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Clinical trial shows encouraging results with fecal microbiota transplants for peanut-allergic patients

Peanut allergies are hard to treat and can cause fatal or near-fatal anaphylactic reactions. People usually don't outgrow peanut allergy, requiring lifelong scrutiny of food labels to avoid even small traces of peanut.

27 Feb 2022

Oral health disparities persist and pose a major global public health threat, experts say

Americans' oral health has improved over the last two decades, but disparities in oral health have stubbornly persisted and pose a major global public health threat, write National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research Director Rena N. D'Souza, D.D.S., Ph.D., Science Advisor to the President and former National Institutes of Health Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., and U.S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy, M.D., M.B.A., in a new perspective published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

27 Feb 2022

Study finds waning protection of COVID-19 vaccines after six months

A study released in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine by Providence, one of the largest health systems in the United States, confirms the overall effectiveness of vaccines in preventing severe infection resulting in hospitalization from Covid-19, but also shows a substantial decline in protection after six months.

27 Feb 2022

New analysis highlights the changes in U.S. health care workforce during COVID-19 pandemic

A new analysis from Indiana University, the nonprofit Rand Corp. and the University of Michigan highlights the changes in the U.S. health care workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic and found that the average wages for U.S. health care workers rose less than wages in other industries during 2020 and the first six months of 2021.

25 Feb 2022

UCLA expert urges caution on the adoption of AI technology to analyze breast tumors

Analyzing breast-cancer tumors with artificial intelligence has the potential to improve healthcare efficiency and outcomes. But doctors should proceed cautiously, because similar technological leaps previously led to higher rates of false-positive tests and over-treatment.

25 Feb 2022

Remote monitoring of patients during COVID-19 pandemic results in unexpected patient safety benefit

In an opinion article appearing online Feb. 25 in the Journal of the American Medical Association, authors from University Hospitals and Case Western Reserve University write about the unexpected patient safety benefit resulting from remote monitoring of patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.

25 Feb 2022

Study identifies specific RNA biomarkers linked to gastrointestinal issues in kids with autism

As a clinician at the University of Missouri Thompson Center for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, David Beversdorf helps patients with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), many of whom may also be struggling with gastrointestinal or digestive issues, including constipation and diarrhea.

25 Feb 2022

ESC Acute CardioVascular Care 2022 to focus on management of cardiac emergencies

Cutting edge management of urgent heart problems will be revealed during ESC Acute CardioVascular Care 2022, a scientific congress of the European Society of Cardiology.

25 Feb 2022

DNA biomarker test helps predict recurrence of HPV-driven oropharyngeal cancer after treatment

A large, multi-institutional study demonstrates that a blood test to detect circulating tumor DNA can accurately predict recurrence of HPV-driven oropharyngeal cancer following treatment.

25 Feb 2022

The stress of restaurant work is reaching a boiling point. Could a staff therapist help?

Restaurant jobs have always been difficult, but the mental stress has gotten worse during the pandemic as restaurants closed or cut hours — or became ground zero for the fight over mask-wearing.

25 Feb 2022

Health care firms were pushed to confront racism. Now some are investing in Black startups.

Marcus Whitney stands out in Nashville's $95 billion health care sector as an investor in startups. In addition to co-founding a venture capital firm, he's organized an annual health tech conference and co-founded the city's professional soccer club.

25 Feb 2022

Researchers emphasize on health-focused rather than a weight-focused approach to treating obesity

It's one of the most polarizing questions among clinicians: Is treating obesity while also reducing weight stigma and eating disorder risk mutually exclusive?

24 Feb 2022

Study describes how brain pulsation changes during sleep

The University of Oulu Functional Neuroimaging research group has for the first time succeeded in describing how the various types of pulsations in the human brain change when a person sleeps.

24 Feb 2022

Medications for epilepsy-like signals during coma do not aid in recovery

Ten to twenty percent of the patients admitted to the intensive care (ICU) after cardiac arrest and resuscitation shows signs of brain activity that appears like epilepsy. For a long time, it was unclear if anti-epileptic medication could help better recovery.

24 Feb 2022

Health Care News and Research

Clinical trial shows encouraging results with fecal microbiota transplants for peanut-allergic patients

Oral health disparities persist and pose a major global public health threat, experts say

Study finds waning protection of COVID-19 vaccines after six months

New analysis highlights the changes in U.S. health care workforce during COVID-19 pandemic

UCLA expert urges caution on the adoption of AI technology to analyze breast tumors

Remote monitoring of patients during COVID-19 pandemic results in unexpected patient safety benefit

Study identifies specific RNA biomarkers linked to gastrointestinal issues in kids with autism

ESC Acute CardioVascular Care 2022 to focus on management of cardiac emergencies

DNA biomarker test helps predict recurrence of HPV-driven oropharyngeal cancer after treatment

The stress of restaurant work is reaching a boiling point. Could a staff therapist help?

Health care firms were pushed to confront racism. Now some are investing in Black startups.

Researchers emphasize on health-focused rather than a weight-focused approach to treating obesity

Study describes how brain pulsation changes during sleep

Medications for epilepsy-like signals during coma do not aid in recovery

Melatonin as a safe and potentially life-saving treatment for COVID-19

Researchers analyze the use of palliative care for hospitalized patients with both AKI and COVID-19

AI model could be a low-cost, non-invasive option for thyroid cancer screening and staging

Scientists estimate PFAS concentrations in breast milk and raise the need for more research

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Contemplating a post-‘Roe’ world

Why pregnant people were left behind while vaccines moved at ‘warp speed’ to help the masses

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