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Weekend sleep could lower heart disease risk by 20%

The demands of the working week, often influenced by school or work schedules, can lead to sleep disruption and deprivation.

29 Aug 2024

Addressing HPV vaccination disparities in girls with mental health conditions

Girls with mental illness or neurodevelopmental conditions are less likely than their peers to be vaccinated with the HPV vaccine that protects against future cervical cancer. This is according to a new registry study from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden published in The Lancet Public Health.

29 Aug 2024

SGLT-2 inhibitors show potential in preventing dementia in diabetes patients

Sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT-2) inhibitors used to treat type 2 diabetes might prevent dementia, providing greater benefits with longer treatment, suggests a large study from Korea published by The BMJ today.

28 Aug 2024

Kidney donors' mortality risk drops significantly over the past decade

The risk of death for people who donate a kidney for transplantation - already small a decade ago - has dropped by more than half since then, a new study shows.

28 Aug 2024

New biomedical device offers hope for patients with chronic pain

Pain is a necessary biological signal, but a variety of conditions can cause those signals to go awry. For people with chronic pain, the root is often faulty signals emerging deep within the brain, giving false alarms about a wound that has since healed, a limb that has since been amputated, or other intricate, hard-to-explain scenarios.

28 Aug 2024

How perceived benefits and risks affect public willingness to pay for healthcare

Healthcare is undoubtedly crucial for everyone. As individuals age, the risk for health issues and related expenses increases.

28 Aug 2024

Exploring trauma awareness and healing in healthcare at the United Nations General Assembly Science Summit

Integrating Medical Care and Holistic Healing. Presenting at the United Nations General Assembly Science Summitt.

28 Aug 2024

TCT 2024 to feature latest advances in interventional cardiovascular medicine

The Cardiovascular Research Foundation is pleased to announce the late-breaking clinical trials and science to be featured at TCT 2024.

28 Aug 2024

Research highlights potential of blood epigenetics for dementia risk assessment

New research suggests that epigenetic markers in the blood could be useful for understanding dementia risk.

28 Aug 2024

Pain emerges as dominant symptom in long Covid, UCL study reveals

Pain may be the most prevalent and severe symptom reported by individuals with long Covid, according to a new study led by UCL (University College London) researchers.

28 Aug 2024

Graylight imaging is ISO 13485 certified

In November 2023, we are proud to announce that we, Graylight Imaging, have successfully achieved ISO 13485 certified status, demonstrating our commitment to the highest quality standards in the design and manufacture of medical devices.

From Graylight Imaging 28 Aug 2024

Strategic partnership to revolutionize urine testing

Alpha Laboratories Ltd. (Hampshire, UK) is proud to announce that it has entered into a strategic partnership with Clinical Design Technologies Ltd. (Devon, UK), to market and support the world's first digital closed urine testing system.

From Alpha Laboratories 28 Aug 2024

Exploring AI’s impact on precision oncology

A new editorial was published in Oncotarget's Volume 15 on August 26, 2024, entitled, "Artificial intelligence: A transformative tool in precision oncology."

27 Aug 2024

Simple intervention offers relief for burned-out nurses in Missouri

Even before the coronavirus pandemic, high rates of burnout and staffing shortages plagued the nursing industry, primarily because of the stressful demands of the job.

27 Aug 2024

Healthcare workers unprepared for mpox outbreak due to knowledge gaps and vaccine inequity

Research highlights significant gaps in healthcare workers' knowledge of mpox during the 2022-2023 outbreaks, emphasizing the need for better global preparedness and equitable vaccine access.

27 Aug 2024

ChatGPT delivers the most accurate vasectomy information, outperforming Copilot and Gemini

Research shows ChatGPT outperforms Google Bard and Bing Chat in accurately answering vasectomy-related questions, highlighting its potential in healthcare education.

27 Aug 2024

Autofluorescence imaging improves accuracy of wound debridement

Over 6.5 million Americans experience chronic wounds - wounds that do not heal after a few months.

27 Aug 2024

Study reveals high failure rate for tubal sterilization as birth control

Tubal sterilization is thought to be a permanent form of birth control and is the most common method of contraception nationally.

27 Aug 2024

Urban noise pollution found to have significant negative impact on heart health

Research from two studies in different European cities1,2 highlights that urban noise pollution has a significant negative impact on heart health, according to data presented at ESC Congress 2024.

27 Aug 2024

New ESC atlas data highlights disparities in cardiovascular disease mortality

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the most common cause of death across Europe but while CVD mortality rates are generally decreasing, the decline is much less in middle-income than in high-income countries, according to new data from the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Atlas of Cardiology, published in the European Heart Journal.

27 Aug 2024