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An analysis of patient records in Canada provides important new insights into changing patterns of inpatient healthcare utilization. Between 2007 and 2016, standardized hospitalization rates declined for coronary artery and vascular disease, heart rhythm disorders,
Who is Alzheimer’s? The psychiatrist and neuro-pathologist Alois Alzheimer described in 1901, the course of the disease of his patient Auguste Deter. With only 51 years, she suffered from a “forgetfulness and delusions”. Age-related dementia
Now and in the months to come, hospitals and commercial buildings will be tasked with sanitizing large indoor environments to prevent the transmission of viruses like SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19. A new seed grant-funded study
More than a decade before people with Huntington’s disease show symptoms, they can exhibit abnormally high levels of an immune-system molecule called interleukin-6 (IL-6), which has led many researchers to suspect IL-6 of promoting the
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is expected to reach over 14 million cases worldwide by 2040. As longevity increases, so does the number of persons living with PD. Writing in the Journal of Parkinson’s Disease (JPD), scientists
Scientists have discovered a potential new treatment for a disease that causes severe dry eyes and dry mouth. The study, led by researchers at RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences, is published in the
An international team of researchers has developed a new mathematical tool that could help scientists to deliver more accurate predictions of how diseases, including COVID-19, spread through towns and cities around the world. Rebecca Morrison,
Updated CT scoring criteria that considers lobe involvement, as well as changes in CT findings, could quantitatively and accurately evaluate the progression of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pneumonia, according to an open-access article in the American
Among the many answers scientists are trying to pin down about the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19 is how long it takes to incubate. In other words, how long it takes for a person who’s
Cardiff University researchers are part of a global consortium who have published the first clinical guidance for the management of Huntington’s disease through physiotherapy. It follows more than a decade of ground-breaking collaborative research led