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Patient survey reveals preference and economic cost of breathlessness services

Written by | 28 Aug 2022

A new study has examined patient preferences for breathlessness services and determined the cost savings of these provisions for the NHS. The paper is published today in Thorax by researchers… read more.

Simulation in medical school helps prepare doctors to care for dying patients

Written by | 11 Aug 2022

Simulated experience of caring for a dying patient and their family can improve the confidence and preparedness of medical students to provide such care, according to a new… read more.

Study explores when nursing home chains should customize or standardize

Written by | 4 Jul 2022

A new study by a University of South Florida researcher found important revelations that could provide chain-operated nursing homes with crucial implications for operational goals and strategic findings… read more.

Hospices vary widely in prescribing of “comfort kit” medications

Written by | 14 May 2022

When a person nearing the end of their life enters hospice care, their hospice agency’s doctors may prescribe a “comfort kit” of small amounts of medications that their… read more.

Dapagliflozin improves outcomes in heart failure among frail patients

Written by | 27 Apr 2022

Adjunctive dapagliflozin therapy appears to improve outcomes in heart failure patients without regard to frailty status at initiation of treatment. These findings appeared on April 26, 2022 in… read more.

More severe stroke patients should receive palliative care consultations

Written by | 12 Mar 2022

Only 20 percent of patients being treated in the hospital for severe stroke received a palliative care consultation, and only 43 percent of patients who died in the… read more.

New resistance-busting antibiotic combination could extend the use of ‘last-resort’ antibiotics

Written by | 29 Dec 2021

Scientists have discovered a new potential treatment that has the ability to reverse antibiotic resistance in bacteria that cause conditions such as sepsis, pneumonia, and urinary tract infections…. read more.

Vulnerable populations not receiving cancer survivorship care plans

Written by | 20 Nov 2021

Study identified which groups were less likely to receive plans Survivorship care plans are an important tool to help cancer survivors transition out of active treatment and back… read more.

Make general anaesthesia more widely available for dying patients’

Written by | 22 Oct 2021

General anaesthesia is widely used for surgery and diagnostic interventions, to ensure the patient is completely unconscious during these procedures. However, in a paper published in Anaesthesia (a journal of… read more.

BeiGene receives positive CHMP opinion for Brukinsa for the treatment of adults with Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia

Written by | 2 Oct 2021

BeiGene has announced the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has adopted a positive opinion, recommending approval of BRUKINSA (zanubrutinib)… read more.

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