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New heart drug spotlights troubling trends in drug marketing

At the end of September, Amarin Corp. teased some early findings for Vascepa, its preventive medicine for people at risk of heart disease.

2 Nov 2018

Certain test strips used with home-use devices may provide inaccurate results, warns FDA

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today is warning patients and doctors, who use at-home or in-the-office medical devices to monitor levels of the blood thinner, warfarin, that certain test strips used with the devices may provide inaccurate results and should not be relied upon to adjust the drug dosage.

2 Nov 2018

TGen, City of Hope to develop cell therapy manufacturing facility in Phoenix

City of Hope, a world-renowned independent cancer research and treatment center, and its affiliate, Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), have announced a letter of intent to develop a state-of-the-art cell therapy manufacturing facility in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area, a move that would improve the speed at which stem cell research and cancer treatment is delivered.

2 Nov 2018

Podcast: KHN’s ‘What the Health?’ Open enrollment and a midterm preview

Nov. 1 marks the start of Open Enrollment for people buying their own coverage for 2019 in most states. Despite the turmoil surrounding the Affordable Care Act, most consumers will have more choices and mostly flat — and in some cases lower — premiums.

1 Nov 2018

Billions in ‘questionable payments’ went to California’s Medicaid insurers and providers

California's Medicaid program made at least $4 billion in questionable payments to health insurers and medical providers over a four-year period because as many as 453,000 people were ineligible for the public benefits, according to a state audit released Tuesday.

1 Nov 2018

UA professor wins NIH grant to advance research in preventing heart failure

A University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix researcher has received a $393,493 grant from the National Institutes of Health to further her research in reducing the risk of heart failure in patients with high blood pressure.

1 Nov 2018

Tick-borne disease is multiple microbial in nature

A study recently published in Scientific Reports discovered that 65% of Lyme disease patients irrespective of their disease stage respond to several microbes.

1 Nov 2018

NeuroPointDX launches NPDX AA test to identify metabolic subtypes associated with autism

NeuroPointDX, a division of Stemina Biomarker Discovery, today announced the commercial launch of its NPDX AA test, which identifies metabolic subtypes associated with autism spectrum disorder.

1 Nov 2018

New study to evaluate human immune system's response to influenza

The key to lasting protection against influenza may be in your bones. The cells that naturally protect you against illness originate and live in your bone marrow - and that is one spot where scientists will be looking to understand the human immune system's response to influenza in a groundbreaking new study led by the Human Vaccines Project.

1 Nov 2018

Childlessness influences Chinese adults' end-of-life care preferences

Chinese adults who have children prefer to receive end-of-life care from family members at home, while those who lost their only child prefer to be cared for in hospice or palliative care institutions, finds a new study led by an international team of researchers and published in the November issue of The Journal of Palliative Medicine.

1 Nov 2018

Study: Wide and varied body of evidence support best practices in palliative care

A study commissioned to help guide revisions of best practices in providing palliative care finds that there is a wide and varied body of evidence to support such clinical practice guidelines.

1 Nov 2018

Rising temperatures may boost number of cases of Lyme disease, finds study

Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne disease in North America and its incidence has risen sharply in the last decade.

1 Nov 2018

FDA permits marketing of 23andme Personal Genome Service Pharmacogenetic Reports test

Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration permitted marketing, with special controls, of the 23andme Personal Genome Service Pharmacogenetic Reports test as a direct-to-consumer test for providing information about genetic variants that may be associated with a patient's ability to metabolize some medications to help inform discussions with a health care provider.

1 Nov 2018

Suicide risk higher among veterans released from prison

Veterans released from prison are five times as likely to attempt suicide as their peers who have never been incarcerated, report UConn Health researchers in an article slated for publication in the November 2018 print edition of the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.

31 Oct 2018

Pain sensitization linked to increased risk for persistent knee pain

Becoming more sensitive to pain, or pain sensitization, is an important risk factor for developing persistent knee pain in osteoarthritis, according to a new study by researchers from the Université de Montréal School of Rehabilitation and Hôpital Maisonneuve Rosemont Research Centre in collaboration with researchers at Boston University School of Medicine.

31 Oct 2018

Goethe University plays important role in rare disease research

Patients with rare diseases often go through a long history of suffering before finally receiving an accurate diagnosis.

31 Oct 2018

In swing districts, Republicans may pay for having tried to reverse the health law

Not long ago many voters knew little about Tom MacArthur. A low-key moderate Republican congressman in a district that twice went for Barack Obama, he burnished his reputation as the guy who worked with Democrats to help rebuild in the years after Hurricane Sandy.

31 Oct 2018

Trump rollback of disability rules can make doctor’s visits painstaking

Going to the doctor's office can feel so routine. You sit in the waiting room, fill out the paperwork, get measured and hop onto the exam table.

31 Oct 2018

Study finds link between early life antibiotic exposure and weight gain in children

A pioneering study conducted within a nationwide network, the National Patient Centered Clinical Research Network, finds that antibiotic use at <24 months of age was associated with slightly higher body weight at 5 years of age.

31 Oct 2018

Genetic testing and breakthrough therapies may transform diagnosis, care of neuromuscular disease

A new report funded by the Muscular Dystrophy Association and released by the IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science indicates that genetic testing and breakthrough therapies will transform the diagnosis and care of neuromuscular disease within the next decade.

31 Oct 2018

Health Care News and Research

New heart drug spotlights troubling trends in drug marketing

Certain test strips used with home-use devices may provide inaccurate results, warns FDA

TGen, City of Hope to develop cell therapy manufacturing facility in Phoenix

Podcast: KHN’s ‘What the Health?’ Open enrollment and a midterm preview

Billions in ‘questionable payments’ went to California’s Medicaid insurers and providers

UA professor wins NIH grant to advance research in preventing heart failure

Tick-borne disease is multiple microbial in nature

NeuroPointDX launches NPDX AA test to identify metabolic subtypes associated with autism

New study to evaluate human immune system's response to influenza

Childlessness influences Chinese adults' end-of-life care preferences

Study: Wide and varied body of evidence support best practices in palliative care

Rising temperatures may boost number of cases of Lyme disease, finds study

FDA permits marketing of 23andme Personal Genome Service Pharmacogenetic Reports test

Suicide risk higher among veterans released from prison

Pain sensitization linked to increased risk for persistent knee pain

Goethe University plays important role in rare disease research

In swing districts, Republicans may pay for having tried to reverse the health law

Trump rollback of disability rules can make doctor’s visits painstaking

Study finds link between early life antibiotic exposure and weight gain in children

Genetic testing and breakthrough therapies may transform diagnosis, care of neuromuscular disease

Event guide: 3rd Measuring Patient Engagement Summit eBook

Advancing Neuroscience Research Through Collaboration and Patient-Centered Innovation

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How Omics Technologies Are Transforming Biological Research and Drug Discovery

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