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Quality improvement program improves depression screening among cancer patients

Depression screening among cancer patients improved by 40 percent to cover more than 90 percent of patients under a quality improvement program launched by a multidisciplinary team at UT Southwestern Medical Center and Southwestern Health Resources.

29 Apr 2021

Primary care practitioners overestimate disease risks leading to over-diagnosis and overtreatment

Primary care practitioners often over-estimate the likelihood of a patient having a medical condition based on reported symptoms and laboratory test results.

29 Apr 2021

Study: More than a quarter of American infants not received common childhood vaccines

More than a quarter of American infants in 2018 had not received common childhood vaccines that protect them from illnesses such as polio, tetanus, measles, mumps and chicken pox, new research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine reveals.

29 Apr 2021

Simple device can reduce swelling after kidney transplantation

In a published study, a team from Lawson Health Research Institute has found that a simple device can reduce swelling after kidney transplantation.

29 Apr 2021

In poisoned Montana town, Warren Buffett-owned railroad accuses clinic of Medicare fraud

Patricia Denny and her husband, Jeff, had hoped to one day get an RV and travel the country. Instead, Jeff has been forced into retirement at age 54 by a lung disease caused by the asbestos that's polluted the small town of Libby, Montana, for decades.

29 Apr 2021

Study finds higher risk of overdose in patients treated with opioids to reduce dental pain

When they go to the dentist to get a tooth pulled or another procedure, patients might not think that the prescription they receive to ease their pain could put them or their family at risk of an opioid overdose.

29 Apr 2021

Large heart attack study shows increased survival rates in patients with cardiogenic shock

The results of a large, national heart attack study show that patients with a deadly complication known as cardiogenic shock survived at a significantly higher rate when treated with a protocol developed by cardiologists at Henry Ford Hospital in collaboration with four metro Detroit hospitals.

29 Apr 2021

Injectable dermal fillers provide variable 'lifting' effects in addition to 'volumizing'

Injectable dermal fillers provide a minimally invasive approach to reduce facial lines and wrinkles while restoring volume and fullness in the face. More than 2.7 million dermal filler procedures were performed in 2019, according to the most recent statistics from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).

29 Apr 2021

Difficulties in diagnosing autism may be due to dynamic changes during child development

Researchers from the Center for Autism Research (CAR) at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) found that difficulties in diagnosing toddlers with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) might be due to the dynamic nature of the disorder during child development.

29 Apr 2021

New collaboration to study early detection of developmental differences in children

The University of Washington's School of Medicine Brotman Baty Institute for Precision Medicine is collaborating with Illumina, Inc. and GeneDx, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of BioReference Laboratories, Inc., an OPKO Health company, to study early detection of developmental differences in children.

29 Apr 2021

Algorithm interprets data from electronic medical records to diagnose kidney disease

Diagnosing chronic kidney disease, which is often undetected until it causes irreversible damage, may soon become automated with a new algorithm that interprets data from electronic medical records.

29 Apr 2021

Eight countries prove that halting malaria is achievable

With human and financial resources deployed to fight the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, there is no doubt that healthcare services are facing major disruption.

29 Apr 2021

Can a gaze measurement app help spot potential signs of autism in toddlers?

Researchers at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, USA, used computational methods based on computer vision analysis and a smartphone or tablet to help detect early signs of ASD in toddlers.

28 Apr 2021

Clinical trial to test existing antibiotic for treating serious S. aureus infections begins

A clinical trial to test the antibiotic dalbavancin for safety and efficacy in treating complicated Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) bacteremia has begun.

27 Apr 2021

SARS-CoV-2 clade linked to disease severity in the early phase of the pandemic

A new study in the journal JAMA Network reports on the disease severity associated with some clades of the virus, from an analysis of genomes from specimens isolated in the initial phase of the pandemic.

27 Apr 2021

Nucleocapsid-based vaccines may prevent SARS-CoV-2 dissemination to distal organs

A team of scientists recently investigated and compared the efficacy of spike-based and nucleocapsid-based COVID-19 vaccines in mice infected with SARS-CoV-2. Their findings reveal that nucleocapsid-based vaccines are effective in preventing SARS-CoV-2 infection in distal organs, such as the brain.

27 Apr 2021

Big investors push nursing homes to upgrade care and working conditions

Nursing homes and long-term care facilities, where 182,000 Americans perished during the covid pandemic, have taken heat from government regulators, residents and their families. Now the industry is hearing it from an unexpected source: their investors.

27 Apr 2021

Pandemic imperiled non-English speakers more than others

In March 2020, just weeks into the Covid-19 pandemic, the incident command center at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston was scrambling to understand this deadly new disease. It appeared to be killing more Black and brown patients than whites. For Latinos, there was an additional warning sign: language.

27 Apr 2021

Study in Ireland identifies underlying conditions associated with severe COVID-19 outcomes

A national study of 20,000 patients conducted by RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences and the HSE Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) has identified the underlying conditions that are associated with more severe outcomes from COVID-19 in an Irish setting.

27 Apr 2021

New study looks at the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on UK healthcare

Just one third of people in the UK managed to access the hospital care they needed at the peak of the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic – according to new research from the University of East Anglia.

27 Apr 2021

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Latest Healthcare News and Research

Quality improvement program improves depression screening among cancer patients

Primary care practitioners overestimate disease risks leading to over-diagnosis and overtreatment

Study: More than a quarter of American infants not received common childhood vaccines

Simple device can reduce swelling after kidney transplantation

In poisoned Montana town, Warren Buffett-owned railroad accuses clinic of Medicare fraud

Study finds higher risk of overdose in patients treated with opioids to reduce dental pain

Large heart attack study shows increased survival rates in patients with cardiogenic shock

Injectable dermal fillers provide variable 'lifting' effects in addition to 'volumizing'

Difficulties in diagnosing autism may be due to dynamic changes during child development

New collaboration to study early detection of developmental differences in children

Algorithm interprets data from electronic medical records to diagnose kidney disease

Eight countries prove that halting malaria is achievable

Can a gaze measurement app help spot potential signs of autism in toddlers?

Clinical trial to test existing antibiotic for treating serious S. aureus infections begins

SARS-CoV-2 clade linked to disease severity in the early phase of the pandemic

Nucleocapsid-based vaccines may prevent SARS-CoV-2 dissemination to distal organs

Big investors push nursing homes to upgrade care and working conditions

Pandemic imperiled non-English speakers more than others

Study in Ireland identifies underlying conditions associated with severe COVID-19 outcomes

New study looks at the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on UK healthcare

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