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Podcast: KHN’s ‘What the Health?’ See you in court!

A federal district court judge in Texas has set Sept. 10 as the date for oral arguments in a case filed by Republican state attorneys general and governors from 20 states.

17 Aug 2018

Single mothers work more when government provides better health insurance, says research

Single mothers work more when the government provides better health insurance, according to economic policy research from the University of Georgia that examines the impact of health care changes under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

17 Aug 2018

Voters to settle dispute over ambulance employee break times

The initiative isn't about public safety, but rather "trying to extract machine-level work from human beings," said Mike Diaz, an AMR employee in Antelope Valley and president of the International Association of EMTs and Paramedics Local 77.

17 Aug 2018

Consequences of healthcare-associated infections go beyond patients' physical health

The consequences of healthcare-associated infections reach well beyond patients' physical health, souring social relationships, and leading some healthcare providers to distance themselves from affected patients, according to a qualitative, systematic review published in the American Journal of Infection Control, the journal of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology.

16 Aug 2018

Energy-hog hospitals: When they start thinking green, they see green

Hospitals are energy hogs. With their 24/7 lighting, heating and water needs, they use up to five times more energy than a fancy hotel.

16 Aug 2018

Improved visual communication could help patients to make informed health-care decisions

A woman goes to the doctor for a mammogram. The result comes back positive. This doesn't necessarily mean you have cancer, false positives are common, her doctor might say. Maybe the patient is also given a pamphlet with some statistics about mortality and survival rates.

16 Aug 2018

Prenatal exposure to violence increases toddlers' aggressive behavior to their mothers

Babies whose mothers experience interpersonal violence during pregnancy are more likely to exhibit aggression and defiance toward their mothers in toddlerhood, according to new research by Laura Miller-Graff,assistant professor of psychology and peace studies, and Jennifer Burke Lefever, managing director of the William J. Shaw Center for Children and Families, both at the University of Notre Dame.

16 Aug 2018

Tufts researchers win grant to study integration of genomic sequencing into neonatal care

Tufts Medical Center researchers have received a five-year grant award for more than $8 million from the National Center For Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health to study the integration of targeted genomic sequencing into neonatal diagnosis and care.

16 Aug 2018

Researchers develop novel statistical method to evaluate gene-to-gene interactions linked with cancer

Research led by Hui-Yi Lin, PhD, Associate Professor of Biostatistics at LSU Health New Orleans School of Public Health, has developed another novel statistical method for evaluating gene-to-gene interactions associated with cancer and other complex diseases.

15 Aug 2018

States leverage federal funds to help insurers lower premiums

When Tracy Deis decided in 2016 to transition from a full-time job to part-time contract work, the loss of her employer's health insurance was not a major worry because she knew she could get coverage through the marketplace set up by the Affordable Care Act.

15 Aug 2018

Analyzing resident-to-resident incidents in dementia may hold the key to reducing future fatalities

Analyzing the incidents between residents in dementia in long-term care homes may hold the key to reducing future fatalities among this vulnerable population, according to new research from the University of Minnesota School of Nursing.

15 Aug 2018

Johns Hopkins expert panel develops first set of operation-specific opioid prescribing guidelines

A Johns Hopkins expert panel of health care providers and patients have announced what is, to their knowledge, the nation's first set of operation-specific opioid prescribing guidelines.

14 Aug 2018

Feds urge states to encourage cheaper plans off the exchanges

For those who make too much money to qualify for health insurance subsidies on the individual market, there may be no Goldilocks moment when shopping for a plan. No choice is just right.

14 Aug 2018

AI technology could hold key to improving health services

The need to embrace technology to radically improve how the NHS successfully delivers its services is behind a new partnership between the University of Essex and Provide CIC.

14 Aug 2018

‘No one is ever really ready’: Aid-in-dying patient chooses his last day

In the end, it wasn't easy for Aaron McQ to decide when to die. The 50-year-old Seattle man — a former world traveler, triathlete and cyclist — learned he had leukemia five years ago, followed by an even grimmer diagnosis in 2016: a rare form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS.

14 Aug 2018

NIH grant for Mount Sinai to study use of inhaled corticosteroids for treatment of sickle cell disease

The Departments of Emergency Medicine and Hematology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have been awarded a $4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health toward further study of inhaled corticosteroids to treat sickle cell disease in individuals who do not have asthma.

14 Aug 2018

Study highlights pollution exposure of babies in prams

Babies in prams can be exposed to up to 60 percent more pollution than their parents, causing potential damage to their frontal lobe and impacting on their cognitive abilities and brain development.

14 Aug 2018

UIC researchers receive NIH funding to develop a better way to regenerate bone or tissues

University of Illinois at Chicago researchers have received approximately $2 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health to develop a better way to regenerate bone or tissues that have been lost to disease or injury.

14 Aug 2018

Lower rates of Medicare preventive care visits found in racial, ethnic minority older adults

Medicare patients nationwide have low rates of preventive care visits – with the lowest rates found in older adults of minority race/ethnicity, reports a study in the September issue of Medical Care. The journal is published in the Lippincott portfolio by Wolters Kluwer.

14 Aug 2018

Google's DeepMind AI could soon be diagnosing eye conditions

London-based DeepMind which is owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet, is coming up with Artificial Intelligence based devices that can help diagnose eye conditions accurately.

14 Aug 2018

Health Care News and Research

Podcast: KHN’s ‘What the Health?’ See you in court!

Single mothers work more when government provides better health insurance, says research

Voters to settle dispute over ambulance employee break times

Consequences of healthcare-associated infections go beyond patients' physical health

Energy-hog hospitals: When they start thinking green, they see green

Improved visual communication could help patients to make informed health-care decisions

Prenatal exposure to violence increases toddlers' aggressive behavior to their mothers

Tufts researchers win grant to study integration of genomic sequencing into neonatal care

Researchers develop novel statistical method to evaluate gene-to-gene interactions linked with cancer

States leverage federal funds to help insurers lower premiums

Analyzing resident-to-resident incidents in dementia may hold the key to reducing future fatalities

Johns Hopkins expert panel develops first set of operation-specific opioid prescribing guidelines

Feds urge states to encourage cheaper plans off the exchanges

AI technology could hold key to improving health services

‘No one is ever really ready’: Aid-in-dying patient chooses his last day

NIH grant for Mount Sinai to study use of inhaled corticosteroids for treatment of sickle cell disease

Study highlights pollution exposure of babies in prams

UIC researchers receive NIH funding to develop a better way to regenerate bone or tissues

Lower rates of Medicare preventive care visits found in racial, ethnic minority older adults

Google's DeepMind AI could soon be diagnosing eye conditions

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