Tag: Health Professionals

Until there is a cure for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, the treatment is a well-educated health care team delivering ...

Keynote on firearm injury to Open Society for Academic Emergency Medicine meeting

DES PLAINES, IL -- Leading firearm injury and prevention experts, Drs. Rebecca Cunningham, and Garen Wintemute, will open SAEM19 -- ...

Society for Academic Emergency Medicine announces annual meeting plenary speakers, top abstracts

DES PLAINES, IL-- Emergency medicine academicians in six plenary presentations will explore a variety of subjects related to the practice ...

Dogs reduce distress of patients waiting for emergency hospital care

A visit from a dog can reduce the distress of patients waiting for emergency treatment in hospital,Credit: Jane Smith A ...

AAMC Chief Academic Officer to give education address at Academic Emergency Medicine Meeting

DES PLAINES, IL -- John E. Prescott, MD, chief academic officer of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), will ...

How both mother and baby genes affect birth weight

The largest study of its kind has led to new insights into the complex relationships surrounding how mothers' and babies' ...

US $244 billion lost annually because people don’t have spectacles to correct myopia

East Asia, South Asia and South East Asia regions bear the greatest burdenCredit: Photo by Dean Saffron, courtesy of Brien ...

Here’s how cancer hijacks wound healing to create its own blood supply

UVA IDs natural process tumors co-opt to feed their growth, spreadCredit: Courtesy Dudley Lab, UVA School of Medicine Researchers at ...

HER2 positive breast cancer: Treatment de-escalation needs to be personalized

ESMO Breast Cancer Congress, May 2-4, 2019, Berlin, GermanyCredit: European Society for Medical Oncology Lugano, Switzerland, 1 May 2019 - ...

Crisis and suicide prevention services struggle with demand after celebrity suicides

NIH study identifies importance of support for critical suicide prevention services The United States may lack the resources needed to ...

Study: Health care providers split on who should prescribe HIV prevention drug

Some say primary care doctors should take the lead on PrEP; others feel any provider can, according to new UB ...

Innovative treatment restores sight in patient

Innovative treatment has improved the vision of a patient suffering from a rare cancer-related syndrome affecting the eye, new research ...

Researchers identify causes and mechanisms of polycystic ovary syndrome using family-based genetic analysis

A first-of-its-kind study using family-based genetic analysis has confirmed a gene involved in male hormone production, DENND1A, plays a major ...

Adam Antebi to present at the 6th Aging Research for Drug Discovery Forum in Basel