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Cervical cancer screening rates are unacceptably low, finds Mayo Clinic study

The percentage of women who are screened for cervical cancer may be far lower than national data suggests, according to a Mayo Clinic study recently published in the Journal of Women's Health. Less than two-thirds of women ages 30 to 65 were up-to-date with cervical cancer screenings in 2016.

7 Jan 2019

GE Healthcare and VUMC announce partnership to enable safer, more precise cancer immunotherapies

GE Healthcare and Vanderbilt University Medical Center today announced a five-year partnership to enable safer and more precise cancer immunotherapies. Multiple diagnostic tools will be developed to help predict both the efficacy of an immunotherapy treatment and its adverse effects for a specific patient before the therapy is administered.

7 Jan 2019

BU's service-learning program to teach hands-only CPR for high school students is effective

PumpStart, a community service-learning program created by students at Boston University School of Medicine, that teaches hands-only CPR to the general public, is effective for both teaching high school students a life-saving skill and providing medical students with an opportunity to engage in public health and medical education.

7 Jan 2019

Study suggests single-person gowning step to help optimize sterile technique in the OR

For surgeons getting ready to enter the operating room, the chances of contamination may be lower if they put their gowns on by themselves - without the assistance of a surgical technician, according to an experimental study in the Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma. The journal is published in the Lippincott portfolio by Wolters Kluwer.

7 Jan 2019

Bruin Biometrics receives FDA approval for SEM Scanner

Bruin Biometrics, LLC has been granted U.S. Food and Drug Administration marketing authorization for the SEM Scanner, becoming the world’s first FDA-authorised device to objectively alert clinicians to specific anatomical areas of a patient’s body at increased risk for developing pressure damage.

7 Jan 2019

Youth with obsessive and compulsive symptoms more likely to experience psychopathology

Engaging in repetitive and ritualistic behaviors is part of typical child development. However, behaviors that develop into obsessive and compulsive symptoms may represent a red flag for serious psychiatric conditions.

4 Jan 2019

Holocaust survivors had higher rates of chronic conditions but lower mortality than general population

Holocaust survivors had higher rates of chronic conditions but lower rates of death than a comparison group of individuals insured by the same healthcare services organization in Israel.

4 Jan 2019

Sperm health may play a role in recurrent miscarriages

The early-stage study, from scientists at Imperial College London, investigated the sperm quality of 50 men whose partners had suffered three or more consecutive miscarriages.

4 Jan 2019

Tideswell-AGS-ADGAP ELIA program offers a new take on learning to lead for experts in geriatrics

Experts in geriatrics, the healthcare specialty dedicated to our needs as we age, are making more than a New Year's resolution to continue improving our care as we grow older.

4 Jan 2019

Lessons from successes and failures of AIDS epidemic could inform our response to opioid crisis

There are important lessons to be learned from the successes and failures of the AIDS response that could inform our response to the opioid epidemic, according to a new paper by researchers at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.

4 Jan 2019

Alterations in brain networks contribute to cognitive dysfunction in psychiatric disorders

Psychiatric disorders share common alterations of functional connectivity between three core brain networks involved in cognition, according to a meta-analysis published in Biological Psychiatry.

3 Jan 2019

Researchers evaluate digital medicine tool to treat children with autism and co-occurring ADHD

Researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia evaluated a digital medicine tool designed as an investigational treatment for children with autism spectrum disorder and co-occurring attention/deficit-hyperactivity disorder.

3 Jan 2019

Telemedicine may improve patient satisfaction with medical care, study suggests

Cardiovascular disease pervades Appalachia, yet many Appalachians live far from any heart and vascular specialist. Follow-up doctor's visits in the weeks after cardiovascular surgery can involve hours-long drives down narrow, winding roads.

3 Jan 2019

ERADA launches first diagnostic saliva test for malaria

ERADA Technology Alliance Ltd, pioneers of innovative, rapid diagnostic solutions for early detection of infectious diseases, have announced the imminent launch of a world first diagnostic saliva test for malaria.

2 Jan 2019

New book series on anti-obesity treatment strategies

Obesity is a complex health problem, caused by a number of factors such as excessive food intake, lack of physical activity, genetic predisposition, endocrine disorders, medications and psychiatric illnesses.

2 Jan 2019

Researchers launch clinical trial to develop breath test for multiple cancers

Researchers have launched a clinical trial to develop a breath test, analyzing molecules that could indicate the presence of cancer at an early stage.

2 Jan 2019

New editorial proposes changes to improve minority representation in clinical trials

In an editorial published in CNS Spectrums, Jay Avasarala, MD, PhD, takes the research community to task for its lack of minority representation in Phase III clinical trials for drugs to treat Multiple Sclerosis (MS).

2 Jan 2019

Study: People over age 65 diagnosed with heart failure can have moderate levels of alcohol

A new study suggests that people over age 65 who are newly diagnosed with heart failure can continue to drink moderate amounts of alcohol without worsening their condition.

31 Dec 2018

Irish soil contains bacterial strains effective against antibiotic-resistant superbugs

Researchers analyzing soil from Ireland long thought to have medicinal properties have discovered that it contains a previously unknown strain of bacteria which is effective against four of the top six superbugs that are resistant to antibiotics, including MRSA.

27 Dec 2018

Research findings expand understanding of how memory works

Two Veterans Affairs researchers have explored how memory is tied to the hippocampus, with findings that will expand scientists' understanding of how memory works.

27 Dec 2018

Healthcare News and Research

Latest Healthcare News and Research

Cervical cancer screening rates are unacceptably low, finds Mayo Clinic study

GE Healthcare and VUMC announce partnership to enable safer, more precise cancer immunotherapies

BU's service-learning program to teach hands-only CPR for high school students is effective

Study suggests single-person gowning step to help optimize sterile technique in the OR

Bruin Biometrics receives FDA approval for SEM Scanner

Youth with obsessive and compulsive symptoms more likely to experience psychopathology

Holocaust survivors had higher rates of chronic conditions but lower mortality than general population

Sperm health may play a role in recurrent miscarriages

Tideswell-AGS-ADGAP ELIA program offers a new take on learning to lead for experts in geriatrics

Lessons from successes and failures of AIDS epidemic could inform our response to opioid crisis

Alterations in brain networks contribute to cognitive dysfunction in psychiatric disorders

Researchers evaluate digital medicine tool to treat children with autism and co-occurring ADHD

Telemedicine may improve patient satisfaction with medical care, study suggests

ERADA launches first diagnostic saliva test for malaria

New book series on anti-obesity treatment strategies

Researchers launch clinical trial to develop breath test for multiple cancers

New editorial proposes changes to improve minority representation in clinical trials

Study: People over age 65 diagnosed with heart failure can have moderate levels of alcohol

Irish soil contains bacterial strains effective against antibiotic-resistant superbugs

Research findings expand understanding of how memory works

Event guide: 3rd Measuring Patient Engagement Summit eBook

Exploring the nanoscale: How AFM is transforming cosmetic science

Innovating Texture and Culture in Plant-Based Foods

Advancing brain microphysiological systems (bMPS)

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