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Newswise: Global Expert Panel Publishes New Guidance on Designing, Conducting, and Analyzing Quantitative Benefit-Risk Assessment
Released: 11-Apr-2023 4:05 AM EDT
Global Expert Panel Publishes New Guidance on Designing, Conducting, and Analyzing Quantitative Benefit-Risk Assessment
ISPOR—The Professional Society for Health Economics and Outcomes Research

Value in Health, the official journal of ISPOR, announced the publication of new good practice guidelines for the design, conduct, analysis, and communication of quantitative benefit-risk assessments (qBRA) to support regulatory decision making of medical products.

Newswise: ALS Center Celebrates Opening of New Practice Office
Released: 10-Apr-2023 3:50 PM EDT
ALS Center Celebrates Opening of New Practice Office
Hackensack Meridian Health

Hackensack Meridian Neuroscience Institute at Jersey Shore University Medical Center recently celebrated the opening of the ALS Center’s new office in the Dr. Robert H. Harris Neuroscience Treatment Center. The center is one of only two Certified Treatment Centers of Excellence in New Jersey and is designated by the ALS Association’s National Office and the Greater Philadelphia Chapter.

Released: 7-Apr-2023 6:05 PM EDT
Creating method for scoring pancreatic cancer patients for surgery
Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen)

A trio of premier Southwest biomedical research centers — HonorHealth Research Institute, City of Hope and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), part of City of Hope — have developed a more precise method that may help determine when it is best to surgically remove of pancreatic cancer tumors.

Released: 7-Apr-2023 2:50 PM EDT
Efficacy, safety of anakinra plus standard of care for patients with severe COVID-19
JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

In this randomized clinical trial, anakinra did not prevent the need for mechanical ventilation or reduce mortality risk compared with standard of care alone among hospitalized patients with severe COVID-19 pneumonia. Future research should assess anakinra in patients with less severe pneumonia.

Released: 6-Apr-2023 1:20 PM EDT
Optimizing sepsis treatment timing with a machine learning model
Ohio State University

A new machine learning model that estimates optimal treatment timing for sepsis could pave the way for support tools that help physicians personalize treatment decisions at the patient bedside, researchers say.

   
Released: 6-Apr-2023 6:00 AM EDT
خمس طرق واعدة سيحول بها الذكاء الاصطناعي عمليات زراعة الأعضاء
Mayo Clinic

لدى الذكاء الاصطناعي الإمكانية لأن يصبح أداة ثمينة في عمليات زراعة الأعضاء لإنقاذ المزيد من أرواح المرضى. لقد أظهرت دراسات حديثة بالفعل نتائج واعدة لاستخدام الذكاء الاصطناعي في تحليل مجموعات كبيرة من البيانات لاكتشاف أنماط واتجاهات مهمة.

   
Newswise:Video Embedded video-available-live-event-for-april-6th-can-pregnant-women-s-covid-infection-cause-brain-injury-in-newborns
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4-Apr-2023 11:05 AM EDT
VIDEO AND TRANSCRIPT AVAILABLE: Live Event for April 6th: Can pregnant women’s COVID infection cause brain injury in newborns?
Newswise

A group of physicians and scientists with the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine are releasing an important study that will be published in the journal Pediatrics on Thursday, showing that COVID-19 can cross into the placenta of pregnant women and cause brain injury in newborns, as evidenced with 2 cases they treated here in Miami. One of the infants also died at about 13 months old. Further testing of the infant’s brain specimen showed that the virus was still present in the brain at the time of death—which was over a year after birth.

Released: 4-Apr-2023 4:00 PM EDT
Hackensack University Medical Center Earns Prestigious Level 1 Geriatric Emergency Department Accreditation
Hackensack Meridian Health

Hackensack University Medical Center’s Emergency Department (ED) has earned recertification of its Level 1 Geriatric Emergency Department Accreditation (GEDA) — the highest-level designation available through the program — from the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP). The department earned its first certification in 2019.

Released: 4-Apr-2023 1:30 PM EDT
Hackensack University Medical Center Becomes Only Hospital in New Jersey to Offer Transcarotid Artery Revascularization (TCAR) Clinical Trial
Hackensack Meridian Health

Hackensack University Medical Center is the only site in New Jersey that is participating in the ROADSTER 3 clinical trial to assess real-world outcomes for patients with carotid artery disease who have an average surgical risk and undergo a minimally invasive surgical procedure called transcarotid artery revascularization (TCAR).

