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Novel model to address post-disaster behavioral health issues may also help other communities

Faculty in LSU Health New Orleans schools of Medicine and Public Health and colleagues report that a collaborative effort to build capacity to address behavioral health and promote community resilience after the 2016 Great Flood in Baton Rouge, LA successfully expanded local behavioral health services delivery capacity and that the model may be useful to other disaster-struck communities.

25 Jun 2018

Drug used to treat opioid dependence poses serious health risks in exposed children

A new study published online today by Pediatrics and conducted by researchers at the Center for Injury Research and Policy and the Central Ohio Poison Center at Nationwide Children's Hospital found that from January 2007 through December 2016 there were more than 11,000 calls to US Poison Centers for pediatric exposures to buprenorphine – a prescription opioid medication used to treat opioid use disorder.

25 Jun 2018

ABPI associated with NHS for 70 years in pharmaceutical research

In this special year, both the NHS and the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry are celebrating our respective 70th anniversaries. The histories of these two organizations have been inextricably linked since 1948 and our relationship with the NHS continues to go from strength to strength.

25 Jun 2018

Novel approach to visualize how platelets are formed in body

Platelets are uniquely mammalian cells, and are the small cells of the blood that are critical for us to stop bleeding when we cut ourselves.

25 Jun 2018

Research consortium wins £2.9 million to help tackle antibacterial resistance in Thailand

Antimicrobial resistance and specifically antibacterial resistance is a growing threat to human health and economic development across the globe. In Thailand, ABR was estimated to cause 38,000 deaths. The predicted economic loss on the country was 1.2 billion USD in 2010

22 Jun 2018

Nightingale Health to analyze biomarker profiles of 500,000 blood samples from UK Biobank

Comprehensive metabolic biomarker profiles of the world's largest health database to be analyzed in 30 months.

22 Jun 2018

Neural Analytics wins CE Mark for NeuralBot System

Neural Analytics, Inc., a medical robotics company developing and commercializing technologies to measure and track brain health, announced today that it received CE Mark for its NeuralBot™ System, a robotic assistance technology which automatically adjusts orientation and position of its ultrasound products under the guidance of a healthcare professional.

22 Jun 2018

Diagnosing Coronary Heart Disease Using AI

Currently, stress echocardiograms used to diagnose heart disease are only 80% accurate, meaning many patients are misdiagnosed or sent home. Ultromics have developed a tool that uses machine learning to gather data and improve the accuracy of heart disease diagnoses to over 90%.

22 Jun 2018

First human Keystone virus infection reported

Another deadly virus called the Keystone virus that could cause serious brain infection and is transmitted by mosquito bites has been found for the first time to be infecting humans. Until now the virus was noted to infect only animals.

22 Jun 2018

'Antifreeze' molecules may hold key to better treatments for brain injuries

The key to better treatments for brain injuries and disease may lie in the molecules charged with preventing the clumping of specific proteins associated with cognitive decline and other neurological problems, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania report in a new study published in Neurobiology of Disease.

22 Jun 2018

Research does not confirm antidiabetic action of natural fatty acid derivatives

A research consortium between the healthcare company Sanofi and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz investigated the antidiabetic action of certain natural fatty acids, so-called FAHFAs, which US-American scientists had reported in 2014.

21 Jun 2018

WVU researchers increase colorectal cancer screening rates in West Virginia

In West Virginia, where colorectal cancer is the second-deadliest type of cancer, half of all colorectal cancers elude diagnosis until they have already grown beyond the colon. With Medicaid expansion, more West Virginians now have health insurance for cancer screening, yet many barriers to screening persist.

21 Jun 2018

Researchers report unusually high levels of herpesvirus in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease

Two strains of human herpesvirus - human herpesvirus 6A (HHV-6A) and human herpesvirus 7 (HHV-7) - are found in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease at levels up to twice as high as in those without Alzheimer's, researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai report.

21 Jun 2018

New study finds higher heart disease risk in bisexual men

Bisexual men have a higher risk for heart disease compared with heterosexual men across several modifiable risk factors, finds a new study published online in the journal LGBT Health.

21 Jun 2018

Researchers highlight new nurse training model to address shortage of primary care

Nurse practitioners are providing an increasing proportion of primary care, which is in short supply in many areas of the country. NPs deliver quality care in retail clinics, community health centers, rural clinics, and in primary care and specialty medical practices.

21 Jun 2018

Training nursing students with cost-effective 3D-printed task trainers

As a regular attendee of conferences on healthcare simulation around the world, Dr. Lori Lioce was already well aware of the growing trend of using 3-D printing to create task trainers – clinical simulators that allow nursing students to repeatedly practice a specific skill in preparation for providing healthcare in the real world. What she needed was access to the technology.

21 Jun 2018

Penn Medicine team launches universal stroke awareness program

In an effort to improve stroke recognition and reduce life-threatening pre-hospital delays worldwide, an international team lead by researchers at Penn Medicine created a universal stroke awareness program, Stroke 112.

21 Jun 2018

New classification system for periodontal health, diseases and conditions announced at EuroPerio9 congress

A new global classification system for periodontal health, diseases and conditions, as well as peri-implant diseases and conditions, has been announced today at the EuroPerio9 congress, the world's leading congress in periodontology and implant dentistry.

21 Jun 2018

Study: Most emergency department patients wish to be involved in medical decision-making

Most emergency department patients want to be involved in some aspects of medical decision-making, but they need to be invited. These are the primary findings of a study to be published in the July 2018 issue of Academic Emergency Medicine, a journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.

21 Jun 2018

Researchers evaluate patient satisfaction and well-being after breast reconstruction

More than 60 percent of women who undergo a mastectomy to treat breast cancer choose breast reconstruction, and the demand for that surgery is rising. However, due to the previous lack of evidence-based, patient-centered data available about post-breast reconstruction, most patients aren't properly informed about satisfaction and quality-of-life measures over time.

21 Jun 2018

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Latest Healthcare News and Research

Novel model to address post-disaster behavioral health issues may also help other communities

Drug used to treat opioid dependence poses serious health risks in exposed children

ABPI associated with NHS for 70 years in pharmaceutical research

Novel approach to visualize how platelets are formed in body

Research consortium wins £2.9 million to help tackle antibacterial resistance in Thailand

Nightingale Health to analyze biomarker profiles of 500,000 blood samples from UK Biobank

Neural Analytics wins CE Mark for NeuralBot System

Diagnosing Coronary Heart Disease Using AI

First human Keystone virus infection reported

'Antifreeze' molecules may hold key to better treatments for brain injuries

Research does not confirm antidiabetic action of natural fatty acid derivatives

WVU researchers increase colorectal cancer screening rates in West Virginia

Researchers report unusually high levels of herpesvirus in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease

New study finds higher heart disease risk in bisexual men

Researchers highlight new nurse training model to address shortage of primary care

Training nursing students with cost-effective 3D-printed task trainers

Penn Medicine team launches universal stroke awareness program

New classification system for periodontal health, diseases and conditions announced at EuroPerio9 congress

Study: Most emergency department patients wish to be involved in medical decision-making

Researchers evaluate patient satisfaction and well-being after breast reconstruction

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