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E-cigarettes becoming more widely available in developing countries

Most of the debate around e-cigarettes has focused on the developed world, but the devices are becoming more widely available in some low- and middle-income countries, where there is even greater potential for impact on public health, say two Stanford University School of Medicine researchers.

19 Aug 2015

Survey identifies key factors linked to pediatric safety events in out-of-hospital emergent care situations

A national survey of more than 750 emergency medical services providers conducted by researchers at Oregon Health & Science University identified airway management skills, personal anxiety and limited pediatric care proficiency among key factors that may contribute to pediatric safety events for children in out-of-hospital emergent care situations.

19 Aug 2015

Loyola implants new percutaneous aortic heart valve that does not require open surgery

Loyola University Medical Center is the first center in Illinois to implant a new percutaneous aortic heart valve that does not require open heart surgery.

19 Aug 2015

NIH grants Clinical and Translational Science Award to UC San Diego

The Clinical and Translational Research Institute (CTRI) at University of California, San Diego has received a five-year Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) for approximately $52 million from the National Center for Advancing Translational Science, part of the National Institutes of Health.

19 Aug 2015

Neighbors Emergency Center announces opening of new El Paso, Texas center

Neighbors Emergency Center announces today the opening of its new El Paso, Texas center. The emergency center location will be open to receive patients at 6:00 pm MDT on Tuesday, August 18, 2015.

18 Aug 2015

Astellas Farma Brasil named one of Top 20 places to work in Brazil

Astellas Farma Brasil is one of the Top 20 small- to medium-sized companies to work for in the country across all industries, according to the Great Place to Work Institute's latest rankings. The results are based on a survey of thousands of employees across multiple industries in Brazil.

18 Aug 2015

CVS Health data shows high patient satisfaction with quality of care delivered via Minuteclinic telehealth

New data from the CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) Research Institute demonstrates very high levels of patient satisfaction with the quality of care delivered via telehealth at MinuteClinic retail medical clinics.

18 Aug 2015

Medullan to license ACE Measure tool to assess patients’ health engagement levels

Medullan, Inc., a digital healthcare consultancy focused on improving the healthcare experience through human centered solutions, announced today a partnership with Altarum Institute to license the Altarum Consumer Engagement (ACE) Measure.

18 Aug 2015

US-based clinical research spending drops 32%, show new data

Could the Sunshine Act be creating an unintentional downward trend in clinical research? An analysis of the U.S. government's Open Payments database shows that industry spending on U.S-based clinical research has dropped 32 percent in the first year-over-year comparison since Open Payments data started to be collected.

18 Aug 2015

Newly developed oxidation process uses ozone to degrade contaminants in water

At the Center for Research and Assistance in Technology and Design of the State of Jalisco (CIATEJ) at the east of Mexico, an oxidation process was developed that uses ozone to degrade contaminants in water that alter the synthesis, transport, action or elimination of natural hormones, responsible for maintain self-regulation of metabolic and reproductive processes in living beings.

18 Aug 2015

Students around the world now have free access to simulation software from ANSYS

Students around the world now have free access to the same leading engineering simulation solutions used by top organizations and professional engineers to create the most advanced products on the planet, thanks to ANSYS.

18 Aug 2015

DaVita HealthCare Partners hosts health and disaster preparedness fair in Colorado Springs

DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc., one of the nation's largest and most innovative health care communities, is hosting a health and disaster preparedness fair on Saturday, Aug. 22, at the St. Francis Medical Center off Woodmen Road in Colorado Springs.

18 Aug 2015

Elsevier announces Gray's Anatomy Art Contest winners

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, and publisher of Gray's Anatomy, the world's most famous anatomical reference, has selected Amanda Lilleston of Ann Arbor, Mich., as the winner of the Gray's Anatomy Art Contest. Christopher Smith of Silver Springs, Md., was named runner-up.

