FHIR-based system for EHRs cut search time from 3 minutes to 5 seconds

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The Regenstrief Institute in Indianapolis, Indiana, faced a challenge: How to make health information from the Indiana Network for Patient Care, the nation’s largest inter-organizational clinical data repository, available more efficiently and effectively to clinicians. THE PROBLEM “Imagine the often huge collection of information about a patient as an iceberg,” said Regenstrief Institute Research Scientist Dr. Titus Schleyer. “When the […]

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Small red blood cells could indicate cancer

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Having abnormally small red blood cells—a condition known as microcytosis—could indicate cancer, according to new research led by a University of Exeter student working with a world-leading team. Medical Sciences student Rhain Hopkins was lead author of the study of more than 12,000 UK patients aged over 40, which found that the cancer risk in males was 6.2 percent, compared […]

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Liver surgery success boosted by growth hormone

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Growth hormone has been identified as playing a key role in reducing inflammation and increasing survival rates following liver surgery. Researchers at The University of Queensland Diamantina Institute investigated how the body’s growth hormone assists with liver regeneration in a study using mice. Project leader Dr. Andrew Brooks said mice did not survive surgery to remove two thirds of their […]

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New therapeutic targets for treating memory impairment in Down’s syndrome

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A team of researchers led by Dr. Victoria Puig from the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM), which also involved the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), has studied the neural basis of intellectual disability in mice with Down’s syndrome and has discovered that the neural networks of brain circuits relevant to memory and learning are over-activated and that the […]

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COVID-19: Newly identified antibodies prevents infection by SARS-CoV-2 – Naturopathy naturopathy specialist portal

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The infection with SARS can be CoV-2 prevent? A newly identified fully human monoclonal antibody prevents the Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 to infect cells. This discovery is the first step in the development of a fully human antibody for the treatment or prevention of SARS-CoV-2-induced airway disease COVID-19. In the current joint study of the Utrecht University, the Erasmus Medical Center and […]

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Societies issue guide to safely resume cardiovascular procedures, diagnostic tests

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The American College of Cardiology together with other North American cardiovascular societies has issued a framework for ethically and safely reintroducing invasive cardiovascular procedures and diagnostic tests after the initial peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The document was published today in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced appropriate, but significant, restrictions on routine […]

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