News
Federated Data Networks’ Impact on Clinical Research
2024 20 Jun
In the quest to reduce costs and enhance the predictability of outcomes, clinical research has embraced an innovative solution: federated data networks (FDNs). These networks provide a pivotal foundation for optimising clinical trial operations, offering a more streamlined and efficient approach to managing the complexities of health data. By enabling...Read more
Advancing Healthcare through Research and Education
2024 22 May
HealthPartners Institute, situated within the HealthPartners nonprofit integrated health system in Minnesota, is dedicated to advancing healthcare through research, education, and translating solutions into practice. Their research spans various fields, including behavioural health, cardiology, community health, and vaccine safety. Medical education...Read more
Advancing Biomedical Research Reuse through a Machine-FAIR Approach
2024 16 May
Efforts to promote reuse in biomedicine have a long history, dating back to 1879 with the creation of Index Medicus by the US National Library of Medicine (NLM). This initiative evolved into digital platforms like MEDLARS, MEDLINE, and PubMed, facilitating access to publications, datasets, and models. NLM's current strategic plan emphasises organising...Read more
First Patient with Pig Kidney Transplant Dies, Research Continues
2024 13 May
Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston announced the passing of Rick Slayman, 62, who earlier this year made medical history as the first human recipient of a genetically modified pig kidney. Despite the pioneering transplant in March, his death saddened both the medical community and his family, who emphasised his inspirational legacy. ...Read more
Transforming Research to Improve Therapies for Trauma
2024 30 Apr
The impact of trauma on global health is significant, resulting in millions of deaths and disabilities annually, with a particularly high toll on young people. However, the elderly are also increasingly affected. Variances in trauma-related death patterns worldwide are influenced by factors such as prompt treatment availability and the prevalence...Read more
Industry News
Hematology/Oncology: New Results from Clinical Research Program
2024 10 Jun
Hematology/oncology: AOP Health’s expanding clinical research program delivers new results. AOP Orphan Pharmaceuticals GmbH (AOP Health) continues a successful clinical research program in hematology/oncology with two abstracts accepted for presentation at the European Hematology Association (EHA) 2024 hybrid congress in Madrid, Spain....Read more
All in One Scan - Unique in Europe, It Will Open Up New Horizons for Oncology Research
2024 04 Jun
The IRCCS in Bologna has inaugurated a state-of-the-art integrated PET/CT system. This cutting-edge technology allows for the entire human body to be studied in a single scan, even detecting the smallest tumour cells. In addition to reducing examination duration from 12 minutes to less than a minute, the new device offers unique opportunities...Read more
Penn Researchers Develop Experimental mRNA Avian Flu Vaccine
2024 23 May
Promising preclinical results suggest mRNA vaccine platform could limit the impact of avian flu pandemics. An experimental mRNA vaccine against avian influenza virus H5N1 is highly effective in preventing severe illness and death in preclinical models. The vaccine could potentially help manage the outbreak of the H5N1 virus currently circulating...Read more
Commission Invests €112 Million in AI and Quantum Research and Innovation
2024 23 Apr
Today the European Commission has launched calls for proposals under Horizon Europe's 2023-2024 digital, industrial and space work programme for research and innovation in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and quantum technologies. The Commission will invest over €65 million in AI. Of this amount, €50 million will be dedicated to projects...Read more
Start of Clinical Research with Hiroshima University on Photon-Counting CT
2024 08 Apr
Canon Medical Systems Corporation (hereinafter "Canon Medical"; President and CEO: Toshio Takiguchi; headquarters: Otawara, Tochigi, Japan) and Hiroshima University (President: Mitsuo Ochi; location: Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan) began clinical research. using a Canon photon-counting CT (PCCT) system (the company's third such system worldwide)...Read more
Articles
Carbon Footprint in ICU: A New Meaningful Outcome in Research Trials
2023 26 May
Reducing the carbon footprint in healthcare is a requirement for guaranteeing the best future for humanity. Here we suggest that the carbon footprint be assessed as a potential endpoint for future trials in critical care. Environmental Impact in Critical Care The climate crisis is a threat to global health. The temperature of the atmosphere...Read more
Radiomics: Recent Trends and Assessing Research Quality
2021 26 Nov
Dr Renato Cuocolo, radiologist and research fellow at the University of Naples ‘Federico II’, recently spoke at the 2021 European Society of Medical Imaging Informatics (EuSoMII) Annual Meeting about the challenges in assessing research quality in radiomics. Given radiomics’ transformative potential for medical imaging, HealthManagement.org met...Read more
Advances in Sepsis Research – New Tools Against One of the Oldest Diseases?
2020 14 Sep
Sepsis and septic shock are the leading causes of death in the ICU. With an estimated mortality rate of 40-60%, septic shock is in the focus of adult critical care medicine. It is broadly accepted that intervention in the very early phase of sepsis before the complex inflammatory host response is initiated should be one major area that clinical research...Read more
Conducting Research in the COVID-19 Era
2020 11 May
Summary: Under pressure in the age of COVID-19, David Koff stresses that researchers need to maintain high standards for their offerings to have value to the medical world. COVID-19 is the worst pandemic the world has been going through since the Spanish Influenza of 1918, which claimed the lives of millions of people. As we watch the death...Read more
Big Data: Application of Folksonomy for Clinical Nephrology Research
2020 09 Mar
Summary: Nephrology researchers show how natural language processing can enable a more efficient and effective use of the vast amount of healthcare big data. The daily activity in the medical field generates a multitude of data from clinical records and reports, collected from anamnesis and physical examination, laboratory and other tests,...Read more
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ESMO Advanced Course On Breast, Gynecological And GI Cancers Research 2024
2024 04 Oct
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ASBMR 2024 - American Society of Bone & Mineral Research Annual Meeting
2024 27 Sep
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