Nurse Work Environment Affects Patient Outcome
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 26, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Surgical patients in hospitals with good nurse work environments have lower odds of intensive care unit admission and mortality, according to a s...
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Black Patients More Likely to Have Negative Descriptors in Notes
MONDAY, Jan. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Black patients are more likely than White patients to have at least one negative descriptor in the history and physical notes of their electronic he...
Overall, Night Shift Work Not Tied to Higher Lymphoma Risk
MONDAY, Jan. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Night shift work may increase the risk for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), according to a study published online Jan. 13 in Occupational & Envir...
Microbiome Therapeutic Beats Placebo for Recurrent C. difficile
MONDAY, Jan. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- An investigational microbiome therapeutic composed of purified Firmicutes spores, SER-109, is superior to placebo for treatment of recurrent Clostri...
Ad26.COV2.S, mRNA Boosters Immunogenic After Ad26.COV2.S
MONDAY, Jan. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For health care workers who received a priming dose of the Ad26.COV2.S vaccine, Ad26.COV2.S and mRNA boosters are immunogenic, with the strongest re...
Adding Immunotherapy to Chemo Ups Survival in Advanced Biliary Tract Cancer
MONDAY, Jan. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Adding the immunotherapeutic agent durvalumab to standard chemotherapy improves survival in advanced biliary tract cancer, according to a study pres...
Combo Immunotherapy Ups Survival in Advanced Liver Cancer
MONDAY, Jan. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- STRIDE (Single tremelimumab Regular Interval durvalumab) is proposed as first-line therapy for unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (uHCC), accordi...
Risk for Cancer Increased After VTE for Patients With Psoriasis
MONDAY, Jan. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with psoriasis, the risk for cancer is increased at the time of or after venous thromboembolism (VTE), according to a research letter p...
MRI of Hand, Foot May Predict RA in Undifferentiated Arthritis
MONDAY, Jan. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the hand and foot may predict rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in patients presenting with undifferentiated arthritis (...
Frailty Mars Outcomes After aHSCT in Lymphoid Malignancies
MONDAY, Jan. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with lymphoid malignancies undergoing autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (aHSCT), frailty is associated with worse hosp...
Risks Discussed for Alternative Peripartum, Neonatal Practices
MONDAY, Jan. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The risks associated with emerging alternative peripartum and neonatal practices are discussed in a report published online Jan. 24 in Pediatrics.Da...
The Effect of Health Literacy on Men Seeking Medical Attention for Erectile Dysfunction.
Objective In this study, we aimed to determine if there was any relationship between patients with erectile dysfunction (ED) who do not seek medical help at the hospitals and their health l...
The Precision Prostatectomy: an IDEAL Stage 0, 1 and 2a Study.
This study aimed to develop a preclinical model of prostate cancer (CaP) for studying focal/hemiablation of the prostate (IDEAL stage 0), and to use the information from the stage 0 investig...
Effects of warm needling therapy on symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia: A protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is the term for a type of non-malignant prostate enlargement that is most often diagnosed in men of middle age and older. Lower urinary tract symptoms (LUT...
Imbalance in the estrogen/androgen ratio may affect prostate fibrosis through the TGF-β/Smad signaling pathway.
The present study aimed to investigate the effects of an imbalance in the estrogen/androgen ratio on prostate fibrosis.Different concentrations of dihydrotestosterone (DHT) or estradiol (E) ...
A Shakespearean Dilemma in Breast Augmentation: to Use Drains or not? a Systematic Review : Drains in Breast Augmentation.
Breast augmentation is one of the most commonly requested and performed plastic surgery procedures. In order to prevent early postoperative complications such as seroma or hematoma, surgical...
Piezo-Augmented Sonosensitizer with Strong Ultrasound-Propelling Ability for Efficient Treatment of Osteomyelitis.
The successful treatment of osteomyelitis remains a great challenge in the field of orthopedics. The clinical method for treating refractory bone infection requires a combination therapy of ...
Meniscal Tear and ACL Injury Detection Model Based on AlexNet and Iterative ReliefF.
Magnetic resonance (MR) is one of the special imaging techniques used to diagnose orthopedics and traumatology. In this study, a new method has been proposed to detect highly accurate automa...
Patient volume and clinical outcome after pancreatic cancer resection: A contemporary systematic review and meta-analysis.
Pancreatic cancer remains a highly fatal disease with a 5-year overall survival of less than 10%. In seeking to improve clinical outcomes, there is ongoing debate about the weight that shoul...
Taking the strain: An examination of upper back musculoskeletal tissue sensitivity in relation to upper back pain and breast size. A cross-sectional study.
The physiological basis for upper back pain experienced by women with large breasts is unclear but could relate to sensitivity of musculoskeletal tissues strained from the postural adaptatio...
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