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For many years, scientists have only investigated the drawbacks of cell phone texting, such as its effects on literacy levels and driver safety. In a new study, a team of experts was able to demonstrate that the practice can also have very positive effect.
Investigators at the University of California in Berkeley (... |
10 April 2012
03:49 GMT |
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In a paper published in a recent issue of the journal Psycho-Oncology, experts revealed that lung cancer patients are oftentimes depressed because they feel a sense of shame and isolation, as well as rejection from others. This may explain why the incidence of depression in this group is so high.
The new study was l... |
28 March 2012
06:03 GMT |
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In the past, researchers thought that the first signs of cognitive decline set in at around the age of 60. However, a new study conducted by European researchers is fighting that established belief, showing that this array of conditions can make its presence felt as early as a person's mid-40s.
Knowing the age... |
11 January 2012
10:12 GMT |
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In a new scientific research, investigators determined that schizophrenic patients tend to exhibit a much higher rate of de novo mutations than their parents. These are mutations that occur in these patients exclusively, and cannot be traced in their parents too. The frequency of these genetic errors made researchers... |
11 July 2011
05:14 GMT |
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The poor implementation of key national guideline-recommended therapies may be responsible for as much as 68,000 deaths per year in the United States alone. All of these people could survive, if the country were to implement the therapy courses in an optimal manner. Some of the therapies include prescribing and insta... |
7 June 2011
05:24 GMT |
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In a new series of investigations, experts have revealed that healthcare professionals who exhibit small displays of empathy to the people they are treating are having a very positive effect on the outcome of the overall treatment.It was found that patients who benefit from this type of treatment tend to report incre... |
26 January 2011
03:17 GMT |
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Waiting for a diagnosis can be one of the most stressful things in life, even more stressful that knowing you have a serious disease, concluded a study led by researchers from the Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts.Elvira V. Lang, MD, associate professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School in Boston, ... |
29 November 2010
05:57 GMT |
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The usual place to find a pharmacist is behind the counter, in a local pharmacy for example, but an associate professor in the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, believes that pharmacists would be more helpful in doctors' offices.Scot Simpson has published a new study ... |
27 November 2010
06:19 GMT |
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Experts around the world are currently engaged in a research effort to determine better methods of installing prosthetics in their patients, while at the same time eliminating the risks of infection and rejection. Techniques to do so already exist, but they are dangerous. When a metal rod is inserted into the hand, f... |
10 November 2010
08:53 GMT |
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Researchers say that the damage to the nervous system is what gives some people who have lost a limb the feeling of a phantom limb, and that this phenomenon is not so rare after all.The phantom limb feeling is the impression that the amputated arm or leg is still there, but it can also occur to people who have suffer... |
24 September 2010
10:33 GMT |
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Healthcare experts announce that the third double-hand transplant performed in the United States may be a success, given that the patient can wiggle his fingers. The accomplishment is tremendously important, given the complex nature of the surgery required to make this a reality. The procedure had low odds of success... |
3 September 2010
05:20 GMT |
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Investigators from the Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) College of Medicine and the Texas A&M University have just announced the conclusions of a new study they conduct on physician-patient relationships in the nation's healthcare system. They determined that doctors don't really get their patient... |
26 July 2010
10:57 GMT |
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Some time ago, psychologists and social scientists determined that a significant discrepancy exists in hospitals and homes, between the expectations terminally-ill patients have of those around them, and the things they actually receive in response. The experts emphasized the fact that relationships are the main meth... |
23 July 2010
10:47 GMT |
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A new program to treat depression in patients, devised by scientists at the Henry Ford Health System Behavioral Health Services division, managed to avoid any of the patients taking their own lives for more than 30 months. Unfortunately, in spite of the increased efficiency depression treatments have today, healthcar... |
19 May 2010
19:01 GMT |
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As all smokers who tried to quit and failed must know, relinquishing the habit is almost never an easy task. Most people set up various schedules for dropping cigarettes, promising themselves rewards, or replacing smoking with another, less harmful habit. Even then, only a part of all those who are trying to quit man... |
