Learning to care: How to overcome barriers to virtual care education for health care employees

As virtual care increasingly continues to play a crucial role in health care, a new study by University of Calgary researchers explores how educators are teaching vital virtual care skills to the next generation of nurses, doctors, and social workers. The study, titled “Exploring Educators’ Perceptions and Experiences of Online Teaching to Foster Caring Profession Students’ Development of Virtual Caring Skills,” highlights the barriers, facilitators, and principles of teaching virtual caring skills online.

New work creates roadmap for the next generation of bioelectronic medicine

From the ancient Egyptians’ use of electric fish to treat headaches to the invention of pacemakers to regulate heart rhythms in the 1950s, the field of bioelectronic medicine—which makes use of electrical signals instead of drugs to diagnose and treat disease—has advanced and has started to come into its own. Where is the field now? And what are the most promising opportunities for life-changing new therapies and diagnostics?

Ziapin2 effectively restores retinal function in preclinical models of retinitis pigmentosa and macular degeneration

A multidisciplinary team of researchers from the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT-Italian Institute of Technology) and IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino has demonstrated the effectiveness of the Ziapin2 molecule as a promising new instrument in countering the effects of retinitis pigmentosa and age-related macular degeneration, conditions that lead to the progressive deterioration of the photoreceptors in the retina, causing progressive blindness.