September 30th, 2020Too many doctors and other healthcare professionals fail to properly support nicotine addicts and fall short of their immediate duty of care – let alone help avoid a host of associated long-term health conditions – according to tobacco harm...
September 23rd, 2020A scheme that gave GP surgeries cash incentives to tell women about long-acting reversible methods of contraception has been linked to a sharp fall in UK abortion rates, reports The Guardian. Long-acting reversible contraceptives (Larcs), include...
More than one quarter of 120,000 Australian asthma patients have been prescribed potentially dangerous amounts of steroid tablets, with researchers warning this puts them at greater risk of serious side-effects. Researchers, led by University of...
September 9th, 2020When doctors are the same race as their patients, it can sometimes forge a sense of comfort that helps to reduce anxiety and pain, particularly for Black patients, research from the University of Miami suggests.
In a study led by Dr Steven R...
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about rapid innovation in mental health care, and the move to telemedicine is likely here to stay to at least some degree, but research led by University College London and King's College London cautions that...
August 12th, 2020A British Medical Association survey shows that 90% of doctors in the relevant age group believe that menopause has affected their work performance. Yet it remains a taboo workplace subject that is leading to an unaffordable loss of senior...
August 5th, 2020UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock is facing a backlash from patient and medical groups after declaring that all consultations should be conducted virtually unless there was a “compelling clinical reason not to”, reports The Daily Telegraph. The...
July 29th, 2020A large UK study found that asthma patients were increasingly prescribed higher levels of treatment, often without clear clinical indication for such high doses, ignoring international guidelines that recommend clinicians find the minimum effective...
July 22nd, 2020While 93% of US paediatricians surveyed were aware of the national guidelines on peanut allergy prevention in infants, only 30% were fully implementing the recommended practices and 64% reported partial implementation, according to a study by...
July 1st, 2020COVID-19 has slashed patient numbers, leaving many private doctors in financial distress and worsening patient health outcomes, writes MedicalBrief. While private health offers to help the state have “elicited little traction” a novel plan for...
US primary care practices are projected to lose more than $65,000 in revenue per full-time physician in 2020, following drastic declines in office visits and fees for services from March to May during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study led...
June 10th, 2020The doctor in China who risked his job to warn the world about COVID-19 was not a frontline emergency medicine or ICU doctor. Dr Li Wenliang, was an ophthalmologist, a glaucoma specialist who died after contracting the virus from an asymptomatic...
Clinician burnout is a growing public health concern, with the National Academy of Sciences reporting that 35-54% of US nurses and physicians exhibit substantial symptoms of burnout.
Research led by the College of Health and Human Services at...
May 13th, 2020
Clinicians from two US hospitals report that the majority of even the sickest patients with COVID-19 - those who require ventilators in intensive care units - get better when they receive existing guideline-supported treatment for respiratory...
May 6th, 2020
The rapid increase in virtual visits during the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic could transform the way physicians provide care in the United States going forward, according to a study led by researchers from NYU Grossman School of...
April 22nd, 2020
Following a national survey, the UK's Intensive Care Society has issued guidelines on "proning", a technique usually applied to unconscious patients on ventilation, which may be effective with some coronavirus patients. The guidance addresses an...
