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Even well-intended laws can’t protect us from inaccurate provider directories

If you have medical insurance, chances are you've been utterly exasperated at some point while trying to find an available doctor or mental health practitioner in your health plan's network.

26 Jul 2022

Individuals who detransition avoid medical help, study finds

Medical education, research and clinical guidelines are all available to support the initiation of gender-affirming care for transgender people, but a York University-led qualitative study has found these resources are sparse when patients discontinue or reverse gender-affirming medical or surgical interventions - referred to as detransition.

26 Jul 2022

Quarantine guidance for Omicron infection

The CDC provides updated guidelines on how the U.S. population can protect themselves and others from the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant.

25 Jul 2022

Religious leaders can be effective change agents for reducing intimate partner violence

Intimate partner violence - or abuse and aggression in a romantic relationship - is a pervasive global issue. In Uganda, a primarily Christian country in East Africa, 56% of women who've been married report being sexually violated by a current partner.

25 Jul 2022

New method uses drones to quickly deliver at-home COVID-19 diagnostic tests

Researchers at the Texas A&M University School of Public Health have developed a new COVID-19 test distribution method that uses drones to quickly deliver at-home diagnostic tests to individuals who suspect they have COVID-19.

25 Jul 2022

Survey: A third of Generation Z and Millennials often have a harder time falling asleep on Sunday nights

A new survey from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine found that having the "Sunday Scaries" may be a real phenomenon, not just Urban Dictionary slang – especially for younger generations.

25 Jul 2022

Improving rigor and transparency measures could help enhance reproducibility across scientific literature

JMIR Publications recently published "Establishing Institutional Scores With the Rigor and Transparency Index: Large-scale Analysis of Scientific Reporting Quality" in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR), which reported that improving rigor and transparency measures should lead to improvements in reproducibility across the scientific literature, but assessing measures of transparency tends to be very difficult if performed manually by reviewers.

25 Jul 2022

Medical professionals use Twitter amplifiers to tackle COVID-19 misinformation

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, when false information about the virus began to spread on Twitter, physicians and scientists from Northwestern Medicine and other institutions banded together to combat the deadly misinformation and disinformation and support one another when they ultimately were attacked online for doing so.

25 Jul 2022

Dental health care workers report anxiety and depression symptoms during peaks of the pandemic

The first known U.S. study to evaluate the mental health of frontline dentists and dental hygienists during the pandemic found that dental health care workers report anxiety and depression symptoms during peaks of transmission among the public.

25 Jul 2022

Survey: Telemedicine widely viewed as an effective means for delivering care

After experiencing a rapid expansion early in the COVID-19 pandemic, a new survey indicates that telemedicine is now widely viewed as an effective means for delivering care.

25 Jul 2022

Pokemon Go motivates social interactions and increases life satisfaction of players, study finds

A study from an academic at the University of Greenwich has investigated the effects of Pokemon Go on life satisfaction and social functioning of participants with and without self-reported diagnoses of mental disorders.

25 Jul 2022

Renowned neurologist to join the staff leadership team of The American Heart Association

The American Heart Association, the world's leading nonprofit organization focused on heart and brain health for all, has announced that Mitchell S.V. Elkind, M.D., M.S., FAHA, longtime volunteer of the Association and renowned neurologist, will be joining the staff leadership team this fall as Chief Clinical Science Officer.

25 Jul 2022

Fujifilm integrates AI software to help identify bone trauma at POC (Point-of-Care)

BoneView® is a revolutionary AI software designed to assist radiologists and emergency clinicians in the diagnosis of skeletal fractures. It uses advanced algorithms to detect and localise lesions on X-rays – graphically highlighting areas of interest – before submitting the images to radiologists for validation.

From FUJIFILM Corporation 25 Jul 2022

Ochsner Health is the first hospital system to commit to bringing Ukrainian nurses to USA

This week, CGFNS International, Inc. publicly announced its “Passport2Liberty” initiative that will restore credentials for Ukrainian nurses who wish to migrate to the United States.

22 Jul 2022

nTIDE COVID Update: Unemployment increased slightly in June for people with and without disabilities

Unemployment increased slightly in June for people with and without disabilities, according to Friday's National Trends in Disability Employment (nTIDE) COVID Update.

22 Jul 2022

Rutgers researchers highlight the need for a balanced approach to examine adult e-cigarette use

Rutgers researchers are calling for a balanced approach to examining recent trends in adult e-cigarette use.

22 Jul 2022

AAMDSIF Patient and Family Conference to be held in Memphis

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center is partnering with the Aplastic Anemia & MDS International Foundation (AAMDSIF), along with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Regional One Health, and Baptist Memorial Hospital, to hold the AAMDSIF Patient and Family Conference for the first time in Memphis on July 23.

22 Jul 2022

Climate action could cut 6,000 heat-related child deaths a year in Africa

The annual death rate of children under five years old could double to about 38,000 by 2049 compared with the decade 2005-2014, without cuts to rising carbon emissions, a study estimates.

22 Jul 2022

Advantages of overlapping surgery must be balanced against safety, ethical and training concerns, say experts

Overlapping surgery - in which a single senior surgeon operates across two parallel operating theatres and anaesthetists induce anaesthesia and junior surgeons commence and complete the operation – has been discussed as a potential route to reducing hospital waiting lists in this post-COVID era in which many patients are expected to face extensive delays of months or even years to have surgery.

22 Jul 2022

Study provides estimates of worldwide contraceptive use by country, age group, and marital status

Published today in The Lancet journal by the Global Burden of Disease study, the most comprehensive assessment of worldwide contraceptive need and use estimated that over 160 million women and adolescents with need to prevent childbearing remained without contraception in 2019 – despite major increases in use at a global level since 1970.

22 Jul 2022

Healthcare News

Even well-intended laws can’t protect us from inaccurate provider directories

Individuals who detransition avoid medical help, study finds

Quarantine guidance for Omicron infection

Religious leaders can be effective change agents for reducing intimate partner violence

New method uses drones to quickly deliver at-home COVID-19 diagnostic tests

Survey: A third of Generation Z and Millennials often have a harder time falling asleep on Sunday nights

Improving rigor and transparency measures could help enhance reproducibility across scientific literature

Medical professionals use Twitter amplifiers to tackle COVID-19 misinformation

Dental health care workers report anxiety and depression symptoms during peaks of the pandemic

Survey: Telemedicine widely viewed as an effective means for delivering care

Pokemon Go motivates social interactions and increases life satisfaction of players, study finds

Renowned neurologist to join the staff leadership team of The American Heart Association

Fujifilm integrates AI software to help identify bone trauma at POC (Point-of-Care)

Ochsner Health is the first hospital system to commit to bringing Ukrainian nurses to USA

nTIDE COVID Update: Unemployment increased slightly in June for people with and without disabilities

Rutgers researchers highlight the need for a balanced approach to examine adult e-cigarette use

AAMDSIF Patient and Family Conference to be held in Memphis

Climate action could cut 6,000 heat-related child deaths a year in Africa

Advantages of overlapping surgery must be balanced against safety, ethical and training concerns, say experts

Study provides estimates of worldwide contraceptive use by country, age group, and marital status

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