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Strengthening Public Health Surveillance: Why Türkiye’s Family Physicians Struggle with Disease Reporting—and How to Fix It

JPHMP Direct

A nationwide survey reveals that Turkish family physicians face critical challenges in infectious disease reporting due to knowledge deficits, time constraints, and insufficient feedback, underscoring the need for enhanced training and streamlined digital systems. The post Strengthening Public Health Surveillance: Why Trkiyes Family Physicians Struggle with Disease Reportingand How to Fix It first appeared on JPHMP Direct.

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March Madness and babies: Are the sounds of the game too big for little ears?

NPR Health

What's the right age to take kids to a loud sporting event? A Johns Hopkins noise expert on protecting babies' ears and when game day noise might be too much for them.

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New peptide antibiotic stops bacteria by binding where no drug has before

News Medical Health Sciences

Researchers discovered lariocidin, a lasso peptide antibiotic that kills multidrug-resistant bacteria by binding a novel ribosomal site.

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Study: Medical students need more training in carceral care

Public Health Newswire

About 2 million people are incarcerated in the U.S.

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First therapy chatbot trial shows AI can provide 'gold-standard' care

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Researchers conducted the first clinical trial of an AI-powered therapy chatbot and found that, on average, people with diagnosed mental disorders experienced clinically significant improvements in their symptoms over eight weeks, according to new results. Users engaged with the software, known as Therabot, through a smartphone app and reported that interactions were comparable to working with a mental-health professional.

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Addressing the growing health crisis of digital addiction in children and adolescents

The Hindu

Netflix's "Adolescence" sparks concerns on screen addiction among youth, highlighting health impacts and warning signs for parents.

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How to update your AHCJ Freelance Directory profile

Association of Health Care Journalists

AHCJs Freelance Directory is a key perk of membership for freelancers. The public-facing database allows editors to search for health journalists who could be a good fit for their projects. For example, maybe an editor is looking for someone with expertise in mental health whos a professional member, or someone whose full-time gig is journalism as opposed to public relations or copywriting for brands.

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March Madness and babies: Are the sounds of the game too big for little ears?

NPR Health

Sporting events are fun but loud. How too loud is too loud for young children. Emily Boss, director of children's ear, nose and throat surgery at Johns Hopkins University talks about when noisy is too noisy kids.

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A genetic tree as a movie: Moving beyond the still portrait of ancestry

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Researchers have created a way to see your family tree as a movie rather than a still portrait by tracing where your ancestors moved across the globe over time. The statistical method can also be used to model disease spread and studying how animals move through geographic regions.

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Eateries in Thiruvananthapuram put their spin on idlis

The Hindu

Discover the idli revolution in Thiruvananthapuram with unique flavours and varieties at popular eateries like Suda Suda Idli, Modak Food, Chaikaari and so on.

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Feeling the future: New wearable tech simulates realistic touch

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Most haptic devices only deliver feedback as simple vibrations. New device applies dynamic forces in any direction to simulate a more realistic sense of touch. Small, lightweight device can enhance virtual reality, help individuals with visual impairments, provide tactile feedback for remote health visits and more.

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TAVI, a minimally invasive procedure for treating severe heart valve diseases in high-risk patients

The Hindu

Aortic stenosis is a condition where the aortic valve narrows, obstructing blood flow from the heart to the aorta.

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Long wait times for appointments at your doctor? You can now become a 'member'

NPR Health

There's a critical shortage of primary care doctors across the country, and long wait times for appointments. In response, there are 12,000 "concierge" medical practices now operating in the U.S. that charge patients membership fees. But is this trend worsening the ongoing shortage of primary care doctors for everyone else?

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Melting ice, more rain drive Southern Ocean cooling

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Researchers found increased meltwater and rain explain 60% of a decades-long mismatch between predicted and observed temperatures in the ocean around Antarctica.

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AI helps sonographers detect fetal abnormalities faster during 20-week pregnancy scan

News Medical Health Sciences

Artificial intelligence (AI) could help sonographers identify any abnormalities at the 20-week pregnancy screening scan almost twice as quickly, without reducing the accuracy or reliability of diagnoses, a new study has shown.

