Like shark attack and the lottery, unconscious bias influences cancer screening
What do shark attack, the lottery and ovarian cancer screening having in common? It turns out our judgments about these things are all influenced by...
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Stroke patients treated at a teaching hospital are less likely to be readmitted
Credit: UTHealth HOUSTON - (August 17, 2018) - Stroke patients appear to receive better care at teaching hospitals with less of a chance of landing...
As body mass index increases, blood pressure may as well
New Haven, Conn. -- Body mass index is positively associated with blood pressure, according to the ongoing study of 1.7 million Chinese men and women...
Better access to quality cancer care may reduce rural and urban disparities
PORTLAND, OR - When enrolled in a cancer clinical trial, the differences in survival rates between rural and urban patients are significantly reduced, SWOG study...
Prescriptions for opioid use disorder treatment, opioid pain relievers after ACA Medicaid expansion
Bottom Line: Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was associated with an overall increase in people filling prescriptions for buprenorphine with naloxone, which...
For children with complex medical situations, a new roadmap for improving health
Children with severe disabilities, serious cognitive impairments and medically complex situations require more specialized health care during their lifetimes. But establishing a consistent way to...
Three factors could explain physician burnout
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (http://www.ucr.edu/) -- In just three years, physician burnout increased from 45.5 percent to 54.4 percent, according to a paper authored by doctors at...
Novel nanoparticle-based approach detects and treats oral plaque without drugs
Credit: University of Illinois Laboratory for Materials in Medicine. When the good and bad bacteria in our mouth become imbalanced, the bad bacteria form a...
Robots as tools and partners in rehabilitation
Credit: Shelly Levy-Tzedek In future decades the need for effective strategies for medical rehabilitation will increase significantly, because patients' rate of survival after diseases with...
Progress toward personalized medicine
A few little cells that are different from the rest can have a big effect. For example, individual cancer cells may be resistant to a...
16 going on 66: Will you be the same person 50 years from now?
Credit: University of Houston How much do you change between high school and retirement? The answer depends on whether you're comparing yourself to others or...
Patients, doctors dissatisfied by Electronic Health Records
Credit: Lehigh University Electronic Health Records are intended to streamline and improve access to information - and have been shown to improve quality of care...
Scientists find titanium dioxide from sunscreen is polluting beaches
Boston, MA, USA Scientists have found that sunscreen from bathers releases significant quantities of polluting TiO2 (titanium dioxide) into the sea. This has the potential...
To find and disarm: Scientists develop platform to kill cancer cells
Credit: © NUST MISIS The new treatment will serve as both diagnosis and treatment of malignant tumors. This breakthrough in the technologies of cancer diagnosis...
MSU plant sciences faculty part of international discovery in wheat genome sequence
Credit: MSU Photo by Adrian Sanchez-Gonzalez BOZEMAN - A Montana State University faculty member dedicated to researching cereal genetics and genomics for Montana farmers is...
