Psychology & Psychiatry
Artificial intelligence may improve suicide prevention in the future
The loss of any life can be devastating, but the loss of a life from suicide is especially tragic.
Oct 5, 2022
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Improving diagnostic exams for dementia: Promising treatment implications
(Medical Xpress)—The number of people affected by dementias continues to climb as baby boomers age, increasing the urgency to identify ways to prevent, diagnose and treat these neurodegenerative brain disorders.
Oct 22, 2012
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Researchers develop new test to objectively measure pain, test medications
If you've ever visited the emergency department with appendicitis, or you're one of the 100 million U.S. adults who suffer from chronic pain, you're familiar with a row of numbered faces, with expressions from smiling to ...
Nov 6, 2018
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
'Early warning' tool for hard-to-heal leg wounds
Some 500,000 Australians live with the daily burden of a wound that does not heal, but a risk assessment tool that provides an 'early warning' of which venous leg ulcer wounds need specialised treatment has been developed ...
Jun 6, 2019
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Health
Immediate diagnosis of concussions better protects youth athletes
Athletes under the age of 18 are the most vulnerable when it comes to sustaining concussions. Accurately diagnosing concussions on the field of play is an important way to protect them, according to research published this ...
Jul 20, 2015
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Surgery
New tool helps identify risk for post-surgical dislocations following hip replacement
A novel risk assessment tool helps identify which patients undergoing total hip replacement may be at higher risk for an implant dislocation after surgery, according to a new study from researchers at NYU Langone Health and ...
Mar 6, 2018
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Other
New method of infant pain assessment
Recently, the accuracy of current methods of pain assessment in babies have been called into question. New research from London-area hospitals and the University of Oxford measures brain activity in infants to better understand ...
Dec 21, 2011
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Ophthalmology
Home measurement of eye pressure in children may improve management of glaucoma
Measurement of pressure within the eye, or intraocular pressure (IOP), is known to fluctuate throughout the day, and wide swings in patients with glaucoma are believed to be related to the progression of the disease, which ...
Mar 7, 2012
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Genetically modified mosquitoes could be released in Florida and Texas – silver bullet or jumping the gun?
This summer, for the first time, genetically modified mosquitoes could be released in the U.S.
Jun 3, 2020
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Attention deficit disorders
FDA approves first brain wave test for ADHD
US regulators on Monday approved the first brain wave test for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, saying it may improve the accuracy of diagnoses by medical experts.
Jul 15, 2013
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