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KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Underinsured is the new uninsured

The annual U.S. Census Bureau report this week revealed a drop in the uninsured rate last year as more working-age people obtained employer coverage.

14 Sep 2023

Henry Ford Health performs first K-Clip procedure in the U.S. to treat severe tricuspid regurgitation

A team of interventional cardiologists from Henry Ford Health's Center for Structural Heart Disease recently became the first in the United States and the Western Hemisphere to repair a heart valve with severe tricuspid regurgitation in a patient using the investigational K-Clip™ Transvascular Tricuspid Repair System.

14 Sep 2023

NYU Langone doctors complete longest-documented case of pig kidney transplant in human body

After 61 days of observation, NYU Langone Health doctors this month completed the longest-documented case of a genetically engineered pig kidney functioning in a human body.

14 Sep 2023

UT Health San Antonio and UTSA launch first U.S. MD/MS program in medicine and artificial intelligence

The Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) and the University College at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) are officially launching the first known program in the United States to combine medicine and artificial intelligence.

14 Sep 2023

Utilizing deep learning to enhance the accuracy of mortality forecasts in emergency rooms

Researchers enhanced the accuracy of mortality predictions in emergency departments by employing advanced data-synthesis techniques and machine-learning models.

14 Sep 2023

Abortion bans fuel a rise in high-risk patients heading to Illinois hospitals

When she was around 22 weeks pregnant, the patient found out that the son she was carrying didn’t have kidneys and his lungs wouldn’t develop. If he survived the birth, he would struggle to breathe and die within hours.

14 Sep 2023

Long COVID risk found to be significantly lower following Omicron infection

The risk of developing long COVID is significantly lower following an infection with the Omicron variant than after an infection with earlier coronavirus variants.

13 Sep 2023

Air pollution fueling a spike in breast cancer risk

New study finds that exposure to PM2.5 air pollution increases the risk of breast cancer in women by 8% for each 10 µg/m3 increase. The groundbreaking research is the first to provide concrete evidence linking fine particulate matter to ER+ breast cancer.

13 Sep 2023

World-first AI model can detect eye diseases and predict systemic health

Researchers at Moorfields Eye Hospital and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system that has the potential to not only identify sight-threatening eye diseases but also predict general health, including heart attacks, stroke, and Parkinson's disease.

13 Sep 2023

Dormant HIV reservoirs can spontaneously produce RNA and proteins, study finds

HIV anti-retroviral therapy is considered a treatment and not a cure because patients usually carry a reservoir of HIV-infected cells that can re-emerge if treatment stops.

13 Sep 2023

Majority of patients with reflux disease do not have higher risk of cancer, study reports

Reflux disease manifests as acid regurgitation and heartburn and is a known risk factor for esophageal cancer.

13 Sep 2023

Study helps explain why solid tumors often spread to the spine

The vertebral bones that form the spine are derived from a distinct type of stem cell that secretes a protein favoring tumor metastases, according to a study led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine.

13 Sep 2023

ChatGPT shows promise in supporting doctors in emergency medicine

The artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT performed as well as a trained doctor in suggesting likely diagnoses for patients being assessed in emergency medicine departments, in a pilot study to be presented at the European Emergency Medicine Congress, which starts on Saturday.

13 Sep 2023

Blood transfusion linked to increased risk of spontaneous brain hemorrhage

A major study published in JAMA led by researchers at Karolinska Institutet suggests that a possible cause of spontaneous brain hemorrhage could be transmitted via blood transfusion.

13 Sep 2023

Microbiome composition influences severity of Legionnaires' disease

Pneumonia is an infection of the lung alveoli caused by bacteria, viruses or fungi. It is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide, representing a clinical and economic burden and a global public health problem.

13 Sep 2023

Early sepsis detection: molecular immune markers show limited impact in screening tools

Researchers evaluated the additional predictive value of molecular immune markers with the Predict Sepsis screening tools developed previously by the same research team.

13 Sep 2023

Why the CDC has recommended new covid boosters for all

Everyone over the age of 6 months should get the latest covid-19 booster, a federal expert panel recommended Tuesday after hearing an estimate that universal vaccination could prevent 100,000 more hospitalizations each year than if only the elderly were vaccinated.

13 Sep 2023

Training program for health workers aims to reduce the burden of breast cancer in Malawi

Women in rural Malawi are learning how to detect breast cancer thanks to the country's first dedicated training programme for health workers, aimed at reducing the burden of the disease.

12 Sep 2023

A combination of inhibitors may suppress tumor growth and prevent cancer relapse

An international team of researchers has demonstrated that a combination of inhibitors may suppress tumor growth and prevent relapse in patients with certain cancers, including head and neck squamous cell carcinoma and lung adenocarcinoma.

12 Sep 2023

How COVID-19 targets the pancreas revealed

The study uncovers the role of the PLAC8 protein in making the human pancreas vulnerable to SARS-CoV-2 infection, leading to pancreatic injury and complications in severe COVID-19 cases. The findings open up new avenues for understanding how the virus affects multiple organ systems and offer a potential target for future treatments.

12 Sep 2023

Hospital News and Research

KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Underinsured is the new uninsured

Henry Ford Health performs first K-Clip procedure in the U.S. to treat severe tricuspid regurgitation

NYU Langone doctors complete longest-documented case of pig kidney transplant in human body

UT Health San Antonio and UTSA launch first U.S. MD/MS program in medicine and artificial intelligence

Utilizing deep learning to enhance the accuracy of mortality forecasts in emergency rooms

Abortion bans fuel a rise in high-risk patients heading to Illinois hospitals

Long COVID risk found to be significantly lower following Omicron infection

Air pollution fueling a spike in breast cancer risk

World-first AI model can detect eye diseases and predict systemic health

Dormant HIV reservoirs can spontaneously produce RNA and proteins, study finds

Majority of patients with reflux disease do not have higher risk of cancer, study reports

Study helps explain why solid tumors often spread to the spine

ChatGPT shows promise in supporting doctors in emergency medicine

Blood transfusion linked to increased risk of spontaneous brain hemorrhage

Microbiome composition influences severity of Legionnaires' disease

Early sepsis detection: molecular immune markers show limited impact in screening tools

Why the CDC has recommended new covid boosters for all

Training program for health workers aims to reduce the burden of breast cancer in Malawi

A combination of inhibitors may suppress tumor growth and prevent cancer relapse

How COVID-19 targets the pancreas revealed

Bringing real-time analytics to downstream bioprocess monitoring

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

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