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Population-based verbal autopsy method for determining causes of death

Improved tools are now underway for determining the causes of death in settings where medical examinations or post-mortem autopsies are not routinely conducted.

8 May 2018

Financial strain affects patients’ health care decisions to a great extent

Financial strain is the single most important factor in making health care decisions for low-income individuals, who often forgo care in favor of basic needs like food and rent, researchers in UT Southwestern's Center for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research found.

8 May 2018

Tradeshow talks with Braun

Newsmed talks to Braun about why they're at Health GB and what they're focusing on.

8 May 2018

Researchers examine whether current health regulations at mines are sufficient to decrease lung diseases

While on-the-job fatalities due to injuries and accidents have steadily decreased in nearly every industry in the U.S., the burden of debilitating lung disease in the coal mining industry has sharply increased within the last decade.

8 May 2018

How the farm bill could erode part of the ACA

Some Republican lawmakers continue to try to work around the federal health law's requirements. That strategy can crop up in surprising places. Like the farm bill.

8 May 2018

Use of psychiatric drugs soars in California jails

The number of jail inmates in California taking psychotropic drugs has jumped about 25 percent in five years, and they now account for about a fifth of the county jail population across the state, according to a new analysis of state data.

8 May 2018

Medicare beneficiaries feel the pinch when they can’t use drug coupons

This week, I answered a grab bag of questions about drug copay coupons and primary care coverage on the health insurance marketplace.

8 May 2018

European project InSPECT develops miniature photonics spectrometers for tissue diagnostics

Today physicians are still severely hampered by the lack of precision of the needle tip location during a biopsy. Looking at lung cancers, 25% of the diagnoses suffer a false negative outcome through traditional biopsy methods. In the future, this can be avoided: for the first time, the European project InSPECT developed miniature spectrometers with integrated light sources enabling guided sensing.

8 May 2018

New FSMB report recommends best practices for regulating physicians' use of stem cell treatments

The Federation of State Medical Boards has released a report recommending best practices for regulating the promotion, communication and practices of treatments received at stem cell clinics in the United States.

8 May 2018

A simple intervention to combat current opioid epidemic

Asking emergency department providers to self-identify their opioid prescribing practices and then providing them with timely, clinically relevant, individualized, and actionable feedback on their actual opioid prescribing data, significantly decreases future opioid prescribing among providers who underestimate their baseline prescribing.

8 May 2018

Night shifts may have negative impact on long-term health

A team of researchers from the McGill University affiliated Douglas Mental Health University Institute (DMHUI) has discovered that genes regulating important biological processes are incapable of adapting to new sleeping and eating patterns and that most of them stay tuned to their daytime biological clock rhythms.

8 May 2018

Experts develop new framework for productive aging of workforce

With unprecedented demographic trends leading to an aging workforce, a new emphasis on productive aging is needed to keep US workers of all generations as healthy and productive as possible, according to an article in the May Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

8 May 2018

Five facts to help teens make informed decisions about vaping

"Juuling" is the latest trend among high school students but do teens know what they're inhaling? The "Juul" is a type of e-cigarette device that dispenses a potent dose of nicotine when the user inhales. Unlike an e-cigarette, the slickly designed device resembles a small USB flash drive and creates very little smoke so it is not easily detected by teachers and parents.

8 May 2018

Online survey shows patient dissatisfaction with hypothyroidism treatments

In the spring of 2017, 12,146 individuals with hypothyroidism responded to an online survey posted on a variety of websites and social media for two months by the Program Committee of the Satellite Symposium on Hypothyroidism, organized by the American Thyroid Association.

8 May 2018

New movement monitoring technology helps detect elders at increased risk of falling

Technology that allows BMW's assembly lines to run more efficiently is now being used to accurately indicate when residents in Assisted Living Facilities are at increased risk of falling.

8 May 2018

Federal officials say no-go to lifetime limits on Medicaid

The Trump administration's promise of unprecedented flexibility to states in running their Medicaid programs hit its limit Monday.

8 May 2018

Epic electronic health record implemented at Mayo Clinic's Rochester campus

Mayo Clinic continues its move to a single, integrated electronic health record and billing system with the implementation of Epic at its Rochester campus.

7 May 2018

Tufts CTSI receives 2018 Clinical and Translational Science Award

Tufts University and Tufts Medical Center today announced that the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences has named Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute a recipient of the 2018 Clinical and Translational Science Awards.

7 May 2018

Researchers analyze toxicity, other health risks of electronic tobacco heating system

The project was implemented in accordance with the request of the Government of Russian Federation on the evaluation of non-medicinal nicotine products. The inter-agency research group was based at the Semashko National Scientific Research Institute of Public Health.

7 May 2018

New chemical sensing chip could detect cocaine within minutes

What if you could test for cocaine, opioids and marijuana as quickly as a breathalyzer identifies alcohol? A new, low-cost chemical sensing chip brings us one step closer to this technology, which has long been on the wish list of police officers and others looking to monitor drug use and curb dangerous driving.

7 May 2018