TrackAndField

BBC News explains how some employers are trying to keep their staff in the peak of health and fitness - and are even issuing wearable health devices.  

The JingSlingers are back and have more superfood recipes and tips for getting you on track for a super healthy life. At http://bergmanchiropractic.com and h...  

Antibiotics really are wonder drugs which can stop serious infections in their tracks - but we misuse them at our peril.  

The saliva holds a lot of chemical cues about the state of the rest of the human body, so researchers at University of California, San Diego are working on  

Samsung announced that it will soon be releasing a new sleep aid called Sleep Sense that will be able to track sleep by relying on parameters previously un  

The MoodTrek app connects mental health patients and their doctors in a meaningful and efficient way, the developers say.  

Healthy People 2020 calls for a 10-15% reduction in death rates from 2007 to 2020 for selected cancers. Are we on track to meet the target?  

The way the body can track the passing of the seasons in a "chemical calendar" has been discovered by scientists.  

In a linked article, Møller and colleagues1 present a neat analysis of the use of the fast track referral pathway for patients with suspected cancer in 2009 (two week wait system) by English general practices and subsequent cancer mortality in patients from these practices. In 2009, this fast track pathway enabled access to a specialist opinion or diagnostic test within two weeks for eligible patients. Møller and colleagues studied three measures: the referral ratio (each practice’s use of the two week wait system compared with other practices), detection rate (percentage of cancers in a practice that were detected via the two week clinics), and conversion rate (proportion of patients who went through the two week wait system and who were then shown to have cancer). Practices with a high referral ratio and those with a high detection rate had reduced cancer mortality, although the conversion rate showed no association.  

John Townsend wants to say thank you before he dies. “All this bullshit about the NHS being rubbish is not true,” he writes this week (doi:10.1136/bmj.h4706). “I’ve been treated so wonderfully that you wouldn’t believe it.” Although his cancer returned, his satisfaction with the promptness of his care suggests that his GP used the fast track referral pathway for suspected cancer. And we now have evidence that this pathway works. Henrik Møller and colleagues found better outcomes among patients whose doctors made more use of fast track referral (doi:10.1136/bmj.h5102). On this basis, failing to fast track patients with suspected cancer looks like poor practice.  

Information gathered with the new interactive app, downloaded to the Apple Watch, will be used to develop a seizure detector.  

An emergency syringe exchange program rapidly reduced injection risk behaviors and seems to have halted a local HIV epidemic, experts report.  

Having to use an ostomy bag is terrible business, so anything that can make the patient think less about the device is most welcome. 11 Health, a company b  

Møller and colleagues’ article was covered extensively in the mass media—for example, “Thousands of cancer patients are dying needlessly because GPs did not refer them for fast track appointments . . . Almost 2500 people might still be alive if family doctors had used a two week urgent …  

Sufficient exposure to spoken language seems to be an important parameter for healthy development of young children. Moreover, the child's own word usage i  

Plans to get contraceptives to 120 million more women in the world's poorest countries are behind track, a report by campaigners and donors is warning.  

A new package of ophthalmic tools is being released by DigiSight Technologies (San Francisco, CA) that will allow physicians to keep a close track of the e  

Some 15.8 million people worldwide are now on HIV treatment and a fast-track strategy to end the AIDS pandemic is starting to show results, the United Nations AIDS program said on Tuesday.  

With Google's free online calendar, it’s easy to keep track of life’s important events all in one place.  

Eight in 10 physicians cited pretrial screening panels as the best way to discourage malpractice suits in a new Medscape survey. This tort reform has a disappointing track record, experts say.