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Tag: HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
Sleep Number presents new data from its 360® Smart Beds at SLEEP 2021 Annual Meeting
Real-world data from Sleep Number® smart bed sleepers shows a potential model for predicting and tracking COVID-19 infection using sleep and biometric measures. Analysis of 18.2 million 360 smart bed sleep sessions finds heart rate variability differs with age, gender…
How different beliefs and attitudes affect college students’ career aspirations
A study published in Career Development Quarterly has looked at whether beliefs and attitudes influence career aspirations of college students with different genders and sexual orientations. Among 1,129 college students at a midwestern urban university, stronger self-efficacy beliefs–or perceptions about…
Study examines care received by patients with knee osteoarthritis
New research reveals that only a minority of U.S. Medicare beneficiaries with knee osteoarthritis in 2005-2010 used non-surgical care such as physical therapy and knee injections, and few were treated by rheumatologists, physiatrists, or pain specialists. The study, which is…
American College of Cardiology, cliexa launch innovative health monitoring platform
cliexa-Pulse provides remote cardiovascular health monitoring solution for patients, clinicians
Brain alterations detected in obese children
The alterations link obesity to a brain condition similar to obsessive-compulsive disorder, which affects the same areas of the brain
Social media use one of four factors related to higher COVID-19 spread rates early on
TORONTO, June 9, 2021 – Researchers from York University and the University of British Columbia have found social media use to be one of the factors related to the spread of COVID-19 within dozens of countries during the early stages…
Airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 calls for updated practices to prevent transmission
There is a growing body of evidence supporting airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Despite updates from the World Health Organization, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Public Health Agency of Canada…
‘Significant reduction’ in GP trainee burnout following mindfulness programme
Medics training to become general practitioners reported a significant positive improvement in their mental wellbeing after participating in a specially-designed mindfulness programme, a study from University of Warwick researchers shows
International coalition classifies 25 subtypes of uveitis, an inflammatory eye disease
NIH-funded classification criteria will facilitate clinical research for new therapies
Exploring an epidemic’s meaning from the perspective of nursing
PHILADELPHIA (June 7, 2021) – An article written almost 30 years ago helps frame social constructs around the COVID-19 pandemic. By reviewing the essay, an historian of nursing at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (Penn Nursing) extends that…
Important to reduce patients’ time respiratory intensive care with mechanical ventilation
More active efforts to reduce patients’ time on a ventilator in an ICU can both spare their suffering and free up intensive care resources, a thesis at the University of Gothenburg shows. Mechanical ventilation (MV) in an intensive care unit…
Modeling study suggests that schools can safely reopen with proper mitigation strategies
Embargoed news from Annals of Internal Medicine
Two-thirds of women don’t meet criteria to discontinue cervical cancer screening
Inadequate screening for older women may contribute to high cancer rates and mortality
Adapting laboratory techniques for remote instruction
The COVID-19 pandemic forced instructors to adapt their courses for online learning. Laboratory courses were particularly difficult due to lack of access to specialized equipment for remote learners. To overcome this challenge, researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign designed…
Colorectal Cancer: UVA Health Expert Helps Develop New National Screening Guidelines
Screenings Recommended to Begin at Age 45
China continues its formidable rise as a scientific powerhouse
At the 43rd annual SSP conference, CACTUS, CAST, and China experts discussed new learnings, challenges, and new opportunities in STM journal publishing
Breast cancer patients embrace integrative health during treatment
National survey finds oncologists underestimate patient use of complementary and lifestyle therapies
First in US: New device implanted to treat heart failure, improve kidney function
Thinner than a #2 pencil, the heart pump is being studied for boosting blood flow
A better way to introduce digital tech in the workplace
Kate Kellogg advocates for ‘experimentalist governance,’ to find what works best for employees at all levels, then implement it widely
Lung ultrasound can efficiently diagnose volume overload in hemodialysis patients
An abbreviated lung ultrasound protocol can efficiently determine presence of lung congestion in patients receiving hemodialysis and help expedite care. Pulmonary congestion owing to fluid overload is common among patients with kidney failure on hemodialysis (HD) and contributes to excess…
University study highlights alarming rise in usage and costs of antidepressants
RESEARCHERS at the University of Huddersfield have warned there is an urgent need for the country’s mental health interventions to create strategies optimising the use of antidepressants after conducting a study which has highlighted an alarming rise in relation to…
Ben-Gurion U. studies show promise using drones to elicit emotional responses
BEER-SHEVA, Israel…June 2, 2021 – As drones become more ubiquitous in public spaces, researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) have conducted the first studies examining how people respond to various emotional facial expressions depicted on a drone, with…
Vilcek-Gold Award for Humanism in Healthcare awarded to immigrant cofounders of pre-health dreamers
The Vilcek Foundation and The Arnold P. Gold Foundation have announced Dr. Jirayut ‘New’ Latthivongskorn and Dr. Denisse Rojas Marquez as joint recipients of the 2021 Vilcek-Gold Award for Humanism in Healthcare
Marking the 40th anniversary of the AIDS epidemic: A paper in the New England Journal of Medicine
June 5, 2021 marks the 40th anniversary of the first report of AIDS cases and the onset of the American AIDS epidemic. In a new, thought-provoking paper in the New England Journal of Medicine , Professor Ronald Bayer and co-author…
Study finds specialty behavioral health establishments increased, but more needs to be done
The number of specialty behavioral health establishments, their workforce and their wages have increased steadily between 2011 and 2019, according to a new study by Indiana University and University of Michigan researchers. The largest increases were found in the number…
Machine learning brings an early diagnostic for pancreatic cancer a step closer to reality
New study demonstrates the possibility of an effective new screening tool for high risk patients
Canadian prescription opioids users experience gaps in access to care
Study suggests people treated for opioid use disorder may face difficulties finding new providers
Healthy lifestyle linked to better cognition for oldest adults — regardless of genetic risk
New study suggests importance of maintaining healthy lifestyle even after age 80
Parasites may accumulate in spleens of asymptomatic individuals infected with malaria
Study suggests immature red blood cells in spleen are targeted for invasion by P. vivax
When should screening start for men with a family history of prostate cancer?
