Health
Behind the wheel: Navigating driving with epilepsy
Jessica Veach didn't wait long enough at the stop sign.
Feb 19, 2024
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News tagged with test
Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Team develops highly accurate universal diagnostic blood test for Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment
An HKUST-led international research collaboration has achieved a significant milestone in Alzheimer's disease (AD) diagnosis and management. The team has developed a cutting-edge blood test for the early detection of AD and ...
Feb 19, 2024
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Health
Q&A: Why the top cause of death for women has been ignored
Experts at the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai who have studied progress made over decades of research say there's still a long way to go before medical science fully understands how heart disease is different in women ...
Feb 19, 2024
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
IVF 'add on' treatments: Fair choice or false hope?
Many Australians using Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) to conceive are paying for costly "add-on" treatments that lack high-quality evidence that they will improve their chances of taking home a healthy baby.
Feb 16, 2024
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Health informatics
Widely used AI tool for early sepsis detection may be cribbing doctors' suspicions
Proprietary artificial intelligence software designed to be an early warning system for sepsis can't differentiate high- and low-risk patients before they receive treatments, according to a new study from the University of ...
Feb 15, 2024
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Vaccination
Wrong RSV shots given to some pregnant women, young kids
More than two dozen toddlers and at least 128 pregnant women received RSV vaccines they should not have gotten, U.S. health officials say.
Feb 15, 2024
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Cardiology
Researchers identify potential 'missing link' for why South Asians have higher rates of heart disease
A new study led by researchers at St. Michael's Hospital has found that South Asians with either heart disease or diabetes had fewer vascular regenerative and reparative cells compared to white European patients. These findings ...
Feb 15, 2024
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Neuroscience
Recommendations for biomarker-based diagnosis of neurocognitive disorders
Experts from 11 European scientific associations and organizations and a patient advocacy association (Alzheimer Europe) have collaborated to define a diagnostic pathway focused on each individual case that enables the right ...
Feb 15, 2024
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Medications
Q&A: Nitazenes are a powerful class of street drugs emerging across the US
Two deaths in Boulder County, Colorado, in 2023 are the latest in the U.S. to be blamed on the powerful class of synthetic opioids called nitazenes. Most health systems cannot detect nitazenes, so the exact number of overdoses ...
Feb 15, 2024
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
New sepsis test provides faster and reliable results
Every year some 49 million cases of sepsis occur, and 11 million sepsis-related deaths occurred worldwide in 2017, according to a study reported by the WHO. This accounts for 20% of all global deaths.
Feb 15, 2024
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