Oncology & Cancer
Genetic test improves clinical care for children with cancer in England
Whole genome sequencing has improved clinical care of some children with cancer in England by informing individual patient care.
Jul 2, 2024
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Medical economics
Patient transfer systems needed to ensure equity, as ICUs overload during pandemic
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many U.S. hospitals had overcapacity intensive care units (ICU) while other area hospitals had open ICU beds available, a phenomenon known as "load imbalance." The hospitals most likely to be ...
Jul 20, 2023
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Medical economics
Study: Care orchestration system widely adopted, easy to use
A doctor is ending a shift but her patient will be getting some blood draws later. She also hoped to have a pre-existing, chronic condition assessed by a different doctor in another specialty, who won't be arriving for ...
Feb 8, 2022
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Diabetes
CGM alarms often not set to alert children with diabetes to harmful blood glucose fluctuations
Children and teenagers who use continuous glucose monitors (CGM) to manage diabetes often fail to use the appropriate alarm settings to alert to dangerously low or harmful high blood sugar levels, according to a study being ...
Jun 15, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Two new papers demonstrate use of Outbreak.info as one-stop online source for COVID data
While COVID-19 may be transitioning from a "pandemic" to an "endemic" phase, it remains critically important to continue tracking the virus in real-time. In two new papers published in Nature Methods on Feb. 23, 2023, scientists ...
Feb 23, 2023
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
Maternal death statistics skewed by COVID, not decreased by end of Roe v. Wade: Study
Federal statistics suggesting that maternal mortality rates plummeted after the overturning of Roe v. Wade are "highly misleading" and being misinterpreted by abortion opponents, according to new research published this week ...
Aug 28, 2024
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Neuroscience
Research team discovers new role of cerebellum in coordinating the brain network essential for social recognition memory
As millions of Americans struggle with memory loss and dementia brought on by increasingly common neurodegenerative disorders, like Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease, greater understanding of how the brain works ...
Nov 6, 2023
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
Team uses surface-enhanced Raman scattering to characterize infections in biological fluids
Every year, medical diagnostics get better and better thanks to the tremendous development of new methods that enable the precise detection of the many different molecules present in biological fluids during an infection. ...
May 29, 2024
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Surgery
Real-time navigation is a useful tool for liver cancer procedures, according to new study
A University of Cincinnati Cancer Center study has found that real-time navigation is a useful tool for surgeons performing ablation procedures to destroy tumors in the liver.
Feb 29, 2024
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Neuroscience
Elon Musk's brain implant company offers an intriguing glimpse of an internet connecting human minds
Elon Musk's company called Neuralink, launched in 2016, aims to implant a piece of technology in people's brains that would allow them to control a computer or phone by thought alone. This is otherwise known as a brain-computer ...
Mar 18, 2024
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