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KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: A ‘Super Tuesday’ for the health debate?

The Super Tuesday presidential primaries have left only two major Democratic candidates standing: former Vice President Joe Biden and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. Whoever prevails to face off against President Donald Trump in November will shape how the party confronts Republicans on health care.

5 Mar 2020

Deep learning algorithm to enhance mammography screening interpretation

The study is based on the results obtained in the Digital Mammography DREAM Challenge, an international competition led by IBM where researchers from the Instituto de Física Corpuscular have participated along with scientists from the UPV's Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications.

5 Mar 2020

Back pain can be linked to humans' evolutionary past and vertebral shape

The cause of back pain can be linked to humanity's evolutionary past, according to new research from a team of bioarchaeologists at Simon Fraser University, the University of Liverpool, and the University of Sydney.

5 Mar 2020

Heart attack patients who follow more medical advice have greater long-term survival

Patients who followed more medical advice after a heart attack were more likely to survive years after their heart attack.

5 Mar 2020

Community Treatment Orders associated with increased readmission risk and longer hospital stay

In the first large, observational study with a control group in England and Wales, research funded by the NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre has found that Community Treatment Orders are associated with an increased risk of readmission as well as increased time spent in psychiatric hospitals, contrary to results from previous uncontrolled studies.

5 Mar 2020

During a pandemic, states’ patchwork of crisis plans could mean uneven care

A possible coronavirus pandemic could overwhelm the nation's hospitals and force doctors into difficult decisions about how to allocate limited resources. Yet, experts say, only a handful of states have done the work necessary to prepare for such worst-case scenarios.

5 Mar 2020

Study highlights the persistence of gender pay gap in an anonymous online labor market

The U.S. is witnessing a dramatic rise in nontraditional 'gig economy' labor markets where workers are hired for single projects often on a short-term basis.

5 Mar 2020

Dietary changes may prevent or reverse age-related effects in the brain

A study using neuroimaging led by Stony Brook University professor and lead author Lilianne R. Mujica-Parodi, PhD, and published in PNAS, reveals that neurobiological changes associated with aging can be seen at a much younger age than would be expected, in the late 40s.

5 Mar 2020

Third-hand smoke is more dangerous than believed

People can carry hazardous compounds from cigarette smoke that cling to their bodies and clothes and then release those compounds into non-smoking environments -- exposing people nearby to cigarettes' adverse effects, a new study shows.

5 Mar 2020

New book focuses on lack of intersectional racial and gender diversity in the technology sector

When Sasha Costanza-Chock goes through airport security, it is an unusually uncomfortable experience.

5 Mar 2020

Nanomaterial could serve as an early warning system for injury or illness

Researchers have reported a new material, pliable enough to be woven into fabric but imbued with sensing capabilities that can serve as an early warning system for injury or illness.

4 Mar 2020

As coronavirus cases grow, so does scrutiny of nursing home infection plans

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is ordering health inspectors to focus on infection-control practices at nursing homes and hospitals, particularly those where coronavirus infections have been identified among patients or in the community, CMS Administrator Seema Verma announced Wednesday.

4 Mar 2020