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Higher levels of air pollution in major urban areas linked to heart attack risks in people 65 and older

Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have found a link between higher levels of a specific kind of air pollution in major urban areas and an increase in cardiovascular-related hospitalizations such as for heart attacks in people 65 and older.

18 Nov 2015

Med Data Quest collaborates with WuXi AppTec to tackle oncology informatics challenges

Med Data Quest, a pioneering medical informatics total solution provider, today celebrates its successful collaboration with the Oncology Business Unit of the CRO giant WuXi AppTec, delivering the world's first mobile App OncoWuXi that was launched in October for customers to access WuXi oncology tumor models and capabilities more quickly and easily for cancer drug discovery and translational research.

18 Nov 2015

WHO: Strong actions needed to address climate change to protect people's health

According to WHO estimates, climate change is already causing tens of thousands of deaths every year - from shifting patterns of disease, from extreme weather events, such as heat-waves and floods, and from the degradation of air quality, food and water supplies, and sanitation.

18 Nov 2015

Apollo to demonstrate integration with ResolutionMD at RSNA annual meeting

Apollo, the pioneer in clinical multimedia management solutions is introducing, and will be demonstrating integration of the ResolutionMD enterprise image viewer to Apollo EPMM (Enterprise Patient Multimedia Manager) at the upcoming RSNA 2015 annual meeting. This is a result of a previously announced alliance between Apollo and Calgary Scientific.

18 Nov 2015

New NICE-accredited guidelines on prevention and control of MDRGNB available online

Gram-negative bacteria (MDRGNB) include common types such as E. coli that all of us carry in our bowels. When these bacteria get into other parts of the body they can cause infections, including common infections such as cystitis or urinary tract infections. The bacteria can also be readily spread from person to person. Multi-drug-resistant strains are resistant to most, or all, of the common antibiotics that we use to treat infections.

18 Nov 2015

Living with lung cancer: an interview with Aoife McNamara

Understanding how lung cancer affects patients from a social perspective is vital. People living with lung cancer, lung cancer survivors and carers are impacted by lung cancer in different ways.

18 Nov 2015

For people with epilepsy, the mental health treatments are not clearly understood

Mental health issues such as depression or anxiety are often neglected or misunderstood in people who also have co-morbidity with epilepsy.

18 Nov 2015

Mount Sinai Roosevelt to be renamed as Mount Sinai West

The Mount Sinai Health System today announced that Mount Sinai Roosevelt will be renamed as Mount Sinai West. The hospital will continue to be the premier health care provider on the West Side of Manhattan, with all services continuing, the same insurances accepted and the same number of people employed.

18 Nov 2015

Study finds young whites more optimistic about likelihood of living to 35 than minority peers

A new study of young people finds that, with one exception, whites are more optimistic -- sometimes drastically so -- than their minority peers about their likelihood of living to 35.

18 Nov 2015

Research: Some 15% of women experience incapacitated rape during their freshman year at college

Some 15 percent of women are raped while incapacitated from alcohol or other drug use during their freshman year at college, according to new research.

18 Nov 2015

Facebook can have both positive and negative effects on teens' stress hormone levels

Facebook can have positive and negative effects on teens levels of a stress hormone, say researchers at the University of Montreal and the Institut universitaire de santé mentale de Montréal. Led by Professor Sonia Lupien, the team found that having more than 300 Facebook friends increased teens' levels of cortisol.

18 Nov 2015

Race/ethnicity disparities, hospital factors affect analgesic use at US EDs

Minority patients are less likely to receive analgesic medications for abdominal pain at US emergency departments (EDs), suggests a nationwide study in the December issue of Medical Care.

18 Nov 2015

Driving while affected by medications as dangerous as driving under the influence of illegal drugs

Warning labels on medications about the dangers of driving are not enough to stop people getting behind the wheel with most driving while affected by drugs, according to Queensland University of Technology road safety researcher Dr Tanya Smyth.

18 Nov 2015

British academics reveal psychological barriers behind HIV testing

Academics from Royal Holloway, University of London, have carried out the largest global review of psychological barriers behind HIV testing and the factors that may influence people's decision to be tested.

18 Nov 2015

Landmark study demonstrates link between pupils' breakfast quality and educational attainment

A direct and positive link between pupils' breakfast quality and consumption, and their educational attainment, has for the first time been demonstrated in a ground-breaking new study carried out by public health experts at Cardiff University.

18 Nov 2015

URI researcher developing novel vaccine delivery system to improve nicotine vaccine effectiveness

Xinyuan Chen, an assistant professor of biomedical and pharmaceutical sciences, joined URI's College of Pharmacy after seven years at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, bringing with him a $1.08 million career development grant from the National Institute of Drug Abuse and a $432,000 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease.

18 Nov 2015

Two studies find decline in PSA screening and prostate cancer incidence

Two studies in the November 17 issue of JAMA examine the change in prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening and prostate cancer incidence before and after the 2012 U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) screening recommendations.

18 Nov 2015

Rice University study examines variation between blood drops drawn from single fingerprick

When it comes to needles and drawing blood, most patients agree that bigger is not better. But in the first study of its kind, Rice University bioengineers have found results from a single drop of blood are highly variable, and as many as six to nine drops must be combined to achieve consistent results.

18 Nov 2015

Matthew Teeter recognized with 2015 John Charles Polanyi Prize for research in joint replacement

Matthew Teeter, PhD, an assistant professor at Western University's Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry and researcher at Lawson Health Research Institute, is a winner of the 2015 John Charles Polanyi Prize. The $20,000 award recognizes the excellence of Teeter's research in joint replacement.

18 Nov 2015

Collaborative approach could help reduce hospital readmissions due to falls in older adults

A comprehensive care program that involves a team of specialists from multiple medical disciplines for treating injuries sustained from falls in older adults could help reduce hospital readmissions, according to researchers at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.

18 Nov 2015

Healthcare News

Higher levels of air pollution in major urban areas linked to heart attack risks in people 65 and older

Med Data Quest collaborates with WuXi AppTec to tackle oncology informatics challenges

WHO: Strong actions needed to address climate change to protect people's health

Apollo to demonstrate integration with ResolutionMD at RSNA annual meeting

New NICE-accredited guidelines on prevention and control of MDRGNB available online

Living with lung cancer: an interview with Aoife McNamara

For people with epilepsy, the mental health treatments are not clearly understood

Mount Sinai Roosevelt to be renamed as Mount Sinai West

Study finds young whites more optimistic about likelihood of living to 35 than minority peers

Research: Some 15% of women experience incapacitated rape during their freshman year at college

Facebook can have both positive and negative effects on teens' stress hormone levels

Race/ethnicity disparities, hospital factors affect analgesic use at US EDs

Driving while affected by medications as dangerous as driving under the influence of illegal drugs

British academics reveal psychological barriers behind HIV testing

Landmark study demonstrates link between pupils' breakfast quality and educational attainment

URI researcher developing novel vaccine delivery system to improve nicotine vaccine effectiveness

Two studies find decline in PSA screening and prostate cancer incidence

Rice University study examines variation between blood drops drawn from single fingerprick

Matthew Teeter recognized with 2015 John Charles Polanyi Prize for research in joint replacement

Collaborative approach could help reduce hospital readmissions due to falls in older adults

Improving healthcare sustainability through carbon data

A New Approach to Preventing Bladder Cancer Recurrence

Bringing real-time analytics to downstream bioprocess monitoring

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