Archive: 01/06/2015
Study shows public access defibrillators are increasing survival but are not being used enough
New research presented at this year's Euroanaesthesia shows that use of public access defibrillation on people suffering cardiac arrest is associated with a large increase in chances of survival. However, despite the great ...
Jun 1, 2015
The safe surgery checklist could save more lives worldwide than any other single known intervention
New research presented at this year's Euroanaesthesia meeting in Berlin suggests that the WHO-approved safe surgery checklist is working well in both high-income and developing countries. The study is by Dr Janet Martin and ...
Jun 1, 2015
Research identifies wide array of devices, mobile applications available for monitoring health
Technology is making health care services that may have once seemed available only within a doctor's office accessible to the general public, according to new research from Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Jun 1, 2015
Abortion-rights group challenges new Kansas restrictions
An abortion-rights group challenged Kansas' first-in-the-nation ban on a second-trimester procedure that anti-abortion activists describe as dismembering a fetus.
Jun 1, 2015
Cannabis use in male African pygmies linked to decreased risk of parasitic worm infection
In a population of Congo Basin foragers called the Aka, 67% of men—but only 6% of women—use cannabis, and the practice seems to protect against infection with parasitic worms.
Jun 1, 2015