Credit: CC0 Public Domain In the United States and other western countries, a form of esophageal and stomach cancer has risen dramatically over the last five decades. Rates of esophageal…
Tag: Health informatics
2010 to 2019 saw increase in incidence of early-onset cancers in U.S.
From 2010 to 2019, the incidence rates of early-onset cancers increased, with gastrointestinal cancers having the fastest-growing incidence rates, according to a study published online Aug. 16 in JAMA Network…
How do people really feel about electronic health records?
Karola Marky (left) and Rebecca Panskus interviewed people about the electronic patient record.© RUB, MarquardThe image may only be used in the context of the press release “How do people…
Where Black adolescents live affects their mental health
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain It’s easy to imagine that growing up in a neighborhood with safe and clean parks, little to no discrimination, and where people are not struggling financially…
Asian adults in US less likely to survive cardiac arrest despite bystander CPR rate equal to that of white adults
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Despite similar rates of bystander CPR after an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, Asian adults in the U.S. have lower rates of survival than white adults, according to…
Patient transfer systems needed to ensure equity, as ICUs overload during pandemic
Credit: CC0 Public Domain During the COVID-19 pandemic, many U.S. hospitals had overcapacity intensive care units (ICU) while other area hospitals had open ICU beds available, a phenomenon known as…
AI must not worsen health inequalities for ethnic minority populations, say epidemiologists
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Scientists are urging caution before artificial intelligence (AI) models such as ChatGPT are used in health care for ethnic minority populations. Writing in the Journal of…
Researchers link early-life exposure to wildfire smoke with early use of upper respiratory medication
Spatial distribution of total number of wildfire smoke-days (2010–2016) at each MSA for the (a) 0%, b 25%, and (c) 50% thresholds. Thresholds are defined as the population-weighted percentage of…
How infection rates changed on the day a lockdown or similar measure was introduced
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Using an approach based on computer vision technology, researchers can work back from COVID-19 mortality data to see how infection rates changed on the day a…
Mortality rate from Candida infections remains high in Brazil, despite therapeutic advances
Candida albicans. Credit: Wikipedia. An article published in the Journal of Fungi analyzing bloodstream infection by fungi of the genus Candida, and comparing data for the periods 2010–11 and 2017–18…
