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Screening for amblyopia during primary care visits is more cost-effective than screening in school settings and optometric examinations in kindergarten-aged children in Toronto, Canada, data suggest. Because of the low prevalence of amblyopia among young children, a population-based screening program…

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Two classes of drugs may be more effective than others for the treatment of gastroparesis, though the overall quality of evidence remains low to moderate and additional data are needed, according to a new report. Oral dopamine antagonists and tachykinin-1…

With falls causing millions of injuries in older adults each year, it is an increasingly important public health concern. Older adults living with dementia have twice the risk of falling and three times the risk of incurring serious fall-related injuries,…

BioGrad is to open the UK's second largest biobank facility in Liverpool, as part of a £7.6m investment into a new headquarters at Wavertree Technology Park. Image Credit: BioGrad In collaboration with the University of Leicester, BioGrad biobank has already…

While COVID-19 boosters have been found to protect against infection, hospitalization, and severe illness, the waning of their protection has led to uncertainty about when it is most appropriate to get an additional booster shot. Now, a team of scientists…

Prostate cancer’s ‘postcode lottery’: Map reveals how a THIRD of men in parts of Britain are only diagnosed once disease has spread Proportion of men diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer varies by region  Data suggests men from deprived areas…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain More than 30 years ago, findings from the Harvard Medical Practice Study (HMPS) helped bring public awareness to the problem of patient safety. Since the publication of the HMPS results, new strategies for preventing specific types…

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Investigators have developed a freely available measure of autism symptoms that can help to screen for autism and monitor changes over time in symptoms. Research on the development and validation of the Autism Symptom Dimension Questionnaire (ASDQ) is published in…