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Anavex Life Sciences Reports Advances for Oral Alzheimer’s Disease Medication in Phase IIb/III Trial
Anavex Life Sciences Corp. has announced promising results from its Phase IIb/III clinical trial of blarcamesine (ANAVEX®2-73), an oral Alzheimer's disease medication, at the 2024 Alzheimer's Association International Conference. The study demonstrated that...
Causes of Increase in US Pedestrian Accidents
Since 2010, pedestrian deaths are up 77% according to the Governors Highway Safety Association data. Why did over 7,500 people die while walking or jogging on a roadway last year? Every day, on average, 20 Americans walk along a roadway and are killed by a vehicle. In...
How Health Systems Leaders Use Strategic Planning And Marketing In Healthcare Systems
Operating a healthcare facility is complicated. Without careful planning, problems can arise that impact the quality of care offered. Health systems leaders use a variety of tools and tactics to ensure that operations are well-managed and streamlined. Good planning...
The Role Of Nurses In Detecting Elder Abuse And Neglect
Going through aging comes with many happy and positive moments. However, some seniors living alone and those in elderly care homes face different challenges that can impact their physical and mental health. Many have to deal with loneliness, anxiety, depression and...
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What the Air You Breathe May Be Doing to Your Brain
For years, the two patients had come to the Penn Memory Center at the University of Pennsylvania, where doctors and researchers follow people with cognitive impairment as they age, as well as a group with normal cognition. Both patients, a man and a woman, had agreed...
Nearly all NHS trusts failing to hit cancer target
2 hours agoShareSaveChloe Hayward, Nick Triggle & Daniel WainwrightBBC NewsShareSaveBBCAlmost every hospital trust in England is failing to meet the key NHS waiting time target for cancer care, BBC analysis shows.Just three trusts out of 121 in England are treating...
Health Care Costs Jump to the Fore as Candidates Jockey To Be California Governor
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — California’s gubernatorial election is a year away, and the field of primary candidates is still taking shape. But one persistent issue has already emerged as a leading concern: the cost of health care. At a forum Nov. 7 in the Inland Empire, four...
As Health Companies Get Bigger, So Do the Bills. It’s Unclear if Trump’s Team Will Intervene.
A cancer patient might live in a town with four oncology groups, but only one accepts his insurance — the one owned by his insurer. A young couple could see huge bills after their child is born, because their insurer agreed to the health system’s rates in exchange for...
Dundee and US surgeons achieve world-first stroke surgery using robot
7 hours agoShareSaveGraham FraserBBC ScotlandShareSaveUniversity of DundeeDoctors from Scotland and the US have completed what is thought to be a world-first stroke procedure using a robot.Prof Iris Grunwald, of the University of Dundee, performed the remote...
Surgical menopause like a ‘hormonal cliff edge’
7 hours agoShareSaveCash MurphySouth EastShareSaveKate DysonA woman who was plunged into sudden menopause after surgery to remove both ovaries is spearheading efforts to change NHS policy.Kate Dyson, 44, from Hastings, East Sussex, underwent the surgery six months ago...
Hospital failings continued after Alice Figueiredo death, leaked documents show
12 hours agoShareSaveAlison Holt,social affairs editor and James Melley,senior producerShareSaveFamily handoutWarning: This article contains upsetting details and references to serious self-harm and deathJust four months after a young woman died in a London mental...
Nursing watchdog ‘should’ve acted faster on Letby’
The nursing watchdog "should've acted faster" when responding to concerns about baby killer Lucy Letby, its new boss has said.Paul Rees, appointed head of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) in July, told The Independent that neonatal nurse Letby should have been...
New flu virus mutation could see ‘worst season in a decade’
1 day agoShareSaveJames GallagherHealth and science correspondentShareSaveGetty ImagesListen to James read this articleFlu strikes every winter, but this year something seems to be different.A seasonal flu virus suddenly mutated in the summer. It appears to evade some...
Ever feel the need to switch off? Your vagus nerve might hold the key
1 day agoShareSaveRuth CleggHealth and wellbeing reporterShareSaveAlamyIt's the body's superhighway that carries information from your brain to your major organs. You might not have a clue it exists - let alone that you might need to train it.But a quick scroll...
You can now book online to see your GP. But is it any easier to get an appointment?
2 days agoShareSaveNick TriggleHealth correspondentShareSaveGetty ImagesGP Dr David Turner no longer sees patients on a Wednesday morning.Instead, he spends that time sifting through the online appointment requests to work out what each patient needs. Last week there...
Concerns Over Fairness, Access Rise as States Compete for Slice of $50B Rural Health Fund
RAPID CITY, S.D. — Echo Kopplin wants South Dakota’s leaders to know that money from a new $50 billion federal rural health fund should help residents with limited transportation options. Kopplin, a physician assistant who works with seniors, low-income people, and...