Healthcare News

RSS

GE Healthcare to invest more than $1 billion over five years in enhanced training for healthcare professionals

In developed countries like the U.S., Europe and parts of Asia, healthcare leaders are trying to optimize efficiency, systems integration, data analytics and achieve greater productivity. In emerging economies, enabling access to affordable, basic primary care is often the most pressing concern. Healthcare systems around the world face a wide range of difficult challenges. All could benefit from training and education solutions focused specifically on their particular needs.

29 Jul 2015

AAN's Behavioral Neurology Section Group provides recommendations for improving clinical cognitive testing

Recommendations for improving clinical cognitive testing were reported by the American Academy of Neurology's Behavioral Neurology Section Group, led by Kirk R. Daffner, MD, of Boston, Mass. The Group focused on the Neurobehavioral Status Exam (NBSE), conducting evidence-based reviews of testing used for five domains - attention, language, memory, spatial cognition, and executive function).

29 Jul 2015

PWNA announces supply drive for Native Americans living on isolated reservations

Partnership With Native Americans, formerly National Relief Charities, announced today a 100-day supply drive for Native Americans living on remote and isolated reservations. The nonprofit is calling upon individuals, corporations and foundations to help meet the critical needs of Native Americans who suffer the highest poverty in the U.S. yet receive less than one percent of the nation's charitable giving.

29 Jul 2015

Lark Technologies' interactive, health-coaching app now available for Android and Apple users

Lark Technologies, Inc. today announced expanded availability for Lark Chat, the company's interactive, health-coaching app designed to help people eat healthier and get more active in order to achieve their personal heath and weight-loss goals. Lark Chat is now available for free to download on all Android devices as well as iPhone 4 and 5, and pre-installed on all new Samsung phones.

29 Jul 2015

Hospitals can make patients sick, reveals Consumer Reports

Hospitals are thought to be sterile, safe environments where sick people get better, not sicker. But that's not always the case according to a new investigation by Consumer Reports into hospital-acquired infections.

29 Jul 2015

Legal regulations on alcohol consumption have preventive effect on young consumers

Young men are at risk from alcohol consumption. Regulations such as the minimum legal drinking age can protect them. As a national study headed by UZH scientists reveals: The more legal measures for alcohol prevention are enforced in a canton, the less young men drink excessively. However, this is not effective for high-risk consumers such as young men with a tendency towards sensation seeking or antisocial behavior.

29 Jul 2015

Commission on Global Health Risk Framework for the Future holds first public meeting

Over the past 15 years, outbreaks of Ebola, Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), and H1N1 have demonstrated the lack of an adequate local and global health system infrastructure to prevent or mitigate the systemic burdens that result from infectious disease incidents of international significance.

29 Jul 2015

University of Southampton study to examine how nurse staffing levels affect care, safety of patients

A University of Southampton study will investigate how the provision of nurses in hospitals affects the care and safety of patients.

29 Jul 2015

High-intensity interval training effective for arthritis patients

It's a disease that sneaks up on you. Fingers and toes slowly but surely become stiff and painful. A nice morning stretch is no longer all it takes to get your body moving. Arthritis is a chronic illness that sinks its claws into your body, and causes inflammation in your joints.

29 Jul 2015

Survey finds clear unmet need for comprehensive family planning services at health centers

As part of a unique survey of nearly 2,000 women of childbearing age who receive health care at the nation's community health centers, 90 percent reported that they were not actively seeking to become pregnant in the next 12 months. Yet more than 3 out of 10 were not using contraceptives at the time of the survey.

29 Jul 2015

New Norwegian study finds strong relationship between sleep problems and self-harm in adolescents

There is a strong relationship between sleep problems such as insomnia, and self-harm, according to findings in a new Norwegian study.

29 Jul 2015

New analysis examines pharmacy expenditures for publicly insured children with serious chronic illness

In an analysis of expenditures for outpatient pharmacy products used by publicly insured children with serious chronic illness in California, treating hemophilia accounted for about 40 percent of expenditures but included just 0.4 percent of the group studied, suggesting a need to improve pricing for this and other effective yet high-cost medications, according to a study in the July 28 issue of JAMA.

