Charlie King

United Kingdom

Editor at Sustainability Magazine

Editor at Energy Digital

Articles

Can exercise and rehab services be integrated into breast cancer care?

3 days ago | medicalupdateonline.com | Charlie King

Subscribe A recent randomized controlled trial reveals the potential of a program designed to connect patients who have breast cancer to needed exercise and rehabilitation services starting at diagnosis and throughout care. Participants provided positive feedback about the program, supporting efforts to integrate exercise and rehabilitation services as part of routine cancer care. The trial’s findings are published by Wiley online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer...
Nursing 2025: No relief in sight as burnout, stress and short staffing persist

4 days ago | medicalupdateonline.com | Charlie King

Subscribe Cross Country Healthcare (NASDAQ: CCRN), a leader in workforce solutions and tech-enabled staffing, recruitment and advisory services, today released its fourth annual survey, “Beyond the Bedside: The State of Nursing in 2025” report. In partnership with Florida Atlantic University’s Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing, the study paints a sobering picture of a profession at a breaking point – where stress, burnout and chronic short staffing continue to jeopardize the well-being of...
Accurate and rapid arthritis diagnosis in just 10 minutes

4 days ago | medicalupdateonline.com | Charlie King

Subscribe Dr. Ho Sang Jung and his research team from the Advanced Bio and Healthcare Materials Research Division at the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS), in collaboration with Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital, have developed a technology that enables the diagnosis of osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis within 10 minutes using synovial fluid. This marks the first such achievement in Korea. According to some studies, over 50% of the population aged 65 and older experience symptoms of...
Research reveals early warning signs for uterine health

5 days ago | medicalupdateonline.com | Charlie King

Subscribe Researchers from the University of Missouri School of Medicine have shed new light on how the uterus develops, leading to a better understanding of female reproductive health while providing clues to early disease detection. The study looked at a specific group of cells that make up the structure of the uterus and how they communicated with each other. These interactions – which usually promote growth or direct tissue to form – also help maintain homeostasis, or a stable...
Teenage years crucial for depression intervention, study finds

6 days ago | medicalupdateonline.com | Charlie King

Depression in young teens could be easier to treat than in adulthood due to the symptoms being more flexible and not yet ingrained, a study shows. Researchers found that interactions between depressive symptoms – like sadness, fatigue and a lack of interest – are less predictable in teens but become more fixed in adults, which can lead to persistent depression. The findings highlight the importance of targeting depression at an early age, when symptoms are still changing, experts say.
Poll: Many Americans say they will lose trust in public health recommendations under federal leadership changes

1 week ago | medicalupdateonline.com | Charlie King

Subscribe One hundred days into the new federal administration, a new poll reports that major segments of the U.S. public anticipate they will lose trust in public health recommendations with the changes in health agency leadership. The poll, conducted among a national sample of U.S. adults, found that 44% of the public says having the new leaders in charge of federal public health agencies will make them trust health recommendations coming from these organizations less than they used to...
U.S. Dementia costs to exceed $780 billion this year

1 week ago | medicalupdateonline.com | Charlie King

Subscribe The total economic burden of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias in the United States will reach $781 billion this year, according to new USC-led research. This is the first of what will be annual national estimates from the multidisciplinary research team. The team aims to provide the most comprehensive accounting yet of dementia’s growing economic toll. Beyond the cost of care, the model also accounts for lost earnings from patients and care partners who cut back work hours...
Community resources help food-insecure kids make fewer ER visits

1 week ago | medicalupdateonline.com | Charlie King

Subscribe In a new clinical study published in JAMA Pediatrics, researchers at the University of Chicago Medicine found that a low-intensity program that “prescribes” community resources to every parent or other primary caregiver of a hospitalized child reduced the use of acute care for children of food-insecure families in the following year, saving potentially thousands of dollars in healthcare expenditures while demanding little more than minutes of staff time per family. “Across history,...
For eye infections, delayed doctor visits and extent of damage affect vision outcomes

1 week ago | medicalupdateonline.com | Charlie King

Even though microbial keratitis is a preventable cause of blindness, it’s a complex infection to treat, and many patients have lasting vision impairment. Previous studies have identified several risk factors for reduced vision after treatment, including delays in symptom onset, longer duration of symptoms and existing eye disease. However, these studies were restricted to one geographic area or a single type of organism that causes the infection.
Smart bandage clears new hurdle: Monitors chronic wounds in human patients

1 week ago | medicalupdateonline.com | Charlie King

Subscribe Caltech professor of medical engineering Wei Gao and his colleagues are envisioning a smart bandage of the future—a “lab on skin” that could not only help patients and caregivers monitor the status of chronic wounds but also deliver treatment and speed up the healing process for those cuts, incisions, scrapes, and burns that are slow to heal on their own. In 2023, Gao’s team cleared the first hurdle toward achieving that goal by showing that a smart bandage they developed could...