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Rheumasurgery: Improving Function and Relieving Pain

Rheumasurgery, also known as Rheumatoid Surgery, is concerned with the surgical treatment of patients suffering from rheumatic disorders and rheumatism.

19 Apr 2023

Understanding Chronic Cough: Causes, Symptoms, and Diagnosis

Chronic cough is characterized as a cough that lasts more than eight weeks. It can produce marked suffering for patients and present a diagnostic problem for clinicians when the disease is not apparent.

19 Apr 2023

Awake Prone Positioning for COVID-19 Patients

Awake prone positioning is a well-established non-pharmacological intervention to improve lung oxygenation. This process has received much attention for improving clinical outcomes in non-intubated COVID-19 patients with hypoxemic respiratory failure.

19 Apr 2023

Non-Surgical vs. Surgical Treatments for Empyema

Empyema often co-occurs with pneumonia and refers to the presence of pus in the pleural space. There is a range of therapeutic options available for the management of empyema, divided broadly into surgical and non-surgical.

19 Apr 2023

What is the Importance of Vaccination Coverage?

Without vaccines, infectious diseases would have the opportunity to spread rapidly throughout the population, causing illness and even death, burdening healthcare systems and putting strain on economies.

17 Apr 2023

Antimicrobial Resistance in the 21st Century

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) refers to the evolution of strains of bacteria, viruses, protists, or fungi that are no longer susceptible to antimicrobial drugs.

14 Apr 2023

Investigating the Importance of Investing in Vaccine Manufacturing

Investing in vaccine manufacturing has both economic and societal benefits, in addition to protecting human health and limiting infection spread.

14 Apr 2023

Understanding Standard-Of-Care in an Evolving World

What do we mean by standards-of-care? How did these standards evolve? This article attempts to answer these questions and to look at the part played by ethical debate in the development of standards-of-care.

14 Apr 2023

The Big Catch-Up: How the COVID-19 pandemic impacted vaccination coverage

Scientists have highlighted how the pandemic has negatively impacted vaccination coverage, causing the largest backslide in global childhood vaccinations in thirty years.

12 Apr 2023

An Overview of Systems Medicine

Systems medicine is a novel approach that involves generating, storing, and retrieving clinical and basic research information to improve patient care.

12 Apr 2023

Connecting the Dots: How Network Medicine can Identify, Prevent and Treat Disease

Network medicine can systematically enhance the ability to address human disease through the identification of disease pathways, causative genetic factors, and molecular phenotypic relationships that previously appeared distinct.

12 Apr 2023

Social Media, Pseudoscience, and Misinformation: the impact on public understanding of health and medical science

The intersection of social media platforms with scientific communication remains a turbulent and complex field of positive actors and progressive change, as well as the exploitation and distribution of misinformation.

12 Apr 2023

Addressing the oncology workforce skills gap through specialist higher education

It is of utmost importance for the future of cancer care to address the oncology workforce skills gap. But what has led to this deficit increase, and how can the sector establish a strong path forward?

11 Apr 2023

Understanding the Role of Epigenetics in Cancer

Epigenetics plays a vital role in cancer research in understanding the difference in nuclear organization, DNA methylation, and histone modification patterns between cancer cells and normal cells.

11 Apr 2023

Does Loneliness Weaken the Immune System?

Loneliness, which arises when an individual does not experience the intimacy normally associated with these interactions, can cause a wide range of destructive consequences on an individual’s physical health, particularly their immune system.

11 Apr 2023

Children of deaf adults (CODA): growing up with unique communication challenges

Children of deaf adults (CODA) refer to hearing children who are born to deaf parents. These children often experience communication, social, and cultural challenges because of the unique difference between the deaf and hearing worlds.

11 Apr 2023

The FemTech Revolution: how technology is empowering Women's health and wellness

FemTech companies are largely technology-based, consumer-centric companies that provide solutions regarded issues related to women's health.

11 Apr 2023

Unlocking the Healing Power of Opera: How Operatic Breathing Can Help COVID-19 Patients with Long-Lasting Symptoms

Operatic breathing has shown promising outcomes in patients with COVID-19 who experience breathlessness after recovery.

11 Apr 2023

The Effect of Alcohol on Reproductive Health

Since men are often more likely to drink excessively, much research has been conducted to understand better the potential impact of alcohol consumption on men’s reproductive health. Several studies have also confirmed the impact of alcohol use on women’s reproductive health.

10 Apr 2023

Reproductive Health in People with Rheumatic Disease

Clinicians have observed an increased risk of negative pregnancy outcomes, such as prolonged hospitalizations, pre-eclampsia, and maternal and fetal mortality and morbidity in this group of patients.

10 Apr 2023