Archive: 17/11/2016
Can facial plastic surgeons correctly estimate age from a photograph?
The lack of scientific tools to translate perceptions - such as more beautiful or rejuvenated - into numbers that can be analyzed is a challenge in the field of facial plastic surgery and it can get in the way of producing ...
Nov 17, 2016
Reducing unnecessary testing of UTIs improves patient care, saves resources
Many hospital patients may be unnecessarily tested, and treated, for catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs), according to a study published today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, the journal of ...
Nov 17, 2016
Study finds arthritis drug significantly effective in treating Crohn's disease
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have shown that ustekinumab, a human antibody used to treat arthritis, significantly induces response and remission in patients with moderate to severe ...
Nov 17, 2016
One state's temporary gun removal law shows promise in preventing suicides
A Connecticut law enacted in 1999 to allow police to temporarily remove guns from potentially violent or suicidal people likely prevented dozens of suicides, according to a study by researchers at Duke and Yale universities ...
Nov 17, 2016
Targeting brain chemistry to beat disease
Thanks to advances in big data and medicinal chemistry, scientists can screen thousands of molecules in the search for protein structures leading to new drugs for brain diseases.
Nov 17, 2016
HC-based NGS impacts treatment decisions in lung cancer patients with adenocarcinoma
The use of hybrid capture-based (HC-based) next-generation sequencing (NGS) to identify targetable oncogenic drivers in patients with lung adenocarcinoma results in the detection of genomic alterations (GAs) not identified ...
Nov 17, 2016