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Physics of irregular objects on inclined planes probed

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

How gravity causes a perfectly spherical ball to roll down an inclined plane is part of elementary school physics canon. But the world is messier than a textbook. Scientists have sought to quantitatively describe the much more complex rolling physics of real-world objects. They have now combined theory, simulations, and experiments to understand what happens when an imperfect, spherical object is placed on an inclined plane.

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AI-powered therapy chatbot shows significant mental health benefits

News Medical Health Sciences

Dartmouth researchers conducted the first clinical trial of a therapy chatbot powered by generative AI and found that the software resulted in significant improvements in participants' symptoms, according to results published March 27 in the New England Journal of Medicine AI.

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‘Exemplar’ — U.N. lauds India’s progress in child mortality reduction

The Hindu

The United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation report cited the example of five exemplar countries in achieving child mortality reduction, highlighting diverse strategies that have accelerated progress in reducing preventable child deaths

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New research sheds light on prostate cancer resistance mechanisms

News Medical Health Sciences

According to the American Cancer Society, approximately 1 in 8 men in the U.S. will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during their lifetime.

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Trust in AI-assisted health systems and AI’s trust in humans

NPJ Health Systems

Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping healthcare, promising improved diagnostics, personalized treatments, and streamlined operations. Yet a lack of trust remains a persistent barrier to widespread adoption. This Perspective examines the web of trust in AI-assisted healthcare systems, exploring the relationships it shapes, the systemic inequalities it can reinforce, and the technical challenges it poses.

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Study uncovers surprising role for calcium in shaping life's earliest molecular structures

News Medical Health Sciences

A new study led by researchers at the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at Institute of Science Tokyo has uncovered a surprising role for calcium in shaping life's earliest molecular structures.

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Making research inclusive: Bringing patients and the public into the fold

The Hindu

Anushka Banerjee explores the transformative impact of Public and Patient Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) in medical research globally.

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Study points to single respiratory virus as cause of Kawasaki disease

News Medical Health Sciences

Research from Stanley Manne Children's Research Institute at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago strongly suggests that Kawasaki disease is caused by a single respiratory virus that is yet to be identified.

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Why Social Work Needs Cultural Humility

The New Social Worker

Cultural humility provides a framework for upholding the ethical principles of social workseeing each person holistically, striving for justice, and resisting oversimplified categorizations.

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New medical database enhances obesity research and treatment

News Medical Health Sciences

A new medical database automatically compiles the medical records of obese patients and those suffering from obesity-related diseases in a uniquely comprehensive and reliable manner.

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Is AI the new research scientist? Not so, according to a human-led study

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Researchers asked generative AI to write a research paper. While adept at some steps, it wholly failed at others.

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New AI method could predict emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants

News Medical Health Sciences

It's been five years since COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic. As SARS-CoV-2 shifts to endemic status, questions about its future evolution remain.

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Research highlights urgent need for national strategy to combat rising eating disorders

Science Daily - Public Health

The increasing number of people with eating disorders and a lack of national guidance for support teams has led to researchers calling for a new national strategy that includes specific guidance to support the remote delivery of eating disorder services.

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The impact of ending U.S.-funded global vaccine programs

News Medical Health Sciences

Abram Wagner, assistant professor of epidemiology and global public health at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, discusses implications of the U.S. potentially ending global vaccine programs.

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Disability insurance for autism still a dream for most

The Hindu

With April celebrated as autism awareness month, parents of children and adults on the autism spectrum stresses the lack of a robust insurance system to access the best healthcare

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AI matches pathologists in diagnosing celiac disease

News Medical Health Sciences

A machine learning algorithm developed by Cambridge scientists was able to correctly identify in 97 cases out of 100 whether or not an individual had coeliac disease based on their biopsy, new research has shown.

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Centre issues heatwave advisory to States

The Hindu

Central Government directs states to review health facilities for heatstroke management, emphasizing preparedness and preventive measures for extreme heat.

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High blood pressure can lead to structural changes in the kidneys

News Medical Health Sciences

A research team from the Medical University of Vienna has investigated structural changes in kidneys of patients with hypertension and type 2 diabetes.

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Dutch delegation expresses interest in AI-powered health tech

The Hindu

The delegation expressed interest especially in labour-saving technologies in healthcare, innovations in pharmaceuticals with AI in drug development and discovery, and remote monitoring and telehealth related solutions as a screening method for medical triaging.

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