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UrduResearchers make a breakthrough by identifying that several aggressive pediatric brain tumors are the result of stalled development in embryonic cells
Tag: HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
Cardiac events in First Nations people with diabetes have decreased, but still higher than in non-First Nations people
A new study provides insight into the cardiovascular health and health care services accessed by First Nations people with diabetes over a 20-year period in Ontario. It showed a decrease in cardiac events, but hospitalizations and death were still more…
Ontario physicians do not need consent to withhold CPR that they feel will not benefit patients
In August, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice dismissed a malpractice lawsuit filed against two physicians who refused to provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to an 88-year-old man with multiple comorbidities and multiorgan failure. This ruling may have important implications for…
Thermal cameras effective in detecting rheumatoid arthritis
A new study, published today in Scientific Reports , highlights that thermal imaging has the potential to become an important method to assess Rheumatoid Arthritis. Results of the study, carried out with 82 participants, confirm that both palm and finger…
New hospital tech disrupts doctors’ and nurses’ jobs, forces improvisation to ensure patient safety
Doctors and nurses must adapt and improvise to ensure continued patient safety as new technology disrupts their working practices.
Geriatricians, internists, and cardiologists surveyed about deprescribing
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society research summary
Examining work schedules of hospitalists, patient outcomes
What The Study Did: This observational study investigated whether the continuity of hospitalists’ work schedules, such as working more days consecutively compared to intermittently, was associated with outcomes for patients admitted to Texas hospitals. To access the embargoed study: Visit…
The nature of salmonella is changing — and it’s meaner
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Salmonella is acting up in Michigan, and it could be a model for what’s happening in other states, according to a new Michigan State University study. The study, appearing in Frontiers in Medicine , documents a…
Cellular origins of pediatric brain tumors identified
Researchers make a breakthrough by identifying that several aggressive pediatric brain tumors are the result of stalled development in embryonic cells
Cardiac events in First Nations people with diabetes have decreased, but still higher than in non-First Nations people
A new study provides insight into the cardiovascular health and health care services accessed by First Nations people with diabetes over a 20-year period in Ontario. It showed a decrease in cardiac events, but hospitalizations and death were still more…
Ontario physicians do not need consent to withhold CPR that they feel will not benefit patients
In August, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice dismissed a malpractice lawsuit filed against two physicians who refused to provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to an 88-year-old man with multiple comorbidities and multiorgan failure. This ruling may have important implications for…
Thermal cameras effective in detecting rheumatoid arthritis
A new study, published today in Scientific Reports , highlights that thermal imaging has the potential to become an important method to assess Rheumatoid Arthritis. Results of the study, carried out with 82 participants, confirm that both palm and finger…
New hospital tech disrupts doctors’ and nurses’ jobs, forces improvisation to ensure patient safety
Doctors and nurses must adapt and improvise to ensure continued patient safety as new technology disrupts their working practices.
Geriatricians, internists, and cardiologists surveyed about deprescribing
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society research summary
Combination of immunotherapy and VEGF inhibitor improves survival in HCC
ESMO Asia Congress 2019
Human-machine interaction enables highly accurate decision-making systems to be created
Including experts from various areas in machine learning projects is essential for increasing the precision of results, highlighted Alexandre Falcão, of UNICAMP, in a lecture given at FAPESP Week France
Is centenarian democratization our near future?
Jean-Pierre Fillard’s Longevity in the 2.0 World: Would Centenarians Become a Commonplace?
Biosimilar for HER2+ breast cancer: Overall response rate matches reference trastuzumab
ESMO Asia Congress 2019
New type of e-cigarette vaping injury described in CMAJ
A research case report describing lung injury related to e-cigarette use in a 17-year-old Canadian may be the first documented case of a new form of damage from vaping products. The article, published in CMAJ ( Canadian Medical Association Journal…
Unable to reject increased suicide risk associated with use of anti-epileptic drugs
Three of the most common forms of anti-epileptic drugs in Denmark is associated with increase in patients’ risk of suicide. However, the risk is low and should be seen in conjunction with the many beneficial effects of the medicines.
Unable to reject increased suicide risk associated with use of anti-epileptic drugs
Three of the most common forms of anti-epileptic drugs in Denmark is associated with increase in patients’ risk of suicide. However, the risk is low and should be seen in conjunction with the many beneficial effects of the medicines.
Researchers carry out simulation of a hospital outbreak
Results of a pilot study completed in record time. The initiative opens new perspectives for the control of bacterial infections in Portuguese hospitals.
