by Sigal Atzmon Ask a second radiologist or pathologist to assess the work of a first and there is a 10% to 50% chance that they will uncover a diagnostic error according to numerous clinical studies published over the years. These are not reassuring odds and despite many efforts to improve them, medical error remains … Read more
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By Denise Mann HealthDay Reporter MONDAY, Jan. 3, 2022 (HealthDay News) — A new analysis uncovers a racial paradox in prostate cancer care: While Black men are often diagnosed later and with more aggressive disease than white men, radiation therapy seems to work better for them than for their white peers. To come to that … Read more
By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, Sept. 1, 2021 (HealthDay News) — A four-in-one pill containing “ultra-low doses” of different medications can provide better blood pressure control than standard drug treatment, a new clinical trial from Australia shows. About 80% of people given the “quadpill” achieved a healthy blood pressure of 140/90 within three months … Read more
By Robert PreidtHealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, Aug. 24, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Here’s some hopeful news for those who have kidney transplants: Long-term survival rates have improved over the past three decades, a review shows. “There has been a gratifying improvement in kidney transplant survival, both for patients and the kidney graft itself, from 1996 to … Read more
Since the 1990s, prostate cancer death rates have dropped for all men — most of all for African Americans. That’s progress, for sure, but it’s not the full picture. Black men have a greater risk of getting prostate cancer — and a more aggressive type — than white men, says Brandon A. Mahal, MD, a … Read more
By Dr Sanjay Mittal The dawn of 2020 saw the world battling the worst pandemic of our times. The crisis made us realize the limitations of current knowledge with respect to the constant uncertainties of the future, thus, emphasizing on the value and necessity of innovations. The COVID-19 outbreak drew our attention to some of … Read more
REUTERS/ Ronen Zvulun By Dr. Sreenivasan Narayana The response to the pandemic has required real-time and continuous innovation that ensures quality care. In the last 15 months, while treating the rising tide of patients with COVID-19, many doctors found themselves working in an unfamiliar setting, treating an unknown disease. With little known about the coronavirus … Read more
By Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter MONDAY, July 19, 2021 (HealthDay News) — When you’re hospitalized, you’ll want qualified medical professionals treating you, but does it matter if your doctor is a man or a woman? It might. A new study in Canada found that patients cared for by female physicians had lower in-hospital death rates … Read more
By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter MONDAY, July 12, 2021 (HealthDay News) — When men have advanced prostate cancer, obesity might offer something of a survival advantage, a preliminary study suggests. Researchers in Italy found that among men with prostate cancer that had spread throughout the body, those who were obese were less likely to die … Read more