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New clinical development user's guide for kidney safety biomarkers

The Critical Path Institute's (C-Path) Predictive Safety Testing Consortium (PSTC) today announced availability of the User's Guide: Kidney Safety Composite Measure Biomarker for Use in Clinical Development.

15 Mar 2019

Study confirms sensitivity of microbiological cultures for detecting cholera

Recently, the sensitivity of fecal microbiological cultures for detecting cholera has come under question. Researchers reporting in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases investigated this claim using a ‘vaccine probe’ analysis of a completed cholera vaccine cluster randomized trial to support the sensitivity of conventional microbiological culture for cholera.

15 Mar 2019

Patient monitoring technology helps mental health trust to reduce falls and save time

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust saw falls at night drop by a third on two wards that introduced the Oxehealth Digital Care Assistant technology, a clinical study has shown.

15 Mar 2019

Worst-ever emergency care performance figures underscore the need to focus on staffing

Responding to today’s figures showing another decline in emergency care performance, President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, Dr Taj Hassan said: Both these figures and the fact that this crisis is going unnoticed while the country is consumed by Brexit is deeply disappointing.

15 Mar 2019

BMA: Government cuts to stop smoking services have detrimental impact on public health

Responding to a new report from Action on Smoking and Health and Cancer Research UK, which found that cuts to public health budgets mean that only half of local authorities offer all smokers the support they need to quit, BMA public health medicine committee chair Dr Peter English, said: With smoking remaining one of the leading causes of preventable ill health, it is concerning that we are seeing such a significant reduction in funding for stop smoking services.

15 Mar 2019

Cell therapy may be alternative strategy for treatment of chronic kidney disease

Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine scientists are working on a promising approach for treatment of chronic kidney disease - regeneration of damaged tissues using therapeutic cells.

15 Mar 2019

Broker websites expand health plan shopping options while glossing over details

Some websites consumers use to buy their own health insurance don't provide full information on plan choices or Medicaid eligibility, and appear to encourage selection of less comprehensive coverage that provides higher commissions to brokers, according to a report released Friday by the left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

15 Mar 2019

Nursing home fines drop as Trump administration heeds industry complaints

The Trump administration's decision to alter the way it punishes nursing homes has resulted in lower fines against many facilities found to have endangered or injured residents.

15 Mar 2019

New risk adjustment model could reduce financial penalty for safety net hospitals

New research shows that U.S. safety net hospitals could benefit substantially from a new model that accounts for social risk factors like poverty and living in a disadvantaged neighborhood in determining how the federal government penalizes hospitals financially for their readmission rates.

15 Mar 2019

Wearable tracking device achieves higher accuracy in position tracking using thermal sensors

In a new study published in npj Digital Medicine, a team led by Child Mind Institute researchers report that a wearable tracking device they developed achieves higher accuracy in position tracking using thermal sensors in addition to inertial measurement and proximity sensors.

15 Mar 2019

Surgery to remove degenerated discs in the neck can be performed safely in outpatient setting

Surgery to remove multiple herniated or degenerated discs in the neck, a procedure known as anterior cervical discectomy and fusion, can be safely performed in an outpatient setting in select patients, according to a study at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City.

15 Mar 2019

Long-awaited structure offers new insights into rejection of transplanted organs

Rejection of any kind is always hard to deal with, but when one's body rejects a precious organ transplant, the consequences can be devastating. Professor A. Vathsala, Co-director of the National University Centre for Organ Transplantation at the National University Hospital and Professor of Medicine, shared that between 30% to 40% of kidney transplants are lost over time to rejection.

15 Mar 2019

No increased risk of complications for ambulatory total joint replacements

The typical length of stay in hospital after hip replacement and knee replacement procedures has decreased over the last decade from about four days to under two days.

15 Mar 2019

Fingermark imaging for identification of drugs

In a paper to be published in the forthcoming issue in NANO, researchers from Zhejiang have uncovered a novel method of using nanocarrier-based biological fluorescent probes for detecting amphetamine and ketamine in latent fingermark, in a bid to combat drug abuse.

15 Mar 2019

New method would allow doctors to detect earliest stages of cancers in the lymph nodes

The vast majority of cancer deaths occur due to the spread of cancer from one organ to another, which can happen either through the blood or the lymphatic system. However, it can be tricky to detect this early enough.

15 Mar 2019

Study reveals slow pace of under-5 mortality reduction in most sub-Saharan African countries

The relatively slow pace of neonatal and under-5 mortality reduction could prevent most countries in sub-Saharan Africa from achieving targets set in Sustainable Development Goal 3 by 2030, according to a study published March 12 in the open-access journal PLOS Medicine by Iván Mejía-Guevara of Stanford University, USA and colleagues.

15 Mar 2019

New analysis compares scenarios to find the best time to get a flu shot

When flu season peaks after mid-winter, tens of thousands of influenza cases and hundreds of deaths can likely be avoided if older adults wait until October to get their flu immunization, a University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine analysis reveals in the April issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

15 Mar 2019

Deadly inherited blood disorders cured with bone marrow transplant

Doubling the low amount of total body radiation delivered to patients undergoing bone marrow transplants with donor cells that are only "half-matched" increased the rate of engraftment from only about 50 percent to nearly 100 percent, according to a new study by Johns Hopkins researchers.

15 Mar 2019

Study: More vitamin D may boost memory but too much could lead to slower reaction time

How much vitamin D can boost memory, learning and decision-making in older adults, and how much is too much?

15 Mar 2019

New research reveals overlooked impact of herbicide glyphosate on the environment

New research from McGill University reveals an overlooked impact that the widely used herbicide glyphosate may be having on the environment.

15 Mar 2019

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New clinical development user's guide for kidney safety biomarkers

Study confirms sensitivity of microbiological cultures for detecting cholera

Patient monitoring technology helps mental health trust to reduce falls and save time

Worst-ever emergency care performance figures underscore the need to focus on staffing

BMA: Government cuts to stop smoking services have detrimental impact on public health

Cell therapy may be alternative strategy for treatment of chronic kidney disease

Broker websites expand health plan shopping options while glossing over details

Nursing home fines drop as Trump administration heeds industry complaints

New risk adjustment model could reduce financial penalty for safety net hospitals

Wearable tracking device achieves higher accuracy in position tracking using thermal sensors

Surgery to remove degenerated discs in the neck can be performed safely in outpatient setting

Long-awaited structure offers new insights into rejection of transplanted organs

No increased risk of complications for ambulatory total joint replacements

Fingermark imaging for identification of drugs

New method would allow doctors to detect earliest stages of cancers in the lymph nodes

Study reveals slow pace of under-5 mortality reduction in most sub-Saharan African countries

New analysis compares scenarios to find the best time to get a flu shot

Deadly inherited blood disorders cured with bone marrow transplant

Study: More vitamin D may boost memory but too much could lead to slower reaction time

New research reveals overlooked impact of herbicide glyphosate on the environment

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