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WHO/UNICEF: Lack of progress on water and sanitation threatens to undermine child survival, health benefits

Lack of progress on sanitation threatens to undermine the child survival and health benefits from gains in access to safe drinking water, warn WHO and UNICEF in a report tracking access to drinking water and sanitation against the Millennium Development Goals.

1 Jul 2015

New IOM report calls for campaign to promote public education on CPR and AED use

A new report released today from the Institute of Medicine calls for a campaign to promote public education and training opportunities to reduce barriers to the provision of bystander CPR and defibrillation.

1 Jul 2015

Ranit Mishori awarded Macy Foundation grant to educate medical trainees about health needs of refugees

The Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation has awarded a President's Grant to Georgetown family medicine physician Ranit Mishori, MD, MHS, FAAFP, to create a comprehensive curriculum to educate health professions students, residents and clinicians about the health needs of immigrants, migrants, torture survivors, asylum seekers and refugees.

1 Jul 2015

Health care education researchers call for more research funding to support medical training

Health care education researchers, led by Dr. Julian Archer from Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry, have penned a heartfelt editorial in The BMJ calling for more research funding to support the evidence base for medical training.

1 Jul 2015

Study: Osteopathic manipulative therapy decreases low back pain by over 70% in postpartum women

German researchers found osteopathic manipulative therapy (OMTh) decreased postpartum low back pain by over 70 percent in women who had given birth at least three months before beginning treatment, according to a new study published in July issue of the Journal of the American Osteopathic Association.

1 Jul 2015

New study suggests causal link between job strain and sleep disturbances

A new study suggests that there may be a reciprocal, causal pathway between job strain and disturbed sleep, implying that interventions to treat sleep problems may improve work satisfaction.

1 Jul 2015

New stroke treatment guidelines recommend use of stent retrievers as first-line treatment for eligible patients

Today, the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association published new stroke treatment guidelines that recommend the use of stent retriever technology – such as Medtronic plc’s SolitaireTM stent retriever device – in conjunction with the current standard of care, IV-tPA, as a first-line treatment for eligible patients.

30 Jun 2015

USANA Colombia receives 2015 Editors' Choice Award from NutriSearch

It's been nearly two years since USANA began operations in Colombia, and USANA Colombia has been named the sole GOLD Medal recipient for Colombian products in the recently released 2015 NutriSearch Comparative Guide to Nutritional Supplements for the Americas.

30 Jun 2015

7th Annual Personalized & Precision Medicine Conference to be held in Baltimore from Oct. 5 to 6, 2015

Arrowhead's 7th Annual Personalized & Precision Medicine Conference is coming to Baltimore, MD on October 5-6, 2015 as an official satellite event to the American Society for Human Genetics Annual Meeting.

30 Jun 2015

Marken to deliver clinical trial drugs in Korea during MERS outbreak

Marken, the leading clinical trial logistics organization providing solutions and services to the life sciences industry, has been granted permission by the government to deliver the first direct to patient shipment of clinical drug product in Korea.

30 Jun 2015

New technique that mines Twitter data can help identify potentially dangerous drug interactions

A team of scientists has invented a new technique for discovering potentially dangerous drug interactions and unknown side-effects — before they show up in medical databases, like PubMed, or even before doctors and researchers have heard of them at all.

30 Jun 2015

University of Cambridge, AstraZeneca announce new joint schemes to support PhD scholarships, clinical lectureships

AstraZeneca and the University of Cambridge today announced three new joint schemes to support more than 80 PhD scholarshipsand eight clinical lectureships over the next five years spanning translational science, basic and clinical research.

30 Jun 2015

Patient-reported feedback on health system performance

Patients care about how well pain, nausea, or treatment side effects are managed when evaluating the quality of the medical care they receive, but information about these experiences is not generally collected. To incorporate the values that patients care most about into formal assessments of provider and health system performance, a UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researcher led an expert panel to create a playbook on how to best develop, analyze and use patient-focused measures.

30 Jun 2015

Case report published on first use of 3D printed scaffold for periodontal tissue engineering

Today, the International and American Associations for Dental Research published a case report on the first application of a 3D printed scaffold for periodontal tissue engineering in a human patient, along with a review of 3D printing for oral and craniofacial tissue engineering.

30 Jun 2015

New York Blue Light Symposium highlights three measures to counter consequences of artificial illumination

The New York Blue Light Symposium convened in New York from June 26-27, 2015. The event was sponsored by the International Blue Light Society (Senior Representative: Kazuo Tsubota), which was founded to research and release findings on the effects of blue light on the human body.

30 Jun 2015

Ebola outbreak: Shaping new strategies to improve health care among rural Liberians

As Liberia rebuilds a health care system decimated by the 2014 Ebola outbreak, understanding precisely how far citizens live from health facilities and its impact on seeking care can help shape new strategies to improve health care delivery and reduce geographic disparities.

30 Jun 2015

New handbook explores issues associated with medical tourism

Patients who travel abroad for medical treatment risk returning with complications or infections that require costly treatment on the NHS and is one of the issues highlighted in a new handbook exploring medical tourism.

30 Jun 2015

Majority of people satisfied with amount of leisure time, shows study

The busy pace of life is a popular complaint for many people. But findings released by GfK show that the majority of people internationally - 58 percent - say they are completely or fairly satisfied with the amount of leisure time that they have.

30 Jun 2015

Majority of men who use violence against female partner struggle with serious mental health issues

The majority of men who use violence towards their partner struggle with serious mental health issues. We need to look at more than just the power relations between the sexes in order to understand and prevent domestic violence, says researcher.

30 Jun 2015

Bournemouth University researchers examine effect of lower-limb prosthetics on competitive running

Researchers at Bournemouth University have been looking at the impact of lower-limb prosthetics on competitive running, specifically looking at whether athletes with prosthesis are at an unfair advantage when running against athletes without prosthetics.

30 Jun 2015

Healthcare News

WHO/UNICEF: Lack of progress on water and sanitation threatens to undermine child survival, health benefits

New IOM report calls for campaign to promote public education on CPR and AED use

Ranit Mishori awarded Macy Foundation grant to educate medical trainees about health needs of refugees

Health care education researchers call for more research funding to support medical training

Study: Osteopathic manipulative therapy decreases low back pain by over 70% in postpartum women

New study suggests causal link between job strain and sleep disturbances

New stroke treatment guidelines recommend use of stent retrievers as first-line treatment for eligible patients

USANA Colombia receives 2015 Editors' Choice Award from NutriSearch

7th Annual Personalized & Precision Medicine Conference to be held in Baltimore from Oct. 5 to 6, 2015

Marken to deliver clinical trial drugs in Korea during MERS outbreak

New technique that mines Twitter data can help identify potentially dangerous drug interactions

University of Cambridge, AstraZeneca announce new joint schemes to support PhD scholarships, clinical lectureships

Patient-reported feedback on health system performance

Case report published on first use of 3D printed scaffold for periodontal tissue engineering

New York Blue Light Symposium highlights three measures to counter consequences of artificial illumination

Ebola outbreak: Shaping new strategies to improve health care among rural Liberians

New handbook explores issues associated with medical tourism

Majority of people satisfied with amount of leisure time, shows study

Majority of men who use violence against female partner struggle with serious mental health issues

Bournemouth University researchers examine effect of lower-limb prosthetics on competitive running

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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