nytimes.com - Dr. Topol believes that A.I. can do more than enhance diagnoses and treatments. It can also save doctors from doing tasks like taking notes and reading scans, allowing them to spend more time connect…
health.harvard.edu - You might be considering surgery or other intervention to treat your back pain. But less may actually be more for this common problem, and in many instances the best medicine is good old-fashioned mo…
blogs.bmj.com - The burden of poverty can muddy diagnoses of depression and lead to the overprescription of antidepressants, says Ian Hamilton For years people trying to reduce their antidepressant medication have r…
npr.org - UK Biobank has granted 10,000 qualified scientists access to its large database of genetic sequences and other medical data, but other organizations with databases have been far more restrictive in g…
cbc.ca - NDP opposition Leader, Rachel Notley wants to know the UCP's plan for senior health funding. She held a press conference at the Kerby Centre in Calgary on Friday to discuss the MacKinnon Report and i…
bloomberg.com - Health officials in the U.S. and Europe are looking into the popular heartburn medication Zantac and its generic versions after a carcinogen was found in the drugs, the same contaminant that sparked …
pinknews.co.uk - Transgender ‘conversion therapy’ has been proven to cause serious psychological harm to those who undergo it, according to the medical journal JAMA Psychiatry. A study published on Wednesday, Septemb…
irishtimes.com - The Health Service Executive has won an international award for its efforts to tackle sepsis after showing it had cut the death rate from the condition by five percentage points. The jury awarding a …
bbc.co.uk - Two "life-changing" cystic fibrosis drugs are to be made available to about 400 patients in Scotland - a month after their use was rejected by the NHS. Pharmaceutical company Vertex has announced it …
theguardian.com - Taking antibiotics in the month before starting immunotherapy dramatically reduces a cancer patient’s chances of survival, according to a small but groundbreaking study. Scientists at Imperial Colleg…
