in Massachusetts project; a collaborative effort between Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital.

18 Sep 2017

Getinge announces next edition of ICU Experience for improving patient care

Getinge announces the next edition of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Experience which will take place in the Getinge Experience Center, Rastatt on Tuesday 19 September 2017. Over 50 customers from across Europe, Middle East & Africa will be in attendance and have the opportunity to network with scientific experts and medical device industry.

18 Sep 2017

Global Burden of Disease study reveals latest findings on state of world’s health

Today, the Global Burden of Disease study publishes its latest global estimates for the state of the world’s health in The Lancet. The GBD is the only annual, comprehensive, peer-reviewed assessment of global trends in health, providing global and national estimates on more than 330 diseases, causes of death, and injuries in 195 countries and territories worldwide.

18 Sep 2017