Some men reach the risk threshold to start screening up to 11 years sooner than guidelines recommend
Study: Parler provided echo chamber for vaccine misinformation, conspiracy theories
Analysis shows posters followed themes; can help guide future health communications
International study of weight stigma reveals similar, pervasive experiences
Findings also show negative implications of weight stigma for healthcare
WVU designated as one of only eight ECHO Superhub sites in the US
With the designation, the West Virginia Clinical and Translational Science Institute program can now lend resources and expertise to health providers beyond West Virginia
Helping doctors manage COVID-19
New tool uses AI technology to assess the severity of lung infections and inform treatment
Moving one step closer to personalized anesthesia
EPFL researchers have developed a device that can continuously measure the blood concentration of propofol – one of the main compounds used in anesthetics – in patients as they are being operated on.
SARS-CoV-2 antibody status in patients with cancer, health care workers
What The Study Did: This study evaluates whether there are differences in SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence and antibody levels in patients with cancer compared with health care workers in Japan. Authors: Tatsuya Yoshida, M.D., Ph.D., of the National Cancer Center Hospital in…
Providing more low-value care doesn’t lead to higher patient experience ratings
New study challenges the assumption that offering patients more tests and procedures will lead to higher patient experience ratings
LSU Health New Orleans describes a causal mechanism of link between cancer and obesity
New Orleans, LA – A review study led by Maria D. Sanchez-Pino, PhD, an assistant research professor in the departments of Interdisciplinary Oncology and Genetics at LSU Health New Orleans’ School of Medicine and Stanley S. Scott Cancer Center, advances…
UPF INNOValora will speed up transfer to market for six projects based on research results
The programme will provide funding and support to develop innovative technologies in the areas of surgical training, architecture, aquaculture, organ transplants, chronic pain, music learning and dermatology
Association of tracheostomy with outcomes in patients with COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2 transmission among health care workers
What The Study Did: The findings of this systematic review and meta-analysis indicate that enhanced personal protective equipment is associated with low rates of SARS-CoV-2 transmission during tracheostomy. Authors: Phillip Staibano, M.Sc., M.D., of McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, is…
San Francisco VA Health Care System announces 2021 Grunfeld Scholars
SAN FRANCISCO – The San Francisco VA Health Care System (SFVAHCS) has selected four promising medical researchers for the Grunfeld Scholars Research Development Initiative. This initiative, currently in its second year, invests in early-career clinician-scientists to grow the pipeline of…
Entrepreneurship event celebrates 10th anniversary
Deshpande Symposium marks a decade of assisting, educating entrepreneurs
AJR: Ultrasound, MRI aid placenta accreta diagnosis
Placental bulge sign on prenatal ultrasound or MRI helps diagnose severe placental accreta spectrum disorder warranting hysterectomy rather than conservative management
Soft drink ads target ‘vulnerable’
TV marketing lures some consumers more – study
New paper establishes context for myopia control axial length targets
Comparison of axial elongation among emmetropes, untreated progressing myopes, and treated myopes places treatment efficacy in the context of normal childhood eye growth
UVA develops new tools to battle cancer, advance genomics research
University of Virginia School of Medicine scientists have developed important new resources that will aid the battle against cancer and advance cutting-edge genomics research. UVA’s Chongzhi Zang, PhD, and his colleagues and students have developed a new computational method to…
National survey of frontline health care workers finds fear, unsafe working conditions
Report by the George Washington University offers a snapshot of health care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic and recommendations to prepare for the future
New research supports pridopidine’s neuroprotective properties in Huntington’s Disease models
Newly published papers further elucidate the mechanisms underlying pridopidine’s neuroprotective properties through activation of the Sigma-1 Receptor (S1R). Pridopidine enhances mitochondrial function and reduces mHTT-induced ER stress, which are impaired in HD, mediated by the S1R. Three new peer-reviewed publications…
UVA Cancer Center, other top US cancer centers urge cancer-preventing HPV vaccinations
COVID-19 pandemic interrupted HPV vaccination for many adolescents