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Medicare Advantage increasingly popular with seniors — but not hospitals and doctors

A hospital system in Georgia. Two medical groups in San Diego. Another in Louisville, Kentucky, and nearly one-third of Nebraska hospitals.

29 Nov 2023

Medicaid ‘unwinding’ makes other public assistance harder to get

An hour before sunrise, Shelly Brost walked a mile in freezing rain to the public assistance office. She was running out of time to prove she still qualified for food aid after being stymied by a backlogged state call center.

29 Nov 2023

More than half of low-income unmarried couples have positive co-parenting relationships

Despite the many challenges they face, slightly more than half of unmarried low-income couples with children have positive co-parenting relationships, a new study found.

27 Nov 2023

Out for blood? For routine lab work, the hospital billed her $2,400

Reesha Ahmed was on cloud nine. It was January and Ahmed was at an OB-GYN's office near her home in Venus, Texas, for her first prenatal checkup.

21 Nov 2023

KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Congress kicks the (budget) can down the road. Again.

Congress narrowly avoided a federal government shutdown for the second time in as many months, as House Democrats provided the needed votes for new House Republican Speaker Mike Johnson to avoid his first legislative catastrophe of his brief tenure.

16 Nov 2023

Biden administration’s limit on drug industry middlemen backfires, pharmacists say

The Biden administration's first major step toward imposing limits on the pharmacy benefit managers who act as the drug industry's price negotiators is backfiring, pharmacists say.

15 Nov 2023

Dietary sodium intake significantly impacts blood pressure, reveals comprehensive study

The JAMA study finds individual blood pressure responses to dietary sodium variations are consistent across different subgroups, including those on antihypertensive medications, suggesting a universal effect of sodium intake on blood pressure in a diverse population.

14 Nov 2023

Researchers encourage flexible approach to blood transfusion decisions for heart attack patients with anemia

A National Institutes of Health-supported study found that the type of transfusion approach used to support adults who developed anemia after a heart attack did not make a significant difference in their likelihood of having another heart attack or dying within 30 days.

13 Nov 2023

How lawmakers in Texas and Florida undermine covid vaccination efforts

Katherine Wells wants to urge her Lubbock, Texas, community to get vaccinated against covid-19. "That could really save people from severe illness," said Wells, the city's public health director.

13 Nov 2023

CDC publishes updated and expanded recommendations for clinicians providing pain care

Pain affects the lives of millions of Americans every day and improving pain care and the lives of patients with pain is a public health imperative.

10 Nov 2023

C-Path releases new publication on transforming drug development for neurological disorders

Critical Path Institute (C-Path) is pleased to announce the release of a new peer-reviewed publication, titled "Transforming Drug Development for Neurological Disorders: Proceedings from a Multi-disease Area Workshop," now published in Neurotherapeutics, The Journal of the American Society for Experimental Neurotherapeutics.

9 Nov 2023

An Arm and a Leg: ‘Your Money or Your Life’: This doctor wrote the book on medical debt

In 2019, emergency medicine physician and historian Luke Messac was working as a medical resident.

9 Nov 2023

PET scans of the heart identify people at risk for Parkinson's and Lewy body dementia

In a small study, researchers at the National Institutes of Health have found that positron emission tomography (PET) scans of the heart may identify people who will go on to develop Parkinson's disease or Lewy body dementia among those at-risk for these diseases.

7 Nov 2023

Iowa’s governor opposes abortion — and has final say on whether Medicaid pays for it

Any Iowa hospital or clinic seeking Medicaid payment for providing an abortion would need approval from the state's most prominent abortion opponent: Gov. Kim Reynolds.

7 Nov 2023

Novel scale effectively measures pandemic-related stress in children and adults

The Pandemic-related Traumatic Stress Scale (PTSS) can be used to effectively measure stress related to the COVID-19 pandemic and identify children and adults with higher levels of stress who may need additional mental health support, according to a new study funded by the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes Program (ECHO) at the National Institutes of Health.

6 Nov 2023

BU researcher receives grant to improve behavioral health care for underserved kids, young adults

Carryl P. Navalta, PhD, clinical associate professor of psychiatry at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, has received a two-year, $476,194 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for his research, "Project EDUCATE" (Education to Deliver and Utilize Child and Adolescent Treatment Effectively).

3 Nov 2023

Health and Human Services News and Research

Medicare Advantage increasingly popular with seniors — but not hospitals and doctors

Medicaid ‘unwinding’ makes other public assistance harder to get

More than half of low-income unmarried couples have positive co-parenting relationships

Out for blood? For routine lab work, the hospital billed her $2,400

KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Congress kicks the (budget) can down the road. Again.

Biden administration’s limit on drug industry middlemen backfires, pharmacists say

Dietary sodium intake significantly impacts blood pressure, reveals comprehensive study

Researchers encourage flexible approach to blood transfusion decisions for heart attack patients with anemia

How lawmakers in Texas and Florida undermine covid vaccination efforts

CDC publishes updated and expanded recommendations for clinicians providing pain care

C-Path releases new publication on transforming drug development for neurological disorders

An Arm and a Leg: ‘Your Money or Your Life’: This doctor wrote the book on medical debt

PET scans of the heart identify people at risk for Parkinson's and Lewy body dementia

Iowa’s governor opposes abortion — and has final say on whether Medicaid pays for it

Novel scale effectively measures pandemic-related stress in children and adults

BU researcher receives grant to improve behavioral health care for underserved kids, young adults

States reconsider religious exemptions for vaccinations in child care

Tufts researchers explore the science of aging

COVID-19 pandemic may have thrown a wrench in efforts to reduce opioid use in dental care

Women with disabilities have lower cervical cancer screening rates, study finds

Expanding research and clinical options for children with cancer

Examining how pain could play a direct protective role in the gut

From Puberty to Menopause: Clue’s CEO, Audrey Tsang on the Power of Femtech

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