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The ACA marketplace is open again for insurance sign-ups. Here’s what you need to know.

For people who've been without health insurance during the pandemic, relief is in sight.

16 Feb 2021

Anti-immigrant vitriol complicates vaccine rollout in Southern states

In eastern Tennessee, doctors have seen firsthand how a hard-line immigration policy can affect the health and well-being of a community.

16 Feb 2021

Study broadens the definition of self-injury mortality to encompass most drug overdose deaths

Classifying a death as suicide may be easiest for medical examiners and coroners in the western United States, which reports the highest suicide rates officially. Suicide by firearm is the leading method there, and usually clear in terms of evidence.

15 Feb 2021

Research shows how chemicals in the tumor microenvironment enable cancer to evade attack

A paper published today in Nature shows how chemicals in the areas surrounding tumors--known as the tumor microenvironment--subvert the immune system and enable cancer to evade attack. These findings suggest that an existing drug could boost cancer immunotherapy.

15 Feb 2021

Cancer research efforts hampered by lack of stable funding and insufficient protected time

Translating laboratory discoveries to clinical care for patients with cancer is a difficult process. Much of the effort is carried by researchers who are also trained as physicians, especially a subgroup known as clinician investigators.

15 Feb 2021

New poll highlights how COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted children's dental care

A third of parents say the COVID-19 pandemic has made it difficult to get dental care for their children, a new national poll suggests.

15 Feb 2021

Pitt scientists develop fast, efficient technique for discovering tiny antibody fragments

By capitalizing on a convergence of chemical, biological and artificial intelligence advances, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine scientists have developed an unusually fast and efficient method for discovering tiny antibody fragments with big potential for development into therapeutics against deadly diseases.

15 Feb 2021

$Big data can help assess risk prediction for osteoporosis, fractures$

Big data can help assess risk prediction for osteoporosis, fractures

Years of suffering and billions of euro in global health care costs, arising from osteoporosis-related bone fractures, could be eliminated using big data to target vulnerable patients, according to researchers at Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software.

15 Feb 2021

‘An Arm and a Leg’: Viral TikTok video serves up recipe to ‘crush’ medical debt

Jared Walker, who runs a nonprofit that helps people pay medical bills, posted a TikTok video explaining the recipe to "crush" hospital bills via charity care policies.

15 Feb 2021

Can Pfizer and Moderna end the pandemic by sharing their vaccine designs? It’s not that simple

Vaccine makers Pfizer and Moderna earned praise for creating highly effective covid-19 vaccines in record time.

15 Feb 2021

People with darker skin disproportionately suffer from acne's psychological impacts

A more aggressive approach to treating acne that marries the disciplines of psychology and dermatology is needed, according to two UC Riverside psychology researchers.

14 Feb 2021

In search of the shot

Too little covid vaccine and too great a demand: That's what KHN readers from around the country detail in their often exasperating quest to snag a shot, although they are often clearly eligible under their local guidelines and priority system.

13 Feb 2021

S.D. governor gives state high marks in handling the pandemic. Are they deserved?

Covid-19 has pushed states to adopt unique approaches to protect their residents, but few have garnered as much scrutiny as South Dakota.

12 Feb 2021

Active lifestyle associated with lower risk of death from a heart attack

An active lifestyle is linked with a lower chance of dying immediately from a heart attack, according to a study published today in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, a journal of the European Society of Cardiology.

12 Feb 2021

A novel approach to suppress the growth of glioblastoma cells

Inhibiting a key enzyme that controls a large network of proteins important in cell division and growth paves the way for a new class of drugs that could stop glioblastoma, a deadly brain cancer, from growing.

12 Feb 2021

People with asthma could be negatively affected by increased disinfectant use in the COVID-19 era

Those with asthma are experiencing less asthma control related to an increase in using household disinfectants -- known asthma triggers -- because of COVID-19, according to a survey co-conducted by University of Illinois Chicago researchers.

12 Feb 2021

Health education program reduces risk of cardiovascular disease

People who participated in a health education program that included both mental health and physical health information significantly reduced their risks of cardiovascular disease and other chronic diseases by the end of the 12-month intervention - and sustained most of those improvements six months later, researchers found.

12 Feb 2021

Health Care News and Research

The ACA marketplace is open again for insurance sign-ups. Here’s what you need to know.

Anti-immigrant vitriol complicates vaccine rollout in Southern states

Study broadens the definition of self-injury mortality to encompass most drug overdose deaths

Research shows how chemicals in the tumor microenvironment enable cancer to evade attack

Cancer research efforts hampered by lack of stable funding and insufficient protected time

New poll highlights how COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted children's dental care

Pitt scientists develop fast, efficient technique for discovering tiny antibody fragments

Big data can help assess risk prediction for osteoporosis, fractures

‘An Arm and a Leg’: Viral TikTok video serves up recipe to ‘crush’ medical debt

Can Pfizer and Moderna end the pandemic by sharing their vaccine designs? It’s not that simple

People with darker skin disproportionately suffer from acne's psychological impacts

In search of the shot

S.D. governor gives state high marks in handling the pandemic. Are they deserved?

Active lifestyle associated with lower risk of death from a heart attack

A novel approach to suppress the growth of glioblastoma cells

People with asthma could be negatively affected by increased disinfectant use in the COVID-19 era

Health education program reduces risk of cardiovascular disease

Reparations before COVID-19 pandemic could have reduced infections, deaths in the U.S.

Addressing the health impacts of structural racism in racial and ethnic disparities research

STING activation may be a new approach to reduce graft-versus-host disease

Event guide: 3rd Measuring Patient Engagement Summit eBook

How ELRIG Is Helping Mid-Career Scientists Navigate Leadership, Career Change and Redundancy

The role of UV-Vis in biopharma QC

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