Psychology & Psychiatry
Validating digital tools for remote clinical research
A team of scientists from Cambridge Cognition and the University of Bristol have been developing digital assessments for remote clinical research.
Jun 18, 2021
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Sports medicine & Kinesiology
No overall difference in concussion recovery time for male and female college athletes
Researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the University of Pennsylvania found female and male collegiate athletes take approximately the same amount of time to recover from a concussion, with subtle differences ...
Jan 26, 2021
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Sports medicine & Kinesiology
Head collision rates at World Cups similar but women received more medical assessments
Female and male soccer players had similar rates of head collision events during elite tournaments such as the World Cup but half of the female players involved received medical assessments, compared with only one third of ...
Jan 21, 2020
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Medications
National assessment of prescribing competence will contribute to future patient safety
An independent review of the Prescribing Safety Assessment has found that it increases the attention paid by students and faculty to accurate prescribing, and allows them to demonstrate competencies in the safe and effective ...
Jul 1, 2019
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Neuroscience
Concussions in elite soccer not assessed according to expert recommendations: study
An average of at least one potential concussive event occurred per game during the 2016 UEFA European Championship and nearly three quarters of the head collision incidents did not result in a medical assessment by sideline ...
May 30, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Passengers, crew on Virgin flight quarantined in UK
Virgin Atlantic said Wednesday that all passengers and crew on a charter flight from Barbados to London were briefly put into quarantine because of widespread illness on board.
Mar 6, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Researchers develop new test to objectively measure pain, test medications
If you've ever visited the emergency department with appendicitis, or you're one of the 100 million U.S. adults who suffer from chronic pain, you're familiar with a row of numbered faces, with expressions from smiling to ...
Nov 6, 2018
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Health
Deaths due to tainted herbal medicine under-recorded
A University of Adelaide forensic pathologist is warning that potentially harmful substances found in herbal medicines may be playing a bigger role in deaths of 'health tourists' than previously thought.
Oct 25, 2018
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Health
Novel strategy to analyse biomarkers in exhaled breath
Breath gas analysis is a promising approach for non-invasive medical diagnostics and physiological monitoring, but further development is needed to increase clinical impact. Ramin Ghorbani presents a novel methodology for ...
Oct 15, 2018
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Medical research
To treat pain, look at more than the 1-10 scale
People in chronic pain are some of the most difficult patients to treat. They have complex circumstances that medicine can't always remedy. Pain can be amplified, by depression and anxiety, genetics and quality of life. Genetics ...
May 4, 2018
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