'Listen to women': UK doctors issued with first guidance on endometriosis: Disease, which causes crippling pain and can
'Listen to women': UK doctors issued with first guidance on endometriosis: Disease, which causes crippling pain and can lead to infertility, affects 176 million women worldwide and currently takes seven to eight years to diagnose
Source: theguardian.com
Virtual Reality Used to Study Origin of Fear and Anxiety |: Our irrational fears are both very real and are also figments
Virtual Reality Used to Study Origin of Fear and Anxiety |: Our irrational fears are both very real and are also figments of our imagination. By manipulating what we think of as reality, researchers at Stanford Univ
Source: medgadget.com
Chatbots as a Patient Engagement solution – Florence.chat "Chatbots are computer programs that are able to conduct a
Chatbots as a Patient Engagement solution – Florence.chat "Chatbots are computer programs that are able to conduct a conversation
and are typically used in dialog systems for various practical purposes
including customer service or information acquisition. Despite their
creation more than 60...
Source: florence.chat
Clinical trials revolution could change the future of medical research: With the stakes in clinical research so high, today
Clinical trials revolution could change the future of medical research: With the stakes in clinical research so high, today sees the launch of a new and much-needed way of reporting clinical trials
Source: theguardian.com
Continuing professional development: progress beyond continuing medical education: Continuing medical education (CME) is
Continuing professional development: progress beyond continuing medical education: Continuing medical education (CME) is rapidly evolving into competency-based continuing professional development (CPD) and this is driving change in self-directed CPD programs undertaken by individual practitioners as...
Source: amegroups.com
Head of stroke programme condemns HSE inertia "Widespread inertia in the health service is leaving Ireland unprepared
Head of stroke programme condemns HSE inertia "Widespread inertia in the health service is leaving
Ireland unprepared to cope with a huge increase in the number of stroke
patients over the next decade, the outgoing head of the national stroke
programme has warned.
...
Source: irishtimes.com
Using machine learning to improve patient care : New CSAIL research employs many types of medical data, including electronic
Using machine learning to improve patient care : New CSAIL research employs many types of medical data, including electronic health records, to predict outcomes in hospitals. Rachel Gordon | CSAIL.
Source: mit.edu
Thorium could power the next generation of nuclear reactors: The first thorium research project in 45 years has kicked off
Thorium could power the next generation of nuclear reactors: The first thorium research project in 45 years has kicked off in the Netherlands with the goal of making thorium work in a molten salt reactor
Source: newscientist.com
Whole grain cereals for cardiovascular disease | Cochrane "There is insufficient evidence from RCTs of an effect of whole
Whole grain cereals for cardiovascular disease | Cochrane "There is insufficient evidence from RCTs of an effect of whole grain diets on cardiovascular outcomes or on major CVD risk factors such as blood lipids and blood pressure. Trials were at unclear or high risk of bias with small sample sizes and...
Source: cochrane.org
Jeremy Hunt can attack me all he wants – but he is wrong to say the NHS is working | Stephen Hawking "Hunt doesn't deny
Jeremy Hunt can attack me all he wants – but he is wrong to say the NHS is working | Stephen Hawking "Hunt doesn't deny that he dismissed research contradicting his claim of excess deaths due to poorer hospital care and staffing at the weekend. He admits he relied on one paper by Professor Nick Freemantle...
Source: theguardian.com
Mathematical secrets of ancient tablet unlocked after nearly a century of study: Dating from 1,000 years before Pythagoras’s
Mathematical secrets of ancient tablet unlocked after nearly a century of study: Dating from 1,000 years before Pythagoras’s theorem, the Babylonian clay tablet is a trigonometric table more accurate than any today, say researchers
Source: theguardian.com
Theresa May could be paving the way to change her policy on foreign students: The Government will today pave the way for
Theresa May could be paving the way to change her policy on foreign students: The Government will today pave the way for a climbdown over Theresa May’s controversial policy of counting foreign students as migrants in official immigration statistics. Amber Rudd, the Home Secretary, will ask her independent...
Source: independent.co.uk
Epigenetics may explain how Darwin's finches respond to rapid environmental changes, according to new research published
Epigenetics may explain how Darwin's finches respond to rapid environmental changes, according to new research published in the open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology.
Source: phys.org
Baby boomers' drink and drug misuse needs urgent action, warn experts: By 2020, the number of over-50s receiving treatment
Baby boomers' drink and drug misuse needs urgent action, warn experts: By 2020, the number of over-50s receiving treatment for substance misuse problems is expected to double in Europe and treble in the US, say researchers
Source: theguardian.com
How empathic is your healthcare practitioner? A systematic review and meta-analysis of patient surveys: A growing body of
How empathic is your healthcare practitioner? A systematic review and meta-analysis of patient surveys: A growing body of evidence suggests that healthcare practitioners who enhance how they express empathy can improve patient health, and reduce medico-legal risk. However we do not know how consistently...
Source: biomedcentral.com
Treatment for hypertension in adults aged 18 to 59 years | Cochrane "Antihypertensive drugs used to treat predominantly
Treatment for hypertension in adults aged 18 to 59 years | Cochrane "Antihypertensive drugs used to treat predominantly healthy adults aged 18 to 59 years with mild to moderate primary hypertension have a small absolute effect to reduce cardiovascular mortality and morbidity primarily due to reduction...
Source: cochrane.org
Revisiting: Is Access to the Research Paper the Same Thing as Access to the Research "Results"? - The Scholarly Kitchen:
Revisiting: Is Access to the Research Paper the Same Thing as Access to the Research "Results"? - The Scholarly Kitchen: Is access to the research paper really the same thing as access to the research results themselves? What about patents on publicly funded research? Revisiting a 2013 post to re-examine...
Source: sspnet.org
The biggest global cholera outbreak is happening in Yemen and, disgracefully, it's manmade: This week Yemen reaches a grim
The biggest global cholera outbreak is happening in Yemen and, disgracefully, it's manmade: This week Yemen reaches a grim milestone: half a million people are sick with suspected cholera this year, almost 2,000 of whom have died. It’s the world’s worst cholera outbreak in the midst of the world’s...
Source: independent.co.uk
GPs in England 'unconfident' discussing physical activity with patients – report: Less than two-thirds of doctors feel
GPs in England 'unconfident' discussing physical activity with patients – report: Less than two-thirds of doctors feel confident discussing activity levels and almost a third have never heard of national guidelines. "The majority of doctors in England are unfamiliar with recommended
levels of physical...
Source: theguardian.com
CCP program in Nigeria increases modern contraceptive use, study suggests: Over a four-year period, new research suggests,
CCP program in Nigeria increases modern contraceptive use, study suggests: Over a four-year period, new research suggests, a program led by the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (CCP) in six large Nigerian cities was associated with a 10 percentage- point increase in the use of modern contraceptive...
Source: eurekalert.org
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