April 20, 2018
(STAT News) – The U.S. may be gripped by an opioid crisis, but a new report suggests the various measures undertaken to fight the scourge is having an effect — fewer prescriptions were written for the addictive painkillers. To wit, … Read More
April 20, 2018
(STAT News) – But at some of these hospitals, residents may be learning bad habits. A STAT analysis of federal inspection data finds that there’s a wide gap in the quality of training at teaching hospitals, as shown by how … Read More
April 20, 2018
(NPR) – Gene therapy is showing promise for treating one of the most common genetic disorders. Results of a study published Wednesday show that 15 of 22 patients with beta-thalassemia who got gene therapy were able to stop or sharply … Read More
April 20, 2018
(News-Medical) – A study looking at the personal perceptions and experiences of patients, families and healthcare professionals, has highlighted the need for improvement in symptom management in end of life care. The analysis by the Marie Curie Palliative Care Research … Read More
April 20, 2018
(STAT News) – The FDA’s announcement last week that it approved artificial intelligence software that can identify diabetic retinopathy, a common eye disease, without the need for an eye specialist likely shook some doctors already concerned about this new technology. … Read More
April 19, 2018
(The Guardian) – Women have been exposed to unacceptable risks through the use of vaginal mesh surgery, the government has acknowledged for the first time, as fresh evidence has revealed that thousands of women have suffered traumatic complications. In a … Read More
April 19, 2018
(Medscape) – Indeed, scientists and journals should replace the P value threshold for significance, typically P < .05, with one tenth the magnitude, Ioannidis argues in a viewpoint published March 22 in JAMA. The new P = .005 standard would … Read More
April 19, 2018
(Nature) – Alokta Chakrabarti manages drug-candidate identification and discovery for client pharmaceutical companies. As a project team leader at the contract research organization (CRO) ProQinase in Freiburg, Germany, she spends her days meeting clients, working at the bench, flying through … Read More
April 18, 2018
(The Atlantic) – The man whose name appears in medical textbooks, whose likeness is memorialized in statues, is J. Marion Sims. Celebrated as the “father of modern gynecology,” Sims practiced the surgical techniques that made him famous on enslaved women: … Read More
April 18, 2018
(Medscape) – Cancer patients are often encouraged to enter a clinical trial, especially when their disease has become metastatic and they have few options left. But are they getting the full picture? A number of well-established medical centers frequently advertise … Read More
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