Hospitals are figuring out how to revise opioid guidelines for specific procedures
There is debate in medical circles about just how effective recommendations and guidelines will be in stemming the epidemic.
This is why clinicians need to partner with patients instead of seeing them as subjects
The desire by patients to take control of their data combined with the growth of personalized medicine raises an interesting question? What’s the best way for doctors to give patients genetic test results? Readmission is also a vexing issue, particularly for COPD. What kind of insights could patients offer doctors to change how they provide […]
New research project designed to help people living with IBD manage their meds
Curant Health is launching a study with the Meyerhoff Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine to test how well counseling from pharmacists can improve the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease. The study will compare medication therapy management to standard care in a large university hospital setting. Project “A.L.I.V.E” (Adherence […]
Researchers find new immunotherapy target in aggressive brain tumors
Researchers from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine have discovered that a protein associated with melanomas and a variety of other cancers is also present in nearly 100 percent of malignant, aggressive forms of a common brain tumor — meningiomas. Although meningiomas are benign in 90 percent of cases, about 10 percent are either atypical and/or […]