We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. A staggering 90 percent of adults in the UK have some gum disease on their teeth, and gum abscesses can often occur as a result. How do you know if your inflamed […]
Nearly 1.2 million people passed through U.S. airports Sunday, the greatest number since the pandemic gripped the country in March, despite pleas from health experts for Americans to stay home over Thanksgiving. The Transportation Security Administration screened at least 1 million people on four of the last 10 days through Sunday. That’s still half the […]
MONDAY, Nov. 30, 2020 — Men with negative biopsies during active surveillance for low-risk prostate cancer are more likely to have good long-term outcomes, according to a study published online Nov. 17 in The Journal of Urology. Carissa E. Chu, M.D., from the University of California, San Francisco, and colleagues assessed the long-term clinical significance […]
The number of patients starting anticancer therapies dropped by more than 30 per cent in April, the month following the UK’s first COVID-19 lockdown, but went above pre-pandemic levels within three months, finds a new study of NHS England data co-led by UCL researchers. The analysis, published in The Lancet Oncology, assessed the number of […]
A paper published this month in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association found that vendors vary in their development maturity of outpatient EHR use measures. Although Epic, Cerner and Allscripts have developed EHR use measures in client-available platforms, researchers found that athenahealth’s are still in development, and eClinicalWorks and NextGen have no existing […]
The interim findings of a survey of people bereaved in the UK since March have laid bare the difficulties and distress experienced by those who have lost a loved one this year. The first UK-wide survey exploring bereavement experiences and support was carried out by Cardiff University and the University of Bristol, with many participants […]
In severe cases of COVID-19 disease, not only classic immune cells play a role. In particular, the release of immature precursor cells from the bone marrow into the blood indicates a particularly severe course of the disease and could contribute to complications. This has been shown by an international research team involving the DFG Cluster […]
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have developed a deep learning model that identifies imaging biomarkers on screening mammograms to predict a patient’s risk for developing breast cancer with greater accuracy than traditional risk assessment tools. Results of the study are being presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). […]
Strong Women trainer Emma Obayuvana demonstrates how to strengthen your lat muscles to help you do a pull-up in this quick 10 minute workout. Pull-ups are arguably one of the toughest bodyweight exercises known to (wo)man. But if there’s one body part that can help lift your chin over that bar, it’s your back – […]
New York City will reopen its school system to in-person learning, and increase the number of days a week many children attend class, even as the coronavirus pandemic intensifies in the city, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Sunday. The announcement marks a major policy reversal for the nation’s largest school system, less than two weeks […]
