Healthcare in Europe

Immune system researchers receive Nobel Prize 2025 in Medicine The body’s powerful immune system must be regulated, or it may attack our own organs. Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi are awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 for...

Congratulations! The🏅2025 #NobelPrize in Physiology or #Medicine is awarded to 🇺🇸 Mary E. Brunkow ( @isbscience.org ), 🇺🇸 Fred Ramsdell (Sonoma Biotherapeutics) and 🇯🇵 Shimon Sakaguchi (Osaka University) for their insights into how our #immunesystem is kept from attacking our own body.

Triaging patients: no job for AI (alone) Doctors and nurses are better at triaging patients in emergency departments than artificial intelligence (AI), according to research presented at the European Emergency Medicine Congress.

🚨 Overcrowded EDs and the escalating workload of #nurses are pressing challenges in #EmergencyMedicine. While #AI might not solve these problems, it could help staff mitigate them, new research presented at @eusem.bsky.social 's #EUSEM2025 suggests.

🧠🌫️ New insights on the cause of #BrainFog in #LongCovid patients: Researchers from 🇯🇵 Yokohama City University use a specialized brain #imaging technique to identify a potential biomarker and therapeutic target. http://dlvr.it/TNTcK8

Researchers from 🇬🇧 @unibirmingham.bsky.social ’s Bladder Cancer Research Centre have found a new way of detecting #tumour DNA in #urine to identify #bladdercancer. http://dlvr.it/TNSnsc

Asking people how much #money they would accept to experience #pain again can provide a more accurate and comparable measure of pain levels than the familiar 1–10 scale, finds new research led by 🇬🇧 @lancasteruni.bsky.social. http://dlvr.it/TNRcsS

What the clinic does not say This year, the Journées Francophones de Radiologie (JFR) will carry a clinical ambition as simple as it is essential: to shine a spotlight on those who are often overlooked. Under the presidency of Pr...

This year, the 🇫🇷 Journées Francophones de Radiologie (📅 Oct 3-6, Paris) will carry a clinical ambition as simple as it is essential: to shine a spotlight on those who are often overlooked. Congress President Prof Mathieu Lederlin previews some of the annual meeting's highlights. #radiology #JFR2025

Asthma in children: study shows benefits of at-home monitoring Assessment of healthcare consumption and asthma control after implementation of remote monitoring in long-term multicentre paediatric asthma care

#Children with #asthma who use at-home #monitoring are around half as likely to visit the #emergency department or be 🏥 hospitalised than those only receiving care from a medical team, finds new research led by 🇳🇱 @radboudumc.bsky.social, presented at the @europeanrespsoc.bsky.social #ERSCongress

“Very rarely a chance of heart attack or death” – Wait, what? Hospitalists frequently discuss the risks associated with tests, treatments, and/or surgical procedures with their patients. But is everyone in the clear on what a “slight risk of complications” actua...

Hospitalists frequently discuss the risks of #medical procedures with their patients. But is it always clear what “slight risk of complications” actually means? At SHM 2025, experts from 🇺🇸 MGH, 🇺🇸 @harvardmed.bsky.social, and @ben-geisler.com from 🇳🇴 @uio.no spoke about effective risk #communication.

‘Two-for-one’ screening uses mammograms to predict heart disease in women New AI algorithm uses mammograms to accurately predict cardiovascular risk in women

🫀 Using #AI to help detect one of the leading killers of #women worldwide: A new machine learning model developed at 🇦🇺 @georgeinstitute.bsky.social, in collaboration with 🇦🇺 @unsw.edu.au and 🇦🇺 @sydney.edu.au, can successfully predict #heartdisease risk by analysing #mammography images.

Managing inpatients with substance abuse disorders The number of patients with substance abuse disorders who are admitted to hospitals as inpatients has been steadily increasing. Hospitalists attending SHM Converge 2025, the annual meeting of the Soci...

