Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain An educational and social support intervention for caregivers reduced elder mistreatment of older adults with chronic illness, including dementia. That’s the result of a double-blind, randomized controlled trial published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Elder mistreatment is defined as “an intentional act or failure to act by a
It flags cases in real time, prompting faster patient interventions…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Most health care facilities in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are unprepared to treat patients with cardiovascular diseases—despite these conditions leading to millions of people dying prematurely every year, a new study reveals. Experts analyzed health survey data from eight LMICs across four World Health Organization world regions to discover
Change in diagnostic cardiovascular testing in 2021 compared with prepandemic procedure baseline volumes. Chart compares the median percentage change in procedure volumes of U.S. (represented by U.S. flag), NUHIC (represented by gold bars), and all non-U.S. (represented by world globe) facilities from March 2019 to April 2021. Percentage change represents the median of the percentage
One of the New Jersey health system’s interventional pulmonologists tells the story of how an artificial intelligence-aided detection system is offering significant clinical ROI…
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MedPage Today) — FDA advisors conceded on Wednesday that the benefit-risk balance of patisiran (Onpattro) technically checks out in wild-type or hereditary transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM, also known as cardiac ATTR amyloidosis…
One radiologist supported by AI detected more cases of breast cancer in screening mammography than two radiologists working together, reports the ScreenTrustCAD study from Karolinska Institutet in a paper, titled “Artificial intelligence for breast cancer detection in screening mammography: A paired-readers prospective interventional screen positive trial,” published in The Lancet Digital Health…
Credit: CC0 Public Domain There has been a three-fold increase in obesity-related deaths from heart disease in the U.S. between 1999 and 2020, according to new research published today in the Journal of the American Heart Association. “The number of people with obesity is rising in every country across the world. Our study is the
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new analysis of liver cancer has identified racial and ethnic differences and emerging trends for this highly fatal disease. The study, conducted by researchers with Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and collaborating organizations, has also identified potential targeted interventions to improve control