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Stephen H Bradley, NIHR academic clinical lecturer1, Daniel Jones, general practitioner12, Su Wood, academic pharmacist1, Meena Rafiq, academic general practitioner3 4, Carolyn Bradley, patient5, William T Hamilton, professor of primary care diagnostics6 1Academic Unit of Primary Care, University of Leeds, UK 2North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust, Carlisle, UK 3Centre for Cancer Research and…
Credit: CC0 Public Domain In a new research commentary, the Artificial Intelligence in Sleep Medicine Committee of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine highlights how artificial intelligence stands on the threshold of making monumental contributions to the field of sleep medicine. Through a strategic analysis, the committee examined advancements in AI within sleep medicine and…
National Basketball Association (NBA), the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA), and the Next Gen Basketball Players Union (NBGPU) in collaboration with GE HealthCare and MedStar Health today announced the completion of the data collection phase of a longitudinal pilot study of NBA G League players. The research study was designed to collect data that could…
TOPLINE: For most obstetric patients in the first trimester, preeclampsia risk rises at a blood pressure threshold of 140/90 mmHg. For some subgroups, the risk evaluation should occur at lower thresholds. No blood pressure reassures against possible later preeclampsia. METHODOLOGY: Analysis of data collected in a two-centre prospective cohort study of 137,458 singleton pregnancies that…
Hospitals across the nation are shuttering their maternity wards — fueled by staffing troubles, a declining birth rate, insufficient Medicaid reimbursement and the financial pressures associated with operating a 24-hour labor and delivery unit. Alta Bates Summit Medical Center — a Sutter Health-owned hospital in Berkeley, California — has taken proactive steps to ensure it…
Finland-based Oura, the maker of its namesake health tracking ring, announced it added two heart health monitoring features to its Oura Ring wearable device, Cardiovascular Age (CVA) and Cardio Capacity, which will be available later this month on Oura Ring Gen3 devices for both Android and iOS. The CVA feature uses data from the device…
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Melinda French Gates will step down as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the nonprofit she and her ex-husband Bill Gates founded and built into one of the world’s largest philanthropic organizations over the past 20 years. “This is not a decision I came to lightly,” French Gates posted on the X platform on…
Jessie Cunnett, chief executive officer, Richard Smith, chair Point of Care Foundation jessiecunnett{at}pointofcarefoundation.org.uk richardswsmith{at}yahoo.co.uk As satisfaction with the NHS reaches a new low, we should embrace the power of citizens and society to restore public confidence, argue these authors The recent British Social Attitudes Survey found that less than a quarter (24%) of the 3374…
Credit: University of Glasgow A brand-new monitoring device for patients with heart failure may be able to detect signs of fluid overload, and could be used to monitor patients and help prevent hospital admissions, according to a new study. The research—which was presented at the European Society of Cardiology’s Heart Failure Congress in Lisbon on…
Pioneering measures to tackle sedentary behavior among children in China have proved effective, according to new research. The study, led by the University of Bristol, reveals regulations recently introduced by the Chinese government to reduce school children’s sedentary behavior by restricting online gaming companies catering for this age group, limiting the amount of homework schoolteachers…
It’s becoming clear that adolescent brain is particularly vulnerable to cannabis, especially today’s higher-potency products, which put teens at risk for impaired brain development; mental health issues, including psychosis; and cannabis use disorder (CUD). That was the message delivered by Yasmin Hurd, PhD, director of the Addiction Institute at Mount Sinai in New York, during…
Becoming a father has profoundly sharpened my perspective on a pressing issue facing young Americans: The deteriorating mental health trends among teenagers, especially girls, in the U.S. This concern is personal. As an Australian, the American epidemic of gun violence, unique in its scale and impact on youth, both horrifies and confuses me. But this…
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Late-stage results of Cytokinetics’ drug for a rare heart disease suggest it can compete with a similar treatment sold by Bristol Myers Squibb on efficacy and safety, and can also be dosed more conveniently, potentially making it a more attractive option for doctors if approved. The 24-week Phase 3 trial tested the drug, a daily…
bmj;385/may13_10/q1080/FAF1faBenjamin GilbertThis giant installation forms part of a joyful exploration of the body, drawing on the experiences of artist Jason Wilsher-Mills, who as a child had polyneuropathy and chronic fatigue syndrome and who became paralysed for five years.The Wellcome’s immersive exhibition Jason and the Adventure of 254 reimagines the gallery space as a hospital ward,…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Patients could wean themselves off blockbuster obesity drugs such as Ozempic or Wegovy without piling the pounds back on, according to a scientific study. Data presented at the European Congress on Obesity in Venice, Italy on Sunday provides some of the first evidence that it could be possible to stop taking…
