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Supreme Court seems sympathetic to insurers in Obamacare case

No clear split between conservative and liberal Supreme Court justices emerged Tuesday as justices heard arguments over whether the federal government could renege on Congress' promise to pay health insurance companies billions to motivate them to participate in the Obamacare marketplaces.

10 Dec 2019

Children in low resourced countries more likely to die after surgery

Children in low resourced countries are 100-200 times more likely to die after surgery than children in wealthy countries, according to a first-of-its-kind study published in Anesthesiology.

10 Dec 2019

Study focuses on smoking cessation treatment for adolescents

Preventable deaths are those that can be stymied by public health intervention, and deaths related to tobacco use are at the top of that list in the United States as well as globally.

10 Dec 2019

'Advance Care Specialist Program' expands to 170 nursing homes across the country

A training program that helps nursing homes offer advance care planning support to residents with Alzheimer's disease and their family members is expanding to more than 170 nursing homes across the country.

10 Dec 2019

Toxicologists find toxic chemicals from LCDs in nearly half of household dust samples

Chemicals commonly used in smartphone, television, and computer displays were found to be potentially toxic and present in nearly half of dozens of samples of household dust collected by a team of toxicologists led by the University of Saskatchewan.

10 Dec 2019

New grant to improve wellbeing of health professionals and patients

The largest initiative to improve hospital work environments to date has officially begun, with an award of 4 million Euros from the European Union's Horizon 2020 program. The grant will support the international partnership of some of the world's leading Universities led by KU Leuven and the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing's Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research.

10 Dec 2019

Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics provides ideas for making a healthful dessert

With just a few simple ingredient swaps, making a healthful dessert is not a contradiction in terms.

10 Dec 2019

Study uncovers need to improve HCV testing rates in young people

A new study led by Boston Medical Center uncovered a need to improve testing rates for Hepatitis C Virus in young people, specifically those with documented substance use history.

10 Dec 2019

George Mason receives NIJ grant to advance research on bruise identification

Dr. Katherine Scafide received a $398,719 National Institute of Justice grant for her proposal entitled: Improving the Forensic Documentation of Injuries through Alternate Light: A Researcher-Practitioner Partnership.

10 Dec 2019

Federal disability benefits allow a family to reoptimize how they support one another

Federal disability benefits can lead to increases in other support for beneficiaries, such as in-kind assistance from adult children, according to a new RAND Corporation study.

10 Dec 2019

Study reveals how narcissism changes over time

For parents worried that their teenager's narcissism is out of control, there's hope. New research from Michigan State University conducted the longest study on narcissism to date, revealing how it changes over time.

10 Dec 2019

Older people today may not be any lonelier than their counterparts from prior generations

Despite some claims that Americans are in the midst of a "loneliness epidemic," older people today may not be any lonelier than their counterparts from previous generations - there just might be more of them, according to a pair of studies published by the American Psychological Association.

10 Dec 2019