The number of patients with #SubstanceAbuse disorders who are admitted to hospitals as inpatients has been steadily increasing. Hospitalists attending SHM Converge 2025 in Las Vegas were given practical advice on how to treat these patients. #Hospitalists #Addiction

Lung cancer screening: AI to reduce false positives An artificial intelligence (AI) deep learning tool that estimates the malignancy risk of lung nodules achieved high cancer detection rates while significantly reducing false-positive results.

Misinterpreting the #malignancy risk of lung nodules often results in high false-positive rates, unnecessary follow-ups, increased patient anxiety and #healthcare costs. A new study led by 🇳🇱 @radboudumc.bsky.social, published by @rsnasky.bsky.social, suggests that #AI can fix this. #lungcancer

Ultrasound-guided cannulation for safer vein access A retrospective study evaluates the safety and efficacy of a novel ultrasound method for infraclavicular vein cannulation

Performed inaccurately, #cannulation of major veins is associated with complications like #pneumothorax or artery puncture. 🇨🇳 Chinese researchers propose a new #ultrasound guided method for increased accuracy.

What's holding back the digital transformation of NHS healthcare Implementing artificial intelligence (AI) into NHS hospitals is far harder than initially anticipated, with complications around governance, contracts, data collection, harmonisation with old IT syste...

Digital transformation, including #AI, is key to improving #healthcare services - but this may be easier said than done: A new UK study led by @angusramsay.bsky.social from 🇬🇧 @ucl.ac.uk, 🇬🇧 @nuffieldtrust.org.uk and 🇬🇧 @cam.ac.uk, identifies hurdles for AI implementation in #NHS hospitals.

An #ultrasound examination performed by an autonomous #robot can cause distress in some patients. Researchers at 🇩🇪 @tum.de have now developed a #VR #avatar system that makes the process feel more human. http://dlvr.it/TNH62L

A team from 🇬🇧 @unibirmingham.bsky.social used a new technique to measure #boron in individual #cancer cells for the first time, enabling researchers to better understand how drugs act to kill #tumours. http://dlvr.it/TNFz94

To improve #OrganDonation supply, researchers at 🇳🇱 @umcutrecht.bsky.social and 🇳🇱 @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social developed a #3Dprinter that prints implantable tissues, but can also co-design organ parts with #AI. http://dlvr.it/TNDrGS

A study from 🇬🇧 @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social and 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @welshambulance.bsky.social shows #drones can deliver a #defibrillator within minutes – potentially doubling survival rates in cardiac arrests. http://dlvr.it/TNCkb2

A squishy new ‘artificial #cartilage’ material developed by researchers at 🇬🇧 @cam.ac.uk could improve #arthritis treatments by releasing anti-inflammatory drugs in response to a flare-up. http://dlvr.it/TN980W

In metastatic EGFR-mutated non-small cell #LungCancer (#NSCLC), targeting residual disease through surgery can extend the benefits of #EGFR TKI therapy beyond standard monotherapy, a new study presented at the @iaslc.bsky.social‬ #WCLC2025 finds.

🦴 Historically, #implants to repair #bone fractures have been made of metal, donor bone, or 3D-printed material. Now, scientists propose an in-situ printing approach - using a modified #glue gun. http://dlvr.it/TN6t0d

People with both type 2 #diabetes and obstructive sleep apnoea have a higher risk of death, but treatment with continuous positive airway pressure (#CPAP) may reduce that risk by around 26%, a new study led by 🇸🇪 @liu.se and presented at the @easdnews.bsky.social #EASD2025 Meeting finds. #OSA #T2D

Measuring #heart rate usually requires some sort of #wearable device. Now, research from 🇺🇸 @baskinengineering.bsky.social‬ shows how the signal from a household #WiFi device can be used for this crucial #health #monitoring. http://dlvr.it/TN4crR

Blood pressure measuring: most online health images get it wrong (and how it's done right) Accurate images of how to take blood pressure readings in doctors’ offices and at home are lacking and play an important role in helping the public monitor and manage blood pressure, suggests a new st...

