Mount Sinai launches Center for Healthcare Re
image: Brendan Carr, MD, Chief Executive Officer for the Mount Sinai Health System speaks at the inaugural “The Future of Healthcare Preparedness Conference” hosted by Mount Sinai’s Center for Health Care Readiness view more Credit: Mount Sinai Health System The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai announced the launch of its new Center for […]
How telehealth has improved the lives of people with substance disorders
This article has been reviewed according to Science X’s editorial process and policies. Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content’s credibility: fact checked reputable news agency proofread OK! by Hanna Webster, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain × close Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain From the driver’s seat of his parked truck, Lewis […]
Nature Medicine Highlights Significant Improvement in Hand and Arm Function After Spinal Cord Injury with Use of ONWARD® ARC-EX® Therapy
Nature Medicine Highlights Significant Improvement in Hand and Arm Function After Spinal Cord Injury with Use of ONWARD® ARC-EX® Therapy ARC Therapy™ shown to be safe and effective in global pivotal trial* 90% of participants improved either strength or function of upper limbs* Improvement demonstrated in participants up to 34 years post-injury* 87% of participants […]
Nature Medicine Highlights Significant Improvement in Hand
ARC Therapy™ shown to be safe and effective in global pivotal trial* 90% of participants improved either strength or function of upper limbs* Improvement demonstrated in participants up to 34 years post-injury* 87% of participants also reported improvement in overall quality of life* EINDHOVEN, the Netherlands, May 20, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — ONWARD Medical NV […]
Heart Transplant Rejection Diagnostic Outperforms Biopsies
Credit: Eoneren / Getty Images / E+ Gwen Chambers has had a lot to contend with as a patient—she’s beaten cancer twice, including stage IV Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and then twenty years later was diagnosed with heart failure and received a transplant. But nothing has been more dreadful and uncomfortable than the post-transplant heart biopsies checking […]
“In nursing I learned what is important in life”
Marcel Mayr was passionate about his job. He worked as a qualified geriatric nurse in a home and studied nursing education at the same time. But from one day to the next everything was over. Mayr says his employer accidentally paid him too much wages. Because he was on vacation and couldn’t pay the money […]
Virtual medicine: How has telehealth improved the lives of people with substance disorders? | Health
From the driver’s seat of his parked truck, Lewis recalls what it felt like to take opioids. He was prescribed Vicodin after getting his wisdom teeth removed at age 15, he says, which jumpstarted an addiction he’s battled for nearly two decades. (Lewis’ last name has been omitted for concerns regarding his medical privacy.) “I […]
Washington University School of Medicine Researchers Find Accelerated Aging May be Contributing to an Increase in Early-onset Cancers among Young People
More research into accelerated aging may lead to new clinical laboratory and anatomic pathology testing biomarkers for early-onset cancer Could accelerated aging be contributing to the rise in early-onset cancer rates among younger individuals? A recent study conducted at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis (WUSTL) claims the condition may be partially […]
2 Minute Medicine Rewind May 20, 2024
Temporal Relationship Between Serum Neurofilament Light Chain and Radiologic Disease Activity in Patients With Multiple Sclerosis 1. Serum neurofilament light chain (sNfL) elevations are a relatively specific biomarker of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) disease activity in multiple sclerosis (MS) (82%–91.9% specificity) but have a low sensitivity (27.9%–42.6% sensitivity ) 2. Peak increase in sNfL was […]
Healthy eating for children: Interview with a nutritionist
Ms. Castens, how important is eating together for a family? Julia Castens: In contrast to the past, many families hardly eat meals together anymore. The parents have early or late shifts, the children have soccer training, judo or horse riding – so for many people it makes sense to sit alone in the children’s room […]