Released: 4-Apr-2023 1:25 PM EDT
Evidence-based consensus guidelines on patient selection and trial stimulation for spinal cord stimulation therapy for chronic non-cancer pain
McMaster University

Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) has demonstrated effectiveness for neuropathic pain. Unfortunately, some patients report inadequate long-term pain relief. Patient selection is emphasized for this therapy; however, the prognostic capabilities and deployment strategies of existing selection techniques, including an SCS trial, have been questioned.

3-Apr-2023 3:20 PM EDT
ChatGPT Helpful for Breast Cancer Screening Advice With Certain Caveats, New Study Finds
University of Maryland School of Medicine

As more consumers turn to the newly available ChatGPT for health advice, researchers are eager to see whether the information provided by the artificial intelligence chatbot is reliable and accurate. A new study conducted by researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) indicates that the answers generated provide correct information the vast majority of the time; sometimes, though, the information is inaccurate or even fictitious. Findings were published today in the journal Radiology.

   
Released: 4-Apr-2023 9:50 AM EDT
Mount Sinai Achieves Highest Rating From Society of Thoracic Surgeons for Ground-Breaking Esophagectomy Program
Mount Sinai Health System

The Mount Sinai Health System’s esophagectomy program has received a three-star (excellent performance) overall composite score from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS).

Released: 3-Apr-2023 4:55 PM EDT
A 21st-century remedy for missed meds
Rice University

Missing crucial doses of medicines and vaccines could become a thing of the past thanks to Rice University bioengineers’ next-level technology for making time-released drugs.

   
Newswise:Video Embedded hackensack-meridian-hackensack-university-medical-center-performs-1-000th-single-port-robotic-procedure-more-than-any-other-hospital-in-the-country
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Released: 3-Apr-2023 2:10 PM EDT
Hackensack Meridian Hackensack University Medical Center Performs 1,000th Single-Port Robotic Procedure - More Than Any Other Hospital in the Country
Hackensack Meridian Health

Surgeons at Hackensack Meridian Hackensack University Medical Center performed their 1,000th Single-Port Robotic surgery with the da Vinci single port (SP) system on March 23.

Newswise: Initiative Improves Alarm Management, Reduces Alarm Fatigue
28-Mar-2023 2:05 PM EDT
Initiative Improves Alarm Management, Reduces Alarm Fatigue
American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN)

A Florida hospital's surgical ICU used the CEASE bundle to improve nurses’ alarm management practices and reduce nurses’ self-reported alarm fatigue, according to a study in Critical Care Nurse.

Newswise: March Research Highlights
Released: 31-Mar-2023 7:25 PM EDT
March Research Highlights
Cedars-Sinai

A roundup of the latest medical discoveries and faculty news happening at Cedars-Sinai in March 2023.

Released: 31-Mar-2023 6:05 PM EDT
A healthy microbiome may prevent deadly infections in critically ill people
University of Calgary

Twenty to 50 per cent of all critically ill patients contract potentially deadly infections during their stay in the intensive care unit or in hospital after being in the ICU – markedly increasing the risk of death.

Newswise: UT Southwestern researchers create model to assess post-tonsillectomy bleed rates
Released: 31-Mar-2023 11:05 AM EDT
UT Southwestern researchers create model to assess post-tonsillectomy bleed rates
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Researchers led by a team at UT Southwestern Medical Center have created a statistical model to identify standards for typical, high, or low rates of bleeding after pediatric tonsillectomies. The findings, published in JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, could help doctors and hospitals improve outcomes for the third-most common pediatric surgery in the U.S.

Newswise:Video Embedded rounds-with-leadership-facilitating-transformation
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Released: 29-Mar-2023 4:45 PM EDT
Rounds with Leadership: Facilitating Transformation
American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN)

To help schools find the answers to these questions, AACN is working to provide guidance, resources, and information needed to facilitate decision-making and help programs move forward at a comfortable pace.

Released: 28-Mar-2023 2:20 PM EDT
From the doctor's office to the operating room: Keep up with the latest in healthcare here
Newswise

From septic shock to sticker shock. Keep up with this ever-growing, changing sector. Below are some of the latest stories on healthcare on Newswise.



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