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Innovative new app could help enhance day-to-day lives of people with dementia

An innovative new app could help enhance home and hospital environments for people with dementia - improving patient outcomes and reducing the strain on health services, according to University of Stirling academics.

20 Sep 2017

PCORI approves $13 million funding award to NYU Dentistry for school-based cavity prevention study

A research team at New York University College of Dentistry has been approved for a $13.3 million funding award by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to study cavity prevention, quality of life, and school performance.

20 Sep 2017

New tool can provide reliable, valid assessment of individual's wisdom level

Researchers at University of San Diego School of Medicine have developed a new tool called the San Diego Wisdom Scale to assess an individual's level of wisdom, based upon a conceptualization of wisdom as a trait with a neurobiological as well as psychosocial basis.

20 Sep 2017

New 15-minute assessment opens up possibilities for early detection of dementia

At the World Congress of Neurology in Kyoto a group of Indian researchers presented a new 15-minute assessment to monitor dementia patients on an ongoing basis. The reliable telephone interview assessment technique opens up new possibilities for early detection as well as treating and monitoring Alzheimer's patients.

20 Sep 2017

Health-tech startups get accelerator class to speed ideas and solutions to healthcare marketplace

Cedars-Sinai today launched its third health-tech accelerator class with 10 startups whose innovative technologies aim to transform the delivery and quality of healthcare.

20 Sep 2017

Providing women with early knowledge about childbirth could help reduce unnecessary cesareans

Cesarean deliveries in most developed countries, including Canada, are at least 10 to 20 percent higher than recommended by the World Health Organization, and many efforts to decrease unnecessary C-sections have failed.

20 Sep 2017

Comprehensive risk assessment can help prevent fall injuries among seniors

Every year, millions of senior citizens fall - threatening their health, independence and even their lives. Fall injuries also rack up $31 billion annually in medical expenses, which is expected to rise as 10,000 people in the U.S. turn 65 every day.

20 Sep 2017

Increase in physical activity boosts breast cancer survivors’ mental processing speed

It is estimated that up to 75 percent of breast cancer survivors experience problems with cognitive difficulties following treatments, perhaps lasting years. Currently, few science-based options are available to help.

19 Sep 2017

Sleep deprivation rapidly reduces depression symptoms in nearly half of depressed patients

Sleep deprivation -- typically administered in controlled, inpatient settings -- rapidly reduces symptoms of depression in roughly half of depression patients, according the first meta-analysis on the subject in nearly 30 years, from researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

19 Sep 2017

Last-ditch GOP effort to replace ACA: 5 things you need to know

Republican efforts in Congress to "repeal and replace" the federal Affordable Care Act are back from the dead. Again.

19 Sep 2017

New research identifies way to convert white fat into brown fat in mice

There's good fat and bad fat in our bodies. The good fat helps burn calories, while the bad fat hoards calories, contributing to weight gain and obesity. Now, new research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has identified a way to convert bad, white fat into good, brown fat, at least in mice.

19 Sep 2017

Analytical Science in Precision Medicine

Pittcon is an analytical conference, so naturally my talk will be about analytical chemistry and how analytical chemistry will become increasingly important in delivering healthcare solutions, not only for rich people, but also, hopefully, for poor people across the world.

From Pittcon 19 Sep 2017

Online toolkit helps health professionals to integrate genomics into patient care

Nurses and other health professionals looking to integrate genomics into patient care now have access to an online toolkit with more than 100 resources, part of a new website launched by the National Human Genome Research Institute.

19 Sep 2017

Bemoaning budget cuts, navigators say feds don’t appreciate scope of the job

The Trump administration says many of the organizations that help people enroll in health plans on the federal insurance marketplaces don’t provide enough bang for the buck, sometimes costing thousands of dollars to sign up each customer.

19 Sep 2017

VTT creates new portable device that measures inflammation levels quickly in home environment

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed a portable device for measuring inflammation levels quickly in home environment.

19 Sep 2017

Medtronic launch spinal chord stimulation platform for chronic pain management following FDA approval

Medtronic plc announced FDA approval and U.S. launch of the Intellis(TM) platform for the management of certain types of chronic intractable pain. The Intellis platform was designed to overcome limitations with current spinal cord stimulation (SCS) systems, such as battery performance, and can power the EvolveSM workflow*, which standardizes guidance and balances high-dose (HD) and low-dose (LD) therapy settings.

From Medtronic 19 Sep 2017

Researchers explore older adults' awareness of drug-related health risks

Geriatrics experts know that certain medications may have risks for older adults that outweigh their benefits, especially when safer alternatives are available.

19 Sep 2017

Evosep launches new separation technology tailored for clinical omics at HUPO 2017

Evosep aims to improve quality of life and patient care by radically innovating protein based clinical diagnostics. We will make sample preparation and separation for mass spectrometry analysis 100 times more robust and 10 times faster to enable truly large cohort studies and provide the foundation for precision medicine.

From Evosep 19 Sep 2017

Make Sense campaign aims to promote better quality of life for head and neck cancer survivors

On the advent of the 2017 Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week, the European Cancer Patient Coalition invited patients and policy makers to gather at the European Parliament to promote better quality of life for cancer patients and survivors as part of the Make Sense Campaign.

19 Sep 2017

New study reveals how personal data can be stolen from Fitbit devices

The University of Edinburgh have released results from a new study that reveals how personal information can be stolen from Fitbit fitness bands.

19 Sep 2017

Healthcare News and Research

Latest Healthcare News and Research

Innovative new app could help enhance day-to-day lives of people with dementia

PCORI approves $13 million funding award to NYU Dentistry for school-based cavity prevention study

New tool can provide reliable, valid assessment of individual's wisdom level

New 15-minute assessment opens up possibilities for early detection of dementia

Health-tech startups get accelerator class to speed ideas and solutions to healthcare marketplace

Providing women with early knowledge about childbirth could help reduce unnecessary cesareans

Comprehensive risk assessment can help prevent fall injuries among seniors

Increase in physical activity boosts breast cancer survivors’ mental processing speed

Sleep deprivation rapidly reduces depression symptoms in nearly half of depressed patients

Last-ditch GOP effort to replace ACA: 5 things you need to know

New research identifies way to convert white fat into brown fat in mice

Analytical Science in Precision Medicine

Online toolkit helps health professionals to integrate genomics into patient care

Bemoaning budget cuts, navigators say feds don’t appreciate scope of the job

VTT creates new portable device that measures inflammation levels quickly in home environment

Medtronic launch spinal chord stimulation platform for chronic pain management following FDA approval

Researchers explore older adults' awareness of drug-related health risks

Evosep launches new separation technology tailored for clinical omics at HUPO 2017

Make Sense campaign aims to promote better quality of life for head and neck cancer survivors

New study reveals how personal data can be stolen from Fitbit devices

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