29 Jul 2015

Shortage of meningitis C-containing vaccine threatens to limit disease control in Africa

With Africa at risk of a large meningitis outbreak, an acute shortage of meningitis C-containing vaccine threatens to severely limit the world's ability to minimize the number of people affected, four international public health organizations warned today.

29 Jul 2015

‘Digital Doctor’ study examines attitudes of primary care physicians to new healthcare technologies

Healthcare apps and wearable tech have a long future in the treatment of patients, according to a panel of Primary Care Physicians (PCPs) interviewed as part of a newly launched Ipsos Healthcare study.

29 Jul 2015

National survey finds improvements in self-reported insurance coverage, access to care and health under ACA

Results of a national survey that included more than half a million adults indicates significant improvements in trends for self-reported insurance coverage, access to a personal physician and medications, affordability and health after the Affordable Care Act's first and second open enrollment periods, according to a study in the July 28 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on Medicare and Medicaid at 50.

29 Jul 2015

inSleep Health receives FDA clearance for Cloud9 Anti-Snoring System

inSleep Health announced today that it has received 510(K) clearance for the company's Cloud9 Anti-Snoring System. The indication for use is to reduce or eliminate simple snoring in adults. Cloud9 is a prescription device for home use. This is the first clinically proven device, using continuous low positive airway pressure, specifically labeled to treat simple snoring.

29 Jul 2015

New polymer gel could help create swallowable devices for ultra-long drug delivery

Medical devices designed to reside in the stomach have a variety of applications, including prolonged drug delivery, electronic monitoring, and weight-loss intervention. However, these devices, often created with nondegradable elastic polymers, bear an inherent risk of intestinal obstruction as a result of accidental fracture or migration. As such, they are usually designed to remain in the stomach for a limited time.

29 Jul 2015

New WFSJ initiative to help journalists report on staggering toll of HCV

The World Federation of Science Journalists is launching a new initiative to help journalists report on the staggering toll of Hepatitis C (HCV) as well as the scientific and political barriers to treating the disease.

29 Jul 2015

CHOP surgeons successfully complete world's first bilateral hand transplant on child

Surgeons at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia joined with colleagues from Penn Medicine recently to complete the world's first bilateral hand transplant on a child. Earlier this month, the surgical team successfully transplanted donor hands and forearms onto eight-year-old Zion Harvey who, several years earlier, had undergone amputation of his hands and feet and a kidney transplant following a serious infection.

29 Jul 2015

Parents with low health literacy less likely to select recommended weight-control strategies for children

Parents who have low health literacy are less likely to choose government-recommended weight-loss strategies, such as increasing physical activity or serving more fruits and vegetables, to help their children control their weight than parents who are better able to understand basic health-related information, a new study suggests.

29 Jul 2015

Healthcare News

GE Healthcare to invest more than $1 billion over five years in enhanced training for healthcare professionals

AAN's Behavioral Neurology Section Group provides recommendations for improving clinical cognitive testing

PWNA announces supply drive for Native Americans living on isolated reservations

Lark Technologies' interactive, health-coaching app now available for Android and Apple users

Hospitals can make patients sick, reveals Consumer Reports

Legal regulations on alcohol consumption have preventive effect on young consumers

Commission on Global Health Risk Framework for the Future holds first public meeting

University of Southampton study to examine how nurse staffing levels affect care, safety of patients

High-intensity interval training effective for arthritis patients

Survey finds clear unmet need for comprehensive family planning services at health centers

New Norwegian study finds strong relationship between sleep problems and self-harm in adolescents

New analysis examines pharmacy expenditures for publicly insured children with serious chronic illness

Shortage of meningitis C-containing vaccine threatens to limit disease control in Africa

‘Digital Doctor’ study examines attitudes of primary care physicians to new healthcare technologies

National survey finds improvements in self-reported insurance coverage, access to care and health under ACA

inSleep Health receives FDA clearance for Cloud9 Anti-Snoring System

New polymer gel could help create swallowable devices for ultra-long drug delivery

New WFSJ initiative to help journalists report on staggering toll of HCV

CHOP surgeons successfully complete world's first bilateral hand transplant on child

Parents with low health literacy less likely to select recommended weight-control strategies for children

Exploring the nanoscale: How AFM is transforming cosmetic science

Innovating Texture and Culture in Plant-Based Foods

Advancing brain microphysiological systems (bMPS)

Latest News