Oncology & Cancer
Free, publicly available health data proves to be research gold mine
It's a popular question: What did you do over the summer? For Lubaba (Aurna) Khan, the summer of 2018 will be one she will never forget.
Dec 3, 2018
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News tagged with medical education
Psychology & Psychiatry
The five things you didn't know about teaching empathy
Though it seems like they may obscure a patient's medical issues at times, emotions can actually be the key to unlocking more about a person's condition.
Aug 10, 2015
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Oncology & Cancer
Medical aid in dying mostly used by well-educated, white patients with cancer
Rutgers researchers analyzed data from each of the 5,329 patients across the U.S. who died from medical aid in the 23 years after Oregon became the first state to legalize it and found one demographic dominates the group: ...
Jul 18, 2022
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Health
Medicine seen as one of worst disability offenders
Doctors treat and heal patients, but they are seldom seen as people who may themselves require care or accommodation. Medics with disabilities are now calling for a paradigm shift in this mindset to make medical education ...
Aug 24, 2020
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Neuroscience
Concussion linked to heightened risk of dementia and Parkinson's disease
Concussion is linked to a heightened risk of subsequent hyperactivity disorder, dementia, and Parkinson's disease, as well as mood and anxiety disorders among women in particular, finds research published online in the journal ...
Jul 27, 2020
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
People who live to be 90+ with superior thinking skills found to be resilient to Alzheimer's pathology in their brains
A University of California, Irvine-led team of researchers has discovered that the oldest-old, those who live to be 90+ and have superior cognitive skills, have similar levels of brain pathology as Alzheimer's patients, however, ...
May 24, 2023
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Medical research
Most doctors still believe in prescribing unnecessary antibiotics to treat asymptomatic infections, study suggests
An estimated 70% of primary care physicians reported in a survey that they would still prescribe antibiotics to treat asymptomatic infections based solely on a positive urine specimen. This is despite long-held medical guidelines ...
May 27, 2022
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Medical economics
Educating the next generation of medical professionals with machine learning is essential
Artificial intelligence (AI) driven by machine learning (ML) algorithms is a branch in the field of computer science that is rapidly gaining popularity within the healthcare sector. However, graduate medical education and ...
Sep 27, 2018
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Medications
Most children with ADHD are not receiving medications: Study
Most children with parent-reported attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are not receiving medications and have never received outpatient mental health care, according to a study published online April 28 in JAMA ...
Apr 28, 2023
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Cardiology
Ultrasound training should be implemented early into medical education programs
A paper in this month's edition of Global Heart (the journal of the World Heart Federation advocates including ultrasound in medical education programmes to realise the full benefits of the technology as early as possible. ...
Jan 23, 2014
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