Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Fresh insights could lead to new treatments for liver disease
The fight against liver disease could be helped by the discovery of cells that cause liver scarring.
Oct 09, 2019
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News tagged with definition
Genetics
Rapid DNA analysis helps diagnose mystery diseases
As doctors, we deal with a lot of uncertainty. Often, it is difficult to diagnose what is making a patient sick because symptoms from both infectious and non-infectious diseases can be indistinguishable from each other.
Jun 13, 2019
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Health
Primary care services account for a small share of Medicare spending, study finds
Care provided by primary care practitioners accounts for a small fraction of total spending among Medicare beneficiaries, according to a new RAND Corporation study published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine.
Apr 15, 2019
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Cardiology
Role of vested interests in hypertension overdiagnosis criticized
Did you know the definition of high blood pressure (hypertension) in the United States was recently greatly expanded? Overnight, tens of millions of people were reclassified, leaving one in every two adults with a diagnosis ...
Apr 09, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Reported cases of spotted fever rickettsioses rarely confirmed
(HealthDay)—Only 1.0 percent of reported cases of spotted fever rickettsioses (SFR) meet the confirmed case definition, according to research published in the March 15 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...
Mar 18, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
Should we rename low risk cancers?
Should we rename low risk ("indolent") cancers in a bid to reduce anxiety and harm from unnecessary investigation and treatment? Experts debate the issue in The BMJ today.
Jan 23, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Classification of psoriasis severity depends on definition
(HealthDay)—Depending on the definition used, there are large variations in the proportion of patients identified as having moderate-to-severe psoriasis, according to a study published in the December issue of the British ...
Jan 04, 2019
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Health
What people want from a trip to the ER
"I just needed to know what was causing the pain," said one patient. People walk into an emergency room because something is wrong. It might be life-threatening or benign. It could cause long-term damage if ignored, or it ...
Jul 02, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
'Prevalence induced concept change' causes people to re-define problems as they are reduced, study says
Although it's far from perfect by virtually any measure—whether poverty rates, violence, access to education, racism and prejudice or any number of others—the world continues to improve. Why, then, do polls consistently ...
Jun 28, 2018
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Research aims to fine-tune sepsis diagnosis
Work designed to improve diagnosis of one of the leading causes of death in children is under way in Brisbane, led by a University of Queensland researcher.
Feb 20, 2018
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