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UVA doctors decry aggressive billing practices by their own hospital

Prominent doctors at UVA Health System are expressing public outrage at their employer’s practices to collect unpaid medical debt from its patients.

23 Nov 2019

Klobuchar leans in on support for Roe v. Wade, planned parenthood

Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar trotted out statistics at the November Democratic presidential candidates' debate — suggesting that sweeping majorities oppose some of the abortion and reproductive health care policies backed by the Trump administration.

22 Nov 2019

New brain research by UTHealth student was showcased at Neuroscience 2019

Brain research by a student in a laboratory at McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) was singled out for special attention at the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) annual meeting in Chicago Oct. 19-23.

20 Nov 2019

New light-based method to capture the epicenter of neural activity in the brain

Researchers from Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia and University of Salento, both in Lecce, Italy, and Harvard Medical School in Boston have developed a new light-based method to capture and pinpoint the epicenter of neural activity in the brain.

19 Nov 2019

New way to promote insulin production in pre-diabetes phase discovered

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore scientists have discovered that a type of immune cell known as 'pancreatic islet macrophages' is capable of promoting insulin production during the pre-diabetes phase.

15 Nov 2019

Key Alzheimer's gene variants act differently among Caribbean Hispanics based on ancestry

Researchers looking to uncover the mysteries of Alzheimer's disease have revealed new insights from old variants.

15 Nov 2019

Surgeon general’s marijuana warning omits crucial context

Speaking about a recent federal advisory on marijuana, Dr. Jerome Adams, the surgeon general, put a new spin on long-standing admonitions about the drug.

15 Nov 2019

California: More than 47% of schools do not have athletic trainers

A study published today in the Journal of Athletic Training, the National Athletic Trainers' Association's peer-reviewed scientific publication, finds that more than 47 percent of schools in California do not have an athletic trainer (AT), a health care professional who provides preventative services, emergency care, clinical assessment, therapeutic intervention and rehabilitation of injuries and medical conditions, considered to be the gold standard of care according to the sports medicine community.

14 Nov 2019

Timely identification of prenatal exposure to opioids, gabapentin could mean more appropriate care

Timely identification of newborns exposed to both opioids and gabapentin during pregnancy could mean more appropriate care for newborns experiencing withdrawal, according to researchers at Marshall University, in collaboration with Marshall Health, Cabell Huntington Hospital and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

13 Nov 2019

Anthrax may soon help more people fight against bladder cancer

Anthrax may soon help more people win the fight against bladder cancer, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says strikes about 72,000 Americans each year and kills about 16,000, and is one of the most expensive cancers to treat.

12 Nov 2019

Warren says out-of-pocket health spending will total $11 trillion in the next decade. We checked her math.

Promoting her much-discussed plan to create a single-payer "Medicare for All" health system, Sen. Elizabeth Warren emphasized a striking figure.

12 Nov 2019

Best practice treatment guide to quickly detect, treat patients with vaping-associated lung injury

As the outbreak of lung injuries and deaths associated with e-cigarettes, or vaping, continues to spread across the U.S., researchers at Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City have effectively developed a best practice treatment guide to quickly identify and treat patients who develop the new and potentially fatal respiratory injury, according to a new study.

9 Nov 2019

New method to construct personalized gene networks may contribute to personalized treatments

Researchers at Penn State College of Medicine have developed a new method to model how genes interact with each other -- and it may someday contribute to the development of personalized treatments for patients.

7 Nov 2019

Oxygen-deprived tumor cells have survival advantage that promotes metastasis

Using cells from human breast cancers and mouse breast cancer models, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center say they have significant new evidence that tumor cells exposed to low-oxygen conditions have an advantage when it comes to invading and surviving in the bloodstream.

7 Nov 2019

Findings on gut microbiome's interactions could contribute to new therapies for GI diseases

A study from the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences offers new insight on how the gut bacteria of dogs interact with a healthy vs. unhealthy GI tract, which could contribute to the development of new therapies for GI diseases in both dogs and humans.

6 Nov 2019

As states with legal weed embrace vaping bans, black-market risks linger

Cannabis shops around Washington state are now required to hang signs warning customers of “severe lung injuries” and “deaths” associated with vaping.

6 Nov 2019

Affordable Care Act reduced rate of uninsured patients with head and neck cancers

The rate of uninsured patients with head and neck cancers was "significantly reduced" following the implementation of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

5 Nov 2019

Mint flavored e-cigarettes found to be popular among U.S. teens

A new USC study shows that mint was the most popular flavor of e-cigarettes used by U.S. teens in 2019, a finding that could impact proposed federal regulations intended to rein in soaring e-cig use among youth.

5 Nov 2019

FDA keeps brand-name drugs on a fast path to market ― despite manufacturing concerns

After unanimously voting to recommend a miraculous hepatitis C drug for approval in 2013, a panel of experts advising the Food and Drug Administration gushed about what they'd accomplished.

5 Nov 2019

Researchers produce synthetic phages that attack broader range of bacterial strains

Bacteriophages ("phages" for short) are viruses that infect bacteria. Phages are highly host-specific and will typically only infect and kill an individual species or even subspecies of bacteria. Compared to conventional antibiotics, phages do not indiscriminately kill bacteria.

4 Nov 2019

OCT News and Research

UVA doctors decry aggressive billing practices by their own hospital

Klobuchar leans in on support for Roe v. Wade, planned parenthood

New brain research by UTHealth student was showcased at Neuroscience 2019

New light-based method to capture the epicenter of neural activity in the brain

New way to promote insulin production in pre-diabetes phase discovered

Key Alzheimer's gene variants act differently among Caribbean Hispanics based on ancestry

Surgeon general’s marijuana warning omits crucial context

California: More than 47% of schools do not have athletic trainers

Timely identification of prenatal exposure to opioids, gabapentin could mean more appropriate care

Anthrax may soon help more people fight against bladder cancer

Warren says out-of-pocket health spending will total $11 trillion in the next decade. We checked her math.

Best practice treatment guide to quickly detect, treat patients with vaping-associated lung injury

New method to construct personalized gene networks may contribute to personalized treatments

Oxygen-deprived tumor cells have survival advantage that promotes metastasis

Findings on gut microbiome's interactions could contribute to new therapies for GI diseases

As states with legal weed embrace vaping bans, black-market risks linger

Affordable Care Act reduced rate of uninsured patients with head and neck cancers

Mint flavored e-cigarettes found to be popular among U.S. teens

FDA keeps brand-name drugs on a fast path to market ― despite manufacturing concerns

Researchers produce synthetic phages that attack broader range of bacterial strains

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