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Financial incentives significantly decrease patient preference for testing

Providing financial incentives to forego testing significantly decreases patient preference for testing, even when accounting for test benefit and risk. That is the finding of a study published in the October 2019 issue of Academic Emergency Medicine, a journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.

29 Oct 2019

Parental marijuana use can influence child's substance use and well-being

Substance use at any age has consequences. Studies frequently cite the negative impacts - and occasionally tout some benefits of limited consumption - of alcohol and marijuana.

29 Oct 2019

Medicare fraud and abuse associated with patient mortality, hospitalizations

Patients treated by health care professionals later excluded from the Medicare program for committing fraud and abuse were between 14 to 17 percent more likely to die than similar patients treated by non-excluded physicians, nurses, and other professionals, according to a new study from researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

29 Oct 2019

Lack of leisure time is not a barrier to more physical activity among Americans

Americans may not be too busy to exercise after all. A new RAND Corporation study finds that Americans average more than 5 hours of free time each day, with men generally having a bit more free time than women.

29 Oct 2019

NSU study points to another potential connection between sleep and overall good health

As if you didn't already have enough to worry about to keep you up at night, a new study indicates that poor sleep can negatively affect your gut microbiome, which can, in turn, lead to additional health issues.

29 Oct 2019

AANA publishes new study on safety outcomes, cost-effectiveness of anesthesia delivery

The American Association of Nurse Anesthetists released a new study that suggests politics and professional interests are the main drivers of anesthesia policy in the United States.

29 Oct 2019

Moved overseas for school, stayed for insulin

Every now and then, Katie West considers returning to the United States. She moved to Germany for graduate school three years ago and now works as a health systems researcher in Hamburg. Her family is an ocean away. Then she remembers why she stays.

29 Oct 2019

The McLean Hospital Brain Bank receives new NIH contract

The Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center at McLean Hospital, known as the Brain Bank, has received a new contract from the National Institutes of Health for a total of $12,796,394.

29 Oct 2019

Hospitals take shot at opioid makers over cost of treating uninsured for addiction

While thousands of cities and counties have banded together to sue opioid makers and distributors in a federal court, another group of plaintiffs has started to sue on their own: hospitals.

29 Oct 2019

NHS Digital publishes new figures on Mental Health Act detentions

NHS Digital has published new figures on the number of detentions carried out under the Mental Health Act in 2018-19.

29 Oct 2019

Employers are scaling back their dependence on high-deductible health plans

Everything old is new again. As open enrollment gets underway for next year's job-based health insurance coverage, some employees are seeing traditional plans offered alongside or instead of the plans with sky-high deductibles that may have been their only choice in the past.

29 Oct 2019

States try a gentler approach to getting Medicaid enrollees to work

Under pressure from the Republican-controlled Pennsylvania legislature to require Medicaid recipients to work as a condition for coverage, state health officials have devised a gentler approach to getting beneficiaries into jobs.

29 Oct 2019

Snooze you can use: California legislates more sleep for better health

Teenagers don’t get enough sleep, and California's effort to fix the problem may serve as a wake-up call to other states' lawmakers.

29 Oct 2019

Fresenius Medical Care enhances support for home dialysis patients in Western Australia

Fresenius Medical Care, the world's leading provider of dialysis products and services, announced the further enhancement of support for home dialysis patients in Western Australia.

29 Oct 2019

Farmworkers face daunting health risks in California’s wildfires

Farm laborers in yellow safety vests walked through neatly arranged rows of grapes Friday, harvesting the last of the deep purple bundles that hung from the vines, even as the sky behind them was dark with soot.

29 Oct 2019

Gait disorders can help predict future cognitive decline

The way people walk is an indicator of how much their brains, as well as their bodies, are aging. Scientists reporting in a special supplement to the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease say that gait disorders, particularly slowing gait, should be considered a marker of future cognitive decline.

28 Oct 2019

Older people with Down syndrome at higher risk for Alzheimer's disease, dementia

A study of Wisconsin Medicaid enrollees with Down syndrome has found that more than half of those ages 55 and older have filed at least three claims for dementia and nearly a third have filed at least three claims for Alzheimer's disease.

28 Oct 2019

Large gap between norms and actual quality of primary care in Canadian kidney patients

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a condition commonly encountered in primary health care the world over. However, a new study published in JAMA Network on September 4, 2019, shows that the standard of primary care is quite variable.

26 Oct 2019

Developing AI-assisted telecoaching solution for people with disabilities and diabetes

Mohanraj Thirumalai, Ph.D., has received a three-year National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research grant to investigate and develop an artificial intelligence-assisted telecoaching solution for people with disabilities and diabetes.

25 Oct 2019

Rutgers expert offers advice to avoid risks of Halloween poisoning and allergic reactions

About 41.1 million children in the United States trick-or-treat on Halloween night. Bruce Ruck, managing director of the New Jersey Poison Control Center at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School's Department of Emergency Medicine, offers the following advice to avoid the risks of poisoning and allergic reactions.

25 Oct 2019

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Financial incentives significantly decrease patient preference for testing

Parental marijuana use can influence child's substance use and well-being

Medicare fraud and abuse associated with patient mortality, hospitalizations

Lack of leisure time is not a barrier to more physical activity among Americans

NSU study points to another potential connection between sleep and overall good health

AANA publishes new study on safety outcomes, cost-effectiveness of anesthesia delivery

Moved overseas for school, stayed for insulin

The McLean Hospital Brain Bank receives new NIH contract

Hospitals take shot at opioid makers over cost of treating uninsured for addiction

NHS Digital publishes new figures on Mental Health Act detentions

Employers are scaling back their dependence on high-deductible health plans

States try a gentler approach to getting Medicaid enrollees to work

Snooze you can use: California legislates more sleep for better health

Fresenius Medical Care enhances support for home dialysis patients in Western Australia

Farmworkers face daunting health risks in California’s wildfires

Gait disorders can help predict future cognitive decline

Older people with Down syndrome at higher risk for Alzheimer's disease, dementia

Large gap between norms and actual quality of primary care in Canadian kidney patients

Developing AI-assisted telecoaching solution for people with disabilities and diabetes

Rutgers expert offers advice to avoid risks of Halloween poisoning and allergic reactions

Innovating Texture and Culture in Plant-Based Foods

Advancing brain microphysiological systems (bMPS)

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