Rural ambulance volunteers struggle with birth emergencies
Volunteer ambulance officers (VAOs) are vital to Australia's health care system, particularly in rural and remote communities.
Sep 10, 2024
0
0
Volunteer ambulance officers (VAOs) are vital to Australia's health care system, particularly in rural and remote communities.
Sep 10, 2024
0
0
Patients taking sulthiame, a drug currently in use for epilepsy, experienced a reduction in their symptoms of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), according to results of a clinical trial presented at the European Respiratory Society ...
Sep 10, 2024
0
1
More than four years after the COVID-19 pandemic turned the world upside down, a major analysis of the research response by the global scientific community has found mental health was the number one issue under the microscope.
Sep 10, 2024
0
0
As prescription oral chemotherapies have become a common form of cancer treatment, some patients were paying more than $10,000 a year for medications. A new study finds that efforts to cap prescription drug spending are yielding ...
Sep 10, 2024
0
0
To study how cancer develops, Dr. Chen Cao is building tumors in the lab.
Sep 10, 2024
0
0
As the median age of our population rises, so does the number of people diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. With advances in technology, it's easier to determine brain age and identify blood-based Alzheimer's disease biomarkers. ...
Sep 10, 2024
0
0
When the Indian Health Service can't provide medical care to Native Americans, the federal agency can refer them elsewhere. But each year, it rejects tens of thousands of requests to fund those appointments, forcing patients ...
Sep 10, 2024
0
0
To the untrained eye, a medical image like an MRI or X-ray appears to be a murky collection of black-and-white blobs. It can be a struggle to decipher where one structure (like a tumor) ends and another begins.
Sep 9, 2024
0
4
Sickle cell disease is a common genetic disorder characterized by periodic occurrences of pain that occur repeatedly throughout life. These episodes, referred to as vaso-occlusive episodes, happen when sickled cells obstruct ...
Sep 9, 2024
0
1
A new technological development allows researchers, for the first time, to monitor changes in pupil size and gaze direction behind closed eyes using touchless infrared imaging. In the future, tracking changes in pupil size ...
Sep 9, 2024
0
15