A researcher at Rice University's Brown School of Engineering and an alumna of her lab have the first validation of their program to assess the risk of seizures in patients with epilepsy.
Dec 5, 2019
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Some clinicians are turning to medical scribes to reduce the time spent managing electronic health records (EHRs). In fact, incorporating medical scribes into surgical practice increases the number of patients seen, according ...
Oct 29, 2019
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Providing financial incentives to forego testing significantly decreases patient preference for testing, even when accounting for test benefit and risk. That is the finding of a study published in the October 2019 issue of Academic ...
Oct 28, 2019
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Low-dose aspirin may improve survival odds for patients battling head/neck and lung cancer, two new studies suggest.
Sep 23, 2019
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Despite hospital systems and health officials calling out the need for more primary care doctors, graduates of U.S. medical schools are becoming less likely to choose to specialize in one of those fields.
Jul 24, 2019
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When new rules capped training hours for medical residents at 80 hours per week in 2003, critics worried that the change would leave physicians-in-training unprepared for the challenges of independent practice.
Jul 11, 2019
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Results of a multi-center study of patients' assumptions about health care professionals' roles based on gender show significant stereotypical bias towards males as physicians and females as nurses. The research team, led ...
Jul 1, 2019
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Michigan State University physicians have found that vitamin D, if taken for at least three years, could help cancer patients live longer.
Jun 4, 2019
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A visit to the doctor's office typically begins with a series of questions, including one about medications. An Iowa State University researcher recommends doctors ask a follow up to that question to make sure patients are ...
May 21, 2019
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As few as one-third of academic emergency medicine physicians are female and these physicians face significant disparities in representation and academic rank by gender. That is the conclusion of a study to be published in ...
Mar 11, 2019
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