Health care professionals and organizations need to respond more forcefully to unethical marketing from the pharmaceutical industry by holding offending companies to greater account and by supporting stronger regulation, ...
Sep 19, 2023
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TU/e researcher Eva van Aalen has developed a glow-in-the-dark test that can make disease diagnosis by general practitioners or in hospitals faster. This test could potentially also be used by patients at home, for example ...
Sep 18, 2023
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If doctors in hospital emergency departments are trained to carry out ultrasound on patients with suspected deep vein thrombosis (DVT), they can nearly halve the time the patients spend in these departments.
Sep 17, 2023
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Research by Menzies School of Health Research (Menzies) has found multiple, coordinated interventions are required to reverse the sharp drop in junior doctors training as General Practitioners (GPs) in the Northern Territory.
Aug 23, 2023
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People with mental disorders are less likely to participate in colorectal cancer screening versus those without these disorders, according to a study published in the July issue of The Lancet Psychiatry.
Aug 6, 2023
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A quarter (24%) of autistic doctors have attempted suicide, and more than three-quarters (77%) have considered it, according to a new study by Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS), Thomas Jefferson University and Autistic ...
Jul 27, 2023
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Royal colleges in the UK have received more than £9 million in marketing payments from drug and medical devices companies since 2015, but do not always disclose the payments publicly, finds an investigation published by ...
Jul 26, 2023
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For women over the age of 65 who have never had a high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) test, a "catch up" HPV screening intervention may improve cervical cancer prevention by detecting more cervical pre-cancer lesions as ...
Jul 6, 2023
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Australian and international experts have released 11 recommendations on when, how, and in what situation it may be appropriate for clinicians to reduce opioid use, by placing the patient at the center of the equation.
Jun 25, 2023
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Australia's population is aging. More than 16% of the total population is now aged 65 or older, and this figure is predicted to rise to 23% by 2066.
Jun 23, 2023
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