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Mortality prediction model for dementia patients may help guide decisions on end-of-life care

A mortality prediction model for older adults with dementia may help clinicians frame discussions with patients and their families relating to end-of-life care, such as at-home support and nursing homes.

26 Sep 2022

Collaborative, home-based palliative care may improve end-of-life outcomes for people with chronic heart failure

Patients with chronic heart failure who received collaborative, home-based palliative care were less likely to die in hospital and more likely to die at home than people who received usual care, according to new research in CMAJ.

26 Sep 2022

Is covid ‘under control’ in the US? Experts say yes

President Joe Biden caused a stir in a “60 Minutes” interview on Sept. 18 when he declared that the covid-19 pandemic is over.

26 Sep 2022

Embedded bias: How medical records sow discrimination

David Confer, a bicyclist and an audio technician, told his doctor he "used to be Ph.D. level" during a 2019 appointment in Washington, D.C. Confer, then 50, was speaking figuratively: He was experiencing brain fog — a symptom of his liver problems. But did his doctor take him seriously? Now, after his death, Confer's partner, Cate Cohen, doesn't think so.

26 Sep 2022

Only 48% of older adults regularly check their blood pressure at home, study finds

Only 48% of people age 50 to 80 who take blood pressure medications or have a health condition that's affected by hypertension regularly check their blood pressure at home or other places, a new study finds.

23 Sep 2022

Shattered dreams and bills in the millions: Losing a baby in America

The day after his 8-month-old baby died, Kingsley Raspe opened the mail and found he had been sent to collections for her care.

23 Sep 2022

In Jackson, the water is back, but the crisis remains

In mid-September, Howard Sanders bumped down pothole-ridden streets in a white Cadillac weighed down with water bottles on his way to a home in Ward 3, a neglected neighborhood that he called "a war zone."

23 Sep 2022

Hemp-derived delta-8 skirts marijuana laws and raises health concerns

Suzan Kennedy has smoked marijuana, and says her Wisconsin roots mean she can handle booze, so she was not concerned earlier this year when a bartender in St. Paul, Minnesota, described a cocktail with the cannabinoid delta-8 THC as "a little bit potent."

23 Sep 2022

Medicare eligibility may increase food pantry visits, improve food security among seniors

Low-income seniors were seven times more likely to visit a food pantry in the year after becoming eligible for Medicare, resulting in improved food security, according to a new study from UT Southwestern.

23 Sep 2022

Stanford Medicine study shows SARS-CoV-2 can infect human fat tissue

Is SARS-CoV-2 hiding in your fat cells? A study by Stanford Medicine investigators shows that SARS-CoV-2 can infect human fat tissue.

22 Sep 2022

Study reveals the long-term neurologic consequences of COVID-19

If you've had COVID-19, it may still be messing with your brain. Those who have been infected with the virus are at increased risk of developing a range of neurological conditions in the first year after the infection, new research shows.

22 Sep 2022

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Biden declares the pandemic ‘over’

President Joe Biden's declaration in a national interview that the covid-19 pandemic is "over" has complicated his own administration's efforts to get Congress to provide more funding for treatments and vaccines, and to get the public to go get yet another booster.

22 Sep 2022

UN, WHO Primary Health Care Award recognizes Lesotho-Boston Health Alliance’s achievements in primary care

An innovative program between Boston University School of Medicine's (BUSM) department of family medicine and the Lesotho Ministry of Health is being honored today by the United Nations (UN) at the annual meeting of the Friends of the UN Inter-Agency Task Force on the Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases.

22 Sep 2022

Artificial intelligence tools speed up the process of identifying people who inject drugs

An automated process that combines natural language processing and machine learning identified people who inject drugs (PWID) in electronic health records more quickly and accurately than current methods that rely on manual record reviews.

22 Sep 2022

Patients with late-stage knee OA incur high costs for nonoperative treatments before total knee arthroplasty

In the year before total knee arthroplasty (TKA), patients incur considerable costs for nonoperative treatments and other procedures for osteoarthritis (OA) – raising questions about the value of those procedures, reports a study in The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery.

22 Sep 2022

Mount Sinai researchers use unbiased AI-based method to study the causes of cognitive impairment

Mount Sinai researchers have used novel artificial intelligence methods to examine structural and cellular features of human brain tissues to help determine the causes of Alzheimer's disease and other related disorders.

21 Sep 2022

Large clinical trial compares four drugs commonly used to treat type 2 diabetes

In a large clinical trial that directly compared four drugs commonly used to treat type 2 diabetes, researchers found that insulin glargine and liraglutide performed the best of four medications approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to maintain blood glucose levels in the recommended range.

21 Sep 2022

Covid still kills, but the demographics of its victims are shifting

As California settles into a third year of pandemic, covid-19 continues to pose a serious threat of death. But the number of people dying — and the demographics of those falling victim — has shifted notably from the first two years.

21 Sep 2022

Formula may be right for infants, but experts warn that toddlers don’t need it

Formulas for toddlers are a burgeoning business in the United States: Sales of the drinks more than doubled in recent years as companies convinced parents that their little ones needed the liquid boost.

21 Sep 2022

World Alzheimer’s Day 2022: Improving Post-Diagnosis Care with COGNISANCE

To commemorate World Alzheimer's Day, News-Medical speaks to Dr. Meredith Gresham, coordinator of COGNISANCE: Co-Designing Dementia Diagnosis And Post Diagnostic Care, about the project and post-dementia diagnosis care for patients and their families.

21 Sep 2022

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Mortality prediction model for dementia patients may help guide decisions on end-of-life care

Collaborative, home-based palliative care may improve end-of-life outcomes for people with chronic heart failure

Is covid ‘under control’ in the US? Experts say yes

Embedded bias: How medical records sow discrimination

Only 48% of older adults regularly check their blood pressure at home, study finds

Shattered dreams and bills in the millions: Losing a baby in America

In Jackson, the water is back, but the crisis remains

Hemp-derived delta-8 skirts marijuana laws and raises health concerns

Medicare eligibility may increase food pantry visits, improve food security among seniors

Stanford Medicine study shows SARS-CoV-2 can infect human fat tissue

Study reveals the long-term neurologic consequences of COVID-19

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Biden declares the pandemic ‘over’

UN, WHO Primary Health Care Award recognizes Lesotho-Boston Health Alliance’s achievements in primary care

Artificial intelligence tools speed up the process of identifying people who inject drugs

Patients with late-stage knee OA incur high costs for nonoperative treatments before total knee arthroplasty

Mount Sinai researchers use unbiased AI-based method to study the causes of cognitive impairment

Large clinical trial compares four drugs commonly used to treat type 2 diabetes

Covid still kills, but the demographics of its victims are shifting

Formula may be right for infants, but experts warn that toddlers don’t need it

World Alzheimer’s Day 2022: Improving Post-Diagnosis Care with COGNISANCE

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