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Legal promise of equal mental health treatment often falls short

Amanda Bacon's eating disorder was growing worse. She had lost 60% of her body weight and was consuming about 100 calories a day.

7 Jun 2019

Smart phone health monitoring devices will revolutionize healthcare

Bodily fluids from saliva to sweat may soon be tested using smartphones instead of being sent to a lab, providing real time health insights thanks to a new research collaboration between Australian and Chinese partners.

7 Jun 2019

The country’s first independent medical school receives GMC accreditation

The country’s first not-for-profit independent medical school, at The University of Buckingham, has received GMC accreditation and will graduate its first cohort of students on 29 June.

6 Jun 2019

Coeliac UK and Innovate UK announce £180k research funding

Coeliac UK, the UK charity for people who need to live gluten-free, along with Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency, have £180k available for research and are inviting applications from UK businesses and researchers.

6 Jun 2019

Young children with community-acquired pneumonia receive unnecessary tests, antibiotics

Preschool children with community-acquired pneumonia often receive unnecessary tests and treatment at outpatient clinics and emergency departments, according to a nationally representative study led by Todd Florin, MD, MSCE, from Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago.

4 Jun 2019

Analysis: Why Alexa’s bedside manner is bad for health care

Amazon has opened a new health care frontier: Now Alexa can be used to transmit patient data. Using this new feature — which Amazon labeled as a "skill" — a company named Livongo will allow diabetes patients — which it calls "members" — to use the device to "query their last blood sugar reading, blood sugar measurement trends, and receive insights and Health Nudges that are personalized to them."

4 Jun 2019

People living with HIV have increased risk for heart diseases and face health challenges

Effective antiretroviral therapy has changed the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) from a progressive, fatal disease to a chronic, manageable condition that is associated with higher rates of heart attacks, strokes, heart failure, sudden cardiac deaths, and other diseases compared to people without HIV, according to a new scientific statement from the American Heart Association published in the Association journal Circulation.

3 Jun 2019

Countries' essential medicines lists differ from one another and WHO's model list, study finds

Countries' essential medicines lists vary from one another and from the World Health Organization's model list, pointing to a potential need for greater care in selecting medicines that best meet the health care priorities of a population, suggests a study led by Toronto's St. Michael's Hospital.

3 Jun 2019

International clinical study of new drug to treat advanced prostate cancers yields promising results

Today the New England Journal of Medicine published the first results of a phase III international clinical study called TITAN (National Clinical Trials Number 02489318), which evaluated the effectiveness and safety of a new drug, apalutamide, to treat advanced prostate cancers.

3 Jun 2019

Laundry packet exposures increase in older children and adults, despite safety standards

A new study conducted by researchers at the Center for Injury Research and Policy of the Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital and the Central Ohio Poison Center investigated trends in calls to poison control centers across the country for exposure to liquid laundry detergent packets.

3 Jun 2019

Scientists use facial recognition technology to develop tool for monitoring ICU patient's safety

A team of Japanese scientists has used facial recognition technology to develop an automated system that can predict when patients in the intensive care unit are at high risk of unsafe behavior such as accidentally removing their breathing tube, with moderate (75%) accuracy.

3 Jun 2019

Study finds no increase in deaths from cardiac arrests at the weekend

People admitted to NHS hospitals with a cardiac arrest over the weekend do not face a higher risk of dying compared to those admitted during the week, according to new research presented today at the British Cardiovascular Society Conference in Manchester.

3 Jun 2019

Rutgers experts highlight increase in suicide attempts among preteens, mainly girls

Since January 2018, 100 New Jersey preteens have attempted suicide by drug overdose, according to data released by the New Jersey Poison Center.

3 Jun 2019

Only few prostate cancer patients choosing active surveillance follow monitoring guidelines

Preliminary results from a University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center study found that just 15 percent of a group of men in North Carolina with early-stage prostate cancer who choose active surveillance instead of treatment followed the recommended monitoring guidelines.

3 Jun 2019

Study: 81% of antibiotics prescribed by dentists to prevent infections are unnecessary

A new study conducted by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago and published in JAMA Network Open has found that 81% of antibiotics prescribed by dentists - who are among the top prescribers in the U.S., accounting for about 10% of all antibiotic prescriptions - to prevent infections prior to dental visits are unnecessary.

31 May 2019

Treatment guidelines for managing anaphylaxis in children need to be reassessed

Treatment guidelines for managing anaphylaxis in children should be reassessed, according to a new Canadian study published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice.

31 May 2019

Human contact plays major role in the spread of some hospital-acquired infections

An observational study conducted in a French hospital showed that human contact was responsible for 90 percent of the spread of one species of antibiotic-resistant bacteria to new patients, but less than 60 percent of the spread of a different species.

31 May 2019

Healthcare News and Research

Latest Healthcare News and Research

Legal promise of equal mental health treatment often falls short

Smart phone health monitoring devices will revolutionize healthcare

The country’s first independent medical school receives GMC accreditation

Coeliac UK and Innovate UK announce £180k research funding

Young children with community-acquired pneumonia receive unnecessary tests, antibiotics

Analysis: Why Alexa’s bedside manner is bad for health care

People living with HIV have increased risk for heart diseases and face health challenges

Countries' essential medicines lists differ from one another and WHO's model list, study finds

International clinical study of new drug to treat advanced prostate cancers yields promising results

Laundry packet exposures increase in older children and adults, despite safety standards

Scientists use facial recognition technology to develop tool for monitoring ICU patient's safety

Study finds no increase in deaths from cardiac arrests at the weekend

Rutgers experts highlight increase in suicide attempts among preteens, mainly girls

Only few prostate cancer patients choosing active surveillance follow monitoring guidelines

Study: 81% of antibiotics prescribed by dentists to prevent infections are unnecessary

Treatment guidelines for managing anaphylaxis in children need to be reassessed

Human contact plays major role in the spread of some hospital-acquired infections

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Study finds link between healthcare utilization practices and relative levels of threat sensitivity

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