Medical News

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Allowing primary care doctors to take photos and send them to dermatologists improved access to specialty care.

(Children's Hospital Los Angeles) In addition to adults, opioid addiction and misuse affects the pediatric population. Pediatric surgeon forms group of health care providers and advocates to establish first ever pediatri...

Steam sterilization to kill viruses is very effective at hospitals -- but it's not necessarily a great option for people's homes.

(The Hastings Center) Health data models have the potential to exacerbate current health and health care disparities and create new ones. A new NIH-funded Hastings Center project will develop an ethics framework for scie...

(PLOS) Spain's annual life expectancy at birth dropped by 0.9 years between 2019 and the annual period up until July 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study published this week in the open-access jour...

(American College of Physicians) 1. Insights From Rapid Deployment of a "Virtual Hospital" as Standard Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic ; 2. Sixty-Day Outcomes Among Patients Hospitalized With COVID-19

(University of Toronto) Hip fractures are one of the leading causes of hospitalization among older adults and are a strong predictor of mortality. There has been a steady and substantial decline in the incidence of hip f...

(University of Toronto) Young adults may be less susceptible to the serious adverse health effects of COVID-19, but they have not been absolved from economic and employment downturns -- and there has been little research...

(Cedars-Sinai Medical Center) In a retrospective study recently published in the journal Gastroenterology, Cedars-Sinai investigators found that a combination of rare and common genetic variants in some IBD patients sign...

(University of Houston) Interest in an occupation matters, but not as much as you might think when it comes to job satisfaction. While it's not a strong predictor of satisfaction, a University of Houston researcher found...

(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) Outcomes for COVID-19 patients two months after a stay in one of 38 Michigan hospitals include high rates of death, rehospitalization, lingering health issues and problems wit...

(University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center) Promising clinical results with combination treatments for patients with melanoma and lung cancer highlight immunotherapy advances being presented by researchers from Th...

(University of Delaware) A new study found that suicide rates increase during all types of disasters -- including severe storms, floods, hurricanes and ice storms -- with the largest overall increase occurring two years ...

(Nemours) Interventional radiologists with Nemours Children's Health System have identified a new source of abnormal lymphatic flow between the liver and the lungs that may be responsible for some cases of plastic bronch...

(La Jolla Institute for Immunology) Every day, ten Americans die from asthma. While quick-acting inhalers and medications can reduce inflammation during an asthma attack, people with asthma have few tools to prevent the ...

(Swansea University) A new survey has revealed the extent of the impact Covid-19 has had on mental health in Wales with younger adults, women and people from deprived areas suffering the most.The research carried out by ...

(Massachusetts General Hospital) An analysis of medical records reveals variability in the tests and treatments that patients with type 2 myocardial infarction receive during and after their hospital stay. Clinical trial...

(University of Alabama at Birmingham) Researchers have discovered a previously undescribed population of neurons called saccade-vergence burst neurons that help control our eyes as they view in three-dimensional space. M...

(Yale University) Yale researchers have discovered a protein that helps protect hosts from infection with the tick-borne spirochete that causes Lyme Disease, a finding that may help diagnose and treat this infection, the...

(American Thoracic Society) Thomas S. Valley, MD, of the University of Michigan has been selected as the first-ever recipient of the ATS/CHEST Foundation Research Grant in Diversity. The focus of the research grant is cl...

(Texas A&M University) "Age gates" that aim to keep underage users off alcohol websites are mostly ineffective, a Texas A&M University alcohol researcher found.

(University of Texas at San Antonio) A team of researchers from UTSA's Neurosciences Institute is challenging the historical belief that the organization of the cortical circuit of GABAergic neurons is exclusively local.