Program involving community volunteers shows promise for reducing health care use by seniors
Incorporating community volunteers into the health care system shows promise in reducing health care usage by older adults and shifting ...
Tag: Medicine/Health
Nearly half of public wrongly believe heart failure is normal in old age
Low awareness of heart failure among patients and the public is highlighted in surveys to be presented during Heart Failure ...
Fitness may affect risk of lung, colorectal cancer and survival likelihood after diagnosis
In a recent study, adults who were the most fit had the lowest risk of developing lung and colorectal cancer. ...
Index that tracks impact of pharmaceuticals worldwide to relaunch, focus on more diseases
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. - The Global Health Impact Index, developed by faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York to ...
Managing architectural distortion on mammography based on MR enhancement
Results to be exhibited at 2019 ARRS Annual Meeting Leesburg, VA, May 5, 2019--High negative predictive values (NPV) in mammography ...
Comparison between clinicians’ and radiologists’ understanding and imaging of breast pain
Results to be exhibited at 2019 ARRS Annual Meeting Leesburg, VA, May 5, 2019--Clinicians need more education in the types ...
Excessive use of skin cancer surgery curbed with awareness effort
Johns Hopkins, partners show simple physician-to-physician intervention can yield higher-value care for patients, save millions of dollarsCredit: Lesion photo courtesy ...
Lung cancer: Less invasive surgery for faster recovery
A CRCHUM researcher paves the way for the widespread use of this new operation Every day, 78 Canadians receive a ...
‘I’m here for breast cancer. Why are you talking to me about my heart?’
Call for action: Study reveals urgent need to look after hearts of cancer patients Milan, Italy - 4 May 2019: ...
Stephenson Cancer Center physician is senior author on major study
Study shows ovarian cancer survival increaseCredit: OU Medicine OKLAHOMA CITY - A gynecologic oncologist at the Stephenson Cancer Center at ...
Study asks patients’ input to improve the hospital experience
Credit: UT Health San Antonio SAN ANTONIO - American hospitals engage in continuous quality and safety improvement, but information remains ...
DNA test is an effective cervical cancer screening tool for women in low-income countries
Effective cervical cancer screening initiative by Dartmouth researchers in Honduras identifies different human papillomavirus types than those in the USCredit: ...
Paul Sajda awarded DoD’s Vannevar Bush Fellowship
Credit: Eileen Barroso for Columbia Engineering New York, NY--May 2, 2019--Paul Sajda, professor of biomedical engineering, electrical engineering, and radiology, ...
Bottom-up approach can synthesize microscopic diamonds for bioimaging, quantum computing
Credit: Mark Stone/University of Washington Scientists are excited about diamonds -- not the types that adorn jewelry, but the microscopic ...
RIT professor develops microfluidic device to better detect Ebola virus
Work done by mechanical engineering professor can be used to pre-screen for the virus A faculty-researcher at Rochester Institute of ...
Induced labor not more expensive to health care system than spontaneous labor
Upfront cost of inducing labor at 39 weeks is equal to costs that accrue during longer pregnancies. Expectant parents wait ...
‘Gut-on-a-chip’ research aims to find personalized treatment for Crohn’s disease
Thanks to a new $1.8 million grant from The Helmsley Charitable Trust, UT Austin Engineer Hyun Jung Kim will apply ...
New review identifies four hallmarks of cancer metastasis
Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the University of Kansas Cancer Center have identified four hallmarks of ...
Mental well-being predicts leisure time physical activity in midlife
Different exercise activities are related to the different dimensions of well-being in midlifeCredit: Photo Petteri Kivimäki Men and women with ...
Study examines private insurance claims for naloxone prescriptions
Bottom Line: A study based on a national database of private insurance claims suggests few patients at high risk of opioid ...
