(HealthNewsDigest.com) – WASHINGTON – AACC has sent comments to the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) Committee urging the committee not to include the VALID Act in its omnibus Food and Drug Administration (FDA) user fee legislation.
Category: Medicine
Preventing Infection with Improved Silver Coating for Medical Devices
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – According to folklore, silver bullets kill werewolves, but in the real world, researchers want to harness this metal to fight another deadly foe: bacteria.
Loyola Medicine Offers American Sign Language Translation for Telehealth
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – MAYWOOD, IL – As part of Loyola Medicine’s commitment to making health care accessible to all, Loyola has added American Sign Language (ASL) to the translation services available for individuals making telehealth appointments.
Medical Mysteries – Their Specialty
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – LOS ANGELES (April 4, 2022) — Every Thursday, a panel of from Cedars-Sinai gathers on a video call to spend a full hour talking about a single patient. Each week, the patient is different, but all have one thing in common:
Emergency Medicine and Anesthesiology Specialties See High Increases in Price
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Emergency Medicine and Anesthesiology are two outlier medical specialties that had abnormally high increases in charges from 2010 to 2019….
Target Health Inequity with New Family Medicine Residency
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Rush University is launching a new residency program aimed at curbing health inequities across the West and Southwest sides of Chicago.
Medicines Affecting Our Response to Infections Like COVID-19?
(HealthNews/digest.com) – The largest clinical review of immune responses to paracetamol, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and opioid analgesics, with a focus on infectious diseases….
Gender and Ethnicity Bias in Medicine
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – New research by David Markowitz, assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon, has uncovered pervasive gender and ethnicity biases across medicine.
Hepatitis C Patients Cured with Antiviral Medicines are Less Likely to be Hospitalized
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – DETROIT – Researchers at Henry Ford Health System, as part of a national hepatitis C collaborative, report that patients with chronic hepatitis C who are treated with direct-acting antiviral medicines….
Excellence in Medication Safety, Pharmacy Practice
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – UC San Diego Health is the first organization to be recognized as a Certified Center of Excellence in Medication-Use Safety and Pharmacy Practice (COE) by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHSP).
10 Medical and Scientific Breakthroughs of 2021 at Mount Sinai
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Ketamine Infusions Found Promising for PTSD A team of researchers led by Dennis Charney, MD, Dean of the Icahn School of Medicine, and Adriana Feder, MD found that repeated intravenous ketamine infusions….
Pediatric Medical Center Enhances Care for Rett Syndrome
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Children’s Hospital Los Angeles has re-launched its Rett Syndrome Clinic in an expanded space: the new Neurological Institute Outpatient Center, which opened earlier this year at the hospital’s Sunset Boulevard campus.
Aboriginal Bush Medicine Could Improve Modern Day Cancer Treatment
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – For centuries, people all over the world have been using medical plants to fight infections, boost wound healing, and for religious ceremonies.
Stem Cells Into Space to Develop Medicine of Tomorrow
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Los Angeles –The investigators are partnering with a private firm—Space Tango, of Lexington, Kentucky—to send “induced pluripotent stem cells” (known as iPSCs) to the International Space Station….
Cancer Patients – Multi-Algorithm Approach Helps Deliver Personalized Medicine
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Today, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and algorithmic advancements made by research scientists and engineers are driving more targeted medical therapies through the power of prediction.
A New Way To Get Your Medical Supplies
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Every year millions of people struggle through the confusing and stressful process of finding the right ostomy supplies to manage their health at home.
Detect Aneurysms – Loyola Medicine Offers Free Health Screening
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – MAYWOOD, IL – Loyola Medicine’s Center for Aortic Disease is set to host a free abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) ultrasound screening event on Saturday, November 6.
Medications in Use – Being Tested for Treatment of COVID-19
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – I’ve heard several drugs mentioned as possible treatments for COVID-19. What are they, and how do they work?
Toward Better Medicine
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Why does SARS-CoV-2 shapeshift wildly from one person to the next, causing barely a sniffle in some but raging, lethal infections in others?
Barnacles, Medical Glue Stops Bleeding in Seconds
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – ROCHESTER, Minn. ― Mayo Clinic researchers and colleagues at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a rapid-sealing paste that can stop bleeding organs independent of clotting.