May 13 2024 Semaglutide reduces the need for loop diuretic use and dose, and has positive effects on symptoms, physical limitations, and body weight in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) regardless of diuretic use, according to late breaking research presented today at Heart Failure 2024, a scientific congress of the European…
Screenings may not be the way to get needed resources to children and their caregivers, according to new research presented at the 2024 annual meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies on May 4. Caregivers and parents who were asked if they wanted assistance in several areas of need, including transportation and childcare, were nearly twice…
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Scandi scientists report that children exposed to the widely used pain medicine acetaminophen/paracetamol in the womb, did not go on to develop autism spectrum disorder (ASD), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or intellectual disabilities at a higher rate than other youngsters1. The study published in JAMA earlier this year, followed over two million kids born in…
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In an unusual move, Sandoz is no longer cooperating with a U.K. industry trade group following a dispute over allegations that the company inappropriately marketed a biosimilar medicine. At issue was an anonymous complaint filed in May 2023 by a physician who contended that Sandoz unfairly attempted to promote a biosimilar version of Tysabri for…
An innovative drug, tafamidis, will be available from 13 May for NHS patients in England with the rare heart condition transthyretin amyloidosis cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM). Patients with ATTR-CM have a build-up of protein in the heart which often results in heart failure and can be fatal. Symptoms include shortness of breath, palpitations and abnormal heart rhythms,…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Being asked whether you considered yourself a normal weight, plumper or thinner as a child when attending a doctor’s appointment as an adult might appear like a very strange question to ask, but new research presented at this year’s European Congress on Obesity in Venice, Italy (12–15 May) suggests that such…
The number of cancer cases and deaths in Canada is expected to increase because of a growing and aging population, but the overall rates of people being diagnosed with and dying from cancer will continue to decline, according to the latest cancer trends research in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) https://www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.240095. The study is the…
Food and drink advertisements on video game live-streaming platforms (VGLSPs) such as Twitch are associated with a greater preference for and consumption of products high in fat, salt, and/or sugar (HFSS) among teenagers, according to research presented on May 12, 2024, at the 31st European Congress on Obesity in Venice, Italy. The presentation by Rebecca…
Ash Panakam is about to graduate from Harvard Medical School. She’s from Georgia and always assumed she would return to the South for her residency. But the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision overturning the nationwide right to abortion changed everything. “Ultimately I shifted my selection pretty drastically,” she said. “I was struggling to find a residency…
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You’re reading the web version of Health Care Inc., STAT’s weekly newsletter following the flow of money in medicine. Sign up to get it in your inbox every Monday. We did something a little different for this issue: We wanted to share some of the stories that explain the machinations of the U.S. health care…
Concerns have been raised over the risk assessment carried out for the NHS long term workforce plan, with a senior doctor accusing NHS England of not putting enough consideration into the impact the plan would have on staff. The risk assessment, obtained through a freedom of information request, shows that NHS England outlined 12 risks…
Unexpected abnormal outgrowth in s7-iPIC grafts is outside the pancreatic lineage and continues to proliferate after implantation. (A) Schematic representation of s6-iPIC and s7-iPIC differentiation and subcutaneous implantation using fibrin gel. (B–G) Cell implantation experiments in streptozotocin-injected and normal NOD-scid mice. Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2024). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2320883121 A team of…
Many programs ‘deeply entrenched in school culture’ are harmful to children and can cause potentially lasting damage, psychologists have warned. They say these practices, from abstinence-only sex education to zero tolerance policies, can direct considerable funds away from evidence-based strategies, as well as giving pupils misleading information. In new book Investigating School Psychology, researchers have…
Treatment options for individuals with early-stage hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) vary depending on patient preference and how clinicians define “early” HS. This can be challenging, because to date, no FDA-approved treatments exist for early-stage HS, and only two biologics exist for moderate to severe disease. “For someone with occasional nodules and abscesses, we often use antibiotics…
The emerging class of therapies that treat disease by using the cellular process of protein degradation focused first on cancer. But this approach also has potential applications in immunology, and Lycia Therapeutics is among the companies taking protein degradation in this direction. The startup now has $106.6 million to advance its research into clinical testing….
