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History of COVID-19 increases risk of fatigue and other long COVID symptoms in adults and children

Researchers observe that COVID-19 patients were at an increased risk of developing certain conditions.

21 Dec 2022

UCR-led analysis urges school officials for a holistic approach to mental health screenings

As concerns about youth mental health, school shootings, and other forms of violence prompt more school systems to conduct mental health screenings, a UCR-led analysis is urging school officials to proceed with deference to student family, cultural, and community backgrounds.

21 Dec 2022

Hundreds of US hospitals sue patients or threaten their credit, a KHN investigation finds

Despite growing evidence of the harm caused by medical debt, hundreds of U.S. hospitals maintain policies to aggressively pursue patients for unpaid bills, using tactics such as lawsuits, selling patient accounts to debt buyers, and reporting patients to credit rating agencies, a KHN investigation shows.

21 Dec 2022

The case of the two Grace Elliotts: A medical billing mystery

Earlier this year, Grace Elizabeth Elliott got a mysterious hospital bill for medical care she had never received.

21 Dec 2022

Mount Sinai researchers construct a computer-derived marker for coronary artery disease

Using machine learning and clinical data from electronic health records, researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York constructed an in silico, or computer-derived, marker for coronary artery disease (CAD) to better measure clinically important characterizations of the disease.

21 Dec 2022

FDA approves targeted imaging agent for use in lung cancer surgery

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the targeted imaging agent Cytalux (pafolacianine) for use in lung cancer surgery.

18 Dec 2022

Rapid, non-invasive detection tool could help accelerate progress in eliminating malaria

A quick, affordable, non-invasive detection tool could help accelerate progress in meeting the UN Sustainable Development Goals' target to eliminate malaria, say researchers who developed it.

16 Dec 2022

Natural substances show great therapeutic potential to inhibit influenza viruses

Fever, cough, sore throat, and general malaise - the cold season is here, and not only corona but also influenza viruses are spreading again at a rapid pace.

16 Dec 2022

Gut-dwelling bacteria can promote the desire to exercise, study shows

Some species of gut-dwelling bacteria activate nerves in the gut to promote the desire to exercise, according to a study in mice that was led by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

15 Dec 2022

Squeezed by temp nurse costs, hospital systems create their own staffing agencies

Like many nurses these days, Alex Scala got a big pay hike when she switched jobs recently.

15 Dec 2022

What Germany’s coal miners can teach America about medical debt

Almost every day, Dr. Eckart Rolshoven sees the long shadow of coal mining in his clinic near the big brownstone church that dominates this small town in Germany's Saarland.

14 Dec 2022

New report provides a broad view of the global burden of cardiovascular disease

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the leading cause of death across the globe, according to a new "almanac"-style special issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

13 Dec 2022

Individuals with depression less likely to adhere to medications following percutaneous coronary intervention

Patients diagnosed with depression were less likely to adhere to essential medical therapies following percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) than those without depression, according to a new study published in JAMA Network Open by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

12 Dec 2022

Researchers receive $11 million NIH grant to evaluate a 5-minute dementia screening tool

Investigators at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Health System, Regenstrief Institute, and Indiana University School of Medicine have received an $11 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to evaluate an Einstein-developed test for assessing cognitive impairment and dementia.

8 Dec 2022

For patients with sickle cell disease, fertility care is about reproductive justice

Teonna Woolford has always wanted six kids. Why six? "I don't know where that number came from. I just felt like four wasn't enough," said Woolford, a Baltimore resident. "Six is a good number."

8 Dec 2022

HIV transmission from mother to child can be stopped with modern antiviral drugs

Antiviral drugs almost completely reduce the risk of mothers passing on HIV infection to their children, even in a low-income country with a high HIV incidence such as Tanzania, according to a new study in The Lancet HIV by researchers from Karolinska Institutet.

7 Dec 2022

Colorado option’s big test: Open enrollment

Critics declared Colorado's new quasi-public option a failure this fall, before it was even available for purchase on the state's Affordable Care Act health insurance marketplace.

7 Dec 2022

Largest machine learning effort securely aggregates data from brain scans of glioblastoma patients

Researchers at Penn Medicine and Intel Corporation led the largest-to-date global machine learning effort to securely aggregate knowledge from brain scans of 6,314 glioblastoma (GBM) patients at 71 sites around the globe and develop a model that can enhance identification and prediction of boundaries in three tumor sub-compartments, without compromising patient privacy.

6 Dec 2022

Hyperactivated brain cells following social trauma impair social reward and promote social avoidance

Past social trauma is encoded by a population of stress/threat-responsive brain cells that become hyperactivated during subsequent interaction with non-threatening social targets. As a consequence, previously rewarding social targets are now perceived as social threats, which promotes generalized social avoidance and impaired social reward processing that can contribute to psychiatric disorders, according to a study conducted by researchers at the Brain and Body Research Center at Mount Sinai and published November 30 in Nature.

30 Nov 2022

Research findings may offer a new potential therapeutic target for Alzheimer’s disease

A new study links a gene concentrated in the brain's cleanup cells, known as microglia, to the inflammation that has increasingly emerged as a key mechanism contributing to Alzheimer's disease.

30 Nov 2022

Health Systems News and Research

History of COVID-19 increases risk of fatigue and other long COVID symptoms in adults and children

UCR-led analysis urges school officials for a holistic approach to mental health screenings

Hundreds of US hospitals sue patients or threaten their credit, a KHN investigation finds

The case of the two Grace Elliotts: A medical billing mystery

Mount Sinai researchers construct a computer-derived marker for coronary artery disease

FDA approves targeted imaging agent for use in lung cancer surgery

Rapid, non-invasive detection tool could help accelerate progress in eliminating malaria

Natural substances show great therapeutic potential to inhibit influenza viruses

Gut-dwelling bacteria can promote the desire to exercise, study shows

Squeezed by temp nurse costs, hospital systems create their own staffing agencies

What Germany’s coal miners can teach America about medical debt

New report provides a broad view of the global burden of cardiovascular disease

Individuals with depression less likely to adhere to medications following percutaneous coronary intervention

Researchers receive $11 million NIH grant to evaluate a 5-minute dementia screening tool

For patients with sickle cell disease, fertility care is about reproductive justice

HIV transmission from mother to child can be stopped with modern antiviral drugs

Colorado option’s big test: Open enrollment

Largest machine learning effort securely aggregates data from brain scans of glioblastoma patients

Hyperactivated brain cells following social trauma impair social reward and promote social avoidance

Research findings may offer a new potential therapeutic target for Alzheimer’s disease

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