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The problem is clear, but it might require a groundbreaking solution.
About 10 to 20 percent of breast cancers are triple-negative, meaning the cancer cells have tested negative for estrogen receptors, progesterone receptors and HER2. These patients do not respond to hormonal therapy or therapies that target HER2 receptors, according to research. And the five-year survival rate of women with TNBC is 77 percent, compared to 93 percent for women with other forms of breast cancer. For the best chance of survival, the CDC recommends chemotherapy.
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News-Press
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos visited Florida SouthWestern State College on Nov. 27 and watched as high school students built robots and nursing students cared for a lifelike mannequin.
U.S. Rep. Francis Rooney, R-Naples, invited DeVos to Southwest Florida so she could get a firsthand look at some of the area's educational programs. DeVos took a tour of FSW's Fort Myers campus, getting a chance to see some of the best programs the college offers.
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Patient EngagementHIT
A one-day training session could be the key to improving patient-provider communication across a hospital or healthcare facility, according to research published in the journal Patient Experience.
Patient-provider communication has emerged as a critical aspect of patient care, as communication has been tied to good patient experiences, patient safety and other core aspects of value-based care.
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The Associated Press via EMS1.com
Karen Clenney spends her days preparing patients for an assortment of medical scenarios — from giving birth to a collapsed lung or a heart murmur. She can even do a severed arm or a gunshot wound to the leg. If someone needs a head wound, chances are Clenney has one in the freezer. Clenney's job is to program the 15 healthcare mannequins in Wallace Community College's Health Sciences Simulation Center.
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In the next decade, Grandma's in-home caregiver could be a robot.
The number of people age 60 or older is projected to grow by 56 percent worldwide by 2030, according to the United Nations. But, the number of caregivers is not expected to keep up with the demand. In 2010, there were more than seven potential caregivers for every person in the high-risk years of 80-plus, according to a 2013 report released by AARP. Enter Weihua Sheng, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Oklahoma State University.
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Joan Spitrey
Families gathered around bounties of lovingly prepared food. Grandparents, cousins, aunts and uncles sharing stories from their youth, laughing and remembering about days gone by.
Football and falling leaves as temperatures drop and the mindfulness of being thankful for all the blessings in our lives. This is what the holidays are all about.
But for many nurses and healthcare providers, their family gathering is around paper plates and potluck bonanzas in the break rooms of hospital and care facilities around the country. Although Thanksgiving and Christmas are days off for most, they are just more shifts for nurses. Or are they?
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FierceHealthcare
Just as doctors use a standardized checklist to improve safety in the operating room, they can use a checklist to improve the patient experience during office visits, a healthcare network in Hawaii discovered.
Hawaii Pacific Health, a nonprofit network of hospitals, clinics, physicians and care providers, saw its overall performance on physician communication scores on patient surveys improve dramatically after it used the checklist and a coaching program to improve some doctors’ communication skills.
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King's College London and University College London via News-Medical.net
Computer simulations of the faces behind the voices heard by sufferers of schizophrenia may give patients the power to cope better with these distressing hallucinations. Schizophrenia is a severe, life-long mental disorder that affects about one in 100 people worldwide. It causes faulty perceptions, affecting how a person thinks, feels, and behaves, which can result in inappropriate actions and feelings and withdrawal from reality.
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Breitbart
Dutch designer Frank Kolkman hopes that offering a simulation of death will help terminally ill patients to make their peace with the end. The experience is a simple one: wearing a Virtual Reality headset, the subject will look through the eyes of a sculpted human head, which will slowly drift away from their body. The head is further equipped with “ears” that dissociate sound from the body and the ability to swivel should the patient want to look around.
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Dorothy L. Tengler
All surgical procedures have potential complications that can increase the risks of a negative outcome, whether specific to the procedure or after surgery has been completed, but the operating room is the highest risk area for serious complications.
One survey of 7,900 surgeons found those who had made a serious surgical error in the previous three months were more likely to have a lower quality of life and increased probability of symptoms of burnout and depression. Emotional reactions range from loss of confidence to anger and worries about their careers.
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Northwestern Medicine
The resources used to teach the physical exam to preclerkship medical students vary widely across U.S. medical schools, according to a new study published in the journal Academic Medicine.
Dr. Toshiko Uchida, director of Clinical Skills Education, was the first author of the study. Teaching the physical exam is generally labor-intensive and requires significant human resources, including faculty, as well as standardized and actual patients, Uchida notes.
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