Medicine & Health
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29-Oct-2025
                                                
            The NHS is reaching a crisis point in consultant recruitment, new report warns
BMJ GroupReports and Proceedings
                The NHS is reaching a crisis point in consultant recruitment as 1 in 3 consultant posts lie vacant in some parts of the UK and recruiting managers regularly wait over 12 months to secure a candidate, leading to increased locum costs, finds a new report published by BMJ Careers today.
            
        29-Oct-2025
                                  The future is decentralized: Expanding clinical trials from home
Medical University of South CarolinaPeer-Reviewed Publication
A set of three new tools out of the Medical University of South Carolina, introduced in recent articles in the Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, seeks to improve the rigor of decentralized clinical trials. CheatBlocker helps to address enrollment fraud; QuotaConfig aims to counter bias in clinical trials and MyTrials facilitates remote biomarker data collection throughout the trial.
- Journal
 - Journal of Clinical and Translational Science
 - Funder
 - NIH/National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), NIH/National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), HRSA Center of Excellence in Telehealth, Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
 
29-Oct-2025
                                                
            Emergency department pilot program serves rural families
University of Missouri-ColumbiaPeer-Reviewed Publication
                A new study from the University of Missouri School of Medicine showed that a pilot program in the MU Health Care emergency department successfully connected rural families to helpful resources.
            
        - Journal
 - Family & Community Health
 
29-Oct-2025
                                                
            Capturing cancer cells from blood could help doctors choose the right breast cancer treatment
University of MichiganPeer-Reviewed Publication
                Doctors may be able to spare patients unnecessarily aggressive breast cancer treatments by collecting and testing cancer cells in patients' blood, research from the University of Michigan and the University of Kansas suggests. 
            
        - Journal
 - Science Advances
 - Funder
 - U-M Forbes Institute for Cancer Discovery, Kansas University Cancer Center, Kansas Institute for Precision Medicine, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences's Clinical, Translational Science Awards Program.
 
29-Oct-2025
                                                
            Dr. Chan Mi Park’s study recognized by anaesthesia as a top 10 paper from 2024
Hebrew SeniorLife Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging ResearchGrant and Award Announcement
                Anaesthesia, a publication of the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain & Ireland, has named a study authored by Chan Mi Park, MD, MPH, assistant scientist at the Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research and instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, one of its Top 10 Papers from 2024.  
            
        29-Oct-2025
                                  Biosensor identifies protein linked to depression and schizophrenia in saliva
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São PauloPeer-Reviewed Publication
                Low-cost device quickly detects BDNF concentrations. Scientist at the University of São Paulo says the next step is to obtain a patent.
            
        - Journal
 - ACS Polymers Au
 - Funder
 - Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo