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A progress check on hospital price transparency

For decades, U.S. hospitals have generally stonewalled patients who wanted to know ahead of time how much their care would cost. Now that's changing — but there's a vigorous debate over what hospitals are disclosing.

29 Mar 2023

UT Southwestern awarded $18 million PCORI funding to investigate ways to improve postpartum health

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have been approved for an $18 million funding award from the nonprofit Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to investigate ways to improve postpartum health among primarily low-income Black and Hispanic women.

28 Mar 2023

Losing weight with lifestyle changes may reduce cardiovascular risk- even if some weight is regained

Losing weight with lifestyle changes in an intensive behavioral weight loss program was associated with a decrease in risk factors for cardiovascular disease and Type 2 diabetes for at least five years - even if some weight was regained, according to a systematic review of research, published today in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, a peer-reviewed American Heart Association journal.

28 Mar 2023

Surgeons can play an important role in reducing breast cancer disparities

Surgeons can play a key role in reducing breast cancer disparities by increasing their awareness of where disparities exist and having open conversations with their patients about their needs to initiate referrals early on in their care, according to a new collective review article published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.

28 Mar 2023

IU Cancer Center secures new, renewed ACS funding to support research and education programs

As part of a longstanding partnership, the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center has received new and renewed funding from the American Cancer Society to support research and education programs.

27 Mar 2023

New statement suggests next steps to interpret incidentally identified gene variants related to heart disease

Increasing use of genetic testing means people may discover they have a gene variant associated with some types of cardiovascular disease (CVD).

27 Mar 2023

Substance use disorders not associated with COVID-19-related mortality

New research from Boston Medical Center found that substance use disorders do not increase the likelihood of dying from COVID-19.

24 Mar 2023

Obamacare at 13: Biden and a KHN reporter remember

I was back in the crowded East Room of the White House on Thursday, as I was 13 years ago, this time standing under a portrait of first first lady Martha Washington, when President Joe Biden entered for a lunchtime event focused on the Affordable Care Act.

24 Mar 2023

Legal questions, inquiries intensify around Noble Health’s rural Missouri hospital closures

A year after private equity-backed Noble Health shuttered two rural Missouri hospitals, patients and former employees grapple with a broken local health system or missing out on millions in unpaid wages and benefits.

23 Mar 2023

Supervised exercise training is safe and may improve quality of life for many people with heart failure

For many people who have heart failure, supervised exercise training is safe and may offer substantial improvement in exercise capacity and quality of life, even more than medications, according to a new, joint scientific statement from the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology.

21 Mar 2023

New KITHealthTech aims to push digitalization in the healthcare sector

Digitalization does not only affect private life and work, but also influences and changes the entire healthcare sector. Sustainable progress in medical technology to preserve health will require increased collaboration of citizens, physicians, and researchers in future.

21 Mar 2023

Mobile clinics really got rolling in the pandemic. A new law will help them cast a wider safety net.

Nearly 12 years ago, a nonprofit centered on substance abuse prevention in Lyon County, Nevada, broadened its services to dental care.

20 Mar 2023

California picks generic drug company Civica to produce low-cost insulin

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Saturday announced the selection of Utah-based generic drug manufacturer Civica to produce low-cost insulin for California, an unprecedented move that makes good on his promise to put state government in direct competition with the brand-name drug companies that dominate the market.

19 Mar 2023

The US remains a grim leader in preterm births. Why? And can we fix it?

Tamara Etienne's second pregnancy was freighted with risk and worry from its earliest days — exacerbated by a first pregnancy that had ended in miscarriage.

16 Mar 2023

Lifestyle coaching improves health perceptions, behaviors, and weight during COVID-19

Researchers examine the perceptive, behavioral, and anthropometric changes in Coaching on Lifestyle (CooL) participants.

14 Mar 2023

No increased risk of neuropsychiatric events in children born to mothers using leukotriene-receptor antagonists in pregnancy

A new study examined the associations between leukotriene-receptor antagonists (LTRAs) use in pregnancy and neuropsychiatric events (NEs) risk in the offspring.

13 Mar 2023

Feds move to rein in prior authorization, a system that harms and frustrates patients

When Paula Chestnut needed hip replacement surgery last year, a pre-operative X-ray found irregularities in her chest.

13 Mar 2023

Ozone pollution associated with increase in hospital admissions for heart attack, heart failure and stroke

The first evidence that exceeding the World Health Organization ozone limit is associated with substantial increases in hospital admissions for heart attack, heart failure and stroke is published today in European Heart Journal, a journal of the European Society of Cardiology.

10 Mar 2023

Medicaid health plans try to protect members — and profits — during unwinding

The federal covid-19 pandemic protections that have largely prohibited states from dropping anyone from Medicaid since 2020 helped millions of low-income Americans retain health insurance coverage — even if they no longer qualified — and brought the U.S. uninsured rate to a record low.

9 Mar 2023

Reentry programs to help former prisoners obtain health care are often underused

When Matthew Boyd was released from a Georgia state prison in December 2020, officials sent him home without medicines he uses to manage chronic heart and lung conditions and high blood pressure, he said.

8 Mar 2023

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A progress check on hospital price transparency

UT Southwestern awarded $18 million PCORI funding to investigate ways to improve postpartum health

Losing weight with lifestyle changes may reduce cardiovascular risk- even if some weight is regained

Surgeons can play an important role in reducing breast cancer disparities

IU Cancer Center secures new, renewed ACS funding to support research and education programs

New statement suggests next steps to interpret incidentally identified gene variants related to heart disease

Substance use disorders not associated with COVID-19-related mortality

Obamacare at 13: Biden and a KHN reporter remember

Legal questions, inquiries intensify around Noble Health’s rural Missouri hospital closures

Supervised exercise training is safe and may improve quality of life for many people with heart failure

New KITHealthTech aims to push digitalization in the healthcare sector

Mobile clinics really got rolling in the pandemic. A new law will help them cast a wider safety net.

California picks generic drug company Civica to produce low-cost insulin

The US remains a grim leader in preterm births. Why? And can we fix it?

Lifestyle coaching improves health perceptions, behaviors, and weight during COVID-19

No increased risk of neuropsychiatric events in children born to mothers using leukotriene-receptor antagonists in pregnancy

Feds move to rein in prior authorization, a system that harms and frustrates patients

Ozone pollution associated with increase in hospital admissions for heart attack, heart failure and stroke

Medicaid health plans try to protect members — and profits — during unwinding

Reentry programs to help former prisoners obtain health care are often underused

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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