GP recovery plan designed to free up millions of appointments ‘won’t work’: Royal College warns ONLY solution is to hire thousands more doctors rather than rely on chemists – as Rishi Sunak vows to drastically expand workforce The Government’s blockbuster GP ‘recovery plan’ won’t work, experts warned Chemists will get new powers to hand out prescriptions for common ailments Officials […]

In a recent perspective article published in the journal Technological Forecasting and Social Change, an interdisciplinary team of researchers from across the world discussed the recent game-changing achievements in science and technology that have the potential to change human lives immediately and across future decades. Perspective: Game changers in science and technology – now and beyond. Image Credit: metamorworks / Shutterstock Background […]

SEATTLE — The majority of patients who underwent a teledermatology follow-up after Mohs micrographic surgery reported that they preferred it to in-person follow up, according to new findings. In addition, nearly all patients surveyed (91.4%) were willing to go through electronic follow-up again. “A big takeaway from our study is that streamlining this process is really essential for successful implementation,” […]

Are high-tech scans which spot even tiny growths that are completely harmless causing us more harm than good? READ MORE:  Has Covid created a generation of germaphobes After experiencing repeated bouts of stomach cramps and heartburn excruciating enough to take her to A&E, Karen Myers decided to use her private healthcare to get to the bottom of what was wrong. But […]

In a University of California, Irvine-led study, researchers have discovered small-molecule drugs with potential clinical utility in the treatment of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), diabetic retinopathy (DR), and retinitis pigmentosa (RP). The study, titled, “Stress resilience-enhancing drugs preserve tissue structure and function in degenerating retina via phosphodiesterase inhibition,” was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “In […]

Animal studies indicate that a new COVID-19 vaccine developed at Rutgers may provide more durable protection against SARS-CoV-2 and its emerging variants than existing vaccines. "We need a better vaccine, one that provides years of robust protection with fewer booster shots against a variety of SARS-CoV-2 strains. Our data suggest this vaccine candidate might be able to do that," said […]

Past neuroscience studies suggest that when deciding their next actions, mice and other rodents tend to replay past outcomes of similar situations in their brain, which is reflected in a rapid activation of certain brain regions in a sequence. Recently, some studies recorded similar replay-associated brain activity in the human brain using imaging techniques. Researchers at University College London (UCL) […]

Due to a policy decision in 2010 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the price of a prescription for the therapeutic gout drug colchicine increased nearly 16-fold from $11.25 in 2009 to $190.49 in 2011. Out-of-pocket costs for patients who took the drug jumped more than four-fold from $7.37 to $39.49 over the same period. Use of colchicine […]

Much of the human genome is made of regulatory regions that control which genes are expressed at a given time within a cell. Those regulatory elements can be located near a target gene or up to 2 million base pairs away from the target. To enable interactions, the genome loops itself in a 3D structure that brings distant regions close […]

Should healthy people be screened to help reduce their risk of fragility fractures? A new interactive online Fragility Fracture Decision Aid for shared decision-making can help clinicians and patients visualize their individual risk of fracture and the potential benefits and harms of preventive treatment. The decision aid is part of a new guideline https://www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.221219 from the Canadian Task Force on […]