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Automated texts improve mental wellbeing of health care workers

Health care workers have reported spikes in feeling burnt out in the time since the COVID-19 pandemic began, with nearly half saying it took a toll in 2022 compared to 32 percent in 2018. But a new study shows that easy-to-use and accessible platforms may help reverse this trend.

13 Jun 2024

Empowering communities: Penn Medicine's annual mammogram event and health fair

Penn Medicine will once again join with community partners and Siemens Healthineers to host a free mammogram clinic and community health fair in June, giving the West Philadelphia and Upper Darby communities convenient access to health screenings right in their neighborhoods.

13 Jun 2024

Nature and exercise: A combined approach to improving health outcomes

Health practitioners and fitness buffs have long known that regular physical activity offers numerous health benefits, including the prevention of chronic conditions such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, some cancers and osteoporosis.

13 Jun 2024

KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': SCOTUS rejects abortion pill challenge — for now

A unanimous Supreme Court turned back a challenge to the FDA's approval and rules for the abortion pill mifepristone, finding that the anti-abortion doctor group that sued lacked standing to do so.

13 Jun 2024

UC San Diego's initiative for combating the opioid crisis with AI

Opioids are a broad group of effective pain-relieving medicines that can become highly addictive in some individuals. According to government sources, nearly 40 million people are addicted to illicit drugs worldwide.

13 Jun 2024

CHOP implements effective adolescent health questionnaire across Primary Care Network

While doctors understand that adolescents have certain unique health questions and concerns, several challenges prevent this critical information from being collected in a systematic way and providing appropriate referrals across a wide group of patients.

13 Jun 2024

Study shows increase in mandatory flu vaccinations for hospital staff

In just a few months, hospitals and health systems nationwide will start working to vaccinate as many staff as possible against the flu.

13 Jun 2024

Funding instability plagues program that brings docs to underserved areas

For Diana Perez, a medical resident at the Family Health Center of Harlem, the handwritten thank-you note she received from a patient is all the evidence she needs that she has chosen the right training path.

13 Jun 2024

Biden’s on target about what repealing ACA would mean for preexisting condition protections

President Joe Biden's reelection campaign wants voters to contrast his record on health care policy with his predecessor's.

13 Jun 2024

Watch: California pays drug users to stay clean

KFF Health News senior correspondent Angela Hart appeared on Spectrum News 1's "LA Times Today" last week to explain how California is trying to help hard-drug users kick their habit by paying them to stay clean.

13 Jun 2024

Stanford study finds low risk of secondary blood cancers after CAR-T cell therapy

A large study by researchers at Stanford Medicine has found that the risk of secondary blood cancers after CAR-T cell therapy - a cell-based cancer treatment that exploded on the scene in 2017 as a treatment for intractable blood cancers - is low, despite a Food and Drug Administration warning.

12 Jun 2024

Prolonged depression in young adults linked to cognitive decline in middle age

People who experience prolonged depressive symptoms starting in young adulthood may have worse thinking and memory skills in middle age, according to a study published in the June 12, 2024, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

12 Jun 2024

‘I try to stay strong’: Mom struggles to get diagnosis for son’s developmental problems

Four-year-old Ahmeir Diaz-Thornton couldn't sit still in class and rarely ate his lunch. While his preschool classmates spoke in perfect sentences, Ahmeir had trouble pronouncing words.

12 Jun 2024

Climate change-related environmental stressors associated with increased CVD mortality

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for approximately one in every three deaths, with more than 20 million deaths reported in 2021 according to a 2024 World Heart Federation report.

12 Jun 2024

Low-cost quality improvement program lowers mortality in El Salvador's pediatric ICU

Pediatric intensive care units (PICUs) in low and middle-income countries see elevated mortality rates, often 10 times higher than those in high-income countries.

12 Jun 2024

UD researchers pioneer universal, economical method for proteomics sample preparation

Proteins are workhorses that carry out most of the biological functions in our cells. While the genes we inherit from our parents, our so-called genome, are fixed and usually remain unchanged throughout our lives, proteins in our bodies are constantly changing, as we age, under different health conditions and upon stimulation, such as with medical treatment.

11 Jun 2024

Biden administration advances plan to remove medical debt from credit scores

Americans would no longer have to worry about medical debts dragging down their credit scores under federal regulations proposed Tuesday by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

11 Jun 2024

Social determinants of health linked to higher prediabetes rates in adolescents

Food insecurity, low household income and not having private health insurance are associated with higher rates of prediabetes in adolescents, independent of race and ethnicity, according to a new JAMA Network Open study by University of Pittsburgh and UPMC researchers.

11 Jun 2024

Bird flu tests are hard to get. So how will we know when to sound the pandemic alarm?

Stanford University infectious disease doctor Abraar Karan has seen a lot of patients with runny noses, fevers, and irritated eyes lately.

11 Jun 2024

Biden plan to save Medicare patients money on drugs risks empty shelves, pharmacists say

Months into a new Biden administration policy intended to lower drug costs for Medicare patients, independent pharmacists say they're struggling to afford to keep some prescription drugs in stock.

11 Jun 2024

Health Care News and Research

Automated texts improve mental wellbeing of health care workers

Empowering communities: Penn Medicine's annual mammogram event and health fair

Nature and exercise: A combined approach to improving health outcomes

KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': SCOTUS rejects abortion pill challenge — for now

UC San Diego's initiative for combating the opioid crisis with AI

CHOP implements effective adolescent health questionnaire across Primary Care Network

Study shows increase in mandatory flu vaccinations for hospital staff

Funding instability plagues program that brings docs to underserved areas

Biden’s on target about what repealing ACA would mean for preexisting condition protections

Watch: California pays drug users to stay clean

Stanford study finds low risk of secondary blood cancers after CAR-T cell therapy

Prolonged depression in young adults linked to cognitive decline in middle age

‘I try to stay strong’: Mom struggles to get diagnosis for son’s developmental problems

Climate change-related environmental stressors associated with increased CVD mortality

Low-cost quality improvement program lowers mortality in El Salvador's pediatric ICU

UD researchers pioneer universal, economical method for proteomics sample preparation

Biden administration advances plan to remove medical debt from credit scores

Social determinants of health linked to higher prediabetes rates in adolescents

Bird flu tests are hard to get. So how will we know when to sound the pandemic alarm?

Biden plan to save Medicare patients money on drugs risks empty shelves, pharmacists say

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