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Unlocked and loaded: Families confront dementia and guns

With a bullet in her gut, her voice choked with pain, Dee Hill pleaded with the 911 dispatcher for help.

25 Jun 2018

Researchers discover immune profile for effective cancer immunotherapy

In a new study published online June 25, 2018 in Nature Medicine, UC San Francisco researchers have identified a key biological pathway in human cancer patients that appears to prime the immune system for a successful response to immunotherapy drugs known as checkpoint inhibitors.

25 Jun 2018

Merck announces FDA acceptance of supplemental Biologics License Application for KEYTRUDA

Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has accepted for standard review a new supplemental Biologics License Application for KEYTRUDA, Merck's anti-PD-1 therapy, as adjuvant therapy in the treatment of patients with resected, high-risk stage III melanoma and granted a Prescription Drug User Fee Act, or target action, date of February 16, 2019.

25 Jun 2018

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

Overdose risk increases five-fold with concurrent opioid and benzodiazepine use

In the first 90 days of concurrent opioid and benzodiazepine use, the risk of opioid-related overdose increases five-fold compared to opioid-only use among Medicare recipients, according to a new study from the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy, published today in JAMA Network Open

22 Jun 2018

Pioneering exercise program improves physical, mental health of elderly people living in care homes

If the number of people over 65 currently accounts for 22% of the total population in the Basque Autonomous Community (region), predictions indicate that this percentage will rise to 30% by 2030.

22 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

KIYATEC enrolls first patients with solid tumors in clinical study of its EV3D drug response assay

KIYATEC, Inc. today announced the enrollment of the first patients in a U.S. clinical study of its Ex Vivo 3D drug response assay across several difficult-to-treat solid tumors.

20 Jun 2018

Study identifies factors that contribute to vaginal dryness

It's a common problem that only gets worse during the menopause transition; yet, no one wants to talk about it, and even fewer women are doing anything to correct it.

20 Jun 2018

Scientists develop novel computational framework to support personalized cancer treatment

Researchers at Columbia University Irving Medical Center have developed a highly innovative computational framework that can support personalized cancer treatment by matching individual tumors with the drugs or drug combinations that are most likely to kill them.

19 Jun 2018

Novel app teaches users how to stop life-threatening bleeding and save lives

Knowing what to do to save a life in the aftermath of a mass trauma event -- natural disaster, vehicle accident, or violent attack – is now right at the touch of a button.

18 Jun 2018

Women with higher vitamin D blood levels have lower risk for breast cancer

Results from a new study published today in PLOS ONE shows women who have higher vitamin D blood levels have a significantly lower risk for breast cancer.

18 Jun 2018

$Chronic use of opioids related to increased risk of fracture nonunion$

Chronic use of opioids related to increased risk of fracture nonunion

Dr. Robert Zura, Professor and Chair of Orthopaedic Surgery at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, was part of a research team reporting that not only may opioid use increase the risk of bone fractures, but opioids may also impair healing.

18 Jun 2018

That ‘living will’ you signed? At the ER, it could be open to interpretation.

"Don't resuscitate this patient; he has a living will," the nurse told Dr. Monica Williams-Murphy, handing her a document.

14 Jun 2018

Study: Antipsychotic treatment increases body fat and decreases insulin sensitivity in youth

The prevalence of childhood obesity has more than tripled from 1971 to 2011 and is now at epidemic proportions, contributing to rising rates of type 2 diabetes in youths.

14 Jun 2018

People with severe mental illness more likely to have Type 2 diabetes, shows study

People with severe mental illness are more than twice as likely to have Type 2 diabetes, with even higher risks among patients who are African American or Hispanic, according to a new study led by UCSF.

14 Jun 2018

Nurses have been overlooked in antimicrobial stewardship programs, study finds

Empowering nurses to participate in antimicrobial stewardship programs is the missing link in strengthening hospital-wide antimicrobial stewardship and improving patient care, according to a new study presented at the 45th Annual Conference of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology

13 Jun 2018

Medicare takes aim at boomerang hospitalizations of nursing home patients

"Oh my God, we dropped her!" Sandra Snipes said she heard the nursing home aides yell as she fell to the floor. She landed on her right side where her hip had recently been replaced.

13 Jun 2018

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Latest Nursing News and Research

Unlocked and loaded: Families confront dementia and guns

Researchers discover immune profile for effective cancer immunotherapy

Merck announces FDA acceptance of supplemental Biologics License Application for KEYTRUDA

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

Overdose risk increases five-fold with concurrent opioid and benzodiazepine use

Pioneering exercise program improves physical, mental health of elderly people living in care homes

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

KIYATEC enrolls first patients with solid tumors in clinical study of its EV3D drug response assay

Study identifies factors that contribute to vaginal dryness

Scientists develop novel computational framework to support personalized cancer treatment

Novel app teaches users how to stop life-threatening bleeding and save lives

Women with higher vitamin D blood levels have lower risk for breast cancer

Chronic use of opioids related to increased risk of fracture nonunion

That ‘living will’ you signed? At the ER, it could be open to interpretation.

Study: Antipsychotic treatment increases body fat and decreases insulin sensitivity in youth

People with severe mental illness more likely to have Type 2 diabetes, shows study

Nurses have been overlooked in antimicrobial stewardship programs, study finds

Medicare takes aim at boomerang hospitalizations of nursing home patients

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