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Formerly Conjoined Twins Visit Doctors 13 Years After Landmark Operation
GILLIAN MOHNEY via http://abcnews.go.com Known as the "Las Dos Marias," formerly conjoined twin sisters Maria de Jesus and Maria Teresa Alvarez arrived at the Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA to bring cheer to the doctors and nurses who helped separate them more...
Major Study Links Autism To Antidepressant Use During Pregnancy
Anna Almendrala via www.huffingtonpost.com Women who take antidepressants during the late stages of pregnancy have an 87 percent increased risk of giving birth to a child who will be diagnosed with autism, according to a new study from researchers in Montreal. And for...
Your New Medical Team: Algorithms and Physicians
Austin Frakt via www.nytimes.com Can machines outperform doctors? Not yet. But in some areas of medicine, they can make the care doctors deliver better. Humans repeatedly fail where computers — or humans behaving a little bit more like computers — can help. Even...
Many Doctors Can’t Manage Multiple Chronic Conditions
Dan Mangan via www.cnbc.com Primary care doctors are the first line of defense in the American health-care system. But a new report suggests that many of them feel they aren't equipped to handle their most challenging patients. Up to one in four U.S. primary care...
Long Hours, Grim Tasks: Doctors In Training Face High Risk Of Depression
By Megan Thielking via www.statnews.com Newly minted doctors embarking on the intense clinical training known as residency are at unusually high risk for depression. Nearly 29 percent of residents worldwide will experience depression during their residencies,...
WHO Suggest New C-section Recommendations
Written by Yvette Brazier via www.medicalnewstoday.com Researchers propose that for optimum safety, 19% of births should be by cesarian section, according to research published in JAMA. The cesarean section (C-section) is the most commonly performed operation...
Health Systems Built For The 1% Face Big Population Health Gaps
Dave Chase via www.Forbes.com There is no better place to generate staggeringly high bills than at a hospital. For entirely rational reasons, healthcare providers invested vast sums of money on IT systems optimized to maximize billing opportunities. Unfortunately for...
Lower survival Rates In Women With Breast Cancer Diagnosed With Depression
King's College London via www.sciencedaily.com Women with breast cancer who subsequently had a recorded diagnosis of depression had a 45% higher risk of death from all causes, according to a study led by King's College London. The researchers suggest this finding...
The Doctor on a Quest to Save Our Medical Devices From Hackers
Kim Zetter via www.wired.com THE INTERNET OF Things has introduced security issues to hundreds of devices that previously were off-limits to hackers, turning innocuous appliances like refrigerators and toasters into gateways for data theft and spying. But most...
When Your Doctor Is on a 30-Hour Shift
Farah Khan via www.thedailybeast.com I cannot even count the number of times that I have been told by medical faculty members that nowadays “residents have it SO easy.” Their tone indicates that they have clearly suffered more terrible work hours and conditions than...
Scientists find driver of malaria growth in mosquitoes
Written by Catharine Paddock PhD via www.medicalnewstoday.com Scientists have for the first time uncovered the role played by cyclin - a protein important for cell division - in driving the growth of the malaria parasite in mosquitoes. The team, from the School of...
Injured firefighter gets most extensive face transplant ever
A volunteer firefighter badly burned in a 2001 blaze has received the most extensive face transplant ever, covering his skull and much of his neck, a New York hospital announced Monday. The surgery took place in August at the NYU Langone Medical Center. The patient,...
5 Things to Know About the New HIV Treatment
By Christine Blank via formularyjournal.modernmedicine.com FDA approved Genvoya, marketed by Gilead Sciences, to treat HIV-1 infection. Here are the top 5 things to know about Genvoya: The drug is a fixed-dose combination tablet containing elvitegravir, cobicistat,...
Turning Skilled Physicians Into Strong Leaders
By Keith L. Martin via medicaleconomics.modernmedicine.com Any major change in an industry requires strong leadership. In the U.S., healthcare has undergone a significant transformation in the last decade and the evolution is far from complete. That said, among all...
‘Doctors for Diversity’ Moves Toward Equal Health Care
Katie Rice via www.dailytarheel.com Medical students and faculty talked about diversity's central role in patient care at "Doctors for Diversity," an event sponsored by the UNC School of Medicine and the Whitehead Medical Society in the Medical Biomolecular Research...