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27-Jan-2025

Pilot edition of international acupuncture guidelines for non-specific low back pain

KeAi Communications Co., Ltd.
Peer-Reviewed Publication

On October 9, 2023, the World Federation of Acupuncture-Moxibustion Societies (WFAS) released an evidence-based, patient-centred clinical practice guideline on acupuncture and moxibustion for non-specific low back pain to populations in many countries and regions.

Journal: World Journal of Acupuncture - Moxibustion
Funder: National Key Research and Development Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China, Development of International Clinical guideline, Technical Operation Specifications and Service Standards for Acupuncture & Moxibustion, Development of international Acupuncture Clinical guideline

27-Jan-2025

Bridging critical gaps in advanced heart failure care

American Heart Association
Business Announcement

An American Heart Association initiative that is supported by Abbott will create nationwide education to strengthen treatment pathways for people with advanced heart failure.

Funder: Abbott Heart Failure

27-Jan-2025

Delayed REM sleep could be an early sign of Alzheimer’s

University of California - San Francisco
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists have recently shown that both the quality and the amount of sleep we get may influence our risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease.

Funder: Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology, Chinese National Health Commission

27-Jan-2025

Weight-loss surgery lowers risk of developing complications of liver disease in patients with cirrhosis and obesity

Cleveland Clinic
Peer-Reviewed Publication

CLEVELAND: A Cleveland Clinic study shows that patients with obesity and fatty liver-related cirrhosis who had bariatric (weight-loss) surgery significantly lowered their future risk of developing serious liver complications compared with patients who received medical therapy alone. The results were published in Nature Medicine journal.

Journal: Nature Medicine

27-Jan-2025

Heart disease remains leading cause of death as key health risk factors continue to rise

American Heart Association
Peer-Reviewed Publication

According to the American Heart Association’s 2025 Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics Update, heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the U.S.

Journal: Circulation

27-Jan-2025

Preterm babies receive insufficient pain management

Karolinska Institutet
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A large proportion of babies born very early need intensive care, which can be painful. But the healthcare system fails to provide pain relief to the full extent. This is shown by the largest survey to date of pain in neonatal care, now published in the journal Pain.

Journal: Pain

27-Jan-2025

Does historic redlining—a form of structural racism—affect survival in young people with cancer?

Wiley
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A recent study published by Wiley online in CANCER indicates that children and young adults with cancer face an elevated risk of dying if they live in previously redlined neighborhoods—residential areas marked in the 1920s–1930s by lenders as undesirable for mortgage loans due to their racial demographics.

Journal: Cancer