Survey highlights lack of awareness with hearing loss A Cleveland Clinic study is highlighting the lack of awareness about hearing loss among adults between the ages of 50 and 80 here in the United States. Aug 24, 2022 0 2
Use of chest, abdominopelvic CT for traumatic injury increased from 2011 to 2018 According to ARRS' American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), from 2011 to 2018, national utilization of chest and abdominopelvic CT for trauma-related emergency department (ED) encounters increased in commercially insured ... Aug 24, 2022 0 19
Researchers identify markers of chemotherapy resistance and outcome in triple negative breast cancer Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and clinicians at Washington University in St. Louis have identified biological markers in triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) that are ... Aug 24, 2022 0 23
Danes lost 30,000 years of healthy life due to COVID-19 in the first year of the pandemic COVID-19 has had an enormous health impact on societies all over the world. In Denmark, a total of 30,000 healthy years of life were lost as a direct result of the disease according to calculations of the burden of disease ... Aug 24, 2022 0 9
Expert explains when swallowing issues are more than an accident Many people have experienced the discomfort of food or a beverage accidentally going to the wrong place when swallowing. But swallowing issues sometimes become chronic and may be a sign of a health condition that should be ... Aug 24, 2022 0 36
Urologists release consensus statements advocating for the role of saw palmetto extract to support prostate health An international panel of seven leading urologists from North America and Europe reviewed over 50 original clinical research studies and developed seven consensus statements outlined in their paper "Rethinking the Role of ... Aug 24, 2022 0 4
More parents than pediatric patients develop PTSD after cardiovascular defibrillators are implanted in their children More than one in eight children (12%) receiving implanted cardiovascular defibrillators (ICDs) for heart rhythm problems exhibit signs of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), according to a new report in Heart Rhythm. Importantly, ... Aug 24, 2022 0 12
Statins provide protective immune benefits for females Cholesterol tends to get a bad rap through its association with cardiovascular disease. But its role in the body is much more nuanced. Aug 24, 2022 0 36
Special report lays out best practices for handling bias in radiology AI With the increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in radiology, it is critical to minimize bias within machine learning systems before implementing their use in real-world clinical scenarios, according to a special ... Aug 24, 2022 0 15
Public auditing for real-time medical sensor data in a cloud-assisted IoT system The cloud-assisted healthcare industrial internet of things (HealthIIoT) system has many advantages, but there are still some serious security issues within outsourcing medical sensor data to the cloud. One of the most significant ... Aug 24, 2022 0 1
