Below Deck: Captain Sandy discusses kidney cancer diagnosis We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info Sumaiya Patel, Pharmacist at Pharmacy2U says there […]

Why is it that, real or not, we tend to reject things that associate us with being old? Case in point: A little over two decades ago, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a petition to allow prune producers to market their product as “dried plums.” They hoped the new designation might help remove […]

There are numerous things in your life that change when you get a diagnosis for a chronic condition. There’s the relief of having more answers and, ideally, a path toward treatment. But for the vast majority of people with chronic illnesses that are considered “invisible” — there can also be some additional hidden struggles that […]

Photo: Providence Health System Renton, Washington-based Providence Health System knew healthcare was becoming more consumer-driven and believed that meant digital needed to play a role in how care was accessed and delivered. THE PROBLEM But, like many health systems, Providence needed to dramatically evolve its digital capabilities to not just meet but exceed customers' expectations […]

A recent review collected and analyzed 54 studies from the UK, USA, and Canada. The findings highlight numerous factors that were linked with worse patient experience, showing how cancer care may not be meeting the needs of all patients. The results, published in eClinicalMedicine by The Lancet, formed part of the research conducted by Dr. […]

Positive peer relationship in nursing homes is an important component of residents’ quality of life. However, social interaction between residents is often limited, and relationships difficult to build. In recent years, we have witnessed the widespread use of interactive public displays (IPDs), which attract people’s attention and encourage mutual social engagement. For their Ph.D. research, […]

A nanofiber-based biodegradable millirobot called Fibot was successfully developed in research led by a scholar from City University of Hong Kong (CityU). Fibot can move in the intestines and degrade in response to the pH of its environment, thus releasing different drugs in different anchored positions. The research has shed light on the development of […]

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – New research points to long-lasting cellular and humoral responses to the Pfizer/BioNTech (BNT162b2) COVID-19 vaccine in patients with solid tumors. “Although humoral response was extensively studied in patients with cancer, to our knowledge, there are few data regarding cellular immunity and the association with vaccine efficacy,” researchers say in a […]

The Biden administration announced plans on April 26, 2022, to increase the availability of the COVID-19 drug Paxlovid, vowing to get more of the treatment pills into the hands of Americans. An oral antiviral, Paxlovid has proved successful at reducing the chances of hospitalization among COVID-19 sufferers, but has suffered from a slow rollout to […]

Researchers at Ural Federal University (UrFU) have proposed the use of polyoxometallate nanoclusters as a carrier for chemotherapy drug. It will help to deliver medications precisely to the focus of a pathological process, such as a cancerous tumor, without toxic effects on healthy cells. Delivery can be accomplished either by electrophoresis or by injection into […]