Study fills knowledge gaps about surgery outcomes for Inuit in Canada
A team of Canadian researchers, including Inuit and other Indigenous researchers, have published the first study of Inuit surgical outcomes ...
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Moffitt researchers develop model to predict patients with poor lung cancer outcomes
TAMPA, Fla. — Lung cancer is the second most common cancer in the United States and the leading cause of cancer ...
Shrinking gap in surgical safety outcomes benefits older black patients in South Carolina
Preparing for surgery can be a scary, momentous occasion in any person’s life, but a greater chance of danger because ...
Thyroid hormone replacement undertreatment linked to worse hospital outcomes
WASHINGTON—Undertreatment with thyroid hormone replacement can put patients with hypothyroidism at risk for worse hospital outcomes, including longer length of ...
Intranasal human milk as stem cell therapy in preterm infants with intraventricular hemorrhage: Safety, feasibility and short-term outcomes
DENVER, April 22, 2022 – A new study demonstrates that intranasal human milk is a safe and feasible intervention for ...
Impaired prenatal brain growth predicts adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes in infants with congenital heart disease
DENVER, April 22, 2022 – A new study reports that selective impairments in regional fetal brain growth predict adverse cognitive, ...
Keeping web-like NETs from clogging blood vessels could improve stroke outcomes
Preventing the formation of a sticky, web-like substance that can form in blood vessels after a stroke could protect the ...
Association of injection or IV administration of monoclonal antibodies with COVID-19 outcomes
What The Study Did: Researchers evaluated whether receiving by injection the monoclonal antibodies casirivimab and imdevimab was associated with reduced ...
Immunotherapy plus chemotherapy before surgery improves outcomes for lung cancer patients
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Adding the immunotherapy drug nivolumab to chemotherapy before surgery (neoadjuvant) for patients with operable non-small cell lung ...
School outcomes among children following death of a parent
What The Study Did: This analysis, which included nearly 1 million children born in Sweden, investigated whether death of a ...
Cleveland Clinic-led study details critical role of viral gene ORF8 in COVID-19 infection and outcomes
CLEVELAND - A research team led by Jae Jung, PhD, Director of Cleveland Clinic’s Global Center for Pathogen & Human ...
New machine learning models can predict adverse outcomes after abdominal hernia surgery with high accuracy
Key takeaways Credit: American College of Surgeons Key takeaways Four million abdominal operations are performed in the United States each ...
Sitting Tai Chi exercises improved recovery outcomes for older stroke survivors
Embargoed until 4 a.m. CT/5 a.m. ET Thursday, April 7, 2022 DALLAS, April 7, 2022 — Stroke survivors who practiced a seated ...
Non-English speaking patients hospitalized with COVID-19 are at-risk of worse health outcomes
BOSTON – The language status of patients hospitalized for COVID-19 may significantly impact health outcomes during their admission, as non-English ...
Incidence, outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron, Delta variants in children younger than age 5
What The Study Did: The results of this study including 650,000 children suggest that the incidence rate of SARS-CoV-2 infection ...
Data from investigational COVID-19 antiviral drug molnupiravir suggest better outcomes for most COVID-related symptoms than placebo
**Note: the release below is a special early release from the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID ...
Lying prone long enough to improve outcomes is difficult for many covid-19 patients
Lying face down in a prone position is thought to improve outcomes for patients in intensive care with covid-19. But ...
Cognitive, neuropsychiatric outcomes after hospitalization for COVID-19
What The Study Did: Researchers compared cognitive impairment, neuropsychiatric diagnoses and symptoms after six months in 85 COVID-19 survivors with 61 ...
Study finds cementless knee replacement outcomes comparable to standard knee implant, less time needed in OR
Cementless knee replacement, an alternative approach to traditional cemented knee replacement surgery, is garnering interest in the field of orthopedic ...
WVU research suggests interrupting immune response improves multiple sclerosis outcomes
A human immune system is a lot like the board game Mouse Trap: it’s a Rube Goldberg system of interacting ...