Medications
Opinion: Unlocking hope for people with kidney disease
For the first time, we have the tools to greatly reduce kidney disease. How can we make sure they get to those who need them?
Mar 9, 2023
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Medications
New pain medications are still widely inaccessible to individuals living with sickle cell disease
Sickle cell disease (SCD), a rare chronic, progressive, life-threatening, inherited blood disorder, often affects individuals with chronic pain that can be debilitating to their quality of life. Yet less than 4% of people ...
Mar 8, 2023
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Cardiology
Transcatheter mitral valve repair in heart failure patients significantly reduces hospitalizations and improves survival
Transcatheter mitral valve repair for heart failure patients with mitral regurgitation can reduce the long-term rate of hospitalizations by almost 50 percent, and death by nearly 30 percent, compared with heart failure patients ...
Mar 5, 2023
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Neuroscience
Predicting dementia using neural network characteristics
In many neurodegenerative conditions, brain changes occur before symptoms emerge. But now, researchers from Japan have found a new way to distinguish these conditions in the early stages according to changes in brain activity ...
Jan 27, 2023
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Radiology & Imaging
New 3D ultrasound may improve accuracy of liver cancer treatment
A simulated study by researchers at Western University and Lawson Health Research Institute has found a new system that uses ultrasound to construct 3D-images could make treatment of liver cancer, using thermal ablation, ...
Jan 25, 2023
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Medical economics
Remote health care using 5G in Japan's mountainous areas for effective treatment
Japan's population is rapidly aging. As a result, new challenges have emerged as an increased number of elderly people, many of whom live in isolated parts of the country, need medical and nursing care despite inadequate ...
Dec 13, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
'All language capability' for tool to expedite Long COVID research
A validated Symptom Burden Questionnaire that will help medical researchers unravel the complexities of Long COVID and develop or test new treatments is now available for translation into hundreds of languages, with support ...
Dec 8, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Hospital parking fees contribute to financial toxicity for cancer patients
Transportation to and from cancer centers for outpatient cancer treatments has been identified as one of the two most impactful out-of-pocket costs that cancer patients and their families incur, along with food costs.
Dec 7, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Most cancer patients want access to complementary therapies before treatment
Nearly two-thirds (62%) of people with cancer want to know about complementary therapies such as exercise, nutrition counseling, massage, and meditation before starting conventional treatment, but only 33% of oncologists ...
Nov 15, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Ethnic and racial disparities found in buprenorphine treatment
A quartet of researchers, three with Harvard Medical School's Massachusetts General Hospital Institute for Technology Assessment, and the fourth with McGill University, has found that there are ethnic and racial disparities ...
