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Patient benefit
Patient benefit is used to assess the efficacy and feasibility of medical treatments. To assess patient benefit, a clear understanding of the patient's health prior to and after a procedure, treatment, or intervention is compared. Treatments which generate a patient benefit, with minimal or acceptable risks, may be approved for further clinical use.
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MAR 03, 2017Videos
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Yet another Alzheimer’s drug being tested in clinical trials has failed, resulting in the trial being stopped. Mer ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimFEB 22, 2017Videos
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Researchers are looking into the possibility that stem cells could be used to treat patients suffering from a variety of ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 02, 2017Microbiology
Scientists at the University of Exeter have found that antibiotics can stimulate the growth of bacteria. When Escherichi ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 01, 2017Neuroscience
Epilepsy is the fourth most common neurological disorder in the United States. Patients who have it are of all ages and ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimJAN 31, 2017Immunology
The number of people getting a flu shot at a pharmacy skyrocketed from 3.2 million to 20.9 million between 2007 and 2013 ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)JAN 31, 2017Cardiology
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Baby monitors have come a long way in the past few years. Now, not only do these devices alert parents of crying babies, ...JAN 27, 2017Microbiology
Clostridium difficile often infects hospitalized patients who have undergone antibiotic therapy. These bacteria infect t ...Written By: Kerry EvansJAN 27, 2017Videos
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A new technology based on a method originally developed in 1997 to treat cancer could soon eliminate the need for invasi ...Written By: Kara MarkerJAN 23, 2017Cancer
Results from an international Phase 3 clinical trial offer renewed hope for thousands of people with liver cancer. Publi ...JAN 21, 2017Cardiology
A decade-long study of nearly four thousand participants, conducted by scientists at Johns Hopkins University, provides ...Written By: Kara MarkerJAN 20, 2017Cancer
Mammography is credited for saving the lives of many women with breast cancer. Yet, while this tool is regarded as indis ...JAN 19, 2017Cancer
Off-label use of an antimalarial drug saved the life of a 26-year-old patient dying of treatment-resistant brain cancer. ...JAN 18, 2017Cardiology
Ten years ago, a diagnosis of “advanced heart failure” was essentially a death sentence, aside from the pati ...Written By: Kara MarkerJAN 17, 2017Cardiology
In response to a call from the World Health Organization, scientists from the American Thoracic Society conducted a stud ...Written By: Kara MarkerJAN 17, 2017Neuroscience
It’s in the news every day and anyone who has had a physical recently has been told by a health professional that ...Written By: Brenda Kelley Kim
MAR 03, 2017
Videos
Social media can often be the venue for over-sharing. Whether it's embarrassing photos or endless bragging about seeming
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
FEB 23, 2017
Neuroscience
Yet another Alzheimer’s drug being tested in clinical trials has failed, resulting in the trial being stopped. Mer
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
FEB 22, 2017
Videos
The power-packed cranberry has been touted as an effective and all-natural remedy for urinary tract infections (UTIs) fo
...
FEB 21, 2017
Cancer
Cancer took an estimated 600,000 lives in the United States alone in 2016–costing Americans and their families rou
...
Written By:
Brook Spencer
FEB 20, 2017
Clinical & Molecular DX
Although the scalp-cooling cap has been available in Europe for a number of years, the device was only approved in the U
...
FEB 16, 2017
Neuroscience
With the incidence of various types of dementia on the rise (Alzheimer’s disease, White Matter syndrome, age relat
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
FEB 15, 2017
Cancer
Women who opt to remove one or both ovaries during a hysterectomy may be doubling their risks for heart disease, cancer,
...
FEB 06, 2017
Videos
Researchers are looking into the possibility that stem cells could be used to treat patients suffering from a variety of
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 02, 2017
Microbiology
Scientists at the University of Exeter have found that antibiotics can stimulate the growth of bacteria. When Escherichi
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 01, 2017
Neuroscience
Epilepsy is the fourth most common neurological disorder in the United States. Patients who have it are of all ages and
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JAN 31, 2017
Immunology
The number of people getting a flu shot at a pharmacy skyrocketed from 3.2 million to 20.9 million between 2007 and 2013
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
JAN 31, 2017
Cardiology
In the United States, heart disease is dangerously common and very expensive. Many people with heart disease and at a hi
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JAN 31, 2017
Earth & The Environment
News about President Trump’s executive orders encouraging the advancement of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pip
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JAN 27, 2017
Clinical & Molecular DX
Baby monitors have come a long way in the past few years. Now, not only do these devices alert parents of crying babies,
...
JAN 27, 2017
Microbiology
Clostridium difficile often infects hospitalized patients who have undergone antibiotic therapy. These bacteria infect t
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
JAN 27, 2017
Videos
If you made a New Years resolution to get fit and lose weight, you are not alone. It's the most common resolution and it
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JAN 24, 2017
Cardiology
A new technology based on a method originally developed in 1997 to treat cancer could soon eliminate the need for invasi
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JAN 23, 2017
Cancer
Results from an international Phase 3 clinical trial offer renewed hope for thousands of people with liver cancer. Publi
...
JAN 21, 2017
Cardiology
A decade-long study of nearly four thousand participants, conducted by scientists at Johns Hopkins University, provides
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JAN 20, 2017
Cancer
Mammography is credited for saving the lives of many women with breast cancer. Yet, while this tool is regarded as indis
...
JAN 19, 2017
Cancer
Off-label use of an antimalarial drug saved the life of a 26-year-old patient dying of treatment-resistant brain cancer.
...
JAN 18, 2017
Cardiology
Ten years ago, a diagnosis of “advanced heart failure” was essentially a death sentence, aside from the pati
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JAN 17, 2017
Cardiology
In response to a call from the World Health Organization, scientists from the American Thoracic Society conducted a stud
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JAN 17, 2017
Neuroscience
It’s in the news every day and anyone who has had a physical recently has been told by a health professional that
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim