Medicine NewsAlmost 30% of 14-year-old Australian children fall within a group identified as being at future increased risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes or stroke, according to results referred to in the Medical Journal of Australia. West Australian researchers, including Professor Fiona Stanley of the Telethon Institute for Childhood Health Research, identified children [...]
Five articles recently posted online in the medical journal Diabetologia studied the possible connection between the use of insulin glargine (Lantus®) and the development of cancer. While one of these studies suggested an increased risk of cancer, the other four did not come to the same conclusion. Taken together, the results [...]
Psychologists representing the American Psychological Association joined other invited health care practitioners, leaders and aides to President Obama today for the latest White House Stakeholder Discussion Group, emphasizing that health reform must include psychological services as part of primary care. APA stressed the need for a change in the delivery of health care [...]
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We swim in a sea of information, but filter out most of what we see or hear. New analysis of data from dozens of studies sheds new light on how we choose what we do and do not hear. The study found that while people tend to avoid information that contradicts what they already think [...]
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that it is requiring manufacturers to put a Boxed Warning on the prescribing information for the smoking cessation drugs Chantix (varenicline) and Zyban (bupropion). The warning will highlight the risk of serious mental health events including changes in behavior, depressed mood, hostility, and suicidal thoughts when taking these [...]
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A Decade-Long campaign by the British Psychological Society to have statutory regulation for practitioner psychologists comes to fruition. From the 1 July the Health Professions Council (HPC) takes over the regulation of the majority of practitioner psychologists.
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A revolutionary new device which could save the lives of stroke patients has been developed by a University of Wolverhampton expert. Dr Gillian Pearce is one of the inventors of a blood clot removal device which could improve the survival rates of people who have suffered a stroke. [...]
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The routine use of this first commercial robot assistant culminates the process of investigation, development, technology transfer and the marketing of this robot. Four years ago the Spanish company SENER became interested in the ongoing research by the Medical Robotics Group of the University of Malaga. They were developing a robot-assistant prototype [...]
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