A new online resource will help healthcare professionals and practices improve care for people whose alcohol consumption may be impacting their health. Recognizing alcohol's contribution to over 200 diseases and conditions ...
May 12, 2022
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Robust evidence exists for some wound care interventions, but there are still gaps in current knowledge requiring international consensus and further high-level clinical evidence, according to a paper published online by ...
Jul 9, 2012
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Huntington's disease is hereditary, genetic and usually begins between the ages of 30 and 50. In Sweden, around 1,000 people have the diagnosis and several thousand live with the risk of getting the disease. Even more people ...
May 10, 2022
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(Medical Xpress)—Using deep sequencing technologies, researchers from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, US, Canada and the UK have shown that the novel Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) coronavirus can spread between people ...
Jun 20, 2013
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Telehealth smoking cessation treatment programs can reduce tobacco-related disparities among incarcerated smokers, according to a Rutgers study.
Sep 21, 2021
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New research appearing online today in Clinical Chemistry, the journal of AACC, shows that a handheld mobile device can check patients' HIV status with just a finger prick, and synchronize the results in real time with electronic ...
Jan 21, 2013
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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has eased its universal masking recommendation for nursing homes and hospitals, unless those health care institutions are in areas seeing high levels of COVID-19 transmission.
Sep 26, 2022
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Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) related to the use of medical devices are more likely to be antibiotic resistant than HAIs that result from surgical procedures, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control ...
Nov 25, 2019
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Have you or a loved one ever needed surgery? Imagine what your life would be like if you couldn't have it. Billions of people around the world lack access to surgery because equipment and general anaesthesia are too expensive ...
Jun 27, 2022
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Intersex people's (people whose sex characteristics do not fit within the strict binary categorizations of male or female) health care has received a lot of media attention recently, particularly with the uptick in anti-transgender ...
Jun 27, 2023
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