Psychology & Psychiatry
Doctors could improve health by being aware of their patients' shame
Doctors could improve patient's health if they were more aware of the serious impact shame has on the body, research suggests.
Dec 4, 2017
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Health
From Ayurveda to biomedicine—understanding the human body
What is a human body? This may seem a facetious question, but the answer will be very different according to which medical tradition you consult. Take Ayurveda, a traditional system of medical knowledge from India which has ...
Nov 20, 2017
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Oncology & Cancer
Social interaction affects cancer patients' response to treatment
How well cancer patients fared after chemotherapy was affected by their social interaction with other patients during treatment, according to a new study by researchers at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), ...
Jul 19, 2017
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Health
Study participants—especially women—less willing to ride in driverless ambulances
Would you ride in a driverless ambulance? In three separate studies, about half of 1,028 U.S. adults were significantly less willing to be lifted into an automated ambulance, compared with a conventional one, researchers ...
Mar 6, 2017
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Health
User-friendly medication packaging design can boost patient safety
Medication errors are a common patient safety issue in the United States, with 1.5 million adverse drug events reported annually, often occurring in a home or other outpatient setting. Past research has indicated that inadequate ...
Dec 9, 2016
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Health
For refugees seeking asylum, medical exams are in short supply
They come from war zones and terrorist strongholds. From places where being the "wrong" religion, ethnicity or sexual orientation is a crime. From countries where sexual violence and mutilation are considered normal.
Nov 29, 2016
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
Men have a lot to learn about their own fertility
The first large-scale study of its kind has revealed that Canadian men generally lack knowledge about the risk factors contributing to male infertility. Research led by Dr. Phyllis Zelkowitz, head of psychosocial research ...
Nov 22, 2016
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Diabetes
Development of a wearable medical device for type 2 diabetes
Although effective for the treatment of diabetes, exercise is sometimes difficult for overweight or elderly people. A new wearable medical device developed by Kumamoto University has been found to effect visceral fat loss ...
Nov 11, 2016
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Ophthalmology
Cortisol-free rheumatoid arthritis medication found effective for rare eye disease
A well-known rheumatoid arthritis medication containing the active agent adalimumab, a therapeutic human monoclonal antibody, is also effective for treating non-infectious uveitis, a rare eye disease. This has now been discovered ...
Oct 10, 2016
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Medical research
Researchers reveal how dangerous intestinal toxin enters cells
Researchers have identified a key target in fighting the emerging, life-threatening gastrointestinal infection Clostridium difficile. The work, led by Min Dong, PhD, and Liang Tao, PhD, of Boston Children's Hospital, reveals ...
Sep 29, 2016
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