Dementia diagnosis rates have reached a three-year high after falling during the pandemic, the head of the NHS has said. The ambition to diagnose 66.7 percent of over 65s who have the condition has not been met since March 2020. But Amanda Pritchard promised progress was being made through interventions such as specialist teams being sent to assess people in […]

Monitoring brain injury biomarkers and glucose variation in patients who have suffered an acute cranial injury during the entire first week of hospitalization can provide a more accurate picture of the pathological process. This is according to a paper published in The Lancet Neurology by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. It is hoped that their findings can eventually lead […]

When tornadoes tore through Spalding County, Georgia—an hour south of Atlanta—on January 12, Spalding County Animal Shelter contacted the ASPCA for help caring for animals impacted by the storms. The ASPCA established a temporary shelter for unowned pets and animals displaced by the tornadoes and relocated other animals to shelters outside the impacted communities to free up space in local shelters. More than […]

Reviewed Research has shown that music might be a drug-free way to lower humans’ pain perception. This decreased sensitivity to pain – also known as hypoalgesia – can occur when pain stimuli are disrupted between their point of input and where they are recognized as pain by the conscious mind. In a new study, researchers in Canada have examined what […]

The growing volume of imaging in the Yale New Haven health system has placed increasing demand on radiologists and staff. Many institutions are facing a similar challenge. THE PROBLEM The health system started looking at artificial intelligence technology in the context of emergency room workflows. Part of this need was figuring the best way to prioritize patients who came in […]

Reviewed Every cell in the human body contains the same genetic instructions, encoded in its DNA. However, out of about 30,000 genes, each cell expresses only those genes that it needs to become a nerve cell, immune cell, or any of the other hundreds of cell types in the body. Each cell's fate is largely determined by chemical modifications to […]

Hope for thousands of men battling prostate cancer as scientists discover ‘practice changing’ drug combination that slashes risk of disease returning by 60% 52,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer in Britain ever year Experts say the findings could be ‘practice changing’ for men and boost survival A drug combination could ‘transform’ the treatment of aggressive prostate cancer after trials found […]

Canadian scientists have established for the first time a new mechanism and role for LDL in the development of type 2 diabetes, beyond its traditional role in the development of cardiovascular disease in humans. Announced today for World Diabetes Day, the work was carried out by Université de Montréal professor May Faraj, director of the nutrition, lipoproteins and cardiometabolic diseases […]

Photo: Helen Waters Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of features on top voices in health IT discussing the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare. To read the first feature, on Dr. John Halamka at the Mayo Clinic, click here. To read the second interview, with Dr. Aalpen Patel at Geisinger, click here. Meditech is one of […]

TOPLINE: Deep brain stimulation (DBS) for Parkinson’s disease (PD) is as effective in patients with GBA gene mutation as it is in those without this mutation, offering significantly improved motor and nonmotor symptoms, reduced levodopa equivalent daily dose (LEDD) intake, and decreased impulse control disorders (ICDs) for up to 5 years, a new study found. METHODOLOGY: While DBS has been […]