Medical research
Old bones can regain youthful healing power
Broken bones in older people are notoriously slow to heal, but researchers at Duke Medicine have identified a potential way to speed the process.
May 20, 2015
0
233
News tagged with health care resources
Addiction
Pandemic leads to rise in Canada fatal drug overdoses
A homeless Canadian with a drug addiction, Luc Laplante has lost three friends—Dave, Emily and Pat—to opioid overdoses in the last three months of the coronavirus pandemic.
Jun 28, 2020
0
5
Health
An expanding role for nurse practitioners
The 'baby boom' generation – nearly 40,000,000 strong – is aging and many are living with a variety of chronic medical conditions such as diabetes and heart disease. The Affordable Care Act, the national health care plan ...
Feb 5, 2014
1
0
Neuroscience
Major neurological disorders on the rise in the United States
(HealthDay)—The burden of neurological disorders in the United States increased almost universally from 1990 to 2017, according to a study published online Nov. 2 in JAMA Neurology.
Nov 4, 2020
0
1
Other
Anesthesiologists identify top 5 practices that could be avoided
A team of researchers led by Penn Medicine anesthesiologists have pinpointed the "top five" most common perioperative procedures that are supported by the least amount of clinical evidence, in an effort to direct providers ...
Jun 16, 2014
0
0
Surgery
Surgeons discuss options when the risks of surgery may be too high
In an essay published July 26 in the New England Journal of Medicine, Ira Leeds, M.D., research fellow, and David Efron, M.D., professor of surgery, both of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, along with their ...
Jul 27, 2018
0
30
Medical research
Seismic for the spine: Vibration technology offers alternative to MRI
Magnetic resonance image isn't everything. A new University of Alberta study shows that vibrating the spine may reveal more when it comes to treating back pain. Teaming with the University of South Denmark to study the lumbar ...
Mar 11, 2016
0
160
Radiology & Imaging
Using AI to solve one of health care's most enduring problems
Medical imaging is one of the most widely used diagnostic tools in health care with providers ordering dozens of imaging studies for their patients every day. These studies are used to gain information about certain symptoms ...
Mar 16, 2022
0
24
Cardiology
A lot of blood, for no reason? Review shows that common, costly clot test has few benefits
A half billion dollars - at least—gets spent each year on blood tests to see which hospital patients have a genetic quirk that makes their blood more likely to form dangerous clots.
Nov 2, 2016
0
3
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Study: Costs reduced when low back pain treatment begins with physical therapy
A study in the scientific journal Health Services Research showed that initial referrals for physical therapy for patients with new episodes of low back pain (LBP) resulted in less than half the cost of imaging and generated ...
Mar 25, 2015
0
187
