Research
In a new study from the Economist Intelligence Unit on healthcare provision for an ageing population, supported by Pfizer, the overwhelming majority of health professionals surveyed (80%) express their concern about how they will be treated when...
Official assessments of a doctor's professionalism should be considered carefully before being accepted due to the tendency for some doctors to receive lower scores than others, and the tendency of some groups of patient or colleague...
An iPhone app that measures the user's heart rate is not only a popular feature with consumers, but it sparked an idea for a Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) researcher who is now turning smart phones, and eventually tablet devices, into...
More than 60 percent of hospital nurses' and doctors' uniforms tested positive for potentially dangerous bacteria, according to a study published in the September issue of the American Journal of Infection Control, the official publication...
WHO Director-General Margaret Chan has named Professor Sir Liam Donaldson as WHO Envoy for Patient Safety. In this role, Sir Liam, who served as England's Chief Medical Officer between 1998 and 2010, will help the Organisation promote patient...
Efforts to develop better and stronger treatments against diseases continue in Europe, with particular emphasis being placed on fighting human pathogens and strains resistant to existing treatments. Scientists in the United Kingdom have identified...
Noisy operating theatres have a negative effect on patients following surgery, new research from Switzerland shows. Presented in the British Journal of Surgery, the study has found that surgical site infections (SSIs) result in patients who undergo...
Cell phones used by patients and their visitors were twice as likely to contain potentially dangerous bacteria as those of healthcare workers (HCW), according to a study published in the June issue of the American Journal of Infection Control, the...
EDMA (European Diagnostic Manufacturers Association) AdvaMed (American Medical Technology Association), Eucomed (European Medical Technology Association), COCIR (European Coordination Committee of the Radiological, Electromedical and Healthcare...
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine claim that the availability of surgeons is a critical factor in public health and suggest that surgery should become an important part of the primary health care system....
A new study, conducted by researchers from the Regenstrief Institute and the schools of medicine at Indiana University and Moi University, is one of the first to explore and demonstrate the impact of electronic record systems on quality of medical...
The Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI), currently the largest public-private partnership in the biopharmaceutical sector, launches its second wave of research projects which address key areas including cancer, immune-mediated diseases, infectious...
Infection control strategies and the rising demand for single-use medical devices are boosting the use of peripheral vascular products in western Europe. At the same time, developments in imaging technology that are boosting the efficiency of...
Up to three quarters of hospital tests are not being followed up, suggests a systematic review of international evidence, published in BMJ Quality and Safety.
This failure can have serious implications for patients, including missed or delayed...
Genetic resistance to antibiotics is not the only trick bacteria use to resist eradication– they also have a second defence strategy known as persistence that can kick in.
Researchers reporting in the Journal of Medical Microbiology have now...
The ECRI Institute, a federal patient safety organisation has published its annual list of the top 10 health technology hazards for 2011. The list, published in ECRI Institute’s Health Devices journal (November 2010), has been compiled to be a...
A pioneering lighting system, that can kill hospital superbugs, including MRSA and C. difficile, has been developed by researchers at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. The new technology decontaminates the air and exposed...
Researchers at the Eindhoven University of Technology have developed a new software tool, which converts MRI scans of the brain into three-dimensional coloured images of nerve structures.
The new technology gives physicians a complete...
Initial results of the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) show that former and heavy smokers screened for lung cancer with low-dose "spiral" computed tomography (CT) scans are 20 percent less likely to die of lung cancer, compared to...
International experts in public health met on 14 October 2010, in Copehagen, to map out the broad goals and targets of the new European health policy, Health 2020.
Member States and partners gave WHO-Europe a strong, clear mandate to...
Kissing a frog won’t turn it into a prince — except in fairy tales ― but frogs may be hopping toward a real-world transformation into princely allies in humanity’s battle with antibiotic-resistant infections that threaten millions...
This video system will transmit video footage of an operation from the Inselspital Bern live and in real time. Congress attendees can participate in the surgery virtually while the OR team is available to them for questions and answers. At the same...
