Healthcare

The Concept of Human Health and Disease

Articulating a comprehensive definition of health and disease has been a historically intricate task. The earliest conceptual frameworks for health and disease can be traced back to the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia and Egypt around 4,000 B.C.

Medical Ethics and Health Policy

Proactive Health: The Shift Towards Preventative Healthcare

Role of Real-Time Data in Healthcare

Managing the Explosion of Healthcare Data to Harness its Power

Healthcare Systems Around the World

What is the Role of Regulatory Bodies in Healthcare?

How is the ‘Omics’ Revolution Changing Healthcare?

Importance of Safe Working Conditions for Healthcare Workers

Primary Healthcare Providers

ICD10-International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision

Preventing Medical Errors in Hospitals

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Blockchain Applications in Healthcare

Common Misconceptions in Health

What are the Health Benefits of Weight Training?

Diagnosis vs Prognosis

Healthcare During The Climate Crisis

How Are Smart Cameras Used in Healthcare?

What Are the Health Implications of Saunas?

What is Cold Water Therapy?

Assessing Evacuation Shelters to Improve Health

What is Healthcare Fraud?

Future of Smart Health Systems

Unlocking the Power of Data to Accelerate Future Health Systems

Healthcare Avoidance

Text Messaging in Healthcare

Using Real-World Data to Accelerate Healthcare

Health and Wealth

Virtualization within Healthcare; Why is it Important?

Health Technology Around the World

Urbanization and Human Health

Moral Injury in Healthcare

Compassion Fatigue in Healthcare Professionals

Intersectionality in Healthcare

How is Trust Established in Healthcare?

What Are The Health Effects of Over-Sanitization?

Is Data at the Center of Healthcare for the Future?

What is Public-Private Mix in Healthcare?

What are Social Determinants of Health?

The Importance of Clinical Informatics

How Could the Metaverse Transform Healthcare?

Neurodiversity in Healthcare

How are Drones Used in Healthcare?

Improving Healthcare Delivery via Social Innovation

Catalyzing Change: Exploring the Evolving Landscape of Healthcare Entrepreneurship

Healthcare Supply Chain Resilience: Lessons Learned from the Pandemic and Strategies for the Future

What is Informed Consent?

Compliance Challenges in Healthcare: Balancing Innovation and Regulation

Hospital-at-Home: Bridging Inpatient and Remote Care

Latest Healthcare News and Research

More permanent nurses could save lives and lower healthcare costs

Employing too few permanent nurses on hospital wards is linked to longer inpatient stays, readmissions, patient deaths, and ultimately costs more in lives and money, finds a long term study published online in the journal BMJ Quality & Safety.

29 Apr 2025

Mathematical models point to broader antibiotic use as a tool against cholera

Cholera kills thousands of people and infects hundreds of thousands every year-and cases have spiked in recent years, leaving governments with an urgent need to find the best ways to control outbreaks.

29 Apr 2025

Study highlights changes in bladder and urinary tract health across the menopause transition

The menopause transition is often accompanied by a wide array of symptoms, some of which receive more attention than others.

29 Apr 2025

Micro workouts deliver big health benefits in small time frame

Micro workouts are all the talk right now: researchers have found that effective physical activity in small doses provides great health benefits – both for the individual and society as a whole.

29 Apr 2025

Measles makes a deadly comeback in Europe as vaccine gaps widen

In 2024, measles cases in Europe soared to the highest levels in decades, with over 35,000 reported cases, 87% from Romania alone. Most affected were unvaccinated children, revealing critical immunity gaps and suboptimal vaccination coverage across the EU/EEA.

29 Apr 2025

Global Virus Network urges action to prevent H5N1 pandemic

Today, the Global Virus Network (GVN), representing eminent human and animal virologists from 80+ Centers of Excellence and Affiliates in 40+ countries, published a comprehensive analysis and call-to-action in The Lancet Regional Health-Americas on the North American avian influenza virus, or H5N1, outbreak. The GVN calls on world governments to address the threat of H5N1 avian influenza by enhancing surveillance, implementing biosecurity measures, and preparing for potential human-to-human transmission.

