Clinician / health professional

Black and Latinx women are more likely to face serious complications during planned repeat caesareans than White women, new US research has found. While complication rates were similar across all racial and ethnic groups for vaginal births after a previous caesarean, disparities emerged in outcomes for those having planned repeat surgery. Researchers examined severe maternal [...]

A new artificial intelligence tool has improved doctors’ ability to detect skin cancer by 11 per cent, according to research from an international team led by Monash University. The system, named PanDerm, is designed to analyse multiple types of medical images simultaneously to help identify melanoma and other skin diseases more quickly and accurately than [...]

Additional imaging techniques detect early stage cancers missed by mammograms in women with dense breasts, a new trial has found. In women with dense breasts (breasts with relatively low levels of fatty tissue) and a negative mammogram, supplemental imaging techniques detect early-stage cancers, with imaging techniques three times more effective than ultrasound, finds a Phase [...]

European ultrasound specialists have responded to the launch of an advanced ultrasound system by international health technology provider Mindray. The Resona A20, unveiled in Naples late last year at the 35th congress of the European Federation of Ultrasound Societies in Medicine and Biology, was developed by Mindray to allow healthcare professionals to have a “deeper [...]

A new treatment approach significantly improves survival rates for patients with aggressive, inherited breast cancers, according to Cambridge researchers. In a trial where cancers were treated with chemotherapy followed by a targeted cancer drug before surgery, 100 per cent of patients survived the critical three-year period post-surgery. The discovery could become the most effective treatment [...]