Day: May 7, 2021

One in nine adults consistently had very poor or deteriorating mental health during the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic according to new research.

Researchers hope to save significant time, money and resources in Australian hospital wards, with findings from a new University of Queensland-led study.

The difference made to health care quality measurement by voluntary data sharing across a region’s health systems and ambulatory care practices is examined in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association by Adam Wright, Ph.D., and colleagues.

Imagine describing a photograph of an oak tree growing in a meadow. Now imagine describing that same image while a section of your skull has been temporarily removed and a grid of sensors is resting directly on the surface of your brain. These sensors are recording where these electrical signals are rising from your brain. …

In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare workers analyzing test results began noticing something strange: patients who had already recovered from COVID-19 would sometimes inexplicably test positive on a PCR test weeks or even months later.

A world-first Australian study has shown that broad access to hepatitis C testing and treatment in prisons halves the number of new infections in that setting.

Subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH)—bleeding from a ruptured aneurysm—leads to delayed cerebral vasospasm (blood vessel constriction) and stroke. SAH morbidity and mortality are high, and therapeutic options are limited.

A protein implicated in neurodegenerative diseases including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) prevents the activation of an innate immune response that leads to cell death, Vanderbilt researchers have discovered.