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Good health goes beyond having a doctor and insurance, says AMA’s equity chief

Part of Dr. Aletha Maybank's medical training left a sour taste in her mouth.

19 Jun 2019

Why you should take a peek at your doctor’s notes on your health

When Pamela DeSalvo read the clinical note from her doctor's visit, the words on the page hit her hard: "clinically morbidly obese." She knew she was overweight, but seeing those three words together shocked her. It also inspired her to start losing weight.

19 Jun 2019

RCOT launches new guide to help speed up delivery of adaptations

The Royal College of Occupational therapists has launched a new guide, ‘Adaptations without delay’ which will help speed up the process of delivering adaptations to people’s homes.

19 Jun 2019

Loughborough University student designs portable wallet to keep medication cool

A student from Loughborough University has designed a portable wallet to keep medication cool after being inspired by his girlfriend who was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis.

19 Jun 2019

Sociologist identifies link between decline in stable manufacturing jobs and reduced fertility rates

As the Great Recession wiped out nearly 9 million jobs and 19 trillion dollars in wealth from U.S. households, American families experienced another steep decline -- they had fewer children.

19 Jun 2019

College affirmative action bans may increase smoking rates among minority high school students

College affirmative action bans may adversely affect the health of underrepresented minority high school students, according to the results of a new study from researchers at Penn Medicine.

19 Jun 2019

Medicare system aimed at improving care, lowering costs may not be having as much impact as thought

As the Medicare system seeks to improve the care of older adults while also keeping costs from growing too fast, a new University of Michigan study suggests that one major effort may not be having as much of an impact as hoped.

19 Jun 2019

Newly discovered antibody broadly inhibits multiple strains of pandemic norovirus

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health and their colleagues at the University of Texas at Austin and the National Institutes of Health Vaccine Research Center have discovered an antibody that broadly inhibits multiple strains of pandemic norovirus, a major step forward in the development of an effective vaccine for the dreaded stomach virus.

19 Jun 2019

Researchers set out to define recommended ‘dosage’ of work for optimal wellbeing

As automation advances, predictions of a jobless future have some fearing unrest from mass unemployment, while others imagine a more contented work-free society.

19 Jun 2019

Study addresses issue of how communities rebuild after NGOs move onto next disaster

The Academy of Management Journal has just published a paper titled Collective emotions in institutional creation work, which has been produced at Aalto University School of Business in collaboration with the University of Birmingham.

19 Jun 2019

Cannabis use has increased and shifted from illicit market, research reveals

A new article published by researchers from University of Puget Sound and University of Washington reports that, based on analysis of public wastewater samples in at least one Western Washington population center, cannabis use both increased and substantially shifted from the illicit market since retail sales began in 2014.

18 Jun 2019

National trial to settle debate on managing airways in emergencies

The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC will lead nearly two dozen emergency medical service agencies across the country in a Department of Defense-funded clinical trial aimed at improving survival among people who have difficulty breathing after a trauma.

18 Jun 2019

Simple modification to the grooming pattern could improve skier safety

A spectacular stack on a ski slope in Canada has led to a University of Queensland researcher determining a simple modification that could improve skier safety on the snow.

18 Jun 2019

Suicide rates on the rise among U.S. youth

Suicide rates among teens and young adults in the United States are on the rise among both males and females, reaching their highest point in 2017, according to newly published research analyzing suicide trends among U.S. youth between 2000 and 2017, the last year for which the researchers had data.

18 Jun 2019

California vaccine bill amended to appease governor

A California lawmaker on Tuesday made substantial changes to his contentious vaccine bill after Gov. Gavin Newsom and other state officials raised concerns that the measure was too strict and gave too much power to bureaucrats to decide which children could skip their routine shots.

18 Jun 2019

Senators agree surprise medical bills must go. But how?

Two years, 16 hearings and one massive bipartisan package of legislation later, a key Senate committee says it is ready to start marking up a bill next week designed to contain health care costs. But it might not be easy since lawmakers and stakeholders at a final hearing Tuesday showed they are still far apart on one simple aspect of the proposal.

18 Jun 2019

Many healthcare workers often care for patients while sick, study finds

Large numbers of healthcare workers risk transmitting respiratory viruses to patients and co-workers by attending work even when they have symptoms, according to a study published today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, the journal for the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.

18 Jun 2019

$Study links proximity of fracking to higher household concentrations of radon gas$

Study links proximity of fracking to higher household concentrations of radon gas

A new study at The University of Toledo connects the proximity of fracking to higher household concentrations of radon gas, the second leading cause of lung cancer in the U.S.

18 Jun 2019

Miracle machine makes heroic rescues — and leaves patients in limbo

The latest miracle machine in modern medicine — whose use has skyrocketed in recent years — is saving people from the brink of death: adults whose lungs have been ravaged by the flu; a trucker who was trapped underwater in a crash; a man whose heart had stopped working for an astonishing seven hours.

18 Jun 2019

New mobile phone application can measure impaired breathing

Signal researchers in Oulu have developed a mobile phone application that can measure impaired breathing.

18 Jun 2019

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Good health goes beyond having a doctor and insurance, says AMA’s equity chief

Why you should take a peek at your doctor’s notes on your health

RCOT launches new guide to help speed up delivery of adaptations

Loughborough University student designs portable wallet to keep medication cool

Sociologist identifies link between decline in stable manufacturing jobs and reduced fertility rates

College affirmative action bans may increase smoking rates among minority high school students

Medicare system aimed at improving care, lowering costs may not be having as much impact as thought

Newly discovered antibody broadly inhibits multiple strains of pandemic norovirus

Researchers set out to define recommended ‘dosage’ of work for optimal wellbeing

Study addresses issue of how communities rebuild after NGOs move onto next disaster

Cannabis use has increased and shifted from illicit market, research reveals

National trial to settle debate on managing airways in emergencies

Simple modification to the grooming pattern could improve skier safety

Suicide rates on the rise among U.S. youth

California vaccine bill amended to appease governor

Senators agree surprise medical bills must go. But how?

Many healthcare workers often care for patients while sick, study finds

Study links proximity of fracking to higher household concentrations of radon gas

Miracle machine makes heroic rescues — and leaves patients in limbo

New mobile phone application can measure impaired breathing

Advancing Motor Neuron Disease Diagnosis with Non-Invasive Ultrasound and AI

How agentic AI is reshaping laboratory workflows

Fourier 80: bringing benchtop NMR systems to the laboratory

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