The head of Ireland’s only postgraduate programme for physician associates (PAs) has described as ‘somewhat bizarre’ a call from the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) for the profession to not be accredited by the Medical Council. Prof Lisa Alexander said she was surprised by a recent motion passed by the IMO for PAs not to be…
Oncology-focused digital health company Flatiron Health, which Roche acquired in a $1.9 billion deal in 2018, is announcing a strategic collaboration with the Association of Cancer Care Centers (ACCC) to promote access to clinical trials in the community setting, improve clinical study efficiency and enhance the gathering of study-related data. ACCC is an advocacy group…
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Want to stay on top of the science and politics driving biotech today? Sign up to get our biotech newsletter in your inbox. Hello! Today we learn whether AI might help hasten the development of n-of-1 therapies (hint: not yet), explore why the FDA hasn’t offered Orange Book guidance on drug-device combinations, and talk about CRISPR. A…
A coroner has told the UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) to take action to “prevent future deaths” relating to its guidance on preventing infective endocarditis after highlighting inconsistencies with advice to dentists.1 The coroner’s prevention of future deaths report was issued to NICE on 29 April after the death of a…
Ultrasound image of micro-histotripsy liberation of biomarkers in a tumor. Credit: Joy Wang and Pradyumna Kedarisetti. Ultrasound imaging offers a valuable and noninvasive way to find and monitor cancerous tumors. However, much of the most crucial information about a cancer, such as specific cell types and mutations, cannot be learned from imaging and requires invasive…
The FDA never inspected Johns Dental Laboratories during more than a decade in which it made the Anterior Growth Guidance Appliance, or “AGGA,” a dental device that has allegedly harmed patients and is now the subject of a criminal investigation. According to FDA documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, the agency “became aware”…
Based on his experience caring for patients with hidradenitis suppurativa (HS), dermatologist Christopher Sayed, MD, said that an exhaustive battery of tests is usually not required to diagnose early-stage HS, which can be mistaken for other conditions, such as an infection, folliculitis, and acne. Christopher Sayed, MD According to 2019 guidelines from the United States…
The rise of AI-powered health tech for managing administrative tasks to identifying targets for drug development, the push towards value-based care adoption, the adoption of telehealth to facilitate access to care, have helped drive investment in healthcare startups. A panel at the MedCity INVEST conference will unpack these and other investment trends as they provide…
Dawn O’Shea recalls her time working with Irish Medical Times publisher and editor, Dr John O’Connell In every university and teaching hospital in the world, there is that one educator who strikes fear into the hearts of students and junior doctors. It turns out these people are not just limited to medical education, as I…
The FDA never inspected Johns Dental Laboratories during more than a decade in which it made the Anterior Growth Guidance Appliance, or “AGGA,” a dental device that has allegedly harmed patients and is now the subject of a criminal investigation. According to FDA documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, the agency “became aware”…
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Reluctance among dairy farmers to report H5N1 bird flu outbreaks within their herds or allow testing of their workers has made it difficult to keep up with the virus’s rapid spread, prompting federal public health officials to look to wastewater to help fill in the gaps. On Monday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…
David Oliver, consultant in geriatrics and acute general medicine Berkshire davidoliver372{at}googlemail.comFollow David on Twitter @mancunianmedic In June 2023 NHS England (NHSE) published its long awaited and serially delayed long term workforce plan for the NHS.1 In the 10 months since then we’ve seen pay disputes, difficult contract negotiations, strike action, and ballots of clinical staff.234…