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At the Seventy-ninth World Health Assembly in Geneva, WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has presented four distinguished leaders with the Award for Global Health, recognizing their lifetime achievements and exceptional contributions to improving the health and we

New Rutgers research suggests that much of the seemingly endless waiting for complex medical care can be engineered away by re-creating operations inside a computer and testing countless possible improvements. The study in the Annals of Operations Research explains how researcher

A study of more than 60 countries shows those with faster declines in the social acceptability of intimate partner violence against women also tend to have had faster reductions in rates of such violence, as well as faster human development improvements. Irina Vartanova of the In

Researchers at the Medical University of Vienna and ETH Zurich have developed a rehabilitation platform for people suffering from the long-term effects of a stroke that combines virtual reality with targeted sensory nerve stimulation. In a randomized feasibility clinical study wi

Low back pain affects over 600 million people and is the single leading cause of disability worldwide. New research from Boston Medical Center (BMC), the largest essential hospital in New England, suggests that the Optimizing Pain Treatment In Medical settings Using Mindfulness (

The online team-based connected health (TCH) model yields equivalent improvements in signs and symptoms of atopic dermatitis (AD) compared with in-person care, according to a study published in JAMA Dermatology.

Telehealth-supported home-based exercise (HBE) achieves comparable short-term improvements to supervised exercise among lymphoma survivors entering cardio-oncology rehabilitation (CORE), according to a study published in Cancer Control.

A large-scale analysis by an international research team, led by Bochum University of Applied Sciences, shows that nonsurgical treatments such as massage, exercise therapy or acupuncture for chronic back pain can alleviate symptoms—but usually only for a few weeks. Clinically sig

Nearly half of dementia cases could be prevented by tackling modifiable risk factors such as physical inactivity, smoking, low education or social isolation, but new Curtin University research suggests current public health approaches are falling short in driving real behavior ch

Published today in Schizophrenia Bulletin, a first-of-its-kind randomized controlled trial (RCT) from researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), adds to growing literature on the potential benefit of a ketogenic diet for treating psychotic disorders. The s

A new study from University Hospitals Connor Whole Health reports that an insurance-supported integrative oncology program resulted in clinically meaningful improvements in cancer-related symptoms like pain, stress, anxiety, depression, nausea and fatigue. The findings highlight

New results from an Alliance Foundation Trials (AFT) study reveal that a simple weekly electronic symptom check-in with their care team significantly improves the quality of life for individuals undergoing treatment for advanced cancer. The study found that the biggest improvemen