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Banning noncompete contracts for medical staff riles hospitals

Dr. Jacqui O'Kane took a job with a hospital in southern Georgia in 2020, as the lone doctor in a primary care clinic in a small town that's a medically underserved area. She soon attracted nearly 3,000 patients.

27 Mar 2023

U.S. maternal mortality rates rose during COVID-19 pandemic

A new study examines mortality related to pregnancy during the COVID-19 pandemic as compared pre-pandemic rates.

23 Mar 2023

Legal questions, inquiries intensify around Noble Health’s rural Missouri hospital closures

A year after private equity-backed Noble Health shuttered two rural Missouri hospitals, patients and former employees grapple with a broken local health system or missing out on millions in unpaid wages and benefits.

23 Mar 2023

Elimination of midwife care mostly affects lower-income, marginalized populations

Ascension Health recently announced that it would eliminate midwife care from its Alternative Birthing Center in Southfield, Michigan, despite increased demand for services in the state—a demand that follows a national trend.

22 Mar 2023

Does recurrent bacterial vaginosis impact quality of life?

A recent BMC Women's Health study performed a survey to understand how bacterial vaginosis affects women’s quality of life and what treatment they underwent.

22 Mar 2023

End of covid emergency will usher in changes across the US health system

The Biden administration's decision to end the covid-19 public health emergency in May will institute sweeping changes across the health care system that go far beyond many people having to pay more for covid tests.

22 Mar 2023

What are the associations of COVID-19 policy related economic and schooling disruptions with mental health and sleep in US children?

Researchers investigated whether economic and schooling disruptions associated with COVID-19 mitigation policies and unemployment rates were independently associated with perceived stress, sorrow, and positive stress effect, sleep, and COVID-19-associated worry.

17 Mar 2023

The US remains a grim leader in preterm births. Why? And can we fix it?

Tamara Etienne's second pregnancy was freighted with risk and worry from its earliest days — exacerbated by a first pregnancy that had ended in miscarriage.

16 Mar 2023

Course of childbirth influenced by pregnant women's attitudes and mindsets

Pregnant women's attitudes and mindsets can influence the course of childbirth. This is what psychologists at the University of Bonn established in a longitudinal study with around 300 participants.

14 Mar 2023

New imaging tool creates real-time, 3D images and maps of contractions during labor

Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health have developed a new imaging tool, called electromyometrial imaging (EMMI), to create real-time, three-dimensional images and maps of contractions during labor.

14 Mar 2023

Black lung resurgence drives push to protect coal miners against silica dust

Like most coal miners' loved ones, Liz Williams has endured many days and nights of worry.

14 Mar 2023

New review outlines the history and current status of long-acting growth hormone therapies

In 1957, Maurice Raben successfully isolated and purified the growth hormone (GH) from the pituitary gland, opening up a potential avenue of GH therapies.

13 Mar 2023

New initiative aims to improve employee well-being and advance health equity in the workplace

Health inequities can be detrimental to employees' emotional, psychological and physical health and place a significant economic burden on employers.

13 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

Toolkit for treating obstetric hemorrhage saves lives, lowers health care costs

Measures used at California hospitals to stop excessive bleeding in childbirth are saving an average of almost $18 per birth, for statewide annual health care savings of $9 million, according to new research by scientists at Stanford Medicine and the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative.

2 Mar 2023

Labor News and Research

Banning noncompete contracts for medical staff riles hospitals

U.S. maternal mortality rates rose during COVID-19 pandemic

Legal questions, inquiries intensify around Noble Health’s rural Missouri hospital closures

Elimination of midwife care mostly affects lower-income, marginalized populations

Does recurrent bacterial vaginosis impact quality of life?

End of covid emergency will usher in changes across the US health system

What are the associations of COVID-19 policy related economic and schooling disruptions with mental health and sleep in US children?

The US remains a grim leader in preterm births. Why? And can we fix it?

Course of childbirth influenced by pregnant women's attitudes and mindsets

New imaging tool creates real-time, 3D images and maps of contractions during labor

Black lung resurgence drives push to protect coal miners against silica dust

New review outlines the history and current status of long-acting growth hormone therapies

New initiative aims to improve employee well-being and advance health equity in the workplace

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

Toolkit for treating obstetric hemorrhage saves lives, lowers health care costs

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

Biden promises to fight GOP on ‘gutting’ Medicaid. Budget talks seem like another story.

U.S. falls short in supporting fathers and caregivers of older adults, UCLA research finds

Protective parenting could set your kids up for a healthier life in adulthood

Surprise-billing law loophole: When ‘out of network’ doesn’t quite mean out of network

Why use light scattering to analyze proteins and viral vectors?

Changing the landscape of R&D to build clinical success from the ground up

Sensing a Healthier Future

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