Why the Best Home Care Package Providers Focus on Personalized Support

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Key Highlights Here’s a quick look at what we’ll cover: Introduction Deciding on a provider of home care packages is a critical decision that can influence the quality of your care. Not all providers are the same. The best ones provide customized support, recognising that everyone is different with various preferences and requirements. Top providers […]

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Growing Importance of Mental Health Support in Modern Communities

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 We have made a lot of progress in technology and building infrastructure.. At the same time our local support systems are under a lot of pressure. People are struggling with health issues. Communities need to support them. Mental health support is important. With local ecosystems fracturing, formal psychiatric frameworks must actively bridge the gap. We […]

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Soft Tissue Injuries: Why They’re Harder to Diagnose Than a Broken Bone

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When diagnosing a soft tissue injury, it is difficult to differentiate them from a bone fracture since they are not as easy to spot. You have walked away from an accident and are feeling sore but thinking you are doing OK, there is no cast and no obvious break. The pain increases after a few […]

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Bulletin: Phase 3 Clinical Trial Success for Smart Watch Epilepsy App

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May 2026, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, MD, USA neurologists announced in the journal Neurology Open Access that the EpiWatch epilepsy app for the Apple smart watch can reliably detect tonic-clonic seizures as you sleep, with a low false alarm rate. The brain doctors worked with EpiWatch inc. to test whether their non-EEG based seizure […]

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OCT during routine eye exams may uncover undiagnosed conditions

PHOENIX — Screening healthy patients for glaucoma during routine eye exams led to glaucoma referrals that would not have been made otherwise, according to a prospective study presented at Optometry’s Meeting.
Out of 104 patients, 13 were referred for further glaucoma evaluation, and one was diagnosed with active disease. The study was presented by Michael Chaglasian, OD, FAAO, of Illinois College of Optometry.
During routine eye exams at Illinois Eye Institute, 104 patients aged 35 years or older were offered free spectral-domain OCT imaging using Maestro2 (Topcon Healthcare).
The average age of

Anti-VEGF treatment for wet AMD declines over 7 years

DENVER — A real-world analysis showed increased rates of undertreatment and attrition with anti-VEGF injections in patients with wet age-related macular degeneration over time, resulting in worse visual outcomes.
According to a poster presented at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology meeting, the study aimed to address the knowledge gaps on the long-term impact of nonpersistence in anti-VEGF treatment on visual outcomes.
“We performed a retrospective analysis of the Vestrum Health database to characterize the impact of a 6-month treatment gap in new wet AMD patients

Mesothelioma cases, deaths continue to rise

Mesothelioma diagnoses and deaths continue to increase nationwide despite more than 5 decades of asbestos regulation and a halt on use of the mineral fibers for industrial purposes, according to study results.
There has been no clinically meaningful survival improvement for this rare but aggressive cancer since 1990, findings suggest. In addition, an increasing proportion of the disease burden is being shouldered by women and regions in which occupations linked to high risk for asbestos exposure are more common.
“This is one of the first studies to look at how incidence and mortality are

Annual Regional Anesthesiology and Acute Pain Medicine Meeting

Results presented at the Annual Regional Anesthesiology and Acute Pain Medicine Meeting showed prescription of Journavx for postoperative pain may be well tolerated in patients undergoing orthopedic surgery.
“[This is] going to become more widely used,” Faye Rim, MD, FAAPMR, a physiatrist and pain management specialist within the department of anesthesiology, critical care and pain management at Hospital for Special Surgery, told Healio. “It is getting adopted quickly and we have to have a better understanding of how it works within our arsenal of our usual postoperative pain medication

What to do when parents believe misinformation on social media

BOSTON — Parents often seek out social media content related to their children’s health, which can put them at risk for encountering misinformation, according to a presenter at the Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting.
“There are parents who are picking up their own version of what we would call ‘TikTok diagnoses,’” Meredith E. Gansner, MD, a child and adolescent psychiatrist at University of Rochester Medicine, told Healio in an interview. “We saw it in psychiatry and neurology, when a lot of our patients were coming in with diagnoses they had made themselves through content they saw

Neighborhood segregation linked to lower liver transplant access

Liver transplant candidates residing in highly segregated neighborhoods with a predominantly underrepresented population were less likely to receive live donor liver transplant than those in white neighborhoods, study results showed.
Candidates waitlisted at transplant centers in highly segregated areas also were less likely to access live donor liver transplant (LDLT), according to a national cohort study published in JAMA Network Open.
Lead author Alexandra “Aly” T. Strauss, MD, PhD, MIE, a transplant hepatologist at Johns Hopkins Medicine, told Healio that she and colleagues were interested