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Study estimates health effects of breathing airborne PCBs around New Bedford Harbor

The levels of PCBs in the air are high enough to affect thyroid hormones in people who reside close to the harbor, raising the risk of diabetes, low birth weight, and impaired neurodevelopment.

3 Dec 2019

Simple ways to make the holidays safe for seniors

The menu is planned, the table is set, and the guests are invited. But if you're hosting older relatives and friends this holiday season, you'll also need to prepare your home inside and out to make sure their visit is comfortable and safe.

3 Dec 2019

Research leverages emergency room visits to connect at risk populations to preventive services

With a disproportionate number of black cisgender women in the U.S. becoming HIV positive, researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston are sharing critical health information through an atypical venue: the emergency room.

3 Dec 2019

New PA program in Massachusetts to provide knowledge, skills to prescribe opiates safely

Morbidity and mortality from prescription and synthetic opioid use and abuse continues to be a U.S. public health issue. In an effort to help curtail this crisis, researchers from Boston University School of Medicine describe an approach to ensure Physician Assistant (PA) students graduating from any PA program in Massachusetts will have the knowledge and skills to prescribe opiates safely.

3 Dec 2019

Study: As married couples age, coping with their own health demands may take a mental toll

When they said their wedding vows, many of them promised to stand by one another in sickness and in health. But a new study suggests that as married couples age and develop chronic conditions, the daily demands of coping with their own health demands and those of their spouse may take a mental toll.

3 Dec 2019

Prevalence of cannabis dependence or abuse increases significantly among surgical patients

Patients with active cannabis dependence and abuse were nearly twice as likely to suffer a heart attack after surgery, according to a study led by researchers at St. Michael's Hospital of Unity Health Toronto.

3 Dec 2019

Homeless people experience a high lifetime prevalence of traumatic brain injury

People who are homeless experience a disproportionately high lifetime prevalence of traumatic brain injury (TBI), according to a new UBC-led study published today in The Lancet Public Health.

3 Dec 2019

Genetic testing results help woman to make decisions about her treatment and preventive care

Wendy Richardson, 52, of Ridgefield, Connecticut, has always been aware that she has a strong family history of cancer.

3 Dec 2019

Experts propose pathways to build trustworthy healthcare evidence free of commercial influences

It's time to stop the endemic financial entanglement with industry that is distorting the production and use of healthcare evidence, causing harm to individuals and waste for health systems, argue an influential group of international experts in The BMJ today.

3 Dec 2019

Doctors bring dead donor heart back to life in US first

A team has become the first in the US to reanimate the heart of a deceased donor and transplant it into a recipient.

3 Dec 2019

Candidates are betting big on health. Is that what voters really want?

The one thing we know about health care in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary race is that it's a top issue for voters.

3 Dec 2019

Study shows 53% of homeless people have suffered a traumatic brain injury

Over half of homeless people have suffered a traumatic brain injury, which can have severe mental and physical consequences.

3 Dec 2019

Reducing STAT demand can improve patient care, suggests new study

While a lab test might be ordered STAT to help save a life, a new study suggests that the STAT test order should rest in peace, and instead the time standard for most clinical lab tests, like the commonly requested complete blood count, or CBC, should be more efficient.

3 Dec 2019

KHN’S ‘What the health?’: How’s that open enrollment going?

Open enrollment for 2020 health coverage under the Affordable Care Act is halfway over. So far, sign-ups appear to be lagging behind last year’s, but not dramatically.

3 Dec 2019

Failure to ensure environmental management of pharmaceuticals can lead to adverse outcomes

Poor sanitation leads to untreated wastewater entering river systems in many countries where industrialisation and urbanisation is not supported by appropriate infrastructure.

3 Dec 2019

New spatial index measures connections between poverty and poor accessibility in Brazil

Researchers from the School of Engineering in Trinity College Dublin have developed a new spatial index that measures the connections between poverty and poor accessibility.

3 Dec 2019

Study: Complementary health approach is recommended by over half of U.S. office-based physicians

A new study has shown that more than half (53.1%) of office-based physicians in the U.S., across specialty areas, recommended at least one complementary health approach (CHA) to their patients during the previous 12 months, with female physicians (63.2%) more likely to recommend a CHA than male physicians (49.3%).

3 Dec 2019

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Study estimates health effects of breathing airborne PCBs around New Bedford Harbor

Simple ways to make the holidays safe for seniors

Research leverages emergency room visits to connect at risk populations to preventive services

New PA program in Massachusetts to provide knowledge, skills to prescribe opiates safely

Study: As married couples age, coping with their own health demands may take a mental toll

Prevalence of cannabis dependence or abuse increases significantly among surgical patients

Homeless people experience a high lifetime prevalence of traumatic brain injury

Genetic testing results help woman to make decisions about her treatment and preventive care

Experts propose pathways to build trustworthy healthcare evidence free of commercial influences

Doctors bring dead donor heart back to life in US first

Candidates are betting big on health. Is that what voters really want?

Study shows 53% of homeless people have suffered a traumatic brain injury

Reducing STAT demand can improve patient care, suggests new study

KHN’S ‘What the health?’: How’s that open enrollment going?

Failure to ensure environmental management of pharmaceuticals can lead to adverse outcomes

New spatial index measures connections between poverty and poor accessibility in Brazil

Study: Complementary health approach is recommended by over half of U.S. office-based physicians

Tweets and online searches provide a faster way to track alcohol use

Low-cost intervention can increase self-esteem of young cancer survivors

UC San Diego Health joins national initiative to improve care for seniors

A new method to measure intracellular water in biological systems

Obesity, GLP-1s, and metabolic care

Automation in cell-based workflows

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