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Feds move to rein in prior authorization, a system that harms and frustrates patients

When Paula Chestnut needed hip replacement surgery last year, a pre-operative X-ray found irregularities in her chest.

13 Mar 2023

UK HealthCare provides a symphony of support for doctoral student after rare stroke

On a Sunday afternoon in April, Adiel Nájera’s world turned upside down. The 25-year-old University of Kentucky doctoral student knew something was wrong. Earlier that week, he experienced exhaustion, chest pains and trouble driving.

10 Mar 2023

The extent to which explicit and implicit weight bias is present among Australian healthcare students

A new paper explored the presence of weight bias in Australian healthcare students.

10 Mar 2023

New ultrasound method can measure a key indicator of abnormal tissue and disease

A new ultrasound method that can measure the level of tension in human tissue for the first time - a key indicator of disease - has been developed by researchers from the University of Sheffield.

10 Mar 2023

Black patients dress up and modify speech to reduce bias, California survey shows

A young mother in California's Antelope Valley bathes her children and dresses them in neat clothes, making sure they look their very best — at medical appointments. "I brush their teeth before they see the dentist. Just little things like that to protect myself from being treated unfairly," she told researchers.

10 Mar 2023

Nirogacestat shows promising results in patients with desmoid tumors

When Dana Avellino, now 36, first noticed a lump near her groin in the summer of 2018, she thought it was related her recent cesarean section. Her younger daughter was only 2 months old at the time.

9 Mar 2023

New class of oral drugs can inhibit a diverse range of pathogenic SARS-CoV-2 strains

The constant evolution of new COVID-19 variants makes it critical for clinicians to have multiple therapies in their arsenal for treating drug-resistant infections.

9 Mar 2023

Scientists design a model to track hippocampal synaptic plasticity

Scientific evidence shows how the cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease (AD) is caused by the buildup of amyloid beta proteins, which promote synaptic malfunction.

9 Mar 2023

Dementia the strongest risk factor for infection with COVID-19 in older people

In 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, dementia was the dominant risk factor for the disease among residents of Swedish nursing homes.

8 Mar 2023

Research shows the benefits of screening AML patients in remission for residual disease before bone marrow transplant

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health show the benefits of screening adult patients in remission from acute myeloid leukemia (AML) for residual disease before receiving a bone marrow transplant.

7 Mar 2023

For young people on Medicare, a hysterectomy sometimes is more affordable than birth control

Sam Chavarría said her doctor was clear about the birth defects her medication could cause if she became pregnant but agreed to keep her on it as long as she had an IUD.

7 Mar 2023

Covid aid papered over Colorado hospital’s financial shortcomings

Less than two years after opening a state-of-the-art $26 million hospital in Leadville, Colorado, St. Vincent Health nearly ran out of money.

7 Mar 2023

Virtual or in person: Which kind of doctor’s visit is better, and when it matters

When the covid-19 pandemic swept the country in early 2020 and emptied doctors' offices nationwide, telemedicine was suddenly thrust into the spotlight. Patients and their physicians turned to virtual visits by video or phone rather than risk meeting face-to-face.

6 Mar 2023

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Feds move to rein in prior authorization, a system that harms and frustrates patients

UK HealthCare provides a symphony of support for doctoral student after rare stroke

The extent to which explicit and implicit weight bias is present among Australian healthcare students

New ultrasound method can measure a key indicator of abnormal tissue and disease

Black patients dress up and modify speech to reduce bias, California survey shows

Nirogacestat shows promising results in patients with desmoid tumors

New class of oral drugs can inhibit a diverse range of pathogenic SARS-CoV-2 strains

Scientists design a model to track hippocampal synaptic plasticity

Dementia the strongest risk factor for infection with COVID-19 in older people

Research shows the benefits of screening AML patients in remission for residual disease before bone marrow transplant

For young people on Medicare, a hysterectomy sometimes is more affordable than birth control

Covid aid papered over Colorado hospital’s financial shortcomings

Virtual or in person: Which kind of doctor’s visit is better, and when it matters

Shaved costs, high risk, maximum profits: Regulators worry about Florida’s butt lift boom

Sleeping too little or too much may increase the risk of infection

California’s massive Medicaid program works for some, but fails many others

New screening tool can efficiently assess cognition issues in older adults

Mercy Medical Center and UMMC offer a Liver Transplant Clinic to help transplant patients

New insight on the uptick in colorectal cancer diagnoses and deaths among younger people

School-based wellness initiative associated with reduction in average student BMI

Bringing real-time analytics to downstream bioprocess monitoring

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

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