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Could Machine Learning models serve to predict depression in early pregnancy in racial/ethnic minority women?

Researchers built and assessed machine learning models to predict depression in pregnant women using electronic medical record data.

20 Jul 2023

Food for thought: Mediterranean-DASH intervention shows positive impact on brain health

Researchers investigated the longitudinal relationships between adherence to the Mediterranean-dietary approaches.

20 Jul 2023

Congress considers easing regulations on air transport of donated organs

What do kidney and pancreas transplants have to do with airplane regulations? Tucked into the hundreds of pages of legislative language to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration is a provision to change the life-or-death process by which human organs are flown commercially from donor to recipient.

20 Jul 2023

A mom owed nearly $102,000 for hospital care. Her state attorney general said to pay up.

Bridget Narsh's son, Mason, needed urgent help in January 2020, so she was offered the chance to send him to Central Regional Hospital, a state-run mental health facility in Butner, North Carolina.

20 Jul 2023

Sense of smell may hold clues to Lewy body pathology: new evidence emerges

Researchers evaluated the impact of Lewy body (LB) positivity (+) on clinical outcomes such as cognition and smell among cognitively.

20 Jul 2023

How the COVID-19 pandemic altered antibiotic prescribing for common bacterial infections

Investigators evaluated the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on the use of antibiotics in primary care for common infections.

20 Jul 2023

Pro-inflammatory cytokine levels and their relation to preeclampsia severity

Researchers examine plasma interleukin-6, vascular cell adhesion molecule-1, and C-reactive protein levels in pregnant women with preeclampsia.

20 Jul 2023

Healthcare disruption during COVID-19 linked to increased risk of preventable hospitalizations

People who experienced disrupted access to healthcare (including appointments and procedures) during the covid-19 pandemic were more likely to have potentially preventable hospital admissions, finds a study published by The BMJ today.

19 Jul 2023

New method developed to estimate physician turnover

Using an innovative method for measuring doctor turnover, Weill Cornell Medicine researchers determined that between 2010 and 2018, the annual rate at which physicians left their practices increased by 43 percent, from 5.3 percent to 7.6 percent a year.

19 Jul 2023

Hearing intervention shows promise in protecting older adults at increased risk for cognitive decline

While the results were negative in the total study population, the hearing intervention slowed cognitive decline in older adults with mild to moderate hearing loss by 48% in a pre-specified segment of the study population consisting of the 238 people participating in an ongoing observational study of heart health.

19 Jul 2023

Private equity ownership of healthcare associated with harmful impacts on costs and quality of care

Private equity ownership of healthcare services such as nursing homes and hospitals is associated with harmful impacts on costs and quality of care, suggests a review of the latest evidence published by The BMJ today.

19 Jul 2023

Study shows how behavioral economics can help cancer patients quit smoking

Researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania found that cancer patients who continued to smoke after their diagnosis were significantly more likely to receive treatment for tobacco use when "nudges" to provide tobacco treatment were directed at clinicians through the electronic health record.

19 Jul 2023

Black Americans more likely to trust medical information about prostate cancer from Black providers

Black Americans are 1.6 times more likely to believe medical information presented by a Black physician or patient as compared with information presented by a White speaker, a new study shows.

19 Jul 2023

New emergency department for over 80s reduces wait times

The formation of the country's first emergency department for the over 80s led to a significant decrease in time spent in A&E - according to research from the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (NNUH) and University of East Anglia (UEA).

19 Jul 2023

Cross-border tobacco purchases have tripled in England since 2019, analysis reveals

The proportion of smokers' discounted overseas tobacco purchases--- from duty free or from countries with cheaper products, and known as cross-border purchases---has tripled in England since 2019, rising from just over 5% to just over 16%, but there's been no reported change in black market purchases, reveals a time-trends analysis published online in the journal Tobacco Control.

19 Jul 2023

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Could Machine Learning models serve to predict depression in early pregnancy in racial/ethnic minority women?

Food for thought: Mediterranean-DASH intervention shows positive impact on brain health

Congress considers easing regulations on air transport of donated organs

A mom owed nearly $102,000 for hospital care. Her state attorney general said to pay up.

Sense of smell may hold clues to Lewy body pathology: new evidence emerges

How the COVID-19 pandemic altered antibiotic prescribing for common bacterial infections

Pro-inflammatory cytokine levels and their relation to preeclampsia severity

Healthcare disruption during COVID-19 linked to increased risk of preventable hospitalizations

New method developed to estimate physician turnover

Hearing intervention shows promise in protecting older adults at increased risk for cognitive decline

Private equity ownership of healthcare associated with harmful impacts on costs and quality of care

Study shows how behavioral economics can help cancer patients quit smoking

Black Americans more likely to trust medical information about prostate cancer from Black providers

New emergency department for over 80s reduces wait times

Cross-border tobacco purchases have tripled in England since 2019, analysis reveals

Cardiac rehabilitation linked to decreased risk of death after surgery

Older adults see the benefit in cognitive screening, but many have not been tested

Study finds impaired beta cell function associated with severe COVID-19-induced hyperglycemia

Does Mediterranean diet adherence impact mental health?

The painful legacy of ‘law and order’ treatment of addiction in jail

Real-time Raman monitoring for pharmaceutical hot melt extrusion

Synthetic Psychedelics: A Growing Public Health Concern

How the Vutara VXL simplifies single-molecule imaging

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