Study aims to enhance knee and hip replacement experience and outcomes for patients An app that uses Apple Watch technology to connect patients and their surgical teams may optimize the care and outcomes for patients who undergo knee replacement and hip replacement, two of the surgeries performed most often ... Nov 7, 2018 0 1
Inhaled nitrite does not improve exercise capacity in HFpEF (HealthDay)—Administration of inhaled nitrite is not associated with improvement in exercise capacity compared with placebo among patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), according to a study ... Nov 7, 2018 0 2
How the opioid crisis is disrupting hospital care "… there is always soma, delicious soma, half a gramme for a half-holiday, a gramme for a week-end, two grammes for a trip to the gorgeous East, three for a dark eternity on the moon…" Nov 7, 2018 0 3
Quetiapine, the antipsychotic 'sleeping pill' linked to overdoses Quetiapine is a drug designed to reduce hallucinations and delusions experienced by people with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. Nov 7, 2018 0 2
Genetic study clarifies the causes of the most severe heart muscle diseases of children Cardiac muscle degeneration—cardiomyopathy—is the most common cause of severe cardiac dysfunction and life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias in children. These severe disorders often lead to consideration of heart transplant. ... Nov 7, 2018 0 1
Link between vaccines and allergies dismissed Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, having compared the development of allergies in children with and without the recommended vaccinations, find no support for the claim that childhood vaccination can increase ... Nov 7, 2018 0 2
Research finds bilingual therapy vital to improving language disorders in dual-language children New research has found that providing bilingual therapy is vital to improving developmental language disorders in dual-language children. Nov 7, 2018 0 6
Exercise, diet and wellness apps are powerful learning resources for young people, study finds Research undertaken at the University of Birmingham has found that young people are able to judge which health related apps are relevant to their age and bodies, are able to source appropriate digital content as well as dismiss ... Nov 7, 2018 0 7
Drug overdose epidemic goes far beyond opioids, requires new policies Most government-funded initiatives to address the overdose epidemic in the United States have targeted opioids specifically and have neglected other drugs that are increasingly implicated in overdoses, such as cocaine and ... Nov 7, 2018 2 56
Researchers find connection between heart rate and peer victimization Penn State Scranton assistant professors of psychology Karin Machluf and P. Douglas Sellers II, along with their colleague, Christopher Aults from King's College in Wilkes-Barre, have found in a study that heart rate reactivity ... Nov 7, 2018 0 94