Regenstrief, IU study finds assigning hospitalists by unit has both pros and cons
INDIANAPOLIS – Researchers from Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University School of Medicine have conducted the first time-motion study in more than a decade to assess the impact of geographic cohorting of hospitalists. Geographic cohorting — restricting or localizing hospitalists and…
Texas Heart Institute perfusion student awarded prestigious scholarship
A small-town girl with a whole lot of passion prepares for medical mission to Colombia
Dartmouth & IMT named 2019 winners of annual edX prize
Professional certificate offered by Thayer School of Engineering and Institut Mines-Télécom
Royal recognition for neuroscience research at the University of Sheffield
The University of Sheffield has been awarded the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for innovation in neuroscience The prize is the highest national honour that recognises outstanding work by UK universities and colleges that demonstrate quality and innovation in their research Sheffield…
Pregnant women with eating disorders and their children run higher risk of complications
Pregnant women with eating disorders should undergo extended pregnancy screenings considering their increased risk of complications. That is the conclusion from a study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry . The researchers were,…
Atopic eczema linked to increase fracture risk in adults
Targeted testing and fracture-prevention strategies should be considered for these individuals
Academics call for targeted healthcare for pregnant women and new mums with depression
A new study looks at the impact of depression and anti-depressants
SwRI Technology Today Podcast celebrates first anniversary
Podcast team commemorating milestone with highlights episode, new segments
Most physicians and other faculty in large medical center experienced sexual harassment
New Rochelle, NY, November 18, 2019–A new study has shown that the majority of women (82.5%) and men (65.1%) working at an academic medical center reported at least one incident of sexual harassment by staff, students, and faculty during the…
Majority US parents cite socioeconomic factors negatively impact their families’ health
Nemours survey finds significant exposure to ‘social determinants of health’
SwRI Technology Today Podcast celebrates first anniversary
Podcast team commemorating milestone with highlights episode, new segments
Cancer trends in Canada from 1971 to 2015
Podcast permanent link: https:/ / soundcloud. com/ cmajpodcasts/ 190355-res The overall rate of new cancer cases is decreasing in men but increasing in women younger than 80 years, and obesity-related cancers are increasing in young people, according to a study…
Screening for thyroid dysfunction in people without symptoms: Don’t routinely check that box
New guideline from the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care
Most physicians and other faculty in large medical center experienced sexual harassment
New Rochelle, NY, November 18, 2019–A new study has shown that the majority of women (82.5%) and men (65.1%) working at an academic medical center reported at least one incident of sexual harassment by staff, students, and faculty during the…
Majority US parents cite socioeconomic factors negatively impact their families’ health
Nemours survey finds significant exposure to ‘social determinants of health’
Cancer trends in Canada from 1971 to 2015
Podcast permanent link: https:/ / soundcloud. com/ cmajpodcasts/ 190355-res The overall rate of new cancer cases is decreasing in men but increasing in women younger than 80 years, and obesity-related cancers are increasing in young people, according to a study…
Screening for thyroid dysfunction in people without symptoms: Don’t routinely check that box
New guideline from the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care
Randomized trial at music festival shows potential of virtual reality for CPR training
Cardiologists at Radboud university medical center performed a research project during a large music festival called Lowlands, in the Netherlands in August 2019. The first results of this innovative study are now published in JAMA Cardiology.
Study: Multidisciplinary transplantation evaluation shows promise for older adults
Patients receiving integrative treatment plans prior to transplantation have improved outcomes
Study: Multidisciplinary transplantation evaluation shows promise for older adults
Patients receiving integrative treatment plans prior to transplantation have improved outcomes
Lung cancer survival is up, but more lives can be saved, new lung association report says
Second annual ‘State of Lung Cancer’ report explores what states can do to accelerate promising increase in survival rates
Phage therapy shows promise for treating alcoholic liver disease
A team of researchers including those from King’s College London and the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, have for the first time successfully applied bacteriophage (phage) therapy in mice to alcohol-related liver disease. Phages are viruses that…
Talking with trained doctors can help abused women
Women who are experiencing intimate partner violence feel better supported, more confident, and less depressed when trained family doctors counsel them, according to new research in the journal Family Practice . Globally, one in four women experiences intimate partner violence…
Training family doctors to better support domestic violence survivors
Women who are experiencing domestic violence feel better supported, more confident and less depressed when they are counselled by trained family doctors, according to new research. The study by University of Melbourne researchers showed that undergoing a short training program…
Lung cancer survival is up, but more lives can be saved, new lung association report says
Second annual ‘State of Lung Cancer’ report explores what states can do to accelerate promising increase in survival rates
Phage therapy shows promise for treating alcoholic liver disease
A team of researchers including those from King’s College London and the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, have for the first time successfully applied bacteriophage (phage) therapy in mice to alcohol-related liver disease. Phages are viruses that…
Giving breast cancer patients an average survival time is more often wrong than right
Lisbon, Portugal: Doctors who give advanced breast cancer patients just one estimate, such as 12 months, for the average amount of time they are expected to live are only accurate 20-30% of the time, according to Dr Belinda Kiely, medical…
Talking with trained doctors can help abused women
Women who are experiencing intimate partner violence feel better supported, more confident, and less depressed when trained family doctors counsel them, according to new research in the journal Family Practice . Globally, one in four women experiences intimate partner violence…