People who are overweight or obese when they are diagnosed with dementia are likely to live longer than those in a normal weight range, according to a new study.. The findings suggest that one’s weight status at the time of a dementia diagnosis may provide meaningful prognostic information about survival and underscore the need for greater attention to nutrition among those with dementia.

UCLA Health was awarded a $4 million federal grant to investigate why some ulcerative colitis patients continue to experience irritable bowel syndrome-like symptoms even after inflammation has subsided.

Hospitals should make nurse staffing and supportive nurse work environments a core part of extreme heat emergency preparedness, according to a new editorial from Penn Nursing’s Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research (CHOPR), as record-breaking temperatures and heat-related emergency department visits continue to rise across the United States. The editorial appears in Public Health Nursing.

New modelling led by interdisciplinary scientists at the University of British Columbia (UBC) could help public health officials better factor in the long-term impacts of infectious disease when determining optimum vaccine coverage rates. 

In a new study, researchers modeled the transmission of Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) infections among patients in hospital cancer units. They found that most new infections were introduced by patients who were infected but not symptomatic at the time of admission, rather than by patients who were infected and symptomatic. The model provides a clearer picture of C. diff transmission events in oncology wards and could help inform protocols aimed at preventing future disease transmission in a highly susceptible population.

 

The Mount Sinai Tisch Cancer Center has brought its electronic health record (EHR)-to-electronic data capture (EDC) technology into routine use across its cancer research program. Powered by IgniteData’s Archer platform and integrated with Epic, the technology has produced early results, reducing clinical trial data-entry time by more than half while improving the efficiency and reliability of research data collection.