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AI in medicine: Revolutionary tools, uncertain results

AI decision-making systems show promise but lack consistent evidence for improving patient-relevant outcomes like mortality and quality of life. Rigorous harm-benefit assessments and transparency are needed for safe integration into healthcare.

3 Dec 2024

Researchers aim to uncover causes of acquired hearing loss and find potential therapies

With a new five-year, $3.2 million grant from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communications Disorders, researchers at Case Western Reserve University and Mass Eye and Ear will study what causes acquired hearing loss (AHL) and seek new ways to protect against it.

3 Dec 2024

Nursing home industry wants trump to rescind staffing mandate

Covid's rampage through the country's nursing homes killed more than 172,000 residents and spurred the biggest industry reform in decades: a mandate that homes employ a minimum number of nurses.

3 Dec 2024

Homebound seniors living alone often slip through health system’s cracks

Carolyn Dickens, 76, was sitting at her dining room table, struggling to catch her breath as her physician looked on with concern.

2 Dec 2024

Who gets obesity drugs covered by insurance? In North Carolina, it helps if you’re on Medicaid

After losing and regaining the same 20-plus pounds more times than she could count, Anita Blanchard concluded that diets don't work.

2 Dec 2024

Culturally appropriate interventions strengthen healthcare responses to domestic violence

Culturally appropriate women-centred interventions can help healthcare systems respond to domestic violence, research has found.

27 Nov 2024

Study links cell death pathway to cancer resistance and growth

A new study has uncovered an unexpected way cancer cells can escape the immune system, making it harder for treatments to work. The study, published in Cancer Cell, explains how a type of cancer cell death can actually make tumors grow faster by turning off the immune system's ability to fight the cancer.

27 Nov 2024

KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Public health and the dairy cow in the room

Public health, one of the more misunderstood concepts in the health world, is about the health of entire populations, rather than individuals.

26 Nov 2024

Empowering lived experience in healthcare research

Researchers are calling for a formal process that recognizes and acknowledges the invaluable contributions of those with lived experience in healthcare research.

26 Nov 2024

New therapy from UI Health becomes the first FDA-approved treatment for brittle type 1 diabetes

A new therapy for brittle type 1 diabetes, the only treatment currently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, is available exclusively at UI Health in Chicago.

25 Nov 2024

Case Western Reserve secures $1.5 million NIH grant to improve bacterial vaginosis treatments

Bacterial vaginosis (BV), the most prevalent condition affecting the female reproductive system in women aged 15 to 44, is linked to such serious health risks as preterm birth, gynecological malignancies and sexually transmitted diseases.

25 Nov 2024

New simulator prepares nursing students for pediatric critical care

A new simulator gives nursing students hands-on practice with vital procedures like mechanical ventilation and tracheal suctioning in children.

22 Nov 2024

Georgians with disabilities are still being institutionalized, despite federal oversight

Lloyd Mills was tired of being stuck in a small, drab hospital room. On a rainy mid-September morning, a small TV attached to a mostly blank white wall played silently. There was nothing in the space to cheer it up — no cards, no flowers.

22 Nov 2024

New neuroimaging marker may identify persons at risk of dementia in future clinical trials

A new neuroimaging marker of cerebral small vessel disease is related to general cognition and may serve to identify persons at risk of dementia in future clinical trials, a landmark study has found.

21 Nov 2024

Natural fat molecule shows promise for treating diabetic heart disease

Monash University drug discovery researchers have found that a natural fat molecule called ‘lipoxin A4’ (LXA4) could significantly reduce inflammation and improve function for diabetic hearts.

21 Nov 2024

Study links historical education policies to better cognitive outcomes later in life

Historical policies shaping educational attainment have enduring benefits for later life memory and risk of dementia, according to a study led by a Rutgers Health researcher.

21 Nov 2024

High NHS staff turnover rates associated with rise in patient mortality

More than 4,000 people could be dying per year because of high turnover rates of nurses and doctors in NHS hospitals, according to new research from the University of Surrey.

20 Nov 2024

Confined spaces and stress alter how people perceive food aromas

New research from RMIT University found confined and isolating environments changed the way people smelled and responded emotionally to certain food aromas.

19 Nov 2024

Study finds equal safety in home and birth center births

In low-risk pregnancies, mothers and children are just as safe with a planned home birth as they are with a planned birth center birth, a national study led by Oregon State University researchers has shown.

19 Nov 2024

Study links dating app use to increased risk of STIs among college students

In May, the WHO raised the alarm over the rise in incidence of sexually transmitted illnesses (STIs) in many regions of the world, currently running at more than a million new cases per day.

15 Nov 2024

Nursing News and Research

Latest Nursing News and Research

AI in medicine: Revolutionary tools, uncertain results

Researchers aim to uncover causes of acquired hearing loss and find potential therapies

Nursing home industry wants trump to rescind staffing mandate

Homebound seniors living alone often slip through health system’s cracks

Who gets obesity drugs covered by insurance? In North Carolina, it helps if you’re on Medicaid

Culturally appropriate interventions strengthen healthcare responses to domestic violence

Study links cell death pathway to cancer resistance and growth

KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Public health and the dairy cow in the room

Empowering lived experience in healthcare research

New therapy from UI Health becomes the first FDA-approved treatment for brittle type 1 diabetes

Case Western Reserve secures $1.5 million NIH grant to improve bacterial vaginosis treatments

New simulator prepares nursing students for pediatric critical care

Georgians with disabilities are still being institutionalized, despite federal oversight

New neuroimaging marker may identify persons at risk of dementia in future clinical trials

Natural fat molecule shows promise for treating diabetic heart disease

Study links historical education policies to better cognitive outcomes later in life

High NHS staff turnover rates associated with rise in patient mortality

Confined spaces and stress alter how people perceive food aromas

Study finds equal safety in home and birth center births

Study links dating app use to increased risk of STIs among college students

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