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A study from the Thoracic Oncology Research Group (TORG), Division of Pulmonary Critical Care, Medical University of South Carolina aimed to examine the adherence to annual low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) screening after baselines LDCT within the Veteran Health Administration Lung Cancer Screening Demonstration Project (LCDSDP).
The study will be presented at the CHEST Annual Meeting 2018 in San Antonio and a discussion highlighting the latest updates made the CHEST Lung Cancer Screening Guidelines will take place
Sports fans across the world watched the American golfer Tiger Woods roll in a putt to win the PGA Tour's season-ending Tour Championship on September 23. His victory caps a remarkable comeback from personal struggles and injuries that caused him to plummet to 1,199 in the world rankings less than a year ago, and restores him as one of the world's best.
The heath minister spoke at their annual congress in Cox’s Bazar and said many people, mostly in rural areas, still depend on homeopathy for prevention and cure of diseases.
“It’s an old form of treatment method. They get it easy. It’s cheap,” he said, “but you have to earn people’s trust.” He said some homeopathy practitioners make false claim that they can treat all diseases.
Exposure to galactic cosmic radiation during deep space travel can damage gastrointestinal functions in astronauts. Exposure to galactic cosmic radiation during deep space travel, such as to Mars, might significantly damage gastrointestinal functions in astronauts.
Researchers have discovered how an enzyme that plays a key role in cancer development functions. The researchers hope the new knowledge will lead to the design of more precise drugs. The study was published in the scientific journal of repute Nature Communications
Microtubules help to regulate cell structure throughout our bodies. A group of researchers has used cryo-electron microscopy to shed light on how a certain protein keeps microtubules stable and regulates microtubule-based transport within cells.
The new insights could help to develop a medical treatment for diseases such as dementia and heart failure. The study was published in the Journal of Cell Biology.
Frailty is a state of decreased physiologic reserve and resistance to stressors. Its prevalence increases with age and is estimated to be 26% in those aged above 85 years. As the population ages, frailty will be increasingly seen in surgical patients receiving anesthesia.
Here, they evaluate the instruments which have been developed and validated for measuring frailty in surgical patients and summarize frailty tools used in 110 studies linking frailty status with adverse outcomes post-surgery.
Terminally-ill homeless adults and their care providers must surmount many obstacles in the receipt and provision of palliative care, according to a University of Toronto scoping review of the available grey and peer-reviewed literature on this topic, The study was published in OMEGA—Journal of Death and Dying.
There is overwhelming evidence of gender inequality in pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine. Among factors that exacerbate gender inequality are disproportionate familial duties, few women in positions of leadership, a low retention rate of women, unequal compensation, and poor gender climate. The study was published in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society.
That's partly to encourage customers to lose track of time. Their owners have instinctively understood long before this recent neuroscience study confirmed it that sleep-deprived people tend to take more risks. We have a wealth of knowledge from laboratory studies about what sleep loss does to mood, behavior and our ability to think and work.
We get a taste of it when we travel across time zones, work night shifts or pull all-nighters before exams. But what do we know about the real-life effects of the one hour of sleep loss that most of us experience on the same weekend each year due to daylight saving.
For approximately 8 million Americans, visiting a doctor regularly is the key to managing their psoriasis, a chronic inflammatory skin condition characterized by itchy or painful red patches that can appear anywhere on the body.
But for some people, seeing a specialist regularly can be a monumental challenge, especially for those who live in rural or underserved communities. A new study led by the Keck School of Medicine of USC, however, raises the possibility that one day, people with psoriasis may be able to simply go online to receive their care.
The study was published in JAMA Network Open, the study found that online and in-person care were equally effective at improving psoriasis symptoms.
Rates of opioid-related prescriptions and health care utilization are rising among seniors, according to two September statistical briefs released by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). The reports relied on data from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project and the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey.
