Pediatrics
Study shows gender skew in digital info for new parents
Today's parents-to-be use online tools for health guidance in the same way their parents once dog-eared pages of the What to Expect book series.
Nov 26, 2021
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Medical training takes a mental toll, but less than a decade ago
A 13-year effort to track the mental health of new doctors in their most stressful time of training shows signs that things have gotten better.
Nov 15, 2021
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Medications
Heart failure symptoms improve with a type 2 diabetes medicine
Canagliflozin, a medication used to treat type 2 diabetes, was found to greatly improve symptoms and quality of life within 3 months for people with heart failure due to either reduced or preserved cardiac function, even ...
Nov 15, 2021
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Health
Tech-based health and exercise programs less beneficial for users with low socio-economic status
Technology-based health and exercise programs and apps, designed to offer a convenient and accessible way to boost physical activity, are dramatically less beneficial for users with low socio-economic status, a study has ...
Nov 12, 2021
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Sports medicine & Kinesiology
Smartphone apps and back pain treatments
Australians hoping to reduce medical and physiotherapy costs by using smartphone apps to self-manage lower back pain could be setting themselves up for failure—with a new study outlining the lackluster quality and lack ...
Nov 11, 2021
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Biomedical technology
Setting a new standard for hormone health
Half the population lives with monthly ovarian hormone cycles. Those cycles impact menstrual patterns, fertility, and much more, but stigmas around hormone problems have limited awareness about hormone health.
Nov 9, 2021
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Pediatrics
New app helps parents identify treatable childhood growth disorders earlier
A ground-breaking new, mobile phone app, 'GrowthMonitor' places the accurate measurement of children's height in the hands of parents and carers. Preliminary data to be presented at the Society for Endocrinology annual conference ...
Nov 8, 2021
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
Smartphone app could improve aspirin use for healthy pregnancies
Low-dose aspirin during pregnancy can help prevent preeclampsia, a serious, yet common, hypertension disorder—but it is underused among high-risk pregnant patients, potentially due to a communication gap with providers, ...
Oct 29, 2021
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Health
Spain to ban ads for sweets targeting kids
Spain will ban ads aimed at kids for high-sugar foods and drinks like choclate bars and soda in a bid to slow a growing obesity epidemic, an official said Thursday.
Oct 28, 2021
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Research team launches mobile depression app to aid clinicians in treatment planning
Columbia Psychiatry faculty, in partnership with avoMD, a next-gen clinical decision support platform, have developed an interactive smartphone application that provides point-of-care treatment algorithms for major depression.
Oct 21, 2021
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