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Virtual care results in significant environmental and patient financial benefits

A new study by researchers at ICES, Lawson Health Research Institute and Western University finds that virtual care during the COVID-19 pandemic led to a significant reduction in carbon dioxide emissions and patient travel-related expenses, such as gasoline, parking or public transit costs.

20 Oct 2022

Family caregivers find support on #dementia TikTok

It all changed on a Saturday night in New York City in 2016. Jacquelyn Revere was 29 and headed out to attend a friend’s comedy show. She was on the subway when her phone rang.

20 Oct 2022

Blind to problems: How VA’s electronic record system shuts out visually impaired patients

Sarah Sheffield, a nurse practitioner at a Veterans Affairs clinic in Eugene, Oregon, had a problem. Her patients — mostly in their 70s and beyond — couldn't read computer screens.

20 Oct 2022

5 things to know about Montana’s ‘born alive’ ballot initiative

Montana voters will decide Nov. 8 whether to approve a ballot initiative declaring that an embryo or fetus is a legal person with a right to medical care if it survives an abortion or delivery.

20 Oct 2022

Investigating increased healthcare usage after SARS-CoV-2 infection

In a new study, researchers evaluated the post-acute burden of healthcare use after SARS-CoV-2 infection in adults.

20 Oct 2022

Depression risk increases with number of hours worked in stressful jobs

The more hours someone works each week in a stressful job, the more their risk of depression rises, a study in new doctors finds.

20 Oct 2022

Rapid antigen test for COVID-19 can be used to triage healthcare workers for returning to work

About 60% of healthcare workers participating in an optional rapid antigen testing program at UCLA tested positive at day five, and about 50% were positive at day seven after initially testing positive for COVID-19 with a PCR test.

19 Oct 2022

Study reveals racial disparities in access to advanced therapies for heart failure

Black adults treated at advanced heart failure centers received potentially life-changing therapies, such as transplants and heart pumps, about half as often as white adults, possibly due to racial bias, a small National Institutes of Health-supported study has found.

19 Oct 2022

AI app to read COVID-19 lateral flow tests helps to reduce false results

An artificial intelligence app to read COVID-19 lateral flow tests helped to reduce false results in a new trial out today.

19 Oct 2022

Physical exercise improves cardiorespiratory fitness, alleviates adverse effects of cancer treatment

During chemotherapy, physical exercise intervention is safe, improves long-term cardiorespiratory fitness, and alleviates some of the adverse effects of cancer treatment, according to a study published in JACC: CardioOncology.

18 Oct 2022

Study: Health insurance companies may be overpaying for common radiology services

Health insurance companies may be overpaying for common radiology services, according to a study published in Radiology, a journal of the Radiological Society of North America.

18 Oct 2022

Long COVID study finds increased rates of health system use after SARS-CoV-2 infection

A large study on the impact of long COVID found increased rates of health system use 2 months after infection with SARS-CoV-2, which has implications for health care delivery in the future. The study, which included more than half a million people in Ontario, Canada, is published in CMAJ.

18 Oct 2022

Centene gave thousands to Georgia leaders’ campaigns while facing Medicaid overbilling questions

A health insurance giant that has paid out more than $485 million in legal settlements with states over pharmacy billing allegations has also been a major donor to Georgia's Republican Gov. Brian Kemp and Attorney General Chris Carr, according to campaign finance records.

18 Oct 2022

The prevalence of pneumococcal carriage in Serbia during COVID

Scientists explore the prevalence of Streptococcus pneumoniae carriage during the COVID-19 pandemic in older adults.

17 Oct 2022

Medically tailored meals could result in net cost savings of $13.6 billion each year

Adopting more programs that make and deliver medically tailored meals to people with serious, diet-sensitive diseases could result not only in improved health outcomes in the form of fewer hospitalizations nationally, but in a net cost savings of approximately $13.6 billion each year, according to new research from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University.

17 Oct 2022

Study links chemical composition of fine particulate air pollution to worse lung disease outcomes

People with a disease characterized by lung scarring that has no obvious cause are more likely to die if they live in areas with higher levels of air pollution composed of chemicals associated with industrial sources and vehicular traffic, according to new research led by University of Pittsburgh scientists.

17 Oct 2022

COVID-19 caused a prolonged shock to life expectancy levels, research says

COVID-19 has caused a protracted shock to life expectancy levels, leading to global mortality changes unprecedented in the last 70 years, according to research today in Nature Human Behaviour from Oxford's Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science and the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research.

17 Oct 2022

Researchers identify a new gene essential to colon cancer growth

Researchers at Mount Sinai's Tisch Cancer Institute have identified a new gene that is essential to colon cancer growth and found that inflammation in the external environment around the tumor can contribute to the growth of tumor cells.

17 Oct 2022

Novel drug target for triple-negative breast cancer discovered

Research led by Dr. Suresh Alahari, Professor of Biochemistry at LSU Health New Orleans' Schools of Medicine and Graduate Studies, reports a combination of a novel small inhibitory molecule and an FDA-approved chemotherapy drug suppresses the growth of triple-negative breast cancer cells synergistically.

17 Oct 2022

COVID pandemic saw a huge drop in patients seeking treatment for clinical depression

In the first study of its kind, German researchers have shown that the COVID pandemic saw a huge drop in the number of patients being admitted to hospital for clinical depression.

17 Oct 2022

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Virtual care results in significant environmental and patient financial benefits

Family caregivers find support on #dementia TikTok

Blind to problems: How VA’s electronic record system shuts out visually impaired patients

5 things to know about Montana’s ‘born alive’ ballot initiative

Investigating increased healthcare usage after SARS-CoV-2 infection

Depression risk increases with number of hours worked in stressful jobs

Rapid antigen test for COVID-19 can be used to triage healthcare workers for returning to work

Study reveals racial disparities in access to advanced therapies for heart failure

AI app to read COVID-19 lateral flow tests helps to reduce false results

Physical exercise improves cardiorespiratory fitness, alleviates adverse effects of cancer treatment

Study: Health insurance companies may be overpaying for common radiology services

Long COVID study finds increased rates of health system use after SARS-CoV-2 infection

Centene gave thousands to Georgia leaders’ campaigns while facing Medicaid overbilling questions

The prevalence of pneumococcal carriage in Serbia during COVID

Medically tailored meals could result in net cost savings of $13.6 billion each year

Study links chemical composition of fine particulate air pollution to worse lung disease outcomes

COVID-19 caused a prolonged shock to life expectancy levels, research says

Researchers identify a new gene essential to colon cancer growth

Novel drug target for triple-negative breast cancer discovered

COVID pandemic saw a huge drop in patients seeking treatment for clinical depression

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