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Negative patient-doctor communication could worsen symptoms
Doctors who unintentionally communicate to patients that they do not believe or understand them could actually make their symptoms worse, a...
Communication
Communication is key to Emergency Department success
The high-risk, rapidly changing nature of hospital Emergency Departments creates an environment where stress levels and staff burnout rates...
ICU
Patients on ventilators often able to communicate
A new study reveals that more than half of patients in intensive care units (ICU) using ventilators to help them breathe could benefit from...
Twitter can predict rates of coronary heart disease
Twitter has broken news stories, launched and ended careers, started social movements and toppled governments, all by being an easy, direct...
Product of the month
Hitachi powerfully expands Oasis 1.2T MRI
Hitachi has double-down its bet on the advantages of open-platform MRI by introducing a new generation of the Oasis 1.2T scanner at RSNA...
Technology
ProMRI Technology allows 3T scanning
Cardiovascular technology specialist Biotronik has launched a new series of single and dual chamber implantable cardioverter defibrillators...
Oncology
Deepening knowledge of the cancer genome
The term ‘cancer’ describes more than 200 different diseases and every single one needs to be clearly understood and requires, ideally,...
Digital pathology
Biopsy results
Gideon Ho, CEO and co-founder of Singapore-based HistoIndex is confident: ‘After a biopsy a patient waits in a hospital bed, but now,...