The Lancet Public Health has published the first comprehensive forecasts for dementia prevalence in 195 countries and territories and examines the impact of expected trends in exposure to four important risk factors – smoking, obesity, high blood sugar, and low education. The forecast shows that dementia cases will rise in every country, with the smallest […]
Cleveland Clinic has launched a landmark study to better understand why millions of people around the world suffer from brain diseases, with the goal of pinpointing disease biomarkers early, well before clinical symptoms present themselves.
In developed countries, adherence among patients suffering chronic diseases averages only 50%, while in developing countries, the rates are even lower. [1]
Computer engineers and radiologists at Duke University have developed an artificial intelligence platform to analyse potentially cancerous lesions in mammography scans to determine if a patient should receive an invasive biopsy. But unlike its many predecessors, this algorithm is interpretable, meaning it shows physicians exactly how it came to its conclusions.
International Hospital speaks to Tanja Brycker, Vice President, Strategic Development, Breast & Skeletal Health and Gynaecological Surgical Solutions at Hologic, about Hologic’s first Global Women’s Health Index developed from a poll of more than 120,000 women in 116 countries.
International Hospital speaks to Ruben de Francisco, CEO of Onera Health, an Eindhoven-based startup, about their new, innovative, clinicalgrade patch-based polysomnography system that a patient can use at home to capture data for diagnosing sleeprelated disorders and monitoring sleep therapy.
The first ever MENA Conference for Rare Diseases under the chairmanship of Professor Ayman El-Hattab will bring forth a very rich scientific program with over 30 expert speakers from across the emirates joining this anticipated event of the year.
New estimates reveal that at least 1.27 million deaths per year are directly attributable to antimicrobial resistance (AMR), requiring urgent action from policymakers and health communities to avoid further preventable deaths. Based on estimates across 204 countries and territories the ‘Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 204 countries and territories in 2019’ paper provides […]
A multidisciplinary team of Cleveland Clinic and Cleveland Clinic Children’s doctors and nurses performed a rare and complex lifesaving foetal surgery to remove a tumour attached to the heart of a 26-week-old foetus. Few studies about the rare condition – an intrapericardial teratoma with foetal hydrops (i.e., fluid accumulation) evolving to foetal […]
Being overweight may cause more hospital admissions and higher incidences of disease and mortality than previous studies report, according to new University of Bristol-led research. The study, published in Economics and Human Biology, used a genetic technique to identify the sole impact of body composition on hospital admissions from over 300,000 people. The study, led […]
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