Archive: 08/11/2017

New DNA antenatal screening for Down's syndrome shown to be a 'transformational advance'

Medical scientists at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) have demonstrated for the first time that it is possible to incorporate DNA analysis into antenatal screening for three serious chromosome disorders, including ...

Nov 8, 2017

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Primary care consultations last less than five minutes for half the world's population

Primary care consultations last less than 5 minutes for half the world's population, but range from 48 seconds in Bangladesh to 22.5 minutes in Sweden, reveals the largest international study of its kind, published in the ...

Nov 8, 2017

Standards to iron out 'weekend effect' in English hospitals don't make any difference

The introduction of four priority standards for emergency care in hospitals in England has not made any difference to curbing excess deaths on Saturdays and Sundays, known as the 'weekend effect,' reveals the first study ...

Nov 8, 2017

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Four reasons that could explain ACOs' sluggish savings

Despite aggressive targets set by the Medicare for the spread of value-based payment arrangements, such as accountable care organizations, achieving lower spending growth has proved extremely challenging. In an article in ...

Nov 8, 2017

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Mechanical heart valve often the safest choice, study says

Mechanical heart valves may be safer in certain cases than valves made of animal tissue and should be used more in heart-valve replacements, especially in younger patients, according to a study by researchers at the Stanford ...

Nov 8, 2017

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Breast cancer recurrence risk lingers years after treatment ends

Even 20 years after a diagnosis, women with a type of breast cancer fueled by estrogen still face a substantial risk of cancer returning or spreading, according to a new analysis from an international team of investigators ...

Nov 8, 2017

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Fighting cancer with cancer: 3-D cultured cells could drive precision therapy

Honeycomb-like arrays of tiny, lab-grown cancers could one day help doctors zero in on individualized treatments for ovarian cancer, an unpredictable disease that kills more than 14,000 women each year in the United States ...

Nov 8, 2017

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Autoimmunity may underlie newly discovered painful nerve-damage disorder

An analysis of the medical records of patients treated at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) for an often-mysterious condition involving damage to small nerve fibers supports the hypothesis that some cases are caused by ...

Nov 8, 2017