18 Aug 2015

RPCI researchers create outreach effort to improve public's participation in biomedical research

Roswell Park Cancer Institute researchers, together with input from African-American community leaders in Buffalo, have created an outreach effort that provides racial/ethnic minority and medically underserved communities with educational programs regarding the public's participation in biomedical research. The program is the basis of a recent study published by a team of local collaborators.

18 Aug 2015

Avita Medical, University of Huddersfield partner to explore mechanism of Regenerative Epithelial Suspension

Avita Medical Ltd, a regenerative medicine company specialising in the treatment of wounds and skin defects, today announced that it has forged a partnership with the University of Huddersfield to explore the mechanism of Regenerative Epithelial Suspension (RESTM) - from Avita's ReCell device - to better understand its ability to effectively treat burns, hard-to-heal wounds and skin trauma.

18 Aug 2015

Intoxicated victims of sexual violence could accurately retain information from events

People are often concerned about the accuracy of testimony given by victims who were intoxicated during a sexual assault- but a new study by University of Leicester researchers has found that while alcohol intoxicated participants report fewer pieces of information about an assault, the information that they do provide is just as accurate as sober participants.

18 Aug 2015

Patient satisfaction a poor proxy for quality of care in elective cranial neurosurgery

Patient satisfaction is a very poor proxy for quality of care comparisons in elective cranial neurosurgery. Because deaths are rare events in elective cranial neurosurgery, reporting of surgeon or even department-specific mortality figures cannot differentiate a high or low level of the quality of care.

18 Aug 2015

Study uses fMRI scans to examine neural substrates of moral cognition in healthcare decision making

Areas of the brain associated with social and moral disgust are triggered when healthcare funding is split unequally, researchers from the UK and Australia have found.

18 Aug 2015

VA study examines use of medicinal maggots to heal diabetic foot ulcers

Maggot, or larval, therapy has been around since ancient times as a way to heal wounds. Now, the method has gone high-tech--in some ways--and it's being tested in a rigorous clinical trial at the Malcom Randall Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center in Gainesville, Fla. Recruitment is now underway.

18 Aug 2015

Journal articles on yoga therapy increase 3-fold in last 10 years

During the last 10 years, the number of articles in peer-reviewed journals worldwide about clinical trials of yoga therapy to alleviate disease-related symptoms increased 3-fold. This large-scale analysis of published research studies spanning 46 years, 29 countries, and more than 28,000 study participants is published in The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, a peer-reviewed publication from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers.

18 Aug 2015

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E-cigarettes becoming more widely available in developing countries

Survey identifies key factors linked to pediatric safety events in out-of-hospital emergent care situations

Loyola implants new percutaneous aortic heart valve that does not require open surgery

NIH grants Clinical and Translational Science Award to UC San Diego

Neighbors Emergency Center announces opening of new El Paso, Texas center

Astellas Farma Brasil named one of Top 20 places to work in Brazil

CVS Health data shows high patient satisfaction with quality of care delivered via Minuteclinic telehealth

Medullan to license ACE Measure tool to assess patients’ health engagement levels

US-based clinical research spending drops 32%, show new data

Newly developed oxidation process uses ozone to degrade contaminants in water

Students around the world now have free access to simulation software from ANSYS

DaVita HealthCare Partners hosts health and disaster preparedness fair in Colorado Springs

Elsevier announces Gray's Anatomy Art Contest winners

RPCI researchers create outreach effort to improve public's participation in biomedical research

Avita Medical, University of Huddersfield partner to explore mechanism of Regenerative Epithelial Suspension

Intoxicated victims of sexual violence could accurately retain information from events

Patient satisfaction a poor proxy for quality of care in elective cranial neurosurgery

Study uses fMRI scans to examine neural substrates of moral cognition in healthcare decision making

VA study examines use of medicinal maggots to heal diabetic foot ulcers

Journal articles on yoga therapy increase 3-fold in last 10 years

Exploring the nanoscale: How AFM is transforming cosmetic science

Innovating Texture and Culture in Plant-Based Foods

Advancing brain microphysiological systems (bMPS)

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