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Hospitals serving children may face financial penalties for readmissions, researchers find

A team of researchers from children's hospitals across the country, including a University of Colorado School of Medicine faculty member, found that hospitals serving children may face financial penalties for patient readmissions due to factors beyond the control of the hospital.

15 Feb 2016

Researchers report first-ever link between noradrenergic neurons and vulnerability to depression

The team of Bruno Giros, a researcher at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute and professor of psychiatry at McGill University, reports the first-ever connection between noradrenergic neurons and vulnerability to depression. Published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, this breakthrough paves the way for new depression treatments that target the adrenergic system.

15 Feb 2016

Could the Internet of Things transform healthcare?

It was clear from IoT Tech Expo Europe 2016 that the Internet of Things has the potential to transform not only healthcare but the way we live our lives.

15 Feb 2016

Survey: Some patients with multiple sclerosis not engaging with specialist services

A new survey has highlighted that the lack of engagement with specialist services of some patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) is a concern for MS-specialists.

15 Feb 2016

Newly launched programme aims to speed up commercialisation of digital health technologies

A new programme launched today aims to position London as a global centre for the adoption and commercialisation of pioneering digital health technologies.

15 Feb 2016

TUM researchers make progress in bringing immunotherapy to fight against cancer, infectious diseases

The quest to bring immunotherapy into widespread clinical use against cancer and infectious diseases has made great strides in recent years.

15 Feb 2016

Balancing supplementation with sunshine can help improve vitamin D levels

Health pioneers BetterYou have welcomed new guidance by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) highlighting that many adults in Britain have low levels of vitamin D and that some exposure to sunlight can help to build this up.

From BetterYou Ltd 15 Feb 2016

NCCN publishes new guidelines with NCCN Evidence Blocks for Breast, Colon, Kidney, and Rectal Cancers

The National Comprehensive Cancer Network has published the NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines) with NCCN Evidence Blocks™ for Breast, Colon, Kidney, and Rectal Cancers.

15 Feb 2016

New study addresses needs of long-term cancer survivors

A team of researchers from Yale School of Public Health and Yale Cancer Center recently published a study in the Journal of Cancer Survivorship that addresses the needs of cancer survivors who are at least nine years beyond an initial diagnosis.

15 Feb 2016

$UMD investigators assess potential health hazards associated with fracking in Maryland$

UMD investigators assess potential health hazards associated with fracking in Maryland

Following their release of a state-commissioned study on the potential public health impacts of fracking in Western Maryland, University of Maryland researchers are helping to inform the conversation about the potential risks associated with unconventional natural gas development and production.

15 Feb 2016

Manager leadership may be key to employee health programs and goals

From helping new employees get settled in a job to setting deadlines and job expectations, it goes without saying that managers have a huge influence on employee behavior.

15 Feb 2016

BPS promotes action to deal with stress, depression among mental health professionals

The British Psychological Society (BPS) is promoting action to deal with low morale, stress and depression among mental health professionals.

15 Feb 2016

Implementing harm reduction interventions among PWID to prevent HIV epidemic in Colombia

In the early 1990s, drug production in Colombia diversified to include heroin as well as cocaine, and since then the country's role in the heroin trade has substantially increased. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Colombia produced approximately 70 to 100 metric tons of heroin between 1998 and 2004. Studies have found an increase in local heroin use since the mid-1990s. This is a strong cause for concern, given the potential for HIV to spread through networks of injection drug users and disseminate to the general public.

15 Feb 2016

Shift from huts to cities has dramatically changed human exposure to certain microbes

The shift from living in jungle huts to cities has dramatically changed human exposure to certain microbes, which could have implications for healthy immune function, according to a study led by researchers from NYU Langone Medical Center and published online Feb. 12, 2016 in Science Advances.

15 Feb 2016

Stanford professor to present latest findings on health impacts of fossil fuels

"The answer to that question is usually 'no,' but there are exceptions," said Stanford Professor Rob Jackson, a professor of Earth system science at Stanford University, and a senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and at the Precourt Institute for Energy.

15 Feb 2016

Health expert calls for stronger measures to address prevalence of stunting among infants, children

Mother and child malnutrition in low- and middle-income countries encompasses a range of conditions including maternal wasting, micronutrient deficiencies, foetal growth restriction and stunting - a height that is below the World Health Organization Child Growth Standards median - of children younger than five years.

15 Feb 2016

Household and outdoor air pollution kills more than 5.5 million people every year

New research shows that more than 5.5 million people die prematurely every year due to household and outdoor air pollution. More than half of deaths occur in two of the world's fastest growing economies, China and India.

15 Feb 2016

Nine researchers win EPSRC Healthcare Technologies Challenge Awards

Nine researchers, working on innovative projects that promise to improve healthcare diagnosis and treatment, across a wide spread of issues, were today announced as the first recipients of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council's (EPSRC) Healthcare Technologies Challenge Awards.

15 Feb 2016

Research: Deaths related to CO poisoning have increased sharply in mainland China

New research published in Cogent Medicine has found that deaths related to carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning have risen sharply in recent years in mainland China.

15 Feb 2016

HHS awards 1.2 million grant to Boston Center for Refugee Health & Human Rights

Boston Medical Center (BMC) has been awarded a three-year, $1.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration to support the Boston Center for Refugee Health & Human Rights.

15 Feb 2016

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Hospitals serving children may face financial penalties for readmissions, researchers find

Researchers report first-ever link between noradrenergic neurons and vulnerability to depression

Could the Internet of Things transform healthcare?

Survey: Some patients with multiple sclerosis not engaging with specialist services

Newly launched programme aims to speed up commercialisation of digital health technologies

TUM researchers make progress in bringing immunotherapy to fight against cancer, infectious diseases

Balancing supplementation with sunshine can help improve vitamin D levels

NCCN publishes new guidelines with NCCN Evidence Blocks for Breast, Colon, Kidney, and Rectal Cancers

New study addresses needs of long-term cancer survivors

UMD investigators assess potential health hazards associated with fracking in Maryland

Manager leadership may be key to employee health programs and goals

BPS promotes action to deal with stress, depression among mental health professionals

Implementing harm reduction interventions among PWID to prevent HIV epidemic in Colombia

Shift from huts to cities has dramatically changed human exposure to certain microbes

Stanford professor to present latest findings on health impacts of fossil fuels

Health expert calls for stronger measures to address prevalence of stunting among infants, children

Household and outdoor air pollution kills more than 5.5 million people every year

Nine researchers win EPSRC Healthcare Technologies Challenge Awards

Research: Deaths related to CO poisoning have increased sharply in mainland China

HHS awards 1.2 million grant to Boston Center for Refugee Health & Human Rights

Building quality into drug development for safer, faster medicines

How Pulp Fixin Is Turning Paper into High-Performance Sustainable Labware

A new method to measure intracellular water in biological systems

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