Technology and AI

4+ hour, 30+ min ago   (193+ words) Atrial fibrillation is a common heart rhythm disorder that causes a rapid, irregular heartbeat and can lead to stroke and heart failure. The condition affects nearly 5% of the population, or 10.5 million U.S. adults, but often goes undiagnosed because there are no…...

1+ week, 5+ hour ago   (376+ words) According to Chief Healthcare Executive, the last members of the Baby Boomer generation are expected to reach retirement age by 2030, with one in five Americans projected to be 65 or older by the end of the decade. The next generation of…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (931+ words) The trend toward higher acuity in nursing homes has been at play for so long that nursing homes have turned to providing a growing number of complex services and procedures traditionally done at the hospital level. Skilled nursing facilities (SNFs)…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago   (970+ words) At Logan LIFE Center, Kansas State University researchers explore the benefits of intergenerational buildings in rural communities image: What can happen when a nursing home and an elementary school share a roof? Kansas State University researchers spent a year finding…...

1+ week, 10+ hour ago   (449+ words) The initiative comes at a time when the global population of older people is growing rapidly. According to data cited by RetiredPeople.in, around 1.2 billion people worldwide are aged 60 and above in 2025, and this population is projected to reach 2.1 billion…...

1+ week, 14+ hour ago   (187+ words) Newswise — Atrial fibrillation is a common heart rhythm disorder that causes a rapid, irregular heartbeat and can lead to stroke and heart failure. The condition affects nearly 5% of the population, or 10.5 million U.S. adults, but often goes undiagnosed because there…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (95+ words) Furman University Designing for Connection: Policy, Planning and Systems Approached to Building Socially Connected Communities Join us January 19 for the next event in the Institute for the Advancement of Community Health’s Community Health Conversations series: Designing for Connection: Policy, Planning…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (759+ words) Dave Devereaux seeks to provide an insider’s view about the state of America’s nursing home industry. While many teenagers' first part-time jobs were at movie theaters and fast-food restaurants, Dave Devereaux, FOX '86, worked as a housekeeper at a large nursing…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (598+ words) Study reveals that optical images detect indicators of developing heart rhythm disorder that a standard test of the heart would miss A new study shows that people with atrial fibrillation have distinctive biomarkers in their retinas, evident as early as…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (333+ words) — Recent developments of interest in cardiovascular medicine Cardiologists Ronald Karlsberg, MD, and Venkatesh Murthy, MD, PhD, are among the new appointees to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF). Inspired by the search for Nancy Guthrie, scientists find it technically…...