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New poll finds parents may be overparenting by limiting children's independence

As they grow, children start doing certain activities without their parents watching over them, including trick-or-treating with friends, staying home alone or biking to a friend's house.

17 Oct 2023

Researchers win $5 million grant to expand access to pediatric long COVID-19 care

Researchers at Kennedy Krieger Institute have received a $5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), to expand access to comprehensive care for children and adolescents with long COVID-19, particularly among underserved populations.

17 Oct 2023

College students of color and first-generation students face unique mental health challenges, study finds

Depression and anxiety among college students is a growing public health problem. And new research from the University of Georgia suggests the problem may be worse for students who aren't the same race as most of their peers.

17 Oct 2023

AI-powered software can provide MRI-quality brain images from CT scans

In certain cases, a new method can provide as much information from brain images taken with computed tomography (CT) as images captured with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

17 Oct 2023

Michigan voters backed abortion rights. Now Democrats want to go further.

Nearly every day, Halley Crissman and her physician colleagues in Michigan must tell patients seeking abortions they're very sorry that they can't proceed with their scheduled appointments.

17 Oct 2023

For people with sickle cell disease, ERs can mean life-threatening waits

Heather Avant always dresses up when she goes to the emergency room.

17 Oct 2023

The significance of education and health behavior in influencing health and wellbeing

How health behaviors (HB) and socioeconomic position (SEP) were related to health and wellbeing.

17 Oct 2023

Mortality rates during the pandemic significantly reduced in high-performance ICUs

A new study published by CHEST Science Journal shows that high-performance intensive care units (ICUs) might also have better patient outcomes during health crises.

16 Oct 2023

$12.5 million grant awarded to NYU Langone Health for developing digital tool to reduce maternal mortality

The maternal mortality rate in the United States, which has doubled in the past 20 years, is higher than in any other industrialized nation.

16 Oct 2023

New project to explore nurse-moderated social VR experience for hemodialysis patients

Penn Nursing, with partners from the Annenberg Virtual Reality ColLABorative and New York University's Rory Meyers College of Nursing, have been awarded 2023 grant from the Hillman Emergent Innovation: Serious Illness and End of Life program to study the use of social virtual reality (VR) in enhancing the treatment experience and reducing loneliness in people undergoing hemodialysis.

16 Oct 2023

Empathetic clinicians boost psychological health in breast cancer patients

Clinicians who show more empathy promote better psychological health among breast cancer patients, according to a Rutgers study examining how oncology doctors facilitate psychological well-being.

16 Oct 2023

Researchers discover nuanced insights from COVID-19's impact on mortality rates

A multi-institutional team of researchers led by the White River Junction VA, and including the West Haven and Palo Alto VA, analyzed electronic health record data from more than 5.9 million Veterans-spanning both pre-pandemic (March 2018 - February 2020) and pandemic (March 2020 - February 2022) periods-to discover nuanced insights from COVID-19's impact on mortality rates.

16 Oct 2023

People with higher levels of peace of mind found to be better at regulating emotions

Research shows that people with higher levels of peace of mind are better at reinterpreting situations to regulate their emotions, rather than suppressing them.

16 Oct 2023

Study shows outsized toll of dementia on family caregivers and finances

Most people think of dementia as something that affects a person's brain. But a new study shows just how much damage it does to a person's wallet and bank account too – as well as the higher demands it places on their family members.

16 Oct 2023

Medicaid plays critical role in the health and well-being of adults with Down syndrome

Life expectancy has increased substantially for people in the United States with Down syndrome, from a median age of 4 years old in the 1950s to 57 years old in 2019.

16 Oct 2023

Listen: Inroads for women in California’s health care workforce

KFF Health News senior correspondent Angela Hart moderated a panel about women in the health care workforce for an event hosted by Capitol Weekly on Sept. 28 in Sacramento.

16 Oct 2023

Medicare enrollees can switch coverage now. Here’s what’s new and what to consider.

Consumers know it's fall when stores start offering Halloween candy and flu shots — and airwaves and mailboxes are filled with advertisements for Medicare options.

16 Oct 2023

Doctors abandon a diagnosis used to justify police custody deaths. It might live on, anyway.

Brooks Walsh hadn't questioned whether "excited delirium syndrome" was a legitimate medical diagnosis before the high-profile police killings of Elijah McClain in Colorado in 2019 and George Floyd in Minnesota in 2020.

16 Oct 2023

A third of schools don’t have a nurse. Here’s why that’s a problem.

Jodi Bobbitt, the school nurse at William Ramsay Elementary in Alexandria, Virginia, is always ready to see children with a wide range of injuries and illnesses. One day during the first week of school, the parade started before the first bell when a little girl walked in with red, irritated eyes.

16 Oct 2023

AI innovation "Sturgeon" transforms classification of central nervous system malignancies

Sturgeon, a patient-agnostic transfer-learned neural network, to enable molecular subclassification of CNS malignancies.

16 Oct 2023

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New poll finds parents may be overparenting by limiting children's independence

Researchers win $5 million grant to expand access to pediatric long COVID-19 care

College students of color and first-generation students face unique mental health challenges, study finds

AI-powered software can provide MRI-quality brain images from CT scans

Michigan voters backed abortion rights. Now Democrats want to go further.

For people with sickle cell disease, ERs can mean life-threatening waits

The significance of education and health behavior in influencing health and wellbeing

Mortality rates during the pandemic significantly reduced in high-performance ICUs

$12.5 million grant awarded to NYU Langone Health for developing digital tool to reduce maternal mortality

New project to explore nurse-moderated social VR experience for hemodialysis patients

Empathetic clinicians boost psychological health in breast cancer patients

Researchers discover nuanced insights from COVID-19's impact on mortality rates

People with higher levels of peace of mind found to be better at regulating emotions

Study shows outsized toll of dementia on family caregivers and finances

Medicaid plays critical role in the health and well-being of adults with Down syndrome

Listen: Inroads for women in California’s health care workforce

Medicare enrollees can switch coverage now. Here’s what’s new and what to consider.

Doctors abandon a diagnosis used to justify police custody deaths. It might live on, anyway.

A third of schools don’t have a nurse. Here’s why that’s a problem.

AI innovation "Sturgeon" transforms classification of central nervous system malignancies

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