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‘An Arm and a Leg’: Getting insurance to pay for oral surgery is like pulling teeth

Health coverage generally does not cover dental work. But Susan Rice of Atlanta should have been the exception: She was hit by a speeding car, causing extensive damage to her own “grill.”

22 Dec 2022

ER doctors call private equity staffing practices illegal and seek to ban them

A group of emergency physicians and consumer advocates in multiple states are pushing for stiffer enforcement of decades-old statutes that prohibit the ownership of medical practices by corporations not owned by licensed doctors.

22 Dec 2022

Centene, under siege in America, moved into Britain’s National Health Service

In the final days of 2020, the U.S. health insurer Centene made a swift incursion into Britain's prized National Health Service, one of the world's largest employers.

22 Dec 2022

UK government strikes a deal with Moderna to boost mRNA research and development

Patients in the UK will be protected against potential future global health threats, including potential pandemics, thanks to a deal struck between the government and Moderna.

22 Dec 2022

Study increases understanding of the genetic architecture of dementia risk in African ancestry populations

In the largest-ever genetic study of dementia in people of African ancestry, VA researchers identified several genetic risks different from those seen in people of European ancestry.

22 Dec 2022

Study helps understand why some people have persistent smell loss after COVID-19 infection

The reason some people fail to recover their sense of smell after COVID-19 is linked to an ongoing immune assault on olfactory nerve cells and an associated decline in the number of those cells, a team of scientists led by Duke Health report.

21 Dec 2022

Sotorasib achieves meaningful anticancer activity in patients with KRAS G12C-mutated metastatic pancreatic cancer

In the Phase I/II CodeBreaK 100 trial, the KRAS G12C inhibitor sotorasib achieved meaningful anticancer activity with an acceptable safety profile in heavily pretreated patients with KRAS G12C-mutated metastatic pancreatic cancer, according to researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

21 Dec 2022

Researchers unravel how one of the crucial early steps on the path of life could have happened

One-hundred fifty years ago, Charles Darwin speculated that life likely originated in a warm little pond. There, Darwin supposed, chemical reactions and the odd lightning strike might have led to chains of amino acids that, over time, became more and more complex until the beginnings of life emerged.

21 Dec 2022

Analysis highlights substantial cost savings by reducing sedation for pediatric brain MRI examinations

Findings from an accepted manuscript published in ARRS' American Journal of Roentgenology have highlighted potentially substantial cost savings by reducing the use of sedation for pediatric brain MRI examinations.

21 Dec 2022

New methods can advance the development of rapid diagnostics for many infectious diseases

Two companion studies report new artificial intelligence approaches for identification of molecular "fingerprints" for specific infections. The methods, used here to derive a fingerprint for COVID-19, can advance the development of rapid diagnostics for many infectious diseases.

21 Dec 2022

Machine learning used to generate a new holistic model for coronary artery disease

A recent study published in the Lancet journal investigated whether a quantitative in-silico score for coronary artery disease (ISCAD), based on a machine learning model, can be used as a clinical marker to detect coronary artery disease.

21 Dec 2022

Recapitulating early stages of the human body plan in a dish

Although Michelangelo's masterpiece David captured the magnificence of the human body - how this exquisite body plan is exactly established during human development has puzzled scientists for more than a century.

21 Dec 2022

History of COVID-19 increases risk of fatigue and other long COVID symptoms in adults and children

Researchers observe that COVID-19 patients were at an increased risk of developing certain conditions.

21 Dec 2022

PCOS increases risk of pancreatic cancer

A new study in confirms that a history of polycystic ovarian syndrome increases a patient’s risk of developing pancreatic cancer.

21 Dec 2022

Cross cultural study shows how maternal behaviors differentially shape infant early life experience

Mothers in the samples from the UK and Uganda have different attitudes toward parenting, but while on a group level the experience and development of their infants sometimes aligns with parenting attitudes, surprisingly, it did not always show such variation, according to a new study published this week in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Eve Holden and Katie Slocombe of University of York, UK, and colleagues.

21 Dec 2022

Research News and Research

‘An Arm and a Leg’: Getting insurance to pay for oral surgery is like pulling teeth

ER doctors call private equity staffing practices illegal and seek to ban them

Centene, under siege in America, moved into Britain’s National Health Service

UK government strikes a deal with Moderna to boost mRNA research and development

Study increases understanding of the genetic architecture of dementia risk in African ancestry populations

Study helps understand why some people have persistent smell loss after COVID-19 infection

Sotorasib achieves meaningful anticancer activity in patients with KRAS G12C-mutated metastatic pancreatic cancer

Researchers unravel how one of the crucial early steps on the path of life could have happened

Analysis highlights substantial cost savings by reducing sedation for pediatric brain MRI examinations

New methods can advance the development of rapid diagnostics for many infectious diseases

Machine learning used to generate a new holistic model for coronary artery disease

Recapitulating early stages of the human body plan in a dish

History of COVID-19 increases risk of fatigue and other long COVID symptoms in adults and children

PCOS increases risk of pancreatic cancer

Cross cultural study shows how maternal behaviors differentially shape infant early life experience

Mutations responsible for common inherited heart condition corrected using CRISPR-Cas9 therapy

UMass Amherst microbiologist receives NIH grant to develop more effective treatments for tuberculosis

Women who have cluster headache are more affected in their daily lives, shows study

Black patients do not have the same level of access to new, safer heart procedures as white people

Brazilian model for COVID-19 vaccination reduced severe case and mortality even from variants

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