29 Apr 2025

Uncovering non-clinical risk factors through mendelian randomization

A new study identifying 56 non-clinical risk factors associated with sudden cardiac arrest (SCA), spanning lifestyle, physical measures, psychosocial factors, socioeconomic status, and the local environment, offers compelling evidence that improving these unfavorable profiles could prevent up to 63% of SCA cases.

29 Apr 2025

New study exposes hidden dangers of ketamine addiction

Ketamine addiction is linked to high levels of physical health problems and psychological consequences, with nearly half of those affected not seeking support or treatment, new research has revealed.

28 Apr 2025

Dopamine circuit helps the brain unlearn fear

Dangers come but dangers also go and when they do, the brain has an "all-clear" signal that teaches it to extinguish its fear.

28 Apr 2025

Immunotherapy replaces surgery for early-stage dMMR cancers in landmark study

Neoadjuvant PD-1 blockade with dostarlimab achieved high rates of organ preservation in patients with early-stage mismatch repair-deficient (dMMR) solid tumors across multiple types. Most patients avoided surgery with durable disease control, reshaping potential cancer treatment pathways.

28 Apr 2025

CommunityRx program reduces ER visits for food insecure children

In a new clinical study published in JAMA Pediatrics, researchers at the University of Chicago Medicine found that a low-intensity program that "prescribes" community resources to every parent or other primary caregiver of a hospitalized child reduced the use of acute care for children of food-insecure families in the following year, saving potentially thousands of dollars in healthcare expenditures while demanding little more than minutes of staff time per family.

28 Apr 2025

Genomic sequencing-based detection system cuts infections and saves lives

An infectious diseases detection platform developed by University of Pittsburgh scientists working with UPMC infection preventionists proved over a two-year trial that it stops outbreaks, saves lives and cuts costs.

28 Apr 2025

New technology enables quick diagnosis of arthritis using synovial fluid

Dr. Ho Sang Jung and his research team from the Advanced Bio and Healthcare Materials Research Division at the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS), in collaboration with Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, have developed a technology that enables the diagnosis of osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis within 10 minutes using synovial fluid.

28 Apr 2025

New blood test can improve heart disease risk prediction

For almost 60 years, measuring cholesterol levels in the blood has been the best way to identify individuals at high risk of cardiovascular disease.

28 Apr 2025

AI model enhances early diagnosis of multiple sclerosis

To provide the right treatment for MS, it is important to know when the disease changes from relapsing-remitting to secondary progressive, a transition that is currently recognized on average three years too late.

28 Apr 2025

Hands-on training for cardiogenic shock takes center stage at ISHLT Annual Meeting

Healthcare practitioners from around the world received hands-on training for treating patients in cardiogenic shock (CS) during a first-ever simulation lab at today's Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions of the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) in Boston.

27 Apr 2025

Understanding the motivations behind cancer patients' adoption of traditional Chinese medicine

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is widely used in cancer care in China as an integral part of treatment.

26 Apr 2025

BioSkryb Genomics and Tecan introduce a single-cell multiomics workflow for sequencing-ready libraries in under ten hours

BioSkryb Genomics and Tecan Group, today introduced a high-throughput single-cell workflow, combining BioSkryb's 384-well format of the ResolveOME™ Whole Genome and Transcriptome Single-Cell Core Kit with the Uno Single Cell Dispenser™, provided by Tecan.

26 Apr 2025

Rethinking inclusive education for children with severe illnesses

The aim of inclusive education is to ensure that students with special needs participate equally in societal life and learning.

25 Apr 2025

Bacteria-based fibers offer new hope for bone healing

Have you ever wondered if there is a way to heal bones without having to take bone from another part of the body? A new doctoral thesis from the University of Borås, Sweden, now presents exciting advancements in this area. It involves using bacteria to produce fibers that can help heal bones.

25 Apr 2025