DxNA LLC announces 510(K) submission of GeneSTAT analyzer and GeneSTAT coccidioides assay
St. George, Utah -- July 10, 2017 -- DxNA LLC, a molecular diagnostics company, today announced the 510(k) submission to...
Training/support have ongoing impact on delivery of alcohol intervention
In primary care settings, training and support of clinicians has a lasting effect on the proportion of adult patients given...
New technology to manipulate cells could help treat Parkinson’s, arthritis, other diseases
Credit: Northwestern University EVANSTON, Ill. --- A groundbreaking advancement in materials from Northwestern University could potentially help patients requiring stem...
Phase II Study: Radiotherapy dose increase to hypoxic NSCLC lesions
Credit: QuantIF - LITIS EA 4108 - FR CNRS 3638, Henri Becquerel Cancer Center, Rouen, France RESTON, Va. - Fluorine-18...
Cannibalism: A new way to stop the spread of disease
Credit: Ben Van Allen, UCSD Cannibalism may be just what the doctor ordered, according to a new study that will...
Aphasia recovery via speech therapy related to structural plasticity of the ventral stream
Credit: Image courtesy of Dr. Leonardo Bonilha and Emilie McKinnon. All rights reserved. Language disturbances (aphasia) are common after stroke...
Medical trainees find meaning in written reflection
In a medical culture that values technical prowess and the ability to make complex clinical decisions, personal reflection can help...
Physicians’ losses can contribute to burnout
Physicians regularly encounter losses: not only the death of patients but also more ambiguous losses, including changes in professional roles,...
Lost in translation: To the untrained zebra finch ear, jazzy courtship songs fall flat
Zebra finches brought up without their fathers don't react to the singing of potential suitors in the same way that...
Call for the creation of chief primary care medical officer in hospitals
When patients are admitted to the hospital, their connection to their primary care physician is often disrupted, leading to difficult...
Predictive model accurately diagnoses sinusitis
A new series of clinical decision rules integrating signs, symptoms, and C-reactive protein diagnose acute rhinosinusitis and acute bacterial rhinosinusitis...
Younger primary care physicians have greater turnover
Between 2000 and 2014, the mobility rate of younger primary care physicians was approximately double that of older physicians. According...
Insured patients have limited access to behavioral health care
A health plan's ability to offer access to clinicians in primary and specialty care is crucial to ensuring access to...
Deprescribing in primary care runs counter to medical culture
Although deprescribing (tapering and withdrawing medicines when risks outweigh potential benefits) is essential to best prescribing practices, it runs counter...
Chlamydia screening drops after change in cervical cancer screening guideline
A 2012 cervical cancer screening guideline change is associated with reduced testing for cervical cancer and chlamydia and reduced identification...
Ten new awards from the National Science Foundation
Credit: Leonid Moroz Ten new awards from the National Science Foundation (NSF) totaling $14 million will enable biologists to develop...
Who should treat patients with opioid use disorder?
In a Point/Counterpoint, two doctors debate whether or not family physicians should provide medication-assisted treatment to their patients with opioid...
Doctor cautions against denial of the opioid epidemic
When a family physician moved to a new rural community, she was unprepared for the constant flow of patients seeking...
Buprenorphine: Being out of treatment increases risk of death nearly 30-fold
Buprenorphine reduces mortality for those with opioid use disorder, but periods off treatment are associated with much higher mortality rates....
Rural physicians report significant barriers in treating opioid use disorder
More than half of rural counties in the United States lack a physician trained and waivered by the Drug Enforcement...
