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Public health officials are quitting or getting fired in throes of pandemic

Vilified, threatened with violence or in some cases suffering from burnout, dozens of state and local public health officials around the U.S. have resigned or have been fired amid the coronavirus outbreak, a testament to how politically combustible masks, lockdowns and infection data have become.

11 Aug 2020

Study shows home monitoring program improves survival rates in infants with heart defects

Interstage Home Monitoring (IHM) programs for infants with single ventricle heart defects help families recognize potential complications early and improve infant survival rates and growth prior to the second of multiple surgeries.

11 Aug 2020

Exclusive: Over 900 health workers have died of COVID-19. And the toll is rising

More than 900 front-line health care workers have died of COVID-19, according to an interactive database unveiled Wednesday by The Guardian and KHN. Lost on the Frontline is a partnership between the two newsrooms that aims to count, verify and memorialize every U.S. health care worker who dies during the pandemic.

11 Aug 2020

Researchers review South Korean health policy towards COVID-19

As the world continues to closely monitor the newest coronavirus outbreak, the government of South Korea has been able to keep the disease under control without paralyzing the national health and economic systems.

11 Aug 2020

Standard risk-adjustment methodologies have been unfairly penalizing CAHs, study suggests

Critical access hospitals provide care to Americans living in remote rural areas. As important health care access points, these hospitals serve a population that is disproportionately older, impoverished and burdened by chronic disease.

10 Aug 2020

Only half of pregnant women worldwide get treatment for preventable Rh disease

Only half of pregnant women worldwide who need a treatment developed over 50 years ago to prevent Rh disease--an often-fatal condition in fetuses and newborns that is now exceedingly rare in the United States and Western Europe--actually receive it, finds a study led by researchers at Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

10 Aug 2020

Researchers document increasing frequency, cost, and severity of gunshot wounds

The rise in firearm violence has coincided with an increase in the severity of injuries firearms inflict as well as the cost of operations to treat those injuries; policy makers must be more aggressive in addressing violence to curb these trends, researchers report in a large national study of gunshot wounds that appears as an "article in press" on the Journal of the American College of Surgeons website ahead of print.

10 Aug 2020

‘An Arm and a Leg’: Financial self-defense school is now in session

When you need medical care, it can be a lot like entering a casino — playing for your financial life with the deck stacked against you.

10 Aug 2020

Additional $400,000 awarded for research projects focused on cardiovascular impact of COVID-19

The American Heart Association has awarded an additional $400,000 in research grants focused on the cardiovascular impact of COVID-19.

10 Aug 2020

Maternal cannabis use in pregnancy linked to increased risk of autism in children

In the largest study of its kind, Ottawa researchers found that children whose mothers reported using cannabis during pregnancy were at greater risk of autism.

10 Aug 2020

AI-enhanced precision medicine approach lays groundwork for identification of autism subtype

A novel precision medicine approach enhanced by artificial intelligence (AI) has laid the groundwork for what could be the first biomedical screening and intervention tool for a subtype of autism, reports a new study from Northwestern University, Ben Gurion University, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

10 Aug 2020

New articles focus on recent developments in the field of health preference research

Value in Health, the official journal of ISPOR - the professional society for health economics and outcomes research, announced today the publication of a series of articles focused on recent developments in the field of health preference research.

10 Aug 2020

Stress-induced activity in the brain region may predict chest pain in people with coronary artery disease

Stress-induced activity in the inferior frontal lobe of the brain may have a direct correlation with chest pain among people with coronary artery disease.

10 Aug 2020

Pandemic hampers reopening of joint replacement gold mine

Dr. Ira Weintraub, a recently retired orthopedic surgeon who now works at a medical billing consultancy, saw a hip replacement bill for over $400,000 earlier this year.

10 Aug 2020

As crisis grows, farms try to balance health of field workers and food supply

It's a busy time for the tomato-producing farms in this part of the state. Farms have staffed up with hundreds of workers, most of whom are Latino.

10 Aug 2020

Study suggests novel strategy to slow down evolution of antibiotic resistance

The rise of antibiotic resistance in many pathogens has been driven by the spread of a small number of strains, suggesting that some bacteria may be genetically pre-disposed to evolving resistance.

10 Aug 2020

Chronic fatigue syndrome and Gulf War illness produce different patterns of brain activity after moderate exercise

A brain imaging study of veterans with Gulf War illness (GWI) and patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) (sometimes called myalgic encephalomyelitis), has shown that the two illnesses produce distinctly different, abnormal patterns of brain activity after moderate exercise.

10 Aug 2020

Community-based sampling needed for COVID-19 control, say researchers

Researchers in the UK have warned that it will be essential to carry out community-based sampling in addition to symptomatic testing if the ongoing transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARs-CoV-2) is going to be properly understood and controlled.

9 Aug 2020

FDA approves first companion diagnostic that uses liquid biopsy and NGS technology

Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first liquid biopsy companion diagnostic that also uses next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology to identify patients with specific types of mutations of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) gene in a deadly form of metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

7 Aug 2020

Computer scientists release new digital contact-tracing technique based on Wi-Fi

Researchers at the Center for Smart and Connected Society at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently released a new digital contact-tracing technique that is based on widely-deployed Wi-Fi technology.

7 Aug 2020

Health Care News and Research

Public health officials are quitting or getting fired in throes of pandemic

Study shows home monitoring program improves survival rates in infants with heart defects

Exclusive: Over 900 health workers have died of COVID-19. And the toll is rising

Researchers review South Korean health policy towards COVID-19

Standard risk-adjustment methodologies have been unfairly penalizing CAHs, study suggests

Only half of pregnant women worldwide get treatment for preventable Rh disease

Researchers document increasing frequency, cost, and severity of gunshot wounds

‘An Arm and a Leg’: Financial self-defense school is now in session

Additional $400,000 awarded for research projects focused on cardiovascular impact of COVID-19

Maternal cannabis use in pregnancy linked to increased risk of autism in children

AI-enhanced precision medicine approach lays groundwork for identification of autism subtype

New articles focus on recent developments in the field of health preference research

Stress-induced activity in the brain region may predict chest pain in people with coronary artery disease

Pandemic hampers reopening of joint replacement gold mine

As crisis grows, farms try to balance health of field workers and food supply

Study suggests novel strategy to slow down evolution of antibiotic resistance

Chronic fatigue syndrome and Gulf War illness produce different patterns of brain activity after moderate exercise

Community-based sampling needed for COVID-19 control, say researchers

FDA approves first companion diagnostic that uses liquid biopsy and NGS technology

Computer scientists release new digital contact-tracing technique based on Wi-Fi

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