The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted organ transplants in unprecedented ways. Many transplant centers considered slowing down and even pausing all transplants, mostly due to the potential risk of COVID-19 to organ donors, transplant ...
Aug 10, 2023
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Kidney disease is a major global public health issue, with chronic kidney disease (CKD) representing the 12th highest cause of death worldwide. It has been estimated that approximately 10% of the global population has CKD. ...
Aug 9, 2023
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The Austrian Institute for Health Technology Assessment (AIHTA) has investigated which key factors are essential in the planning, design, implementation and operation of so-called dementia quality registries. The AIHTA report ...
Feb 1, 2023
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A patient-centered text message-based platform can enhance self-efficacy of symptom management for patients with interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome (IC/BPS), according to a study published online Dec. 15 in NeuroUrology ...
Jan 5, 2023
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Social determinants of health (SDOH) are the influence of circumstances and systems in which individuals are born, live, work, age and access health care. The deleterious consequences of SDOH on atrial fibrillation (AF) have ...
Dec 7, 2022
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As the rise in home working blurs the boundary between work and home lives, it has become easier for people to work while unwell. But should you?
Apr 7, 2022
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When confronting the end of life, patients and their loved ones must make difficult decisions about continuing curative treatments or switching to pain management and comfort care.
Feb 15, 2022
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Managers who use their gut instinct together with simple decision-making strategies may make equally good, but faster, decisions as those who use data to reach an outcome, a new study has found.
Jun 18, 2021
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A new study recommends healthy children with symptoms of sleep disordered breathing, such as snoring or temporary cessation of breathing, should consider undergoing a sleep study (polysomnography) and should discuss the potential ...
Feb 5, 2021
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Northwestern University engineers have developed a new model to help U.S. states allocate and share ventilators and other life-saving resources in the fight against COVID-19.
Apr 7, 2020
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