9 April 2010
14:01 GMT |
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Facilitated communication is the name given to a procedure in which a comatose patient, or someone who is otherwise significantly impaired, guides their hand over a touchscreen keyboard to type a message, while their hand is being held by someone else. This method came under increased criticism lately, when the case ... |
26 November 2009
02:01 GMT |
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Endoscopes are currently of tremendous use for doctors and patients alike, because they provide healthcare experts with the ability to look inside a body without having to resort to surgery, biopsies, or other types of invasive procedures. A University of Florida engineering researcher has now taken the utility of th... |
20 November 2009
02:33 GMT |
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In his work “The Art,” the ancient Greek Hippocrates wrote, more than 2,500 years before the modern era, that medial practitioners were not scientists, but artists, and that their art was using their knowledge to do good. Healthcare providers were also described as people who knew when to use their medica... |
21 October 2009
03:57 GMT |
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Intensive Care Units (ICUs) are the first places in hospitals where people arrive after suffering severe injuries. Statistics indicate that as much as half of the patients that die in these units do so within the first 24 hours after their arrival. In a new University of Gothenburg Sahlgrenska Academy thesis, by nurs... |
5 October 2009
05:02 GMT |
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A few years ago, a very small number of patients visiting their physicians had questions of their own after a consult, when they asked doctors about diseases they read about online. Now, such behavior is not at all uncommon, with many people searching for diagnostics and other answers online themselves. A new researc... |
1 September 2009
20:31 GMT |
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Over the years, as more and more homes started getting access to computers and the Internet, a shift was recorded in the classical sources people turned to in order to get their medical information. Rather than visiting the doctor's office, many people now prefer browsing for a response to their questions online... |
29 July 2009
16:51 GMT |
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A new investigation has revealed that health care providers, doctors and nurses have not yet completely let go of pen and paper while they are on duty. In addition to the electronic medical records they keep, which show the full data about any patient, they still resort to notes, index cards, post-its on computer scr... |
21 July 2009
13:31 GMT |
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At this point, authorities admit, the situation in Scottish hospitals is not flawless. A recent online survey has found that almost 33 percent of the nurses who reported their concerns about the safety of their patients said that no action was taken after their complaint was filed. In addition, the vast majority of n... |
11 May 2009
16:01 GMT |
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Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) believe that high-tech medical scanners, while perfectly fit to detect hidden diseases and tumors inside patients, could use some improvements, in terms of protecting the people that go in them from the harmful effects of too much radiation. Having already te... |
29 April 2009
10:25 GMT |
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New research seems to indicate the fact that doctors and other health care personnel in the United Kingdom strongly oppose legalizing euthanasia in public facilities. They say that's immoral to do this, even though proponents of the measure state that, for terminally ill patients who wish it, the possibility sho... |
26 March 2009
06:40 GMT |
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The issue of medical health care in the case of terminally-ill patients has been under debate for quite some time now, but to little practical use. Doctors say that they do all they can for the patients with no survival chances, and that they try to divide their time as best as possible between these people and all t... |
10 March 2009
03:59 GMT |
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According to a Thomson Reuters financial analysis of US hospitals, most of these institutions currently register no profits from their activities. Their median profit margins are at zero, and chances are that they will remain very low for the next period. In addition, of the 400 hospitals that have been surveyed, mor... |
3 March 2009
10:28 GMT |
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Music plays a very important role in the lives of many people. It can get you down or fill you with joy, and it can even influence your mood and perception of things. But patients in hospitals, apart from suffering from various illnesses, are also psychologically affected, as they are deprived of hearing soothing sou... |
26 February 2009
04:22 GMT |
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Doctors who use very technical terms when describing a disease to their patients are more likely to scare the people seeking their help than those who introduce medical conditions with their lay terms, instead of the correct medical ones. When hearing words they don't understand, especially in relation to their ... |
9 December 2008
04:33 GMT |
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