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How much health insurers pay for almost everything is about to go public

Consumers, employers, and just about everyone else interested in health care prices will soon get an unprecedented look at what insurers pay for care, perhaps helping answer a question that has long dogged those who buy insurance: Are we getting the best deal we can?

1 Jul 2022

New insights into the connections between brain cells

After a career spent probing the mysteries of the universe, a Janelia Research Campus senior scientist is now exploring the mysteries of the human brain and developing new insights into the connections between brain cells.

30 Jun 2022

Montana’s Blackfeet tribe to use dogs to sniff out disease and contaminants

Kenneth Cook used a mallet and a chisel to crack into a pig's skull in the gravel driveway outside his home on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in northwestern Montana.

30 Jun 2022

New approaches for getting and maximizing usable DNA from decades-old pickled specimens

Two levels underground, Chicago's Field Museum has a secret bunker. The sub-basement Collections Resource Center houses millions of biological specimens for scientists around the world to use in their research, including countless bottles and jars containing pickled fish, lizards, and snakes, arranged like a library.

30 Jun 2022

Innovative treatment reduces post-traumatic headache related disability, study finds

The first therapy to be developed specifically for post-traumatic headache significantly reduced related disability in veterans following a traumatic brain injury (TBI).

27 Jun 2022

LUCID: music, medicine, and machine learning

In this interview, News-Medical speaks to Zoë Thomson, Co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer of LUCID, about how music and machine learning are changing how we approach mental and neuropsychiatric health.

27 Jun 2022

A post-‘Roe’ world in Georgia will mean more restrictions — and more political battles

Jerisha Morton didn't realize she was pregnant until about six weeks into her pregnancy. She soon started feeling waves of intense nausea.

24 Jun 2022

Seniors with prediabetes should eat better, get moving, but not fret too much about diabetes

Almost half of older adults — more than 26 million people 65 and older — have prediabetes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. How concerned should they be?

24 Jun 2022

"Founder events" that reduced genetic diversity found to be common throughout human history

Human populations have waxed and waned over the millennia, with some cultures exploding and migrating to new areas or new continents, others dropping to such low numbers that their genetic diversity plummeted.

23 Jun 2022

Sobering lessons in untying the knot of a homeless crisis

Michelle Farris never expected to become homeless, but here she was, sifting through garbage and towering piles of debris accumulated along a roadway on the outskirts of Northeast Portland.

21 Jun 2022

Medical bills can shatter lives. North Carolina may act to ‘de-weaponize’ that debt.

When Erin Williams-Reavis faced a $3,500 surgery bill, the hospital offered to let her pay in $300 monthly installments.

21 Jun 2022

Math model predicts several useful new drug combinations that may help treat heart attacks

Researchers used mice to develop a mathematical model of a myocardial infarction, popularly known as a heart attack.

17 Jun 2022

Two Tennessee abortion clinics, awaiting high-court ruling, grapple with uncertainty

Corinne Rovetti is worried about what will happen to the Knoxville Center for Reproductive Health if the Supreme Court overturns the constitutional right to abortion.

17 Jun 2022

States extend Medicaid for new mothers — even as they reject broader expansion

Until last year, Georgia's Medicaid coverage for new moms with low incomes lasted 60 days.

17 Jun 2022

Five quick takeaways from a yearlong investigation of medical debt in America

KHN and NPR embarked on a project to understand how widespread medical debt is in America. Here are the most important takeaways of that yearlong investigation:

16 Jun 2022

Buy and bust: When private equity comes for rural hospitals

When the new corporate owners of two rural hospitals suddenly announced they would stop admitting patients one Friday in March, Kayla Schudel, a nurse, stood resolute in the nearly empty lobby of Audrain Community Hospital: "You'll be seen; the ER is open."

15 Jun 2022

Omicron led to higher rates of death in rural America than urban areas

The omicron wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in late 2021 and early 2022 spread like a grass fire in America's densely populated cities but led to higher rates of death in rural counties where vaccinations are lagging.

14 Jun 2022

ANALYTICA 2022

In 2022 we look forward to welcoming you in hall A2, booth 506A and demonstrate real-time trace gas analysis.

From Ionicon Analytik Ges.m.b.H. 14 Jun 2022

Sex and previous pregnancy of blood donors do not increase mortality risk of transfused patients

A study from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden sheds new light on the question of whether the sex and previous pregnancy of blood donors affects survival in patients who receive red blood cell transfusions.

13 Jun 2022

Study demonstrates a potential way to stimulate the formation of new insulin-producing cells

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden show how a molecule that they have identified stimulates the formation of new insulin-producing cells in zebrafish and mammalian tissue, through a newly described mechanism for regulating protein synthesis.

13 Jun 2022

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How much health insurers pay for almost everything is about to go public

New insights into the connections between brain cells

Montana’s Blackfeet tribe to use dogs to sniff out disease and contaminants

New approaches for getting and maximizing usable DNA from decades-old pickled specimens

Innovative treatment reduces post-traumatic headache related disability, study finds

LUCID: music, medicine, and machine learning

A post-‘Roe’ world in Georgia will mean more restrictions — and more political battles

Seniors with prediabetes should eat better, get moving, but not fret too much about diabetes

"Founder events" that reduced genetic diversity found to be common throughout human history

Sobering lessons in untying the knot of a homeless crisis

Medical bills can shatter lives. North Carolina may act to ‘de-weaponize’ that debt.

Math model predicts several useful new drug combinations that may help treat heart attacks

Two Tennessee abortion clinics, awaiting high-court ruling, grapple with uncertainty

States extend Medicaid for new mothers — even as they reject broader expansion

Five quick takeaways from a yearlong investigation of medical debt in America

Buy and bust: When private equity comes for rural hospitals

Omicron led to higher rates of death in rural America than urban areas

ANALYTICA 2022

Sex and previous pregnancy of blood donors do not increase mortality risk of transfused patients

Study demonstrates a potential way to stimulate the formation of new insulin-producing cells

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