Healthcare

The Concept of Human Health and Disease

Articulating a comprehensive definition of health and disease has been a historically intricate task. The earliest conceptual frameworks for health and disease can be traced back to the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia and Egypt around 4,000 B.C.

Medical Ethics and Health Policy

Proactive Health: The Shift Towards Preventative Healthcare

Role of Real-Time Data in Healthcare

Managing the Explosion of Healthcare Data to Harness its Power

Healthcare Systems Around the World

What is the Role of Regulatory Bodies in Healthcare?

How is the ‘Omics’ Revolution Changing Healthcare?

Importance of Safe Working Conditions for Healthcare Workers

Primary Healthcare Providers

ICD10-International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision

Preventing Medical Errors in Hospitals

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Blockchain Applications in Healthcare

Common Misconceptions in Health

What are the Health Benefits of Weight Training?

Diagnosis vs Prognosis

Healthcare During The Climate Crisis

How Are Smart Cameras Used in Healthcare?

What Are the Health Implications of Saunas?

What is Cold Water Therapy?

Assessing Evacuation Shelters to Improve Health

What is Healthcare Fraud?

Future of Smart Health Systems

Unlocking the Power of Data to Accelerate Future Health Systems

Healthcare Avoidance

Text Messaging in Healthcare

Using Real-World Data to Accelerate Healthcare

Health and Wealth

Virtualization within Healthcare; Why is it Important?

Health Technology Around the World

Urbanization and Human Health

Moral Injury in Healthcare

Compassion Fatigue in Healthcare Professionals

Intersectionality in Healthcare

How is Trust Established in Healthcare?

What Are The Health Effects of Over-Sanitization?

Is Data at the Center of Healthcare for the Future?

What is Public-Private Mix in Healthcare?

What are Social Determinants of Health?

The Importance of Clinical Informatics

How Could the Metaverse Transform Healthcare?

Neurodiversity in Healthcare

How are Drones Used in Healthcare?

Improving Healthcare Delivery via Social Innovation

Catalyzing Change: Exploring the Evolving Landscape of Healthcare Entrepreneurship

Healthcare Supply Chain Resilience: Lessons Learned from the Pandemic and Strategies for the Future

What is Informed Consent?

Compliance Challenges in Healthcare: Balancing Innovation and Regulation

Latest Healthcare News and Research

ED physicians’ admission rates do not translate to better patient health outcomes

Patients in emergency departments who are treated by physicians with a high propensity to admit those they see into the hospital are more likely to be discharged after only a short stay, suggesting a possible unnecessary admission, while they are no less likely to die, new research suggests.

23 Dec 2024

Advancing personalized nutrition through microbiome research

When making decisions about nutrition and diet, the focus is often on the potential impacts to the heart or brain; and gut health can frequently end up an afterthought despite a whole industry revolving around probiotics and digestive aids. With its direct link to those two important organs, should gut health be prioritized more?

23 Dec 2024

Advancing quality integrated health services through relational community engagement

A new report, entitled "Relationality in community engagement: its role in humanizing healthcare and achieving quality integrated health Services" has been developed in collaboration with the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development (QF) and launched at the Seventh edition of the World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) taking place in Doha on 13–14 November 2024.

21 Dec 2024

New insights into respiratory syncytial virus and prevention strategies

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a major cause of respiratory infections, particularly in infants, children under 5 years, and older adults. Its rapid spread makes RSV a serious public health concern. Currently, there are no effective medications for RSV, and current treatment focuses on providing supportive care and preventing its spread.

20 Dec 2024

Rwanda successfully controls Marburg virus outbreak

An outbreak of Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) in Rwanda has officially been declared over by the Government of Rwanda, with no new cases recorded since the last patient tested negative on 7 November 2024, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

20 Dec 2024

Older women undergoing breast reconstruction may have increased risks for complications

For women undergoing breast reconstruction after mastectomy, older age is associated with small but significant increases in certain complications, reports a study in the January issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.

20 Dec 2024

New review discusses the expanding horizons of AI in medical sciences

In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has grown remarkably, fueled by innovative foundation models (FMs) such as GPT-n series by OpenAI, and derived large language models (LLMs) like Chat generative pre-trained transformer, popularly known as ChatGPT.

20 Dec 2024

New prediction model improves early detection of infected pancreatic necrosis

A new prediction model for infected pancreatic necrosis (IPN) in patients with acute pancreatitis (AP) offers a groundbreaking approach to improving patient outcomes.

20 Dec 2024

AI model enhances early detection of skin cancer with high accuracy

Skin cancer remains the most common form of cancer worldwide, often presenting as benign skin conditions that are difficult to differentiate, even for experienced dermatologists.

20 Dec 2024

Reducing hand hygiene monitoring could save hospitals time and money

Hand hygiene (HH) monitoring in hospitals could be reduced significantly, allowing infection preventionists to redirect efforts toward quality improvement and patient safety initiatives, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Infection Control.

20 Dec 2024

Navigating the emotional landscape of volunteer–patient interactions

When a volunteer supports a patient, a special and often rather unequal relationship can develop between the helper and the person receiving the help. Researchers have now investigated this relationship and offer guidance on finding the right balance.

20 Dec 2024

Study reveals poor diet quality among pregnant and postpartum individuals

New research from the University of Massachusetts Amherst finds a pervasive low-quality diet among pregnant and postpartum individuals, reflecting "an urgent need for widespread improvement."

19 Dec 2024

KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': End-of-year chaos on Capitol Hill

After weeks of painstaking negotiations, Democrats and Republicans in the House and Senate agreed to a major year-end package of health bills, including new regulations for drug companies and pharmacy benefit managers, and renewals of programs to combat opioid abuse and prepare for the next possible pandemic.

19 Dec 2024