Archive: 13/11/2017
At-home vision monitoring app may improve patient care
Patients with age-related macular degeneration or diabetic retinopathy who used a mobile application to test their vision at home got comparable results to in-office vision testing, according to research presented today at ...
Nov 13, 2017
Definitive global transfusion study supports patient safety, positive patient outcomes
Lower thresholds for blood transfusions during cardiac surgery have proven to be safe and provide good patient outcomes compared to traditional thresholds, according to the largest research study ever performed in this area. ...
Nov 13, 2017
Harder for T cells to fight cancer in absence of VEGF-A
Contrary to what was previously believed, the immune system's cancer-killing T cells are more effective in a tumour's anoxic environment when they have access to growth factor VEGF-A. In a study from Karolinska Institutet ...
Nov 13, 2017
ACA program to reduce hospital readmissions not all it's cracked up to be
A federal program that has been shown to reduce hospital readmissions may not have been as successful as it appears, University of Michigan researchers report in the latest issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association ...
Nov 13, 2017