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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.

Throat cancer is one of the fastest-growing cancers, and it is often linked to human papillomavirus (HPV). Oropharyngeal cancer, or throat cancer, is a type of head and neck cancer that can be divided into two subgroups: HPV-associated cancers and non-HPV-associated cancers. Depending on the type of subgroup, they are treated differently.

For patients with localized prostate cancer (PCa), tissue-based genomic classifiers (GCs) do not consistently influence risk classification or treatment decisions, according to a review published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

A landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision barring job discrimination significantly eased the minds of LGBTQ+ workers, a new study says.

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?

Being able to noninvasively stimulate the deep brain without stimulating shallow regions is a key goal of non-invasive neurostimulation.

Machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques and analysis of large datasets have helped University of Birmingham researchers to discover proteins that have strong predictive potential for colorectal cancer.

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.

In clinical practice guidelines jointly issued by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and U.S. Department of Defense and published online Jan. 21 in the Annals of Internal Medicine, updated recommendations are presented for the management of stroke rehabilitation.

A new study by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine shows that only 3.5 years of intensive blood pressure control continues to significantly reduce the risk of mild cognitive impairment or dementia long after stopping this treatment in adults with hypertension and high cardiovascular risk.