🩺 Wrong equipment, inadequate posture, unusual behavior: Only 1 in 7 online stock images of #bloodpressure monitoring correctly show how it's done right, a new study led by @alta-schutte.bsky.social from 🇦🇺 UNSW Sydney/ @georgeinstitute.bsky.social, published by @americanheart.bsky.social, finds.

Ultrasound helmet enables deep brain stimulation without surgery An ultrasound device that can precisely stimulate areas deep in the brain without surgery has been developed by researchers from University College London (UCL) and the University of Oxford, opening u...

🧠 An #ultrasound helmet capable of influencing deep #brain regions without #surgery has been developed by a team led by 🇬🇧 @ucl.ac.uk and 🇬🇧 @ndcnoxford.bsky.social. This device opens up new possibilities for research and treatment of disorders such as #ParkinsonsDisease, the researchers hope.

AI can help older adults gather more accurate blood pressure readings at home Artificial intelligence (AI) voice agents helped older adults with high blood pressure to accurately report their blood pressure readings and improved blood pressure management.

Use of an #AI voice agent may help improve accuracy of at-home #bloodpressure measures and patient outcomes in older patients with #hypertension. This is according to research from 🇺🇸 @emoryhealthcareatl.bsky.social presented at the @americanheart.bsky.social #Hypertension25 scientific sessions.

Endometrial cancer: new markers for PET imaging Two molecular targets human epidermal growth factor 2 (HER2) and cluster of differentiation 24 (CD24) are highly promising candidates for new nuclear diagnostics and therapeutics for endometrial cance...

Researchers led by 🇺🇸 @huntercollege.bsky.social explored 2 promising new #biomarkers as potential radiotheranostic targets for #endometrialcancer. This research, published in @journalofnucmed.bsky.social, could help clinicians identify patients who are likely to respond to targeted therapeutics.

Why mental health should be included in cardiovascular care A new Clinical Consensus Statement from the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) is calling for greater awareness of the multidirectional relationship between mental health conditions and cardiovascul...

Systematic #screening and support for #mentalhealth conditions such as #depression, #anxiety, or #PTSD should become normalised in #cardiovascular care, cardiologists led by 🇪🇸 CNIC and 🇬🇧 @cam.ac.uk urge in a new Consensus Statement published at the @escardio.bsky.social #ESCCongress2025.

Pushing for a more patient-centered approach to advanced cancer care A new policy review led by Ian Tannock and Madeline Pe, together with an international team of oncologists, statisticians, patients and patient-reported outcomes (PRO) experts from Common Sense Oncolo...

Currently, #cancer treatment evaluation focuses heavily on survival outcomes, but doesn't adequately consider how treatments affect patients' quality of life. A new #policy review from @eortc.org and Common Sense Oncology, published in @thelancetoncol.bsky.social, aims to change this. #oncology

AI still misses 14% of advanced breast cancer cases, study finds A Korean research team has reported that artificial intelligence (AI) used in mammography missed 14% of invasive breast cancers, the type where delayed diagnosis can directly impact patient survival.

#AI may be effective at detecting advanced #breastcancer in mammograms, but current models still lack #reliability. New research from the 🇰🇷 Korea University College of Medicine suggests that up to 14% of invasive cases are missed.

Dual challenge: Managing critical care of the pregnant inpatient Hospitalists face a dual challenge when a critically ill pregnant patient is admitted to a hospital: providing safe and effective treatment for both mother and fetus. Pregnancy causes physiologic chan...

🤰Hospitalists face a dual challenge when a critically ill #pregnant patient is admitted to a 🏥 hospital: providing safe and effective treatment for both mother and fetus. At the annual SHM meeting, an expert discussed why a variety of skills is needed when treating these